in my opinion, Linux has an edge on pretty much everything except for adoption. It’s stable, secure, and updated very often. There are a ton of very great libraries for it that make building and running programs very easy. It’s great on resource management, and the kernel makes great use of the hardware.

However, most pitfalls in Linux comes from it having less adoption than more popular OSes like Windows or Mac OS. Ultimately, this dampens the “friendliness” of Linux to the masses. If you buy a piece of hardware from the electronics store, there will often be no Linux support. The “mom and dad” folk might enjoy it, but won’t know how to install or update things, simply because it’s different. Vendors will often deliver shoddy binary blobs for common hardware like wireless cards.

With more adoption comes more pressure for support. We’re seeing this with the Steam Deck already: if a game company wants to sell their games on the Deck, then they need to add Linux support, even if that means ensuring that it runs on Wine. I’d love to see this kind of thing for everyday use, i.e. a scanner including Linux software and instructions (and hopefully isn’t a nasty “install.run” thing).

If it becomes more common, then friends will help other friends with their computer. “Mom and dad” can look up solutions to problems on the internet, and they’ll be able to fix it themselves. Your aunt will buy an iPod and she’ll be able to run iTunes in a first-party way. With enough adoption, it will even be weird to run operating systems other than Linux because hardly anyone runs Windows or Mac OS anymore.

I don’t think Linux will ever be in the majority, but I see it climbing a bit in the next ten years. Lots of kinks have been worked out, and with the right software, it’s even easy-to-use and pretty to look at. We need more devices like the Steam Deck to help pave the way for more adoption! Then after a while, people will use it cause that’s what they know.

Perhaps this is what you’re after?

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/998895/

What’s your distro? What WM or DM?

I agree with you, but at most places, one will probably get you fired, where the other would be a conversation.

False equivalence fallacy.

• 195g: https://www.continental-tires.com/products/b2c/bicycle/tires/competition/
• 200g: https://www.continental-tires.com/products/b2c/bicycle/tires/grand-prix-5000/
• 170g: https://www.biketiresdirect.com/product/continental-grand-prix-5000-tt-tr-road-tire
• 195g: https://www.biketiresdirect.com/product/continental-podium-tt-tubular-tire
• 180g: https://www.michelinman.com/bicycle/tires/michelin-power-time-trial
• 200g: https://www.vittoria.com/us/en/tires/road-tires/corsa-speed

It’s lighter because instead of compounds inside of the tire, there is air.

Looks heavy.

Some browsers have proprietary APIs that break web standards (see Chrome), and sometimes, workarounds are needed for some browsers. Changing the user agent might break functionality.

Firefox does a decent job blocking it: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/block-fingerprinting/

See https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

is Facebook really able to track me

Oh yes. The “like” buttons on websites are also used for tracking people, so any website that is Facebook-enabled will know who you are. Additionally, browser fingerprinting makes it difficult to stay anonymous, even without an account.

More or less, it’s the worst-case scenario. Governments of many countries have sued and fined the crap out of them for obtaining data in a way that is illegal. But they make so much money with that data that they almost ignore the concern.

If it helps contribute to the conversation in a meaningful way, I’ll vote it up. Even for things I disagree with. Disagreeing is for comments.

If it does not contribute in a meaningful way, I’ll vote it down. If they’re being nasty, spreading misinformation without 10s of research, or otherwise making the topic harder to communicate, down it goes.

If there isn’t an obvious reason why things should go up or down, I don’t vote. If the vote needs some explanation, I add a comment unless someone already said what I meant to say. Then I vote on that.

Up and down does not mean yes and no to questions. Up and down doesn’t mean agree or disagree on a subjective level. Otherwise, imagine what it would be like if you translated the context to real life. A bunch of drama queens not saying anything to each other.

What’s keeping you from using uClibc?

Incredible

Looks like you’re zeroing the disk. Hard drives are faster on the outside of the platters compared to the inside because there’s more rotational velocity on the outside. Since the data is moving directly across the disk as its writing, yes, you’ll see a speed difference during this process.

See https://superuser.com/questions/643013/are-partitions-to-the-inner-outer-edge-significantly-faster

Also related :)

Motorcycles don’t traffick people, people do. Most people who ride motorcycles together love their hobby. Some folks even use it as a gateway to help others:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/nyregion/staten-island-bikers-child-abuse-nonprofit.html

Like on television?

What’s wrong with people enjoying their hobbies?

I agree with the dude about the Apple products. I think the third and fourth panels are straw man arguments.

You can choose to dislike Apple’s practices. However, if you know about their labor issues yet still buy their products, then their suffering is not important enough. You might have your reasons to get an iPhone, but no reason is going to ever nullify that you willingly understood the chain of responsibility, and elected to be a contributor to the problem.

This matters in the aspect of Apple devices because there are dozens of very reasonable hardware vendors and hundreds of phones to choose from, yet you purchased the one that you know has poor practices. It’s like living in a rural area, and buying eggs from the guy that kicks their chickens. Then complaining about it while making dinner with them.

The seat belt is a straw man argument here because car manufacturers did not cause labor problems by not having a seat belt. It was simply because the safety of seat belts were not realized, yet. This has nothing to do with labor at all, and is a silly argument.

By pretending that old cars are like Apple phones, and claiming that the argument against old cars is silly, then complaining about Apple must be silly. However, complaining about Apple is valid, and has nothing to do with old cars. This is a textbook straw man fallacy.

Then, the strip goes to volume 11 with the straw man arguments on the fourth pane by comparing improving society with Apple’s unfair labor. It assumes that you fell for the straw man fallacy about old cars, which primes you for this pane. With the rest of the strip, it implies that if you live in a society (which we all do), then you cannot complain about Apple’s labor issues. Additionally, the quip about being “very intelligent” is sarcasm, and it’s an ad hominem attack against the critical thinker: you.

You absolutely can complain about Apple’s labor issues, and you can choose to not participate in it by funding their labor. Additionally, you can still be somewhat concerned about the labor issues, but not be concerned enough to buy from other vendors. This is arguably hypocritical, but pretending that you cannot do both or have other opinions presents another fallacy: the false dichotomy fallacy.

In other words, this comic sucks. If you fell for it, then you’re simply human, and that’s okay, but please be aware that these arguments are the cornerstones of propaganda. They’re easy to fall for if you’re not looking for them, and it will make you believe in things that you wouldn’t ordinarily believe.

For sure

I haven’t noticed their prices being lower in most cases. Check eBay. It’s usually about 10% cheaper.

They haven’t killed competition. There are hundreds of other online places to buy stuff for most items, too.