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SorteKanin

@ SorteKanin @feddit.dk

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  • The growth of Linux desktop marketshare, in percent of total, since 2009

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  • I really really hope this will lead to some major UX improvements as more "normal people" start trying to use Linux. Currently, it's still often too complicated or cumbersome, if not downright buggy.

    Example: I run Kubuntu and about 20% of the time when I plug in my external monitors, all my windows just crash. Things need to get to a state of "just working" much more often and in many more cases. I hope this surge of users will motivate people to move towards that or maybe bring in more contributors to advance that area.

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    How are you coping with climate change?

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  • Wikipedias page on AMOC is much less pessimistic:

    High-quality Earth system models indicate a collapse is unlikely and would only become probable if high levels of warming (≥4 °C (7.2 °F))[14] are sustained long after 2100.[18][19][20] Some paleoceanographic research seems to support this idea.[21][22] Some researchers fear the complex models are too stable[23] and that lower-complexity projections pointing to an earlier collapse are more accurate.[24][25] One of those projections suggests AMOC collapse could happen around 2057[26] but many scientists are skeptical of the projection.[27]

    I would very much doubt an actual collapse happens anytime soon.

  • It's time again, What are some cool things you've saved on the fediverse?

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  • The graying open source community needs fresh blood

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  • I won’t speculate as to why, but it looks like the new generation doesn’t like c and c++.

    It's not that hard to know why - these languages have footguns literally everywhere. They seem simple and powerful at first, but they turn into a monster soon enough. There are simply objectively better alternatives today, like Rust. It shouldn't be surprising, it's been so many decades after all.

  • Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative

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  • C++ is a very old, extremely complex language. There are arguably objectively better modern alternatives, such as Rust.

  • Is there a way to keep Linux responsive when at ~100% CPU usage?

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  • I wonder if Linux should also provide server and desktop variants like Windows does, with different scheduler settings and such. The use cases are quite different after all, it's kinda weird they use the same settings.

  • Is there a way to keep Linux responsive when at ~100% CPU usage?

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  • That's all fine, but as I said, Windows seems to handle this situation without a hitch. Why can Windows do it when Linux can't?

    Also, it sounds like you suggest there is a tradeoff between bandwidth and responsiveness. That sounds reasonable. But shouldn't Linux then allow me to easily decide where I want that tradeoff to lie? Currently I only have workarounds. Why isn't there some setting somewhere to say "Yes, please prioritise responsiveness even if it reduces bandwidth a little bit". And that probably ought to be the default setting. I don't think a responsive UI should be questioned - that should just be a given.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • It attracts a different audience, so in aggregate it seems like your community is suddenly bigger because 1+1=2 right? What you don't realize is that you've divided your community into two separate groups with possibly different wants, needs and cultures.

  • Is there a way to keep Linux responsive when at ~100% CPU usage?

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  • Obviously… to you.

    No. I'm sorry but if you are logged in with a desktop environment, obviously the UI of that desktop needs to stay responsive at all times, also under heavy load. If you don't care about such a basic requirement, you could run the system without a desktop or you could tweak it yourself. But the default should be that a desktop is prioritized and input from users is responded to as quickly as possible.

    This whole "Linux shouldn't assume anything"-attitude is not helpful. It harms Linux's potential as a replacement for Windows and macOS and also just harms its UX. Linux cannot ever truly replace Windows and macOS if it doesn't start thinking about these basic UX guarantees, like a responsive desktop.

    This is one of the cases where Linux shows its history as a large shared unix system and its focus as a server OS; if the desktop is just a program like any other,

    Exactly.

    You say that like it's a good thing; it is not. The desktop is not a program like any other, it is much more important that the desktop keeps being responsive than most other programs in the general case. Of course, you should have the ability to customize that but for the default and the general case, desktop responsiveness needs to be prioritized.

  • Is there a way to keep Linux responsive when at ~100% CPU usage?

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  • "they never know what you intend to do"

    I feel like if Linux wants to be a serious desktop OS contender, this needs to "just work" without having to look into all these custom solutions. If there is a desktop environment with windows and such, that obviously is intended to always stay responsive. Assuming no intentions makes more sense for a server environment.

  • Remove yourself at once!

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  • I never understood the idea behind these kind of automatic slur filters.

    First of all, why even allow the comment at all? Why not just remove the whole thing? Censoring just the slur doesn't help that much and can just be confusing.

    Secondly, by filtering the slur like this, it's less likely that the person posting the slur would be reported and thus no moderator sees the fact that someone posted slurs (unless slur-filtered comments are auto-reported; are they? I don't know). That's the opposite of what you want! If you have slurs that should be disallowed, get people to report those that post them and tell people not to do it or ban them if they keep doing it.

    When it's filtered like this and nobody reports the comment, the user posting the slur will probably just continue doing it.

    And of course in addition to all the above, there's the problem that it doesn't take into account the context at all, which is what leads to the image of this post.

  • Big Bad Wolf Thought

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  • While I find anarchist ideas intriguing, I don't like how the comic seems to encourage a violent takeover of property like this.

  • Big Bad Wolf Thought

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  • This is really more like anarchist propaganda than communist.

  • Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

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  • Threadiverse is just a general term to refer to the parts of the Fediverse that behaves like forums (cause forums have threads). It has nothing to do with threads.net.

  • What's up with all the ads here?

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  • It is an issue if you change instance, which you may do more often than creating new accounts on traditional social media. And again, I just find it kind of unwelcoming.

    Maybe automatically creating a report to just check the post for spam when a new user posts would be nice? Then a mod can check it out but it's not removed automatically or blocked.

  • What's up with all the ads here?

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  • account age requirement and comment requirement before posting

    This can also be very unwelcoming to new users though. Reddit often feels like a closed place because so many subs have karma requirements. I'd prefer we didn't go there.

    We should rather stop allowing sign ups without an application. The captchas are not good enough.

  • You have 24 hours to do anything with absolutely no consequences. What do you do?

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  • The question becomes more interesting when you consider that the scenario doesn't give you infinite power to do anything, just no consequences for what you do. I mean yea if you stole a million dollars, you would face no consequences, but realistically speaking, could you steal a million dollars even if you tried? Some other people here suggested murdering politicians (which is pretty fucked up tbh) but it's quite likely you'd never even get the chance to do this within 24 hours, especially considering many politicians have security people.

    I'm really trying to rack my brain for the most impactful thing I could even do within 24 hours, without consequences. One idea would be to loan as much money as I possibly could and transfer all the money somewhere else, assuming the debt is cancelled at the end of the 24 hours as it is a "consequence".

    I wouldn't (and probably couldn't) do anything more extreme than that. The consequences is not what is holding me back from being a murderer 😅, that's just my moral compass.

  • The future of painting [skeleton claw]

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  • Uncannily relevant, I just had this happen with my Epson printer the other day. Is there any printer you can get these days that doesn't do this?

  • Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads

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  • Way ahead of you. What benefit is there even in federating with Threads? I tried looking at the front page and it's almost exclusively "ads as posts" or wannabe influencers trying to attract an audience.

    Even wilder, most of the posts Threads show me on the front page have like, less than 10 replies. I saw one (1) post with close to 200 replies. Even the Fediverse has more engagement than this!