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Comment Re:Not the same? (Score 1) 58

Bu isn't this the same as when Apple had a 4%, 5% of the desktop market, and so many people here called them a dead company?

No.

At the time, Apple was on the way down from 11%, but Linux is on the way up. You are also comparing the gaming market to the entire desktop market. Linux wasn't expected to provide gaming initially. MacOS was. There were games on classic MacOS. At the time, MacOS was approximately as friendly to gaming as Windows was. Now MacOS is unfriendly to gaming due to Apple's refusal to support the dominant graphics API natively.

Comment Re:Enshitification (Score 1) 144

I have been into stuff being online since before there was widespread online to be on, but I have always been into it being based on open standards, as well as open source since that's been available. I went ahead and got a Google TV since we were already exclusively watching TV on a Google TV device (First a basic Fire Stick, then when they ruined that with updates, Nvidia shield tube) and even that is irritating sometimes even given that the convergence makes sense. I don't need any of my home appliances to have any features which require that I involve the internet. I do have one device which has "inherently" internet-based functionality, it's a weather station and it uploads to wunderground. But if I wanted that data for just myself, there is a proxy for that.

Comment Re:Total System Cost (Score 1) 167

Both arguments are spreading FUD, both "solar is perfect already, you don't need storage" and also "solar doesn't work right now because you need storage."

If you want to use all solar, you need storage. If you don't, then you don't. Most power is consumed while the sun is shining, or would be if there weren't clouds. As I said in my prior comment here, if you are expecting to use both legacy and solar power then you do not need storage. I expect slashdotters to be able to process if..then statements.

The argument over whether you can use all solar is a different argument than I was addressing, so I'm not going have it in this thread now.

Comment Re:Back to algorithmic content, sigh (Score 1) 55

At some point you have to go to the algorithmic feed if you want to find new stuff outside of your current bubble, so Bsky was never non-algorithmic. Feceboot allows you to show all posts by favorites, friends, or subscribed groups or pages, although it doesn't exactly make this easy to find. I use a specific address when I go there to get this functionality. It even works on mobile! (In older times, their app copied everyone's contacts and then deleted them so you're a schmuck if you trust their app on your device.)

Comment Mixed (Score 1) 55

On one hand a lot of the people I liked to follow on Twitter are now on Bsky.

On the other hand some of those people have been censored for saying things they could have said on feceboot without getting in trouble.

Also Bsky has had a pretty pathetic bug as long as I've been using it where uploaded images and also the thumbnailed images for links just show up as all black. This does not happen on any other site. It does not always happen on Bsky. It seems to be worse on some days than others. I can post two images in a row, both the same file type, and one will work right and one won't. I just don't bother posting images there any more due to the high chances that they won't be viewable.

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