Which makes you like the IT guy supporting a store we bought a few years back. Everyone in the store wanted to light him on fire. The first visit, I could have literally punched an employee in the face and the would have liked me more than they liked him.

Which is to say, he doesn't work for us any more.

Welcome to grown up land, where "I don't care" means "I'd rather collect unemployment."

Is kinda goofy.

1998- MSN Everything!
2002 - XP Everything!
2005 - Live Everything!
2012 - Metro Everything!
2016 - XBox Everything!
2023 - Copilot Everything!

Not everything needs to be one thing.

It very much does matter. If you and/or your recipient are careless, that doesn't somehow make the technology useless.

This is like saying secrets don't matter because somebody will eventually leak them anyways.

Capitalism only needs the guardrails deemed necessary by the people as a whole as they freely engage in the markets and politics. Those that seek first to control it seek to control the people themselves, and do not do so for the benefit of the people, but for their own.

An AI maybe? Then a person saw them and thought, "uh-oh, let's take those down."

But yeah, regardless of one's opinion of Meta, this makes perfect sense. I'd have done the same thing. It's like that stadium that wouldn't let someone in because they kept suing the venue.

Does it hold on to those notifications after they're dismissed, never to be seen again? If so, I'd consider that to be a bug.

Just sayin.

Newton's laws have been comprehensively tested and definitely govern movement, but find someone who says they can explain what Mercury is doing...

Then one day we had cameras and telescopes that could identify a tiny shift in the location of a distant star as the moon eclipsed the sun, making the tiny star visible. A new test proving a new theory under which the baffling movement of Mercury made perfect sense. Before van Leeuwenhoek, medicine was not hampered by the limits of our understanding, but the limits of our eyes, and thus the limits of our experiments.

If we don't understand it, it is because we haven't figured out how to perform the necessary experiments.

Darn, I thought for sure you'd trigger Godwin's Law. Alas, next time!

Go talk to Gen Z, they will tell you themselves. Boomers, Gen X and Millenials set them up for failure, destroyed their history and institutions, and bascially screwed them over every way you can imagine. They are returning to things that existed before this petty generation and will exist long after it - faith, family, the dignity of work and home life. Reality has made them immune to the woke mind-virus.

"Only we can rape your privacy! Everyone else is locked out!"

Than Plasma? Maybe not. Than classic KDE, lxqt, Mate, or Gnome... absolutely. I found them to be unpleasant, harder to use, and just a bit wrong in a way that makes me ill.

And while plasma is generally decent, it suffers from the same awful system controls as the rest. Not better than the new Windows settings, far worse than the classic Control Panel. I suspect that is because the design ethos is still has, at its heart, "well, just open a terminal and type nano /etc/...". Or, maybe it's because linux is still a hodgepodge of different projects that don't share a common aesthetic.

And so far, I've hated all the file managers. Nautilus? Garbage. Thunar? Crap. Dolphin? Worthless. Double Commander? Twice the uselessness. Krusader looks like it might be worth trying, but it's not what you get by default in any distro I've used.

And that's another problem. I don't want to hear about how customizable a desktop is, I have other things to do. The typical end user won't understand how to do it, and if they try, they will be paralyzed by the paradox of choice (I know what I'm doing and don't want to wade through it all, they'll throw up and run away). In a government setting, they won't even have that option, it'll be the preferences of someone in IT.

And I like Linux. I want to use it more and like it more. But damn, it is f-ing ugly.

Modded as Troll, but probably right. I won't agree that Linux isn't a reliable desktop, but I wouldn't be surprised if they reverted for some other reason.

I wouldn't be surprised if that other reason was "it's 2028".

They mean the icons next to the comment count in the summary's title bar. One is the American flag, the other is the DEC's logo, which is just the word "digital" written on red bars.

*grooooaaaaaan*

Sigh. Good one.

I don't think that's France's motivation at all. I think part of it is a political stunt, part is open-source advocates gaining ground, and part is buried in what they actually said - they want to keep their software supply chain domestic for largely nationalistic reasons. I'd argue against the first, because it is stupid, the second, because it hasn't worked out well elsewhere, but can't deny their right to the third. I don't know if it's wise, but they're French, so whatever.

"Oh shit, here we go again".