Which is making me sad. 3d printing is so open atm, but I wouldn’t be surprised if enshittification will take place in this space in my lifetime.

TIL. Thank you very much. Looks like I’m going to be using that if YouTube gets even more painful.

I know it’s a pain, but what’s to stop us from using download-clis? In theory I could “collect” the urls that are recommended to me from my home page, call the clis, click all the videos to update my recommendations then close the browser.

Lessons in Chemistry is fire.

I worry about the telemetry and customizing my OS to exactly the way I want.

Things like swapping Ctrl and Alt without needing to spring extreme protocols or run software that is a security risk. It’s just a couple of toggles on Linux.

But it’s a “to each their own” kinda stuff 😅 After work I can’t look at Windows anymore.

It depends on if I want the higher speeds or if I’m in a part of my house that doesn’t have perfect coverage (and suspect speeds as well)

Strangely enough, all of my devices lack an ethernet port so I have a few USB to Ethernet adapters around my house.

It depends. I do it from time to time whenever my internet connection is faster than my mobile data or I want to avoid hitting my data limit needlessly when I have a cord already in the room.

Lmao, I’m a public servant and a developer. I make that choice every year.

Absolutely not.

The M1 Mac book is my daily over Linux now. It’s a wonderful machine, it’s only concession is gaming can be a pain/not worth it. I like the “hobby” of it, but I know it’s not for every one.

I work in a .net shop. It is a hair painful, to say the least, and I’m constantly looking over the fence longingly. They exist, are the minority, and are a fucking nightmare by comparison.

Now now, saying its useless is a hair strong. It works wonderfully for servers. As a work station it can be a bit of a mess keeping perfect pairity with each new, sprawling branch of tech and standards. Especially when it’s in a blind spot most people find convienent (looking at you webapps).

It may not work for you, and what’s the harm in having more options for the consumers!

However, the evangelizing I don’t understand.

I run Nvida and Linux pretty regularly. It takes an extra step, but if you aren’t using a card at, basically, release it should be fine. 🤷‍♂️

I mean, I can understand the spirit of what they were getting at. It is a bit exhausting that in the tech community gaming comes up all the damn time as a demerit in the MacOS/Linux space (while the later is pretty painless lately) as though its the majority usecase. Heck, many deem Macs as “useless” because they aren’t a target platform for gaming devs.

Calling gamers “whiny” is a touch harsh. Sure, buying a console makes sense for a good section of consumers. If they plan to buy a device that is only for gaming, is easy to use, and is relatively cheap I could get it. Especially since many game studios seem to focus on optimizing for consoles and don’t fill their titles with weird anti-piracy garbage on them.

I hope the usb-c and SE4 rumors are true. Honestly all I need out of a phone, for me. My Pixel6a might start showing its age (barely) at that point.

Oh yeah, I usually mod games like WoW or w.e. so the file structure lends to it being easily modded.

Hmm. This case comes up for me regularly. I usually have a hidden file on level lower than my home directory that is linked to the directory in question. I then launch nautilus, and drag and drop as needed.

If it happens often enough I create a bash script that automatically launches nautilus at that location.

Is it better? Prolly not, but it’s how I do it 😅

I usually click around the gui like a ham-fisted animal

I search in the terminal.

The tasks are separate for me. I usually launch the explorer at pwd to do my clicks, and close it.

I’ll test this stuff out of curiosity later tonight!!

It occurs to me now I never searched for anything through the explorer.

Really? I haven’t had any issues. What was wrong with the file explorer.

That being said, my system is base Fedora plus a few extensions.

I’m unsure. I switch between MacOS and Linux regularly.

I’d reckon Apple’s OS would dominate the “user friendly” space(not saying Linux is bad, just what everyone memes).