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kinda the same reason people suggest something like linux mint over slackware, gentoo, arch, etc… mint is easy to install and is preconfigured to be an easy to use user desktop environment. you can configure any other option to be have like that, but they tend to be a bit more “DIY”, which is great if you know what you’re doing!

dedicated NAS OSes will have good software out of the box that make it easy to configure and manage various common disk-related configurations (RAID, SMB, NFS, etc). you can certainly do all this yourself, but it might not have a pretty, unified user interface, or you might have to deal with software that isn’t compatible with some version of a library that’s in your distro of choice… all resolvable things, but they take time to solve: anywhere from installing a package manually to applying a kernel patch and recompiling the kernel to get something to work

i’d avoid BIOS-based RAID… it doesn’t really offer many benefits over linux-based raid like MDADM, and MDADM offers a LOT of up-sides for portability, repairability, diagnostics, etc

well now you’re just describing ansible

who hurt you?

afaik there’s options you can turn on that enable it

search .inputrc and set completion-ignore-case On

“magically know what they want” aka occasionally set you and your files on fire

i prefer not fire

also idk does zsh do this automatically? don’t think i’ve ever had this problem except on legacy AF servers

i mean… unless you don’t tab complete, but then who doesn’t spam tab 30 times every keystroke?

also nothing that looks the same for the annoying time when you do have to do some analog copying

no I, l, or | and i usually avoid ‘, “, !, /, \ (which one was it again?) and a few others that i have set in my password manager

yes and no… we don’t have revenue goals, but we have goals for the fediverse and we have the social media critical mass problem: you have to hit a critical mass before you become indispensable… if people try the fediverse and there’s not enough content, they tend to just leave rather than stick with it

mastodon can do default instances because they have the account migration process… i totally agree this is a great solution: get people in with sane defaults, and then let people move once they know how it works

there will be plenty of people that don’t move (or maybe that’s solvable too: analyse your toots and suggest a more niche instance after 2mo?) but i’m not sure that’s a huge problem if your “default instance” is more of a random choice from a list of sane defaults

it’s kinda vaguely similar though… a fediverse instance is moderated by the instance admins, just like a discord server (though discord has a level of admin above server mod/admin i’m not sure that distinction matters for the general user)

okay, so it seems as though disregarding android usage of LTS seems reasonable because whilst it shouldn’t be this way, nothing will actually change

which is kinda the point of LTS right? or does LTS for kernel mean additional things?

okay but all that “technically possible but nobody has written the software yet” is incredibly unhelpful

it’s technically possible to run every windows app perfectly in WINE but nobody has implemented a bunch of the APIs without bugs yet

and years later the image in people’s head of people who used google glass didn’t change a bit

i use Every Door on ios… its UI is hideous, but very functional

in still pretty new to it all though so it might not be great… better than go map for edits though

use of the words “sane” and “normal people” suggest that you still don’t understand one of the fundamental tenants of linux: freedom to choose

the implication that people who don’t operate their computer the same as you are insane and abnormal is… well… counter to many of the philosophies that make linux fantastic

i don’t think you’re aware that people can use interfaces differently to you

you say whose goal like someone decided one day that this is the only way to do things… i said “the goal” as in the goal of a particular method of scrolling, explaining that there is a logical reasoning behind the UI choice; that it’s not arbitrary

you should pick a hill to die on that’s not something as arbitrary as natural scrolling. there are more important things in life than fighting with people on the internet about scrolling interface preferences

the goal is to use the same action as you would use in a touch screen:

to scroll content, you “grab” a point on the page and push it up to reveal what’s below it

to scroll a scroll bar, you “grab” the bar and move it down because you’re not moving the content; you’re moving the “%age complete” indicator

it only seems illogical if you’ve not been using natural scrolling. it is, in fact, incredibly intuitive if you haven’t built up muscle memory for the opposite

kinda different there though… it’s trivial to add whatever data you like to images etc (and that’s without even resorting to steganography), but that data is only accessible with an application. i believe the question was intended as whether you could get a virus from downloading/playing media files… the content of that “hidden data” isn’t executable, so whilst it’s reasonable to say it’s possible to transport a virus via hidden data in media, it’s not reasonable to say that you can “get” a virus using that same method alone