Good. The last thing I want to do is listen to audiobooks and podcasts on Spotify.

Climate change wasn’t enough? We’ve figured out a new way to punish the animal kingdom for existing on the same planet as humans?

Bro OP’s not talking about genAI. OP’s talking deepfake. Big difference. You should be pointing them to DeepFaceLab, not SD.

Bro what.

The analogy broke down somewhere as I wrote it. Perhaps I should have said “mobile” instead. 😃

OP, you say those folks only launch a chrome browser and so aren’t choosing Linux themselves. Fine. But looking at it from the system perspective, they’re inadvertently learning how to use Linux. How to make WiFi selection in that interface. How to deal with patches and upgrades and vulnerabilities and hacks. Sure, they’re basically only using the browser. But do they never download a file? Open it in the system file browser? Attach it back in the browser?

All of these user interactions are what define a person’s experience on a system. If you think of one of the main differences between iOS and Android, you’ll see how in iOS files are a second class citizen and apps are first class citizens. That means iOS defers to the app first and then considers a file as an independent entity. That’s a strategic decision that defines how generations of iOS users perceive the world around them. It’s what helped companies like Notion become the behemoths they are because everyone accepted that if you want to build a knowledge base, you can just start writing text in an app or browser and not consider files as the first point of contact for the knowledge base user.

By using Linux on a day to day basis, those users are slowly unlearning what they’ve come to understand is the default behavior of a system - most likely whatever Windows does.

Somewhere down the line they’ll crib and hate on windows enough to what something different. That might end up being Mac, but for a large swathe of people, it might end up being some Linux variant too.

Sugar in a raw tomato. It’s really fun to eat and grosses a LOT of people out!

Wtf

No. Dark UX has been around longer and is more nefarious than enshittification.

Instapaper. I gave in and started paying for their subscription. It’s worth it. No other tool has come close to the simplicity, cleanliness, and power of Instapaper for me. It can handle most links, most ad removal, most paywalls.

The team became stagnant for a long time. But they recently declared they want to start reinvesting time into the product. That included doubling the premium pricing. But it’s the first change in pricing in almost 10 years. So it’s long overdue.

• LinkDing for bookmarks
• Memos for notes
• FreshRSS for rss
• homebridge to connect to IOT devices like Kasa Bulbs that aren’t on Apple’s Home service.

For iOS folks, a-shell and iSH can do what termux is doing on Android. Ffmpeg, most userland Linux things.

Both are open source.

Haha no.

Keeps getting blocked of course. Gets into arguments frequently online.

W3s is where is starts for me. Then move to MDN for more specific and in depth things. W3s just gives the best examples and has that lovely playground for every documentation step.

Hahaha yessss 😊

How do people not know how to quit vim in 2023???

It’s Xitter, pronounced “Shitter” now.

Y’all use VSCode??? Whatever happened to good ol’ Sublime Text?

Yes, because till University, you’re trying to learn something new. And the best way to learn is by doing.

At work, all you’re trying to do is save money (for the corporation). Best way to do that is to reuse, recycle.