Yeah, I think they need to answer some basic questions first, like what do they see people using these phones for? If its goal is just to be able to play youtube, spotfy, etc, then whats the real point? Those are free either. Their approach with free operating systems made more sense, by focusing on free applications to replace the proprietary unix ones and someone came along and gave them a great kernel. Thats a thousand times more difficult now with phones. but ultimately phones or computers are a means to an end for most people. What is the end here?

They guy is a racist tool that is responsible for this anti pattern as much as anyone.

Its trying to implement secure storage of passwords, but in an obnoxious way. I don't want to store my passwords in kdewallet. but by default it wants to. You can disable that somehow, but the next time you update your pc it will forget it and you'll have to do it again. Worse of all, depending on your set up it can lock you out of your pc and domain controller if you don't disable it.

Sorry posted the answer in my comment, but you have to make an easy way for developers who don't care about selinux to do the easiest thing possible to support it. Only once devs care about it will it be possible to use by most end users who care about security and don't have endless free time to reconfigure their security posture at each update.

Because it was designed by NSA for use by people of similar intelligence, rather than Joe ubuntu user. That makes it awesomely powerful and kind of a pain for someone without the time and resources to properly configure it. Its been a while but I had it super locked down then I really really needed a stupid utility that was only available for snap and tried to lock it down. That was a huge pain in the ass, I did it and thought myself very smart, then an update came in and... whoosh I had another round of absolute bullshit to deal with because some devs can't freaking stick to a pattern. I saw what caused the reconfigure and just opted instead for a dedicated ubuntu pc that would deal with that bullshit on a pc I didn't give a crap about and had nothing of value in it.

So in summary Selinux is great, but not enough people care about it to keep everything working well with it. No nice utilities have been written to help app developers understand the impact of their changes.

Yeah, I wouldn't want one of these if it were free.

This will flop.

> Come back when it's 3x3 and I'll buy one.

Yeah, but it will cost $1500.

The number of people using it as an excuse is very high on social media, but in real day to day life its much lower.

It's subjective.

My wife and I went to see a couple of movies last year because they were big deals to us (Terrifier 3 and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice). We enjoyed the recliners, the limited edition popcorn bucket merch, the time out together, the reclining seats and the big screen.

What we didn't enjoy was the other people in the theatre talking through the movies, using their cell phones, coughing, breathing loudly, chewing food loudly, opening wrappers etc.

I'm with the parent, personally. If other people still enjoy the theatre experience then there's nothing wrong with that and theatres certainly don't "deserve to die." But there are those of us who don't consider watching a movie to be a social activity, and get extremely resentful and triggered when the presence of other people in the space pulls our heads out of the film we're trying to feel immersed in.

More people die in the aggregate when censorship is status quo. You start by censoring things you feel are absolutely justified because, allegedly, those ideas "cost lives." But then someone comes along with different ideas as to what is justified. Maybe they are threatened by ideas that challenge their power status. Soon enough science, research, innovation, investigative journalism .. .things that objectively improve people's lives and save many more lives than a virus has ever taken are silenced out of fear of repercussions for saying the wrong thing.

Freedom of speech is not a "laudable ideal". It is a fundamental human right that exists because reason is our primary tool of survival as human beings. But like with everything, there is good and bad to be found. There are bad actors out there who will lie and cheat and steal. The solution is not to prevent people from being able to share information, no matter how justified you feel in doing so. The solution is to counter bad ideas and lies with better ideas and truths. Individuals will make their own individual choices and face the consequences accordingly. Reality always wins.

PointCast... memory unlocked. There's a name I haven't heard in like 30 years.

I agree with you that everything old is new again, often something that wasn't as successful as it could have been and companies are trying to make the idea work. VR has been in that category for almost 4 decades, and it still is.

> At some point your UI has reached peak usability and the you can only go downhill.

That point happened in 2009.

Also another case of Microsoft touting a "new" feature that other OS's have had for decades.

There's also the subject-verb disagreement bubble.

My wife recently bought a new laptop and, to both of our surprise, it was configured out of the box to save data to OneDrive instead of C:. She's not particularly tech savvy and one day Chrome complained that storage was full. She did a web search of the error and it recommended deleting data from OneDrive, which she did, assuming that her family pictures were only backed up there - not primarily stored there - and ended up losing important data as a result of this.

Thankfully it must have been that particular OEM that chose to do this. I had installed "vanilla" Windows 11 on a custom PC build and that didn't happen - and we just bought a new laptop for our new business, different brand, and that was the first setting I checked (not an issue).

Still... companies pushing this type of crap on users is just batshit. Offer as an option, sure. But fundamentally re-configuring core functionality that people who have been using the OS for decades take for granted is just madness.