I mean, I get your point about OCs being done by commission or other similar ways.
But if we are wondering why this particular post was downvoted immediately, which suggests many downvotes came from people browsing the “New” feed, AI is a much better guess than transphobia on Lemmy. People over here tend to be very vocally supportive of trans people, whilst also hating AI.
If this were Reddit, I’d immediately suggest transphobia being much more likely indeed
Original Character, vs Original Content
It doesn’t really change the point though, be it original character or original content. There’s nothing original about AI.
anyone, beyond maybe you, is downvoting on that criteria
I haven’t downvoted anyone*, so that would be very surprising if true.
*except you just now, for the very low effort comment.
It’s much more likely the fact this is an AI generated picture being called “an OC”.
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I don’t understand why people would want an unstable system
Sometimes people don’t want to wait 2 years to get the improvements, new features or fixes for the packages they use daily.
I’d say their software limitations are the reason they failed, not the keyboard. In fact, people really liked the final BlackBerry devices with Android and a keyboard, but at that point the company was already gone.
But while iPhones were at the boom of Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds, iBeer and using Skype, and Google’s Android looked like ass but already had ad-infested versions of the same titles, BlackBerry had… corporate messaging? A really robust email app, I guess?
Don’t worry, no matter how much you explain it Reddit and Lemmy will still act like Ubuntu is the devil and worse than Windows 11.
It’s by far the most commonly used distro, specially for beginners, which means Lemmy must hate it to protect their delusion that using Linux makes them special or superior or intellectuals, when in reality.
And I say all that as an Arch user, btw, who doesn’t like how Ubuntu’s packages are maintaned and shared.
Linux is never going to be the most used desktop operating system. That being said, do we need to have that as a goal? If it outgrows macOS I’m happy enough.
Free software ideology says it is better because denying users any of the four freedoms is an immoral act.
I find it weird how some people can strongly agree with that when it comes to software, but move to any other realm of human activity (economics, intellectual property, etc) and suddenly the same freedoms shouldn’t apply.
Yep! Okular is amazing, and it’s available on Windows too. Install it for someone and they’ll never bother you again about PDFs or EPUB documents, it’s performant and everything works: printing, resizing, selecting text, searching, signing, adding comments. Never worry about paid PDF software or shady slow apps that keep trying to gatekeep features.
Honestly, there isn’t much to it when setting up Linux for elderly people - in fact, I find it less troublesome than setting it up for a teenager.
Most often the issues regular users face with Linux are related to installing packages from external sources or broken updates. Elderly people tend to not do that.
Set up a stable distro like Debian, Linux Mint or Ubuntu LTS with KDE Plasma or Cinnamon, install LibreOffice, Okular and a browser with strong ad blocking, and any other applications you think they might need. Enable a simple firewall, hide the root / folder from the file browser’s sidebar, and you’re done. Perhaps set up scaling to make everything bigger on their monitors, disable mouse acceleration and set the speed slightly slower than usual.
I wouldn’t bother with immutable distros, Flatpaks are nice and all until permissions turn using a simple app a confusing chore with broken interactions.
Do keep in mind the most left leaning democrat you can think of would be a center-right candidate in my country. It’s unfortunate that indeed you can only work with what you got, but don’t be surprised when others cringe at the thought of calling your democratic party leftist.