Interesting, TIL.

So basically an optical drive on steroids?

You know what I really want for long term offline backup storage? To go back to the bare discs with external readers paradigm of optical media (not sure if it's possible with this though). Don't have to pay for dedicated mechanical components in every drive that inevetably have a limited lifespan even if they're just sitting in storage, and once they fail the recorded media itself is useless until you pay out the nose to get them transplanted into a new drive.

Good for write once read many applications with the 200 MB/s read speed though. Things like research data or torrents that gets recorded once and not changed again. Then again that's the upper limit and the lower limit of 50 MB/s is pretty shit even for that.

Though 10 MB/s is literally 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi speeds so it might still be too slow to be practical for such a large drive.

Three digit combination locks are not that secure in general. Assuming one second per attempt, it takes at most 17 minutes to brute force. 000 would definitely be the first combination most any brute force attacker would try though.

Has it ever occurred to you that some people genuinely don't like the taste of meat and think plants taste better?

Because lemmy.ml federates with the broader Lemmyverse. So if instances like .world is blocked, that same content is visible on .ml so it's blocked too.

Defederate from us and we might have a chance.

I didn't even google much about GNOME or KDE. But I did have an exploration period where I opened every dropdown I saw to see what options are there and perused through the settings to see all the things I can change, mapping out how the software works.

A little curiosity goes a long way for getting to know a GUI software IMO. A computer is a complex tool that needs to be mapped out at least a little bit before you need to seriously use it.

I don't deny that many Linux apps have bad UX and can benefit from improvement. But I don't like the pretentious way these blogs talk about it, and act like the developers are somehow obligated to fix it for them like it's a paid product and they're the customer. If they identify a problem in open source, why not contribute to the solution instead of just demanding a solution from people working for free out of passion like they owe you?

How does attacking a city bus help them other than some misguided sense of revenge?

In the context of your thought experiment, it would be like attacking the family of the people attacking your family, when their family was not involved in their crimes. As an outside observer, why should I actively support the person in your thought experiment if the crime against his family turns him into just as much of a monster as those who attacked him first, someone who is willing to the exact same tactics as those he hate? I would just feel bad that they were attacked on the first place, recognise it as the catalyst for them abandoning their own ethics which is a tragedy in itself, and not want to take sides in what is currently happening between them.

If you want me to take the side of one party in any general situation, then I will personally want them to be materially better than the other side. Otherwise I'm defaulting to taking no sides.

Honestly, the entitlement of the "Linux has bad UX" crowd really pisses me off. Yeah Linux is definitely as unusable as a hammer without a handle, guy. Hit the nail on the head with your handleless hammer right there. Give yourself a pat on the back for your metaphor skills 👍

Mac and Windows have billion dollar UX teams. Linux apps have almost entirely volunteer developers with at most some employees in a tiny company or nonprofit with shoestring budgets.

Mac and Windows have invasive UX "research" by recording user interactions behind their back. Most Linux apps don't even have the ability to record interaction data by design and intention.

Mac and Windows make money directly from people using their platforms so obviously they're going to do everything they can to keep you on the platform. Linux apps are donation funded with the occasional enterprise/professional support contract.

Windows and Mac users don't give a shit about how well the underlying code works because they're not supposed to see it, and it's very clear the companies know that and have prioritised accordingly. Linux developers are disproportionately in it for the love of programming and prefer to spend their time actually programming as opposed to doing wireframes or UI markup. Linux UIs tend to get made once and then not touched for years until something absolutely needs to change.

If you compare Linux's (read: mostly random people developing in their free time's) UX to the literal biggest tech companies in the world, then you will never run out of things to bemoan Linux for. This is like complaining that your gearhead buddy's project car has metal toggle switches in random places instead of a nice flowing panel like a brand new car straight off the dealership.

TL;DR: Pull request, long term funding toward establishing a UX team, or STFU. Stop making demands to volunteers and nonprofits and start actually contributing to UX improvements if you care so much. A major ethos of open source is "you don't like it? You fix it."

I picked up both GNOME and KDE as a long time Windows user like that. On both mouse and trackpad.

I can't even figure out how to drag and drop on my friend's Macbook. Or a lot of other basic things.

If anything Macs are the odd one out with their control scheme, though I'm certainly not ruling out skill issue. But if you claim skill issue on my inability to use a Mac then I'm claiming skill issue on your inability to use Linux.

Surely we should hold Ukraine to higher ethical standards than tHoSe DaMn OrCs if we're to support them in this conflict.