It’s almost like people have gotten really used to instant gratification
Being able to work is not “instant gratification”. People need it to be able to afford to live, and often in doing jobs that are directly essential for the life or quality of life of others. Incredibly out of touch take imo
did you ask for help? That’s what the internet is for.
And wait 3-5 business days for whatever menial problem
This is a common meme but essentially is never needed
On the other hand, the ugly frontends to the package manager just work.
The misery I have trying to get a newer(or sometimes older) version of a package I want is sometimes immeasurable. Yet somehow usually the right version is extremely accessible on choco.
Do your parents never need/want to download anything?
It means it was a joke
Somewhat, Windows does have an ARM build afterall
I’ve been tempted by Guix
Not really, other than banning those who disagreed publicly
Good idea, bad DSL and toxic community.
Watch the Strange Parts videos, I wouldn’t be too confident about that
I have an Ender 3, it works much better than this printer. Watch Strange Parts on YouTube, he was sent a review printer and couldn’t get it to print despite being on call with the inventor/CEO himself for hours to debug it. Also, Ender 3 had a fire risk with the bed power/PSU connector too.
From the CEOs perspective, doing this he can at least get the Kickstarter backers their money back since they likely couldn’t get the printer to a good state given all the issues.
The whole ecosystem here in the West doesn’t favour starting up. It’s not easy to do it in China either, but the whole supply chain is there (as such also the knowledge/support) and the business environment makes it more likely for it to happen there.
Agreed, and don’t forget how important it is how much cheaper skilled labor is in China.
feels like they weren’t all that committed to the cause.
They were in a very tough position, their printer was having major quality control issues, I think they probably needed money.
Yeah I was really disappointed when I tried Hyprland
My point is, it’s very easy to dismiss something you have no knowledge or experience of.
I didn’t say I have no knowledge or experience, I said I have no expertise in it. I’ve read some of Thoreau, Of Mice And Men, Lord of Flies, etc other “classics”. I’m not an expert in movies but I can say what I don’t like, and trends I don’t like.
But I don’t think it’s a good thing if reading comprehension and general language skills decrease in general, do you?
I would prefer if English evolved to be as simple as possible, as has been the trend. (English used to have grammatical gender you know.) I would also appreciate more spelling reform(like Webster pushed for), and it is working. You see more people saying “u”, “luv”, and “kno” everyday.
Do you think people think more clearly, are able to argue their case better or identify disinformation more accurately if they don’t know as many words or how to use them?
We can test this, because some languages have more complex grammar rules and more words than others. But you should note, language is not a prerequisite for complex thought. And, different languages when spoke tend to convey information at roughly the same rate. Which indicates that the ability to conceptualize things(including complex things) is relatively independent from the language you “think in”. At a pretty basic level, if you speak a language that tends to use a base-10 system, than doing math in base-10 is more familiar, but that may just be because base-10 numbers are themselves a component of language.
Languages evolve based on whats needed, if someone is an adult and doesn’t know a word, it is probably not particularly valuable to them- and has nothing to do with their ability for complex thought. Just like languages with fewer words(or many words made up of simpler components, like Chinese) don’t limit someones ability for complex thought, it just means they’d express it a different way. For example, “hamburger” vs “beef patty sandwich”- not knowing the word hamburger says nothing about your ability to understand and think about the concept.
They aren’t removed because they’re too hard, they’re removed because they’re inconvenient. They are removed when there is a more succinct and/or better understood alternative, for example “evolution” doesn’t have a good alternative to replace it. Memorizing relatively obscure words isn’t intellectual, and as simple building blocks as possible can often better communicate more complex ideas. There’s a reason C is better liked than C++
If you are communicating visions, emotions, feelings and other mental images then flowery is exactly what you need.
I don’t agree, you can be explicit and simple while still communicating complex ideas- but it is a difficult skill. And an emotion is a generally a pretty complex idea.
I do agree that creative writing can be fun (honestly more for the reader than the writer, most of what I write on here was probably more fun for me to write than for anyone to read), but it is still just entertainment and not some sacred art form. I’ll cope next time I hear someone describe some as “X gold”. No, lithium isn’t white gold, it’s just an in-demand resource. Just say it’s valuable if you want to. Analogizing something to gold isn’t creative, it’s an overdone trope.
You don’t have to. But I do wonder if you do value uniformed opinions you agree with it.
You know not all software/software versions they may want/need to use is on there