Huge problem (for me) with SaifishOS is… annoying UI. I know that a lot of people swear by swipe navigation but it's just darn inconvenient and imprecise (or rather - require a lot of precission to select desired option)… I tried to get used to it for a long time and I simply couldn't. Having to pay effin lot of attention each time I tried to do anything with the phone was simply to much…
Anectodal: just the other day I put Fedora KDE 43 on "new" (well, second-hand after lease) computer for my father as the old one was on it's last legs and... it works just fine.
The machine came with Windows 10 by default and what he needed was Firefox and FreeCell, and FreeCell on Windows10 was atrocious.
He likes it a lot and the only thing was that I had to put same wallpaper as he had on Windows7 and icons in the same places.
The "linux is to complicated" argument just doesn't hold true anymore! It's nice and easy, including the installation (even I was surprised)
Nah, because European services should not be affected by a failure in the US. Whatever systems they have running in us-east-1 should have failovers in all major regions. Today it's an outage in Virginia, tomorrow it could be an attack on undersea cables (which I'm confident are mined and ready to be severed at this point by multiple parties).
Well, except for a lot of business leaders saying that they don't care if it's Amazon that goes down, because "the rest of the internet will be down too."
Dumb argument imho, but that's how many of them think ime.
That's why I still use two editors: IntelliJ for when doing "serious" work and Sublime when I need to edit random files or a huge JSON. I don't need anything in between.
Everything boils down to terrible (USA?) "city" planning - instead of having anything relatively close-by so you can walk to to get the groceries or the "burrito" can be delivered on bike it has to involved absurdly heavy car...
It’s crazy that Americans have to come up with such absurd schemes like self driving cars to move burritos. Rather than just walking outside and to the restaurant.
Very much treating the symptoms rather than the root problems.
How's the bike infrastructure? Do bikes have to share the road with cars? Are protected bike lanes ubiquitous, or do bikers have to worry about being run over by a distracted driver?
There's a lot of empirical evidence that people will chose bikes over cars if the infrastructure made it safe and convenient, even with terrible weather. Paris, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam come to mind, but there are many more examples.
It is expensive like London is expensive. There are rich people and there are not rich people like other expensive places around the world. Median income in la county is only $38k however.
Oh I tried at one point to get paid while I'm spending time biking anyhow. Doordash wasnt taking new dashers. Ubereats let me sign up but 3 days of having the app open I got no orders so I gave up. I guess they deprioritize bike delivery that heavily. Little do they know I am faster than cars on surface streets.
Look at the very low rate of accidents for cyclists and then consider the fact that the bulk of that dataset at least among american populations is going to be comprised of cyclists who are drunk, high, both, mentally ill, or otherwise showing little regard for the rule of law on the road. Don't be drunk, be sane, follow the rules of traffic, and you have shifted to an extremely low risk demographic where the accident rate may well be close to zero.
Uhm... tried to use it but it feels so lacking. Yeah, fine - it's "lean" (text?) editor but that's about it. Opening any project (even with plugins enabled) doesn't make feel any "improvements" (code navigation, sane autocomplete, project structure detection)...
Yes, the same experience. Although it had amazing support for Vim keybindings, it offered me nothing that I wasn't already getting from Neovim. The in-editor chat seems like it could be useful, but I don't have any need for it.
Great. But IMHO better regulation is still needed: force makers to have unlockable bootloader and provided libre drivers for their device (for the OS that they originally ship with); force makers to provide alternatives - for example using alternative "play services" by only providing general API that others can provide pluggable implementaions…
