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  • enkers@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    22 days ago

    Asides from the kinda-shady crypto stuff and the other things that’ve already been mentioned, just philosophically it should be kinda evident that over-concentration on one corporate controlled rendering engine isn’t a good thing. Google wants the internet to be a walled garden with themselves as the sole decision makers so they can stuff ads down your throat.

    Gecko’s web compat is bad largely because of this over-concentration.


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    That is the default behaviour, but it’s pretty trivial to change. Also, I’d imagine the distro maintainer could choose to change the default settings as part of a post-install script, if they wanted to.

    Edit: Not sure why you’re being downvoted, as I do think it’s a valid concern.





  • Just as a mild counterexample, I’ve personally changed my views quite drastically over my time on reddit and now lemmy, and most of it was from individuals just sharing their own perspective.

    I held some latent bigotry and misogyny, part of which I picked in my day to day life, and partly from 4ch. I won’t say I’ve eliminated it completely, but I think I’ve become a better person from my interactions online.

    If we’re not out here trying to actively learn from and help other people, then what the heck are we doing?




  • Could someone perhaps explain the major use cases or give a real life example of a time you’ve needed to use awk? I’ve been using Linux casually for quite a long time now, and although I learned the basics of the tool, I can’t recall having ever felt I had a need for it. If I want to glue a bunch of cli stuff together and need to do some text processing, it generally seems like it’d be easier to just use a simple python script.

    Is it more for situations that need to be compatible with most *nix systems and you might not necessarily have access to a higher level scripting language?




  • though we would need a lot of community work for parity with Discord

    Not sure if it was FUD or not, so please treat this as an unsubstantiated rumour, but I recall another lemming telling me that Matrix was quite insular and not very accepting of outside code contributions.

    So if that’s true, it could be a spanner in the gears.


  • The problem is that performant screenshare (to multiple users) more or less requires infrastructure. That requires money, and it’s impossible to compete on price with services that have the VC-enshitification model.

    You can get around this in a few ways, but they’re all tradeoffs that are in some way or other worse than discord.

    • P2P - sacrifice latency, reliability
    • direct multi-stream - sacrifice PC performance and/or bitrate
    • paid infrastructure - sacrifice money