rarsamx
@rarsamx@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 9 hours ago:
Let me repeat, a big part of the success of windows is due to piracy. In developing countries, poor people rely on it. Eventually they may become educated and well, they know how to use windows.
If windows/office becomes annoying with the ads then people will look for alternatives.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 1 day ago:
How is no one mentioning the abuse on r/conservative where spewing all kinds of falsehoods, and xenophobias and you are gold, but trying to provide factual information gets banned?
I think there are more things to worry about than the number of groups someone helps moderate.
And alsothere is no recourse against improper bans. I was banned from my corresponding country sub because a moderator misinterpreted something I said.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 3 days ago:
Oh. Smart and pedantic about an autoincorrect. I’m not going to say I know more about computers than you because… One never knows. I just started in 1982 and have only worked in IT my whole life in pretty much every role, in more than 30 languages and many different platforms plus contributing as a developer in a small distribution around 2006-2010 and ending up as a lead entreprise architect providing advise on the technological direction of 300+ systems. But again, maybe I don’t know much.
Your answer confirmed my original comment. You are commenting without fundament. “I used it 15 years ago” qualifies for speaking about Linux in past tense. Not in present tense.
By the way, I don’t know if you used virtualisation or WSL to run Ubuntu inside windows (I remember the Ubuntu cd had that executable) but it’s not the same as running a proper installation and back then WSL was lacking.
For me talking about WSL also qualifies as past tense as I haven’t used Windows at all since 2019.
Good for you that you like Apple. It doesn’t mean that Linux is not stable or is lacking though.
- Comment on His message touched me. I feel no empathy 3 days ago:
I have a problem believing he thought is wholesome. to celebrate violence or lack of empathy.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 3 days ago:
I said “you” generic as a knowledgeable person.
The people you are talking about didn’t install windows either. I’m talking about comparing apples and apples.
There is no more difficulty installing or using windows or Linux, but in Linux there are less problems.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 4 days ago:
You start with any mainstream distro. Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Mint and the like.
The differencea between them aren’t relevant to a new user.
You install whatever you are comfortable with to be able to help them.
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- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 4 days ago:
I put that in quotes because geeksquad sometime gets called to literally just connect cables and show the client where the power button is.
And my point is not to blame the clients. My car mechanic may be laughing about me taking the car to do things I can do my self in 5 minutes.
The point is that windows isn’t easier. It just has more readily available support and people who start using windows are OK calling someone.
People starting with Linux think that if they find an obstacle, “that’s it, Linux bad”, instead of paying someone to solve it.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 5 days ago:
Again. Have you used Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu?
Regular people get help with basic stuff in windows All the time. That’s why there is a Geek Squad in best buy. That’s probably the only thing missing for the non technical Linux users.
If people are paying someone to “install” their printer, why would it be different with Linux.
In fact, in Linux they’d need less tech support as many windows users calls are for slowness, virus and obsolescence.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 5 days ago:
Tell me you haven’t used a Linux desktop recently without telling me.
“I remember”. Using that phrase tells me it wasn’t recently enough. And “using it inside windows” tells me you tried to fit a round peg into a square hole or that you don’t know what you are talking about.
You may be a MAC fan and that’s OK if that works for you, but I haven’t needed to use anything else but Linux since 2004 (initially there were always pickups, though) and I’ve been runing it without issues since probably 2010.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 5 days ago:
“Microsoft testing new ways to lose customers”.
It’s well known that piracy was what made Word (.DOC) and Excel (.XLS) the de facto standard.
If the kids at home can’t use windows, they’ll find something different. And when enough of them find if, when they become decision makers they’ll stay away from Windows.
Imagine how different the landscape would be had MS cracked down on Piracy for their flagship programs.
- Comment on Brad buys a house 1 week ago:
Your signature is your mark. Uniquely identifying. It doesn’t need to be your name.
I originally signed with name and last name plus a squiggle. I got tired of that and many years ago I changed it to my 4 letter first name barely legible. Way better more consistent than the variance writing my full name.
- Comment on Mother Earth is getting HOT, but it shouldn't be this way 1 week ago:
Beat me to it. That was my first thought.
- Comment on How to selfhost with a VPN 2 weeks ago:
All those “experts” lecturing you and they don’t even know about man in the middle attacks.
They don’t know that there are active bots searching for HTTP addresses to inject risky code or redirect to malicious sites.
You providing some feedback which may help OP is seen as criticism.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 weeks ago:
They had me u til “your dad installs it”
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 weeks ago:
Removing the word “windows” in the last frame and also “your dad installs it for your dumb mom” to “your parents install a server. Maybe your mom does it or your dad does it. Maybe you can also help!”
Teaching “children” that technical artist are for dady to do is so cringe.
Those two little changes and it becomes a readable story.
- Comment on Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction? 3 weeks ago:
Once you implement Authentication/Authorization it’s fairly simple to add a new function.
I think here, the problem is not the complexity of the task, but the developer’s prioritization based on all the backlogged features.
Still, users can do this on their own. Directly on the folder, autorotating all pictures using wildcards.
- Comment on Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction? 3 weeks ago:
You can start with what you can. What can provide the most value and iteratively improve from there.
Sometimes as a developer or even product manager, you don’t know what feature complete really means until people start using it.
Oh, by the way: imagemagick.org/script/formats.php
- Comment on Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction? 3 weeks ago:
I’m just learning about the software but all the tasks you listed (crop, rotate and adjust), can be done easily with imagemagick simple one-liners.
For example:
Convert in.jpg -rotate out.jpgOr
Using the auto-orient option or using jhead.
Why is it so hard for this app to implement it?