uralsolo [he/him]

2 years is still insanely short to me. I had a Nexus 6p from 2016-2020, and a Pixel 5 from 2020-present, and frankly the 6p was still pretty fast and satisfying to use when I traded it in so I can’t imagine wtf anyone needs to upgrade more frequently than that.

I don’t remember which Surface I have, but power issues are the biggest bugbear that have followed me with it the entire time I’ve had it. Firstly chargers for the thing are really fucking sketchy - if it’s not in basically perfect, out-of-the-box condition it simply refuses to connect. And even if the little indicator light turns on that doesn’t mean that the bios “sees” it, which is pretty annoying.

Lately it’s been doing this thing where when I try to wake it up from sleep it takes about a full minute to turn the screen on. This wasn’t an issue until like a week ago, I’ve tried updating everything, reverting back to windows/stock settings - nothing.

Nowadays my surface is just a second screen on my desk that I use to run Stremio, because it just can’t handle anything else - and this is after me being pretty positive on it for most of the time I’ve had it. I guess I’ve had it for a few years, but damn if it wasn’t such a compact design I could probably swap out the power supply or something.

I don’t think a guide is really needed to install Linux

I had a guide and it was still a big learning curve. Linus had a guide and he still bricked his machine trying to install Steam. Imagine your parents or grandparents being told without context to mount an ISO to a USB and set up their BIOS - for 90% of people there is no way in hell they’re installing Linux without a guide unless they can double click an exe and have an install wizard do it for them.

Maybe astroturfing, but most likely just people trying to be morally superior to one another.

I mean they could, but they won’t.

We can get a computer to tag the birds, answer questions about them, and generate new pictures of them.

Sometimes

I understand this conceptually, but there’s also a gremlin in my brain that wants me to make every line as short as possible.

Godot is a lot of fun! I’ve never finished making a game but I’ve made a half dozen hacky demos that I was really proud of.

I tend to agree, but more because I think that Linux needs a killer feature to convince people to switch and privacy aint it for most people.

Just the other day I was posting complaining about a thing I was trying to do that should have been simple but Linux made really hard for some reason. Still prefer it to Windows tbh.

a tightly controlled corporate response

These suck for all kinds of reasons, but one of these definitely would have avoided the problems LMG is running into right now. I would say what they really need more than anything is a big, visible commitment to making things right for their employees - an outsider investigating sexual harassment is a start, but maybe also come out with a new less-rushed video schedule, since that’s what literally everyone working there has complained about.

Subscriber count is kind of a bad metric. Most youtubers know that most of their viewers aren’t subscribed, and that most of their subscribers don’t watch all of their videos. It’s a lot more useful for small channels that don’t get recommended to randoms, but the bigger the channel gets the worse it is as a metric.

without being attacked.

Not that she hasn’t been attacked constantly before and after the GN video, mind.

Sounds to me like LMG should unionize or something but I’m no expert.

Haven’t watched this yet but yeah you can really feel how rushed LTT videos are these days compared to the past.