Tbh, the biggest issue with Linux right now is that the GUI path to doing things differs too much.

You can do quite a lot of things via GUI by now, and I think that’s really important because GUI is much more discoverable. As in, not knowing what I need to do, GUI is more easy to figure out.

But the issue is that GUI changes a lot between distros, DEs or even distro/DE versions.

So if my mom (who is quite on the tech illiterate side and running Linux for years now) asks me a question, I don’t know how exactly the GUI on her distro/DE version looks like. But I can tell her some command line command that works on almost all distros.

That’s also why most of the stuff you find online tells you to copy some command into CLI, because CLI differs less.

The problem with that is that CLI is of course also much less discoverable. Once you learn where to look (help option of the command, man pages, tldr pages) and how the concept of CLI works in general, you can figure out stuff yourself. Or you just google, that’s ok too.

Right now, Linux works ok for tech illiterate masses as long as they know one guy who knows Linux quite well and they can ask them. Apart from setting stuff up in the beginning (which does require someone with a bit of skill), the tech illiterate Linuxers ask much fewer questions than the tech illiterate Windows/Mac users. So once it’s running it’s ok.

There’s been various methods for blocking sperm from travelling down the vas deferens that managed to get through studies and then just got dropped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vas-occlusive_contraception

Edit: This is what Wikipedia has to say on that topic:

Despite this, pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to lose market share of a thriving global market for female contraceptives and condoms which bring billions of dollars of revenue each year. Initially, RISUG attracted some interest from pharmaceutical companies. However, considering that RISUG is an inexpensive, one-time procedure, manufacturers retracted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm_under_guidance

That kind of procedure would wipe out most of the contraceptive industry. And of course that can’t be allowed.

Looks like it’s actually available by default. The json thing is for the language server which does linting and autocomplete.

To activate syntax highlighting just select the language of your choice by pressing the language name on the very bottom right corner of the window and choose the correct language.

Guy asks where to find info to learn.

You say “You are lazy because you don’t want to learn”.

What’s wrong with you?

People like you suck.

What do you want to say with it?

We are talking about men not wearing condoms and you point out that it’s only men who can and don’t wear condoms. Like, yeah, of course, because its only men that can wear condoms.

So that point of the argument becomes a tautology without actual direct meaning. It turns from being an argument into a pure attempt of framing/manipulation, and that’s not good style in a discussion.

Apart from it not making any sense in the context of this discussion, the argument itself is pretty flawed in general usage too. The general chain of discussion is usually like this:

• A: I am making a wild claim that characterizes all members of group X to be Y.
• B: I am refuting this claim by saying that only a very small amount of the members of group X are Y.
• A: It’s not all members of group X that are Y, but it’s always members of group X that are Y.

So it shifts the argument. It goes from “All X are Y” to “Some X are Y”, while not acknowledging that shift. It’s a variant of the Bailey and Motte fallacy.

The “it’s always X that are Y” inversion is usually done in a tautological way.

“Not all muslims are islamist terrorists, but it’s always muslims that are islamist terrorists.” -> Sure, because to be an islamist you need to be a muslim, but there are tons of non-islamist/non-muslim terrorists too.

The point is to throw off the person you are talking to, because that tautological part cannot be disproved, and that might make someone stumble in posing a counter-argument.

Not sure that this is actually easier than condoms.

That could be the reason why this is a complaint that I read about online but have never heard in real life. Once again: Americans having sub-par products.

In German there is that joke that eating apples is the best contraceptive. So, eating apples instead of having sex.

It’s also a pretty stupid argument, tbh. Which is why it’s used very often by neonazis.

This. There’s always (at least) two people who are having unprotected sex together.

But I’d think guys would love condoms because it’s the only reversible birth control they can control themselves.

Yeah, what’s with that? Why are there dozens of different birth control options for women, and men have exactly condoms, permanent sterilization and nothing else?

You’d think there would be some kind of decent male birth control by now. It’s been 65 years since the first hormonal birth control for women was released. It’s been more than enough time to get something decent done for men too.

Kate does have syntax highlighting. You have to configure it once in a JSON and that’s it.

I can second Kate. It’s pretty good.

I fear there is no such system where this applies. The tech stack on any old netbook is so advanced and complex that there is nobody on this planet who fully understands it.

Being theoretically able to read the code is certainly better than not being able to, but it’s not the same as having actually read and understood all the relevant code to the point where you can be somewhat confident that there’s no backdoor in it.

(And even if someone had the time and mental capacity to do that, at some point when going through the stack you always hit a proprietary layer. Be that drivers, the bootloader, component firmware or the hardware itself.)

*insert obligatory xz utils reference*

Same question here!

(Disclaimer: I use Gimp a lot and Adobe not at all)

Tbh, the people who use Gimp and the people who use Adobe are two separate crowds and neither Gimp nor Adobe are the only tools in town.

If I’m not going to pay for a photo editing tool and Gimp would cease to exist, I’d just download another free tool and call it a day.

If I’m a professional relying on Adobe Photoshop, the existence of Gimp does nothing to me. Photoshop plus Lightroom costs ~€25/month. For a private person that’s a lot. For a professional that hardly matters. If I pay €1000+ rent for a studio+office, paying €25 isn’t that big of a deal.

Or to put it the other way round: If our hypothetical professional saves just one hour of work per month due to using Adobe tools over Gimp or another software, it’s cheaper for them to use Adobe. Because time literally is money when you are self-employed.

I recently revived an old EEEPC 1005P. I put Antix Linux on it and it’s totally usable.

Firefox needed some tweaks (specifically reducing the process count) to make it run somewhat decently. It still doesn’t do Youtube, but it works fine enough for programming in Kate, doing terminal stuff and other simple native apps. Electron apps are a bit of a pain on that thing.

It’s a really nice little on-the-go device that I use to work on my hobby projects on the train when commuting to work. Super small, super light, 8h battery life.

No-one cares what Russia or China thinks here. Germany? I mean, sure, but this is also a complication for any regulatory bodies trying to police social media sites. As “Lemmy” or “Piefed”, as you know, are not singular entities.

People living in Russia or China might care.

UK might be much more difficult, btw. They now ban all porn without identity checks. So if you host a lemmy/piefed instance that’s accessible in the UK you will need to delete all adult content that makes it to your instance, if you don’t want to violate UK law.

People would just clone the communities on other instances and rebuild.

Cloning communities isn’t quite that easy. Were you present when feddit.de went down? Their communities didn’t vanish. The replications are still up on all other instances, and you can still post there. There’s no indication to a casual user that the instance hosting the communities is down and thus federation doesn’t work. To the users it just looks like participation dropped like a rock with no obvious reason.

The communities were cloned onto a new instance (IIRC feddit.org) but even up to now, people keep posting to the old now-unfederated communities.

Btw: that’s another quite critical issue: Lemmy lacks any and all migration tools. Can’t migrate an instance to a new URL, can’t migrate users or communities to other instances. All you can do is scrap all you had and start fresh.

Sure, you’re right there - but an instance that kept having problems with removing CSAM would find itself defederated.

Depends… Imagine it also contains some of the most relevant communities and defederating would mean you lose users. That’s not such an easy decision any more. Also, at that point hosting would likely be so expensive that for-profit instances would emerge, and for those defederating an important community wouldn’t be such an easy choice either.

But it’s not only CSAM. For example, there’s illegal speech in quite a few parts of the world. In Germany, for example, a lot of nazi-related stuff is illegal. In russia or china some regime-critical speech is illegal. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the US also joins this club sometime in the near future.

Actually, if you are a non US citizen and you and you want to travel to the USA, it’s already troublesome if you are hosting a website with anti-Trump content.

That kind of stuff is unlikely to be deleted on the original instance if that instance isn’t hosted in the same country.

Yes, so not financial. You seemed to be implying it was financial.

Sorry if that came across. I said lemm.ee was shutdown because of the scaling issue. I could have been more clear with that I meant the moderation scaling issues.