It was fine until monday or so.

Doesn’t fix it for me. It was already set to android, I tried switching to apple and back, it only changes the look of the menu, not the positioning.

I prefer to take the risk of a compromised vendor over all the things google will 100% do with my payment data.

My bank uses an app as 2FA for online credit card payments. Without this app I couldn’t use my cc for online shopping.

Erm … no. Microslop is not responsble for viruses on your PC.

How do you know that your OS installation doesn’t include malware?

How do I know that when I do online banking through a browser on a Linux or Winslop PC? Yet somehow I can just log in on those with my credentials and be done with it. (And please dom’t give them ideas.)

Does one exist?

He also did not show the troubleshooting afterwards or even testing another distro which can be done very quickly, and declared that Linux still isn’t a good out of the box experience after just one test.

Because he had people waiting for him in a game lobby (that’s the thing I’d actually give him shit for, trying out a new OS at a LAN) and decided to fall back to a known working OS to be able to get on with his day. And that’s exactly what many average users would do in a similar situation (not necessarily sitting at a LAN but maybe urgently needing to get on with productive task x y or z instead of troubleshooting).

He also did not declare “that Linux still isn’t a good out of the box experience after just one test.”, this is a multi part series and he already said he tried different distros afterwards.

I really hope he realises how not for his use case it is

Installing a deck verified game with a gold protondb rating and playing it?

What’s the difference between watching him struggle with popos or having my mother do the same?

I can’t watch your mom on youtube? Average windows users will want to know if they can make the switch with their average windows user knowledge and approach, that’s valuable information to them.

If he used all these special resources he has, that would be akin to those “I built this super awesome table from scrap wood I found behind my local supermarket” videos that fail to mention they also used the 100.000 bucks worth of tools in their professional woodworking shop. And people would then rightfully complain about that.

And a new user trying to pick a distro would know and understand that … how? Because that’s the experience he’s trying to emulate.

I frequently see pop os recommended on lemmy too, so please don’t act like it’s obviously some outrageously silly choice.

Few acts say “crimes against humanity” better than bombing a country’s water supply.

It’s not a lot of steps from this to prayers to the machine spirit. Just saying.

There’s no link?

I use excel for my daily work. I have no idea what Power Query is. I have never used a pivot table. I use xlookup maybe once a year. My co-workers immediately zone out when I try to explain that function to them. Most of them use + - * / sum and maybe an average from time to time. They think I’m a hacker because I wrote a custom function for a calculation I frequently need.

From my experience with people in offices I’m pretty sure I’m on the tech savvier side of the user base and the vast majority of users will never actually see the difference in functionality between excel and calc.

In Germany, where I’m from, FDP (“die Liberalen”) is a prime example. They are notorious for campaigning on civil liberties issues and then, once in government, dropping most or all of them in favor of radical deregulation and tax gifts for rich people.

Enacting progressive taxation, punishing white collar crime, establishing strong environmental protections, establishing a strong social safety net, ensuring high quality universal healthcare, enforcing anti-trust legislation, and enacting electoral finance reforms are all things that liberals support

Those are all things that the liberals of old supported. But the parties that call themselves “liberal” today are usually strictly neoliberal. So that’s what people have come to associate with the term.

Baldur’s Gate.

in the event of like complete societal collapse or hyperinflation, they could use it for purchasing.

They are going to learn that you can’t eat gold. It has next to no purpose other than looking pretty, and that’s not going to matter much anymore in one of these events. It’s value is as speculative as any other.

So, am I the only one with terrible performance when booting from USB? Really long input lag, loading times, all that. I figured it wasn’t a big deal for installing once and occasional troubleshooting, but it’s not really representative of the normal experience booting from my ssd.