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The “Nude” Ultimatum: Privacy is Dead (the.unknown-universe.co.uk)
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The UK government is giving Apple and Google three months to build on-device scanning infrastructure. This isn't about child safety; it's about the end of private devices and the death of the "nothing to hide" fallacy.

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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What the hell is this take. Firstly your cooling the average user dumb which is just kinda rude and untrue, Also developers are working really hard to build the best possible Linux experience for everyone. how about you actually chip in before shaming them for not working hard enough. And Linux is already user friendly enough for most people, arguably more user friendly than windows. People just want to stick to what they know, also vendor lock in, and most people don't know how to install Linux and will just use the default operating system. I don't think Linux devs can do anything to fix any of those problems.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Chill out, dude. Drink some water. I don't know how the hell you got offended by my comment. I pointed out this is a perfect opportunity for another phone os to popup (hopefully linux based) in a jokey way, even calling us users stupid (look up "c'mon, do your thing/do something". I can't believe you've never came across this meme before). I never said devs aren't doing enough, you assumed that. Linux user friendly enough for most people? The most trivial thing for you can be really complex for others without experience. First time you can't fix something exclusively using the UI, people will bail. Users need to be able to solve things intuitively. "touch button, thing happen". There isn't anything intuitive about opening terminal to install an app from the repository because the default app store version is broken. This is where you're right: people will stick to what's familiar. Someone bought a pc that came with Linux and gave it a try. Installed google chrome and it wasn't loading videos, looked up quickly how to fix it and the first link, or even a chatbot, told them to open the terminal and type a bunch of nonsense. User will close the browser and ask a cousin or whatever to install Windows for them because they just wanted to watch youtube while studying (even though the steps for the fix were just copy/paste). And you missed the point confusing enthusiasts with regular users. Nobody will need to learn how to install an os that comes by default on the phone, but no company will want to ship a phone with an os that doesn't have potential or a big userbase of enthusiasts (those are the ones that will learn how to install Linux). Android started as a startup that showed something with potential before eventually being bought. Graphene os, despite being based on Android, is growing well, so much so that they partnered with Motorola to ship enterprise phones with it installed. It's just silly to think there is nothing the community can do. People created amazing stuff before, and will do it again when some feel like it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Sorry, I didn't catch on to the embedded sarcasm part. Anyhow back to arguing.

    Linux user friendly enough for most people? The most trivial thing for you can be really complex for others without experience.

    I have seen windows users use macOS for the first time and vise versa. Neither windows or macOS are intuitive. What do you mean you have to open a browser and download an exe file and then open it (said some macOS user)? Why does your window snapping barely work? (said some windows user) I'd say a first time user would consider linux more intuitive than either macos or windows.

    There isn’t anything intuitive about opening terminal to install an app from the repository because the default app store version is broken.

    Yeah this is true, kinda funny when people use chatgpt for help and the first thing it always says is open terminal.

    And to be fare just last night I installed fedora on some laptop with an old fedora 42 iso and I tried to update it to fedora 44 using the gui software manager and it just didn't work. I ended up updating in the terminal.

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