moon_matter

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[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago

There are likely lots of improvements that can be made under the hood. I'm willing to bet that it depends on several aging libraries that could probably be swapped out for something better.

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago

KeepassXC is bundled with a CLI tool. But it doesn't have to do anything special for SSH. It's ultimately just text and there are multiple ways to paste text into an SSH session.

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What does that mean for Windows though?

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I meant it quite literally. Another multi-billion dollar company needs to be willing and able to spend the same level of resources and time. Wal-Mart or Costco itself would have to be willing to produce their own hardware.

Yeah, I fully realize it's never going to happen. It's a hypothetical to illustrate just how high of a hurdle it is. It won't happen organically, there needs to be a strong driving force with the financial backing that rivals that of the competition.

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

“Nobody cares” is how Linux will eventually win on the desktop. It becomes viable for most people when they no longer “need” whatever they were using before. As Linux is free, it will win when it becomes “good enough”.

The largest barrier is the fact that the end user is expected to install the OS themselves. Having an OS work 100% of the time right out of the box with a default install is impossible. Windows and OSX have a huge advantage by being installed on the factory floor. The manufacturer guarantees that the drivers work for the hardware they decide to install and that the default applications on the OS work as they should.

Linux needs an equivalent to Microsoft or Apple that can put Linux on shelves at WalMart for average people that buy $600 desktops.

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

You should use whatever the majority of the team is using. If you want to use Linux then you need to make it a priority to find a team that has at least a few people using it. You don't want to be the only person having issues setting up their local dev environment.

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes. There are tiers and the free tier is limited to 1 hour play sessions.

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

I'm not saying this is OP, but some people are just rough with their stuff and don't realize it. For example, someone I know burned the on-screen keyboard onto their screen because they disabled the screen dimming function. That's not something I considered possible. Other people drop or throw their phones onto desks or lay them face down and scrape them against the surface when picking them up etc.

It all seems fine until eventually one day the phone stops turning on.

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

I hate that the developers of secure messaging apps in particular are deaf to this. It's so easy to just add SMS as a fallback and yet they refuse to.

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Careful about how you throw around the word "entitlement". The top competition is free and search engines are very low value for the average person. It's very reasonable to expect search engines to be free and for anything paid to be a niche product. Google search results may be terrible, but not so terrible that I'm going to pay $5/month to escape it.

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

I can't be paying $5 or $10/month for yet another service. I understand the companies need to make money, but the amount of services asking for a subscription is getting out of hand. And $5 is really high for a search engine, that price is crazy. I was expecting something like $12/year for unlimited searches.

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From your second link...

The story comes from author Jane Friedman, a veteran writer and academic who woke up to find AI-generated books listed under her name on Amazon.

I don't think AI is the problem here. It's that I can write a book, claim George R. R. Martin is the author and Amazon won't fact check me.

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