I don’t know if you’d call that skeuomorphism, and we have icons that are similar.

I’m not sure what you would call the opposite of ‘flat’ in terms of these designs, but I think that’s what you’re referring to.

Glad they have all this excess to use against the people that gave it to them.

Glad the people that gave it to them gave it to them instead of helping out those who actually need it.

Great world.

I think Ubuntu made sense back in the day when Debian wasn’t as user-friendly.

Now that Debian is, it looks like Ubuntu is trying really hard to just be as commercialized as possible.

I still don’t understand the logic behind their paying for updates for certain programs when Debian doesn’t require it.

Culture, which can change.

I agree. It’s great to have machines do the work we don’t want to do so we can do other things with our lives.

We just need to get over this mentality that those who have more deserve more and those who have less deserve less.

So… do nothing about it?

Not really.

Personally, I’ve found AI is wrong about 80% of the time for questions I ask it.

It’s essentially just a search engine with cleverbot. If the problem you’re dealing with is esoteric and therefore not easily searchable, AI won’t fare any better.

I think AI would be a lot more useful if it gave a percentage indicating how confident it is in its answers, too. It’s very useless to have it constantly give wrong information as though it is correct.

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“Designers” desperate to stay relevant and make their worthless degrees seem worthwhile.

I actually just use my phone for internet and haven’t had a landline ISP for 2 years now.

Visible, $25/month has saved me so much money and they even sent me a free phone.

Everyone is different.

I personally think copyright and patent laws need to die. If you can’t protect your own secrets, don’t rely on taxpayer resources to do it for you.

White-collar workers were cool with machines and poorer nations taking blue-collar jobs. Now that it threatens them and their money, the hypocrisy is on full display.

Only because it would hurt their bottom line.

Funny how we can only win when it’s corporations fighting each other.

if it ever becomes more popular the same assholes that ruin other online experiences will also wind up here.

That’s kind of the glory of the fediverse, though. We can have communities using the same protocol that never interact with each other.

There can be completely separate fediverses that cater to different people.

I’ve thought about this. Essentially, whenever a channel gets moderately successful they will be contacted by various agencies trying to ‘sponsor’ them.

All the people that make video for fun hardly get seen, and if they do it’s not long before they sell out.

I totally agree. Corporate interests and rampant consumerism have ruined the majority of the internet.

Glad we still have refuges like lemmy though to take solace in. Proportionally we’re a smaller part, but absolutely I’d say we’re about the same or larger than in the 2000s.

I want to install Debian on the USB drive from my currently running OS, Manjaro Linux.

I don’t want to have to boot from Debian installation media to install it on the USB drive.

I think it’s more fruitful to look at who benefits from the Ukrainian war.

Life for the average Ukrainian will not be radically different under Russian rule. Most of them will get up, go to work the same job they always have and funnel as much money as possible to those who already have it.

It just so happens that under Russian rule, Russian rulers will be making profit instead of Ukrainian rulers. The people actually fighting the wars never benefit and the ones who benefit never fight.

Personally, I’ve come to the conclusion that anyone who has the capacity and wisdom to know why wars are waged in the first place would never voluntarily fight in one.

It’s reinforced my philosophical idea that wars are just a way for humanity to purge the worst of itself.

It’s all by design.