#with proprietary software

[vortexanomaly]

[an-ruraiocht]

i am all for alternative operating systems but can the Just Install Linux people please realise that many people need to use specific software for their actual jobs/careers which is not compatible with linux and it is not lack of awareness of the existence of linux that is at the root of their windows usage

[radioregine]

finally captured some recordings i'm happy with <3 rest of tonight is gonna be for decorating + scanning in the zine and linking downloads for the audio files

[girderednerve]

in my quest for more gifs of lestat i have descended into hell (trying to install ffmpeg on windows). please keep me in your thoughts, etc

[cellsshapedlikestars]

Weird question maybe but what laptop do you have? Mine finally stopped turning on and I need a new one for work and writing and I don't want to just give in and buy a mac

One that I would not recommend to anyone tbh.

I decided to try a Samsung bc I like my phones a lot and went "let's see how this goes!" Bad idea. The touchpad/mouse can be activated just by grabbing the base. I have clicked into things just by putting pressure *around* the touchpad. The speakers, for some reason, are on the bottom, so everything is weirdly low and muffled if you use it on anything that isn't a hard surface. You know, like a lap. Or my bed, where I watch videos at night. It sucks. 2/10 do not buy. The only thing that's kept me from buying a new one is that I just got it. Although looking back, it's been almost 2 years... But still, I can't bring myself to buy a new one when it *technically* works fine

I will never buy a Mac tbh. Apple and their proprietary bullshit can go to hell

If anyone has suggestions for anon, feel free to share

[vanishingmoments]

Fedora seems like it gets a very unnecessarily bad rap

[shroombies]

Do NOT show an autistic person w a special interest in learning the Obsidian notetaking software, they WILL abandon sleep entirely to fill up vaults with meandering deep dives

[brown-little-robin]

AUGH

[recreationaldivorce]

i installed the tumblr app bc tumblr on a mobile web browser was just awful but i tried tumblr web on mobile again just now and it seems ok... might uninstall the app

[el-ffej]

Regarding the DeepSeek AI Hysteria:

Text of posting:

To people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think: "'China is surpassing the US in AI." You are reading this wrong. The correct reading is: "Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones." DeepSeek has profited from open research and open source (e.g. PyTorch and Llama from Meta). They came up with new ideas and built them on top of other people's work. Because their work is published and open source, everyone can profit from it. That is the power of open research and open source.

Also recommended reading:

[coolerdracula]

I hope the current investigations in Apple are actually fruitful because imessage being proprietary makes me so mad

[yukami08]

And this, kids, is why when you want to buy new hardware for your company, you buy standard stuff! For real though, who's the genius at QNAP that decided they were gonna make an enterprise grade NAS with a single board computer based on ARM v7? Fuck you. When the server reaches your pathetic EOSL, what happens? It stops being maintained and it has to be decommissioned. What happens then if someone wants to buy it back? Do they have to plug a security vulnerability on the network? All of that because you decided that using the cheapest components was a better idea? "But Yuka, you can hack the firmware to install Linux on it so you still have security updates" Debian isn't compiled for ARM Marvell anymore. The only version of Debian that is ready to install for this machine is Debian 10 which reached it's EOL only 2 years later! And that's not even taking into account the fact that you have to work around the system to flash the installer to the poor 16MB of unupgradable flash memory on board! "But further updates are too heavy on the system. It's just not powerful enough" Which is why it should have been made with standard components! So you can upgrade and maintain it! And then again, I'm not the one who decided that *an enterprise grade storage server* only needed 1GB of RAM! Tell me, oh great defender of garbage ideas, why do I have in my room a laptop from 2008 running ArchLinux in glorious 64bits with a desktop environment and everything if the system if just not powerful enough to get further updates? Tell me how the system is not powerful enough for updates when I used TrueNas Scale on my main storage server built on a Core2Duo from 2006! Not to even get into the default software of this thing which by itself is a crime but this isn't about that

[shapoopy178]

Jfc Windows, forced updates are one thing but unannounced forced updates that automatically install and reboot my computer overnight are something else entirely, like actively hostile to the user. I frequently leave calculations running overnight when I leave the office so that they're done when I get back in the morning, but now I can't trust my computer to not shut itself down and kill the calculation. Clown shoes operating system.

[windcarvedlyre]

Boots windows. Is quickly reminded of why I left.

[katya-1917]

All this stupid fucking proprietary bloatware, man. No, I don't want your stupid app, I just want the damn menu/to use your fucking toilets.

theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

[jbird-the-manwich]

before it gets bad I'm just gonna tell y'all certain rich people have literally only recently noticed Open Source software availability compromises the bottom line of their proprietary investments so if you see little chickadees on this website talking about the dangers of Open Source software all of a sudden it's cuz they accidentally sipped some koolaid mixed up by the far right yacht people to fuck with peoples software sovereignty and right to repair, modify, and redistribute robust codebases that become a problem when 30% of your portfolio is in, oh, say, adobe or openai.

This is your unfriendly neighborhood computer fucker telling you not to fall for it and to demand your right to digital sovereignty rather than trusting companies to make correct choices about what to do with the parts of your life they would very much like to have in the cloud to continue improving their products.