Case in point

See I get that but I also feel like Lemmy in some ways has more hostile discourse. Too many people with incredibly entrenched opinions about something incredibly niche who then proceed to shout down anyone who doesn’t partake in that niche.

Like at least on Reddit the aggressive circlejerks tend to align with mainstream thought. Like you don’t have to point out things like Linux isn’t actually perfect and there are reasons Windows may be better in some circumstances or that invading a foreign country because of something they might hypothetically do is not a nice thing to do.

Nah Essex is our Florida.

I mean we do, but blaming them doesn’t make Linux more viable for high end GPU applications.

And not just the instance admins would be at risk as well. Any time you view an image your device is making a local copy of it. Meaning every person who viewed the image even accidentally is at risk as well.

… I can think of one possibility - an instance known that lemmy.world recently defederated from.

I’d hate to live in a world where just because something isn’t immediately useful it shouldn’t be researched.

Being able to demonstrate the ability to suppress a sonic boom would be huge.

Let’s be honest this is how it actually usually plays out:

1. Be a huge company

2. Make your employees sign an NDA

3. Make your code closed source

4. Use GPL code and not give a shit because you’re a huge company with a legal team bigger than your Dev team

Microsoft had to provide a separate edition that gave the user a browser choice for 10 years because the EU successfully called anti-trust on Windows doing IE/Edge as default.

Not to mention Microsoft’s profits aren’t from the OS but what they get from the user once they have the OS. Once they have the Windows user they then have a market to sell other Microsoft products, not to mention all the stuff on the Windows store.

They don’t need profits from the OS as the OS pays for itself in the long run.

Yeah I feel like I live in a different world because I’ve never had windows force an update on me. And that’s not because I did anything special I just flipped the option of “let me choose when to install updates”. But then I do run update once a month anyway because likely they would have worked out the main bugs with the update within a month of it and it’s probably a good idea to patch security vulnerabilities.

Yeah at the end of the day the fact the Fediverse is decentralised doesn’t grant some magic immunity to local laws. I’m surprised there are people who think this?

Hmm I might need to try that with the front-page. I had noticed it seemed to just be the same topics daily.

Yeah if anything when you’re over 30 it’s even worse, as then you have to dedicate some brain power in dealing with all the body ailments you suddenly start developing.

Whilst I don’t follow US law, quick Google suggests one of the conditions is “the injury is not readily avoidable by consumers”. In other words the business isn’t liable for the customer not reading the documents they signed up to.

how we never got proper authorization

Why do I feel like this is a domestic abuse situation. Husband broke her laptop in order to reduce her attempts to communicate with others? She goes to get it repaired, he finds out.

I think it’s the belief that the wife can’t authorise the repair…

I think we can blame the education system. At some point it became solely about passing some arbitrary threshold of students with high exam scores rather than about teaching students how to get by in life.

End result was an education system that simply teaches kids how to pass exams rather than basic life skills like critical thinking.