Always wondered why this wasn’t automated, from an ergonomics perspective, a command that lets me open a shell could detect that no shell exists, and then do as you said, without me having to lift a finger. It’s not very unix-y, but it could be a sort of plug-in for Docker CLIs.
It’s great when you have a problem and you just stumble upon a solution on Lemmy out of nowhere.
You could say this exact same thing about any invention.
“But why would anyone want to speak into a wire? There’s literally no point.”
“Are you seriously going to wrap your food in plastic? There’s literally no point.”
“Who will want to type on a phone without any buttons? There’s literally no point.”
“Nobody is going to want to eat meat grown in a lab. There’s literally no point.”
Not everything needs to be built with a use in mind, and even if it has a small user base at first, needs change over time. For all we know this is visionary and ahead of its time, but we don’t know it yet.
The context does matter, but it doesn’t appear you have the right one.
This guy was a literal child when he started his videos. And did no good for the world whatsoever at that time, he was simply making videos to see what would stick. Only later once he began to acquire the appropriate amount of views and fame did he choose to make videos that try to help other people. I’m sure if those videos didn’t become as wildly popular as they did, they would’ve been forced to pivot away from philanthropy. But they worked, and so they continue to be able to afford new videos that appear to help individuals in a variety of ways.
Bad things might come of this, someone could even accidentally die from poor housing construction (maybe they chose the wrong construction company), a faulty car (maybe the Tesla he gave away was shit), or eating a chocolate bar (they happened to be allergic). But I don’t believe any of that would be intentional on his part. His company, of course, could/should be held liable.
If anything he just seems like a kid who got in too deep, became ridiculously famous, and is trying to navigate this mess with the skills he has (making popular videos). No one at his current level of popularity comes out unscathed, period.
Even posting this comment required me to submit it twice 👆due to an API error.
I am experiencing this as well. I had to sign in to another account, and then switch accounts back to @world to get Mlem to pull down posts again. Definitely something funky going on with the API in this build 🤔
Now that is more what I had in mind! I’ll definitely be using this, thanks