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- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 3 days ago:
Because in 20+ years of off and on using linux, I’ve never once gotten apt to install anything. I have however fucked up my whole system by doing sudo apt update/sudo apt upgrade.
Sorry but that’s really not typical, you must have been doing something out of the ordinary or been very unlucky.
I didn’t say I want to know why it needs them. I’m upset it tells me that it tells me it needs them, and then says “they won’t be installed”, but won’t tell me WHY they won’t be installed. If the program needs those dependancies, just install them. Instead it juat says “we know you need the dependancies, but we’re not going to do that”.
It’s the package manager that handles dependencies, not the program you’re trying to install. Random programs shouldn’t be able to just install things on your computer. Did you try installing the dependencies?
- Comment on What was the Windows 3.0/1 graphical alternative that also ran on DOS? 3 days ago:
Correct, yes (I meant the ‘D’ evenwich said they recalled it starting with if that wasn’t clear, in fact I had to look up DR-DOS to remember the name ViewMAX).
- Comment on What was the Windows 3.0/1 graphical alternative that also ran on DOS? 3 days ago:
I thought your question was clear for what it’s worth. If it was Windows 3.0 era you’re probably looking for ViewMAX (from the same company as DR-DOS, which was an MS-DOS compatible operating system). I vaguely remember reading (or maybe watching) a good feature about it online a while ago but I can’t find it unfortunately.
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 5 days ago:
The article could have literally been a beginner’s guide to installing an operating system instead. But for some reason in the last 20 years or so there’s been a complete allergy to teaching anyone even the most elementary computer skills and it’s holding society back. I’m not sure it is worth being spied on by ad agencies for what it’s worth, especially if you’re not going to learn to become any more than a passive consumer.
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 5 days ago:
This is often the pushback I get when making this point but I would argue that especially non tech-savvy users are vulnerable. The alternative is asking a trusted friend to do a clean install, which should be the advice of this article, that or a guide on how to do it. It’s irresponsible to publish an article aimed at a naive user who has received a computer full of bloatware and tell them to “just remove all the bloatware”.
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 5 days ago:
Why would you say that. It’s true that most users take a blase attitude to security these days, and it’s normalised by articles like this. It’s just basic good practice, whether buying a new or used PC, to do a clean install because even if you think you’ve removed the bloatware, you can’t really trust there’s no secret malware. Especially these days when so many companies want to spy on users it really isn’t just paranoia.
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 5 days ago:
Never a good idea to use a computer with the preinstalled operating system.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 1 week ago:
I think you’re probably right, though I feel like there’s something nagging me in the back of my mind that I’d seen that somewhere in software pre-Windows 95 but I can’t think of it. They were using it a lot in the 90s definitely.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 1 week ago:
For me eggs are a better improver of foods than a base for a meal. I.e. I’ll rarely crave “eggs” in general, but I could be planning a meal of something else and then think “oh, an egg will be nice with that”.
- Comment on What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet? 1 week ago:
More clumsy to use than a mouse/keyboard setup, smaller screen, fewer options when it comes to adblocking/privacy (or options in general).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If it works against the user’s intention then I’d say that’s friction of another sort. For example if you go to a website and scroll more than you wanted to due to dark UX (as opposed to good content), the user may not immediately realise it’s a bad experience for them, but still they’ve wasted extra time hence the site has got in the way of what they were originally trying to achieve. It’s become normalised so it’s not always recognised.
On a personal note, I want to be able to go on Lemmy and say “OK, I’ll read the top 2 pages of my subscribed communities” and let that be it, that’s a much more reasonable way of approaching a large amount of content.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It prevents you from keeping track of how much you’ve read and makes the site more addictive with no significant upside, and even without that it’s worse UX when you try to go back and read something from earlier you have no idea where it is. Commercial sites still use it because they care more about keeping users on the platform than overall UX, but there’s no need for software like Lemmy to do it. Yes, dark UX is bad UX, it’s the worst kind in fact.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If it looks like anything of the past then it looks like the web from 10-15 years ago pre-mass-enshittification, maybe people have forgotten what non user hostile websites look like.
Photon has infinite scrolling, which is horrible.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I used Lemmy for months, mostly in the browser and my UX was absolutely horrible.
The default browser UI sucks.
How long ago? It was a bit flaky a couple of years ago but for me now it’s perfect - like Reddit before it enshittified.
- Comment on New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise 2 weeks ago:
Because different people have different tastes?
- Comment on Considering their move away from VR and to AI, Meta should rename to Slop 3 weeks ago:
I think even Slop is too benign for what Meta is.
- Comment on The Votely Political Quiz - Most Accurate 3D Political Compass 5 weeks ago:
If you made this yourself and are looking for feedback (that’s unclear), one issue is:
No branch of government should be allowed to accumulate too much power.
Surely by definition too much power is too much regardless of your personal threshold for “too much”, hence everyone’s answer will be the same?
- Comment on 2025 likely to be UK's hottest year on record, says Met Office 1 month ago:
Surely it’s likely to have been at this stage, not likely to be.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 2 months ago:
This kind of anthropomorphisation is bad, it shows a lack of understanding of the technology, it’s a terrible idea.
- Comment on Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future 2 months ago:
I never said I wasn’t happy
- Comment on Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future 2 months ago:
What’s insecure about using the British flag on a British state owned railway?
It feels like a forced sense of pride. If anything the British national railway should be a national symbol in and of itself, it shouldn’t need to be propped up by the union flag. I don’t hate the design either by the way, but it seems heavy-handed.
- Comment on Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future 2 months ago:
Just because the rest of the world does something it doesn’t mean we should be doing it too. It has been noticed as a new trend.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 3 months ago:
I think you’re missing the nuance here, flying the flag alone doesn’t make you a racist, but if it’s become culturally associated with racism then it’s a data-point that can build up that picture.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 3 months ago:
It’s always been a sign that you’re a bit of a pillock to be honest, I don’t think it’s changed much in my lifetime.
- Comment on On Prince Andrews Road, a Frustrating Effort to Get a New Address 3 months ago:
Princess Diana Drive as well, built shortly after she died I recall, it was a bit controversial.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 3 months ago:
I’d like to use SearXNG as well but experience the same - I’ve tried a lot of different instances and settings but I always seem to get worse results than searching directly in the source search engine, for some reason? (note I don’t use Kagi so this isn’t an endorsement for them either)
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 4 months ago:
It’s good to assume good intent I think. Your response was non sequitur, it felt more charitable to assume you innocently responded to the wrong person or had some clarification to offer if not.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 4 months ago:
I think you responded to the wrong person…
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 4 months ago:
I thought he already was?
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 4 months ago:
No, I have to own my music if I’m going to enjoy it; the thought of a company being able to take away music that I love takes away the enjoyment. I need at least the files and the backups under my control. It’s not even about price, I would still buy CDs and rip them if that was the only way.