Yarr, matey.

I’d recommend asking around lemmy.dbzer0.com, in the sailing community.

But it’d be easier to switch to Linux Mint, if you don’t have a critical windows app that doesn’t work in wine.

Also @JamesFire@lemmy.world

For anyone else reading this and thinking about trying linux for the first time, be sure to use Linux Mint. It will give you the smoothest and easiest experience, and you pretty much never need the terminal. It even comes with a really nice software store (but everything is free).

AFAIK, Grayjay is not a closed source app, the source is on github, but he chose a license that restricts monetization and redistribution due to having concerns of people taking FOSS apps and repackaging them on app stores with added monetization or malware.

Not ideal, but not closed either.

I wonder if FreeDOS will find this release useful at all.

Gah! I wish so desperately that wasn’t the case, but I can’t dispute that. It really does feel like without investment in our rail network, there’s no good way of long distance travel, so it’s currently just a shit sandwich all around.

I hope that prompts more funding into Amtrak if people do opt for that!

That’s not great… I can only hope more people opt for trains instead this time.

Silver lining: less flights booked means less emissions for the environment.

The keyboard was designed for using on the couch, so that makes sense to include. The battery doesn’t make sense, but the rest of it sorta does. It’s trying to be a uni-tasker device, and act as both your main desktop computer, as well as a couch-based media center, and even a music player to use from anywhere in the house thanks to the Bluetooth remote.

I guess it doesn’t specifically need to be luggable to do those tasks, but the integrated monitor and small size isn’t unwanted in a living room PC. But definitely not critical.

Glad you enjoyed it so much! When he’s excited about something and has a story to tell, it really comes through.

Hell yeah Linux Mint Debian Edition

I’ve actually been pretty impressed with LibreOffice as of late. It’s fairly easy to adjust the theme (they have proper dark theme support now!) and layout to something pretty darn cozy feeling. Maybe for a power-user it’s not enough, but for my simple needs, like fiction writing and simple documents, I honestly can’t complain, they’ve done a solid job. Could it be better? Sure. But it’s in a good place, IMO.

I think GIMP is a better example of a really user-hostile UX. That, almost more than any other open-source app, needs a UI overhaul.

The industry has shown us how they absolutely cannot be trusted, while FOSS applications have shown us they are sustainable and will always put the user’s interests at heart, with Blender being a prime example.

We have to stop funding closed source software, enshittification is inevitable.

If we all donated the price of Affinity’s perpetual licence to Krita, Kdenlive, and Inkscape, we’d have a suite of tools that could outcompete them all, and never have to worry about another acquisition.

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What is holding lemmy back? I use it almost exclusively for months and find it to be a great replacement.

Yes, but without mods, non-lethal options are a joke to use. Some will probably disagree with me, but I’d recommend playing it with the Revision mod. It improves so many aspects of the gameplay, and just makes it feel less janky, and more modern (in good ways).

I wouldn’t hand that right to them on a silver platter. This is what consumer protection law is for.

The top comment on hackernews really nailed it: most people cannot, as they have effectively been institutionalized. They cannot imagine a world without extrinsic motivation.

I suspect most would adapt if it became reality, as that’s what the Spanish anarchists during the Spanish civil war said happened when they abolished money in some areas.

There was still plenty of work to do (they were at war after all) but people were able to adapt to self motivate fairly quickly, even those with traditional worldviews.

As a moderator of a fairly large sub over there, I strongly suspect this is happening on a mass scale. According to our stats, we’re getting 120k unique views a month (dropped dramtically during the exodus, but has seemingly returned to normal now), but posts rarely get more than 20 upvotes or comments. I know most redditers are lurkers, but even still, that just seems like an oddly high number of views.

Ars Technica did a great interview with one of the creators about that, incredible stuff.