Yeah, it’s another layer, and so there definitely is an https://xkcd.com/927/ aspect to it… but (at least in theory) only having problems getting Docker (1 program) to run is better than having problems getting N problems to run, right?
(I’m pretty ambivalent about Docker myself, BTW.)
I’m aware of that, but OP requested “explain like I’m stupid” so I omitted that detail.
There are many many people for which a mobile phone or tablet is their only computer.
That’s it’s own kind of disaster, TBH. As proprietary as Windows is, at least it’s mostly not DRM’d and has the right sort of interface for creating things instead of just consuming content.
Windows 11 isn’t even on the top 3 worst iterations of Windows.
In terms of spyware and enshittification it sure as Hell is!
And that’s the measure that matters here: not mistakes, but deliberate abuse of the user.
A program isn’t just a program: in order to work properly, the context in which it runs — system libraries, configuration files, other programs it might need to help it such as databases or web servers, etc. — needs to be correct. Getting that stuff figured out well enough that end users can easily get it working on random different Linux distributions with arbitrary other software installed is hard, so developers eventually resorted to getting it working on their one (virtual) machine and then just (virtually) shipping that whole machine.
This is pretty much off-topic, but I’m too pleased about my advocacy interests converging to care.
We give breathalyzer lockouts to DUI convicted citizens. Why? Because they’ll drive anyway. You can pull licenses all you want, but when driving is required to live, the people will drive. And they’ll do it even when they’re a raging alcoholic.
Frankly, if we’re going to be fucking with people’s property rights anyway, I think it would actually be better public policy to confiscate the whole car. First of all, it forcibly creates another pedestrian, and therefore increases public support for non-car infrastructure. Second, asserting this right to control parts of people’s property and prohibiting them from modifying it without taking it away completely creates this weird “in-between” kind of ownership that leads to creeping expansion of infringement and has bad implications for things like Right to Repair, etc. I mean, you proved my point yourself: (paraphrased) “we already do it for breathalyzer lockouts, so that must mean it’s okay.” When does it end?
Judges can remove a person’s right to drive too
That has never been a right, except on private land that the driver owns. Driving in public has always been a privilege.
“Instead of using traffic calming to slow cars or designing cities properly so that people don’t need to drive in the first place, let’s violate people’s privacy and property rights to forcibly install a tracking and speed governor device in their car because even when we’ve already suspended their license it’s still somehow unreasonable to actually stop them from driving! Car-dependency and car-supremacy, fuck yeah!”
Everything about this is comprehensively despicable.
Because the articles are written by capitalists for capitalists to manufacture consent for capitalism. Of fucking course they’re going to downplay or ignore the Free Software/non-profit aspect of it!
That’s how you get monetized spying enshittified email. Do you want monetized spying enshittified email?
There’s plenty wrong with credulous dipshits who give lying propagandists and conmen a platform.
Fun fact: it turns out that all those LEDs rely (in Windows at least) on a super-insecure driver written by a hobbyist who last updated it in the mid-2000s and has since disavowed it.
I’m pretty sure biodegradable/compostable kitty litter is a thing. As for the floss, switch to a water pik, I guess?
the song “It’s raining men”.
What? You thought it was a gay positive song released in an era where that lifestyle was condesended upon for it’s negitive stigma in society?
How is “It’s Raining Men” “gay positive?” I mean, I get that it isn’t anti-gay or anything, and I get that gay guys might like it, but it’s sung by women and seems very hetero to me.
I feel like the $190 they want for the Pi 4/microSD version would’ve been a reasonable price for the Pi 5/NVME version.
These are people who absolutely lay down to go to sleep at night and fantasize about getting to bug out.
In other words, they correctly realize that society as it exists sucks, but are too deep into right-wing propaganda to consider that less drastic measures than a collapse (such as voting for socialist policies) could fix it.
I hope you at least give him a hearty “fuck you” right after the ink dries at closing, though.
Look, I’m just saying, to be the “certified Most Fuckable Twink” being infinitely submissive isn’t enough; you’ve got to be attractive too. This asshole meets that first criterion, but absolutely fails on the second.
I’m just pointing out that I’m kinda abusing my mod privilege because something this tangential would ordinarily get removed. I couldn’t resist this one-time exception, but I intend not to make a habit of it.