Yeah that dude was just a dick, but probably confidently, and in a field people don’t know much about, so he was able to get away with it.

I work with UX people frequently, and while they do love a good style guide, they’re usually more concerned with the overall usability, legibility, and accessibility of an application. They’re the people who (should) ensure your application works as expected and follows design and accessibility standards.

By talking to your fucking kids lmao

Like, have a conversation with them. Treat them like a person, a real human being, with thoughts and feelings and basic decision making capabilities, instead of treating them like a wild animal that needs to be leashed.

Everyone immediately thinks “it’s impossible for parents to be aware of and block everything they don’t want their kids to look at on the Internet!”. But maybe the first step should just be talking to your kids about what you do/do not want then looking at on the Internet, and trusting that they’ll heed your warnings. Tight fisted control over what your kids can/can’t see on the Internet should be the last resort.

Assassin’s Creed 14

What the fuck there’s 14 Assassin’s Creed games? Surely they’re gonna run out of historical periods soon. It’s only a matter of time before the announce Assassin’s Creed: Unga Bunga where you just sneak around the forest as a cave man

It’s a bunch of technobabble loosely related to his harebrained scheme to launch a fuckload of solar powered AI servers into LEO.

I play tons of multiplayer games with anti cheat. The ones that don’t run are the ones I wouldn’t even play on a Windows machine though

Yeah I’m saying cars should be safer, not that KDE should kill you

Gotcha, thanks for clarifying. I definitely recognize that gaming isn’t 100% perfect on Linux yet, and graphics drivers can still be a pain. I think both of those statements hold true on Windows though, and I don’t think I’d consider a gamer an “average” PC user. PC gaming is a niche hobby. A large niche maybe, but it’s not the main thing people use a PC for. So I think it’s a little unfair to point to gaming-related issues when trying to claim that Linux isn’t user-friendly.

And cars are one of the most dangerous things on the planet, accounting for nearly 2% of all annual deaths by themselves. So maybe safety features are actually good?

The distros that tout themselves as user-friendly come with pretty much everything an average, non-power-user would need pre-installed ootb: Internet browser, file browser, media player, app store, and some sort of settings app/menu to fiddle with basic things like screen resolution, input devices, audio settings, etc.

Has your experience been different? Is there some specific distro or some specific missing/confusing feature you’re talking about?

It’s all variable, and highly dependent on the languages you use, the types of applications you develop, your personal workflows, what you learned with and got used to as you were learning to program, and a myriad of other factors. Painting in broad strokes, like what the meme is doing or what you’re doing, is almost never correct. There’s always nuance.

LMAO the next action taken after that comment:

microsoft locked and limited conversation to collaborators

my grandmas cinci style chili

You wanna hook us up with the recipe, or is that one a tightly guarded secret?

It was enshittified into that. A decade ago, it was a perfectly fine option for people that wanted a more convenient, hassle-free way to share and collaborate on code

What do you mean by “changing the layout”, going from QWERTY to Dvorak, or something like switching between English and Chinese glyphs? Both are possible at least in software. Technically you can move around/replace keycaps to match your layout too, but obviously that would be super inconvenient to do regularly

No it isn’t, that’s the economic reality. Do you think billionaires make that much because of some outrageously high salary or hourly wage? Because that ain’t it. They make their money by having money.

It’s Canonical’s (the company that created/updates/supports Ubuntu) package format. There are a few problems.

They can only be hosted on proprietary Canonical servers. That sort of flies in the face of one of the “free” aspects of Linux. Canonical is also sort of fostering a reputation of abandoning/massively changing something core in Ubuntu every couple major releases, which has made some wary of depending on snaps, since if Canonical decides to stop hosting them, anyone dependent on them is kinda screwed. Snaps can also chew up disk space if you’re not careful. I don’t think that’s necessarily unique to snaps, but in my experience that issue has been worse with snaps than with comparable alternatives like flatpaks.

Is this a fresh new copypasta, or are you just a really long-winded, elaborate troll?

Workshop Companion is great for beginner-friendly woodworking, and I’ve been really liking HomeRenoVision DIY for home renovation content.

That’s funny, when life sucks, I go watch one of Pat Finnerty’s What Makes This Song Stink videos, a direct (and similarly detailed) parody of Beato’s videos

But you don’t know what among these options have already been tried.

This is irrelevant if we’re talking about a hypothetical. It’s also irrelevant if we aren’t, because my list is by no means exhaustive, just things I came up with off the top of my head.

You can’t just force someone to move to a different facility unless they have a guardian

Right, no one suggested that. When I suggested that she be moved to a facility better suited to her needs, I was implying that the proper avenues would be used to do that. I wasn’t suggesting anyone force anyone to do anything, and it’s concerning that that’s the conclusion you jumped to.

I can only assume this woman does not have a guardian and has capacity to make her own decisions

Followed up immediately by

Again, we do not have the information necessary to draw a legitimate moral judgment for or against this facility

Is just really funny, and I hope you’re able to see that.

Also, we definitely do have enough information to make a legitimate moral judgement on a facility that evicted a 93 year old and had her arrested and forcibly removed from her home.