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I had a laugh watching this get down voted. Seems like a lot of Lemmy users filtering by “all” seem to love to vote by their feelings by the headline alone, cause I totally fooled em with a very real tech pic 😂

I often see these in the news! They can’t resist the incredible power of a very real tech pic!

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366552407/38TB-Microsoft-data-leak-highlights-risks-of-oversharing

Oh wow, what a neat piece of kit!

I almost missed it, but found it thanks to the arrow

YouTube’s users when they adhere to the YouTube TOS:

Soldering tools get pretty small!

Books don’t light up. They reflect light, but it’s different. Light mode is like staring into a flashlight, almost literally.

My favorite part about these pictures is that it has hardly any relation to the thing they’re selling. There is no iceberg-looking illuminated pretend IC with more circuit board traces on top, for some reason.

But the reason they do it is because it helps make a sale. Some people quite literally will choose this product because “ooh shiny rendered picture.”

Here’s a real picture of a QCC5124:

It’s a shame how obvious they’re working their corporate bullying cards simply because of money. Imagine if I created a product called Google and tried to sue Google for it. That would be ridiculous, right? Well, that’s what Facebook is doing, just with money.

in my opinion, Linux has an edge on pretty much everything except for adoption. It’s stable, secure, and updated very often. There are a ton of very great libraries for it that make building and running programs very easy. It’s great on resource management, and the kernel makes great use of the hardware.

However, most pitfalls in Linux comes from it having less adoption than more popular OSes like Windows or Mac OS. Ultimately, this dampens the “friendliness” of Linux to the masses. If you buy a piece of hardware from the electronics store, there will often be no Linux support. The “mom and dad” folk might enjoy it, but won’t know how to install or update things, simply because it’s different. Vendors will often deliver shoddy binary blobs for common hardware like wireless cards.

With more adoption comes more pressure for support. We’re seeing this with the Steam Deck already: if a game company wants to sell their games on the Deck, then they need to add Linux support, even if that means ensuring that it runs on Wine. I’d love to see this kind of thing for everyday use, i.e. a scanner including Linux software and instructions (and hopefully isn’t a nasty “install.run” thing).

If it becomes more common, then friends will help other friends with their computer. “Mom and dad” can look up solutions to problems on the internet, and they’ll be able to fix it themselves. Your aunt will buy an iPod and she’ll be able to run iTunes in a first-party way. With enough adoption, it will even be weird to run operating systems other than Linux because hardly anyone runs Windows or Mac OS anymore.

I don’t think Linux will ever be in the majority, but I see it climbing a bit in the next ten years. Lots of kinks have been worked out, and with the right software, it’s even easy-to-use and pretty to look at. We need more devices like the Steam Deck to help pave the way for more adoption! Then after a while, people will use it cause that’s what they know.

Anyone remember this old ad??

Keep filling those bugs and stop complaining on random forums, kids

A single good thing that a single billionaire has done? The Gates foundation fighting malaria. I think that’s good.

This extension is paywalled! It costs money, and asks for payment when you first open it.

Good Lord, this makes my hands sweaty. Why is your entire prod database leaning on one line of code that’s prone to human error? There should be 20 extra accidental steps taken to do something like this.