rambaroo
My girlfriend noped out of lemmy pretty much immediately after I tried to explain how to set it up and use it. Objectively, it’s a lot more confusing than signing up for something like reddit. She’s also pretty tech savvy, so I can’t imagine normies making the transition in mass.
If these federated alternatives are going to become mainstream, someone will have to step up with an implementation that greatly improves usability and accessibility. Meaning that federation will probably have to be masked to a large degree to reduce confusion. Maybe something more like a distributed network instead of a federated one.
As soon as you start talking techbro nonsense like federation and decentralization, people’s eyes glaze over. People don’t care how things work, they just care that it does what they need it to.
Hate to say it but a lot of us in tech, especially the devs, are really out of touch with end users. They aren’t philosophizing about the internet. I understand why people are excited about the idea of decentralization, and why it matters, but it has to be presented in a way that’s much simpler for people to understand if we actually went people to get on board.
Man we really needs a president who calls this stuff out. It’s obvious to everyone else that SCOTUS is a blatantly political institution at this point. Biden might not be able to expand the court willy because of the Senate, but he could at least use the bully pulpit to humiliate them and galvanize the base.
I’ll take that any day over having my girlfriend’s rights at risk because suburban soccer moms fell for CRT BS and decided to elect a christo fascist looney tune governor of VA. Because of them it’s now illegal to watch porn without submitting photo ID, they derailed our weed legalization, they’re pissing away the state’s massive surplus to help rich people and they keep trying to ban and undermine abortion rights.
Meanwhile in Mass you’ve got legal weed, actual efforts to address inequality, women’s rights perfected and among the best standards of living in the country? Count me in. It’s not like mad transit is miracle down here, the metro is horrendous.
There’s no state in this country that’s free of major corruption at this point. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a red blue or purple state, corruption is everywhere, and there are basically zero moderate republicans. I’ll take corrupt secular governance any day over these crazy fundamentalists, who are apparently very electable even in a light blue state and even more corrupt than most Dems
No. You can link a reputable source and not some random hateful asshat’s YouTube channel. Grow up already.
I don’t have any advice, but I’m seeing bugs even in Windows. The right click menu in the system tray isn’t sized properly so half of it is cut off and there’s no way to select the cut off menu options, even with keyboard input.
I have to open up the entire app just to exit steam. I’ve seen other UI bugs too.
I think the new UI is nice overall but it’s very buggy. Might not even be an issue with Linux, just a buggy app.
Most full stack devs I’ve met are crap at one end or the other. I’ve also noticed a lot of el cheapo companies trying to get away with full stack only because having specialized devs costs them more money.
These companies would love to fire everyone and have DevOpsQAUxPmUiExec do everything instead.