i think the only way Linux is increasing it’s market share beyond fringe enthusiasts (that’s us) is by more devices coming with it pre-installed. expecting anyone outside of the tech space to change the operating system their device came with is a pipe dream

well, until that’s required of them, businesses will just get beat by someone with the same success as then that doesn’t save money for a Rainy day. any money not being spent to make more money is wasted to them.

and remember, the companies aren’t people. the people with money in them also have money in 1000 other companies. they’re not actually that concerned about them succeeding long term. they have more to gain by pushing fast and hard knowing that 80% of them will fail because the few that don’t are worth around a trillion dollars.

the world is hard and kids need to be taught about us in a controlled environment like a school.

i just… harming the cultural artifacts is damaging to all of humanity. they should be targeting the people responsible more directly first. target their houses and their boats and them personally. target their families and the people around them. target the art they own…

hell, the same group does do things that hit the appropriate targets. i just don’t think they’re going the right direction with the art protests specifically.

the article is right, this isn’t going to change anyone’s mind one way or the other. it’s not going to affect the minds of oil execs. the most it might do is increase the donations to the police that guard the art. it is at Best, mildy counterproductive.

the most it will do is piss everyone off. everyone is already mad, this is just making it worse.

it’s destroying our common heritage. the history that we can see on front of us. to learn from where we came and see how we can progress.

idk, it still feels like a fucked up thing to target. why not like… their houses?

don’t replace it if it still works. that would completely defeat the intent of being environmentally friendly. getting rid of it entirely just makes it someone else’s problem. it will still exist somewhere and still be breaking down.

if it’s breaking down and needs to be replaced anyway because it’s a decade old then ignore me lol.

i still don’t see how pointing out the circumstances of their birth is so relevant to discussions about their later political achievements.

maybe bottom middle then somewhere between those two

i still remembe needing to wait literal hours at the gate every damn time. we were never even close to late. they were always panicking. i don’t understand it…

it’s not just parents either. some people are just like that when they travel. I’ve tried going places with friends that made it absolutely miserable as an adult because they were fucking panicking the whole time until we sat on the plane. i swear some people have never dealt with a deadline before or something. don’t know how to deal with a clock ticking down i guess.

no, they just replaced the normal tools with ai-enhanced versions and are labeling everything like that now.

ai noise reduction should not get this tag.

there’s a lot more than generative fill.

ai denoise, ai masking, ai image recognition and sorting.

hell, every phone is using some kind of “ai enhanced” noise reduction by default these days. these are just better versions of existing tools than have been used for decades.

yeah, i use Lightroom ai de-noise all the time now. it’s just a better version of a tool that already existed. and once that every phone does by default anyway.

yeah, the idea didn’t take off until the previous generation of doctors died. it’s a fact that often both encourages and discourages me.

even doctors were too stubborn to accept they may have been wrong about something so important, no matter the evidence. however, even those that are so stubborn that they’ll take it to the grave will eventually be passed up by a new generation who has known of this idea since before they were born. at worst, this kind of stubbornnes is only likely to stall progress for 2 generations.

still, millions of people died because humans are stubborn.

maybe we shouldn’t blame the victim, but we should probably help them escape.

yeah, but they would be better able to put an rma through for you. it is kind of on them to guarantee a working product actually. if the manufacturer gave them a faulty product it’s up to them to get the manufacturer to fix it. most retailers have an entire system and process for this kind of stuff. things show up to retailers broken all the time. part of their job is to guarantee against that and deal with it if they fail to before you buy it. if you asked them to replace it with a like model that worked or for them to initiate an rma and they refused then you’d be in the right to issue a chargesback.

some said i was destined to be a doctor with my handwriting and family. i decided to break the cycle and become a videographer that barely scrapes by. my family is… they like the videos i make of our get togethers…

at least i haven’t accidentally killed anyone.

or iwo jima Island or Mount midoriyama

jima is Island, yama is mountain… midori is green, so midoriyama could be translated as green mountain.

I’m not saying it shouldn’t be done, I’m just predicting it’s going to flop.

it’s not that it shouldn’t be done, I’m just predicting it’s going to flop.

well, like the other poster said, they’re extremely heavily subsidized by the government. and the tarrifs lately have been more in response to Chinese tarrifs on import vehicles.

the idea before this was to remove tarrifs from electric cars to create incentives to make and buy them. now the market is being intentionally flooded by heavily subsidized and tax free vehicles that you can’t easily repair locally. the tarrifs are being brought back to more standard rates for imported vehicles. this kind of maneuvering around foreign tax code is something China excels at. that’s where the wish.com business model for wish comes from for example. old international shipping treaties that subsidize small packages to promote trade from like the 60s.

so part of the concern is that this is the exact playbook of mega corporations everywhere.

1. use your massive wallet to sell at a loss for however long it takes to kill everyone else in the market
2. be the market

it’s something that shouldn’t be embraced. doesn’t matter who’s doing it, bezos or xi. these anti competitive market strategies aren’t any better or worse because a government is involved. that’s pretty much how American mega corps did it anyway. you think boeing got where the are now without subsidize from the government? Chinese ones won’t be better, they’ll just be more catered towards Chinese users.

we’re all just playing the suckers at the price tag game. it’s the fastest road to the bottom. “this one pays its workers well, uses environmentally friendly packaging, works better, lasts longer, and doesn’t cause death and suffering to be made” vs. “this one costs 5% less because we use child slaves and skip all that other bullshit”. the vast majority of people will choose the cheaper one. that one will also be higher margin and that company will become big enough to buy the other.

man, it’s almost like capitalism isn’t actually good for us or something… kindness and decency are bad business