Joe Pera

Todd Barry

The sale of Pebble was supposed to include the developers jobs. They found out very late in the game that this wasn’t true. He screwed his devs on the way out. Basically said “fuck your job, good luck.”. Real shitty way to handle it, imo.

Coupled with the fact that it meant all real support for Pebble was gone as well, it really was about Micigovsky making out with a bunch of money and saying “good luck, I dont actually care what happens” to his devs and the people who bought a Pebble.

The way it shook out just doesn’t make me trust him. I think he would do the same thing again, sell to a more scummy third party who will strip Beeper for profit when he isn’t making enough money.

I honestly distrust their business model as a successful long term one, based on his past.

Guy behind Beeper fucked Pebble smartwatch users and developers on his way out.

So when Beeper isn’t making enough money and he sells it… Will you trust who he sells it to to keep it secure instead of aiming to use data for ads or some shit?

I won’t.

I have drawn myself as a chad and you as an ugly wojack so my position is clearly the correct one.

Windows users hate this one neat trick.

I don’t know why disheveled Tom Hiddleston is so hilarious to me as “broke caffeine addict” because the look is far too fitting.

making (presumably) thousands of dollars off their users

I agree with this post completely but for some reason you finishing with this makes me chuckle.

Oh no! Thousands! They might be able to pay rent for a month or two!

I’m just being cheeky, and while its true what they did was scummy, it also feels like a really… smallish amount of money?

If we’re literally just talking thousands, and not tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands.

But yeah, fuck Brave.

Firefox gang and Hardened Firefox gang here to stay.

Mozilla’s got its own problems but that’s a story for another day.

Other devs, please follow suit.

This industry needs class consciousness in it yesterday.

Just because you’re paid well doesn’t mean you’re not being mistreated.

It’s valid to be thankful for what you have but to also know you deserve more.

From today, dialing 999 won’t get you the emergency services — and that’s not the only thing that’s changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better-looking drivers mean they’re not just the emergency services — they’re your emergency services. So, remember the number 0118 999 881 999 119 725 … 3.

I think you’re missing their point.

Indy was always “it belongs in a museum” when its an intricate part of some foreign nations history. That museum always seemed to be British or US.

The point being they’re just stealing their history back. A reverse Indy.

“It belongs to the culture it came from. Allow them to choose what to do with it. Perhaps they even have their own museums.”

Who isnt going to go along with it?

Gotta be like 90% of people have never installed an OS because Windows was already on their PC when they bought it.

To them, its part of buying a PC. They don’t consider the OS a separate purchase.

If they make this move they’re banking on people not noticing until after they’ve bought a shiny new PC. After that most people will suffer the cost because they already own the PC and its just “easier.”

Thankfully, this was someone else’s PC…

I get that, but Windows/Powershell isn’t case-sensitive, so you can type it all lowercase if you want (I do).

Linux on the other hand is case sensitive despite most GNU tools defaulting to all lower case. There’s definitely a bunch of case-sensitive switches in Linux CLI applications.

There has been optional case-insensitive file system support in Linux for a few years now, though.

It feels like lemmy users are too shy because of reddit popularity.

I see you’ve never heard of the 90%/9%/1% rule of social media users.

90% are lurkers. 9% are intermittent posters. 1% are heavy use posters.

It’s not that people are shy, it’s that literally with a fraction of the userbase Reddit has, that 10% that actually makes posts is just a smaller number of people.

I would rag on Google here, but if you read this entire mastadon nitter thread, other people have already done a golden ass job of taking Google to task for this propaganda.

Nah, not dickish at all. None of us can know everything. I’d rather be informed that I’m wrong than continue walking around being wrong.

True, but if your repetitive, boring task can be replaced by a well-put-together Excel spreadsheet or a few simple scripts, you’re looking at replacing yourself at your own job.

I’ve definitely seen people replaced by the work-saving scripts they wrote. Corporate doesn’t care about pesky things like “maintenance” or “security updates” or even “that command we used in the script is now deprecated.” It works well enough now, and now they consider you “redundant.”

Some folks keep doing it the repetitive boring way to keep their bosses from shitcanning them for creating something their bosses are absolutely too dimwitted to do themselves. It’s never nice to do something that saves you effort and the response is your boss shitcanning you and then saying “I made this.”

Anyone who is anyone has fancy driving gloves, cap, and goggles!

Oop can’t forget the scarf!

Amog Sus?

EDIT: I gave you an upvote here because you don’t deserve downvotes for your well stated opinion.

I have done computer work for a bunch of little old ladies, and when they couldn’t afford to upgrade to new hardware, I would put a lightweight version of Linux on their computers for them.

Only one of them really struggled with the difference, and she wasn’t against learning, she just struggled. The rest handled the transition fine and didn’t do a lot of complaining that it wasn’t what they were used to. (Probably partially because I made clear what apps were what and put shortcuts to each on their desktop, each shortcut well labeled.)

I don’t think it’s unusual for people to “get used to” how certain things work and expect that. In fact, I’d say that’s pretty normal.

But I think there’s far less fear of change from regular people than you seem to think. I see far less addiction to the “brand” of Windows than you might think.

To use the car analogy, it’s like somebody who will only drive Fords, and is terrified of the prospect of getting behind the wheel of a car made by any other manufacturer.

I mean, lots of people are scared as hell of driving a stick shift and refuse to learn… soooo yeah. I’d say that’s a closer approximation. Because a Ford and a Chevy both have steering wheels and pedals all in the same place. You add that extra pedal and some folks lose their minds. Which at least makes sense because it is different.

Those are all true, but they also don’t apply to the vast majority of computer users.

1. Most people don’t need the speed of using only command line, especially when the programs they’re working with aren’t deeply tied to the command line. How is the command line gonna help a regular office drone writing up a new resume? It would be far easier and quicker for them to do it in Microsoft Office instead of spending hours learning how to do it with CLI.

2. Absolutely you can get more fine-grained information from the CLI, but for the vast majority of users, they won’t need to.

3. Literally almost no regular person has even heard of SSH or will ever need a reason to use it. It’s great that it’s helpful to us, but I can think of zero reasons most people would need this knowledge for.

4. You can also install a lightweight version of an OS for this, without needing to just dump to the CLI. Agreed that Windows doesn’t really have a light version, but this is also not a necessity. If you’re using a system that’s old enough to get bogged down by watching a YouTube video, that’s kind of a side effect of using such old hardware. In most cases people will have modern enough hardware for this to not be an issue or something the average computer user needs to know. Because most people aren’t doing massively demanding tasks on their computers (unless they left a lot of apps open).

5. It’s a great flexibility to have as a developer or as a sysadmin, it’s honestly practically a requirement for both.

All of these are super valuable to people who work with computers daily. My hairdresser doesn’t give a shit and just wants a computer that functions without confusing them because they went to school for hairdressing not PC maintenance.

I get what you’re saying, but you’re acting like these things are a lot more valuable to the average user than they really are. They’re way more important for people working in the industry, not so much people who just have a computer for writing emails, drafting resumes, and browsing the web.