Kirk

joined 5 months ago
[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 4 days ago

When over 100,000 people are doing it more than 24 times per day on average over a six month time scale.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

It's pretty great lol

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

From someone waking up from a coma without experience with Windows or MacOS, Linux truly is the most user friendly. It may not have been true five years ago but in my mind it is without question true now.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I hate to admit sometimes that the Chrome experience (especially on mobile) can be a lot smoother and quicker to load, but Firefox wins every time on extensibility. But to your point yes the hate directed Firefox's way can be well, a bit much.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 13 points 4 days ago

My latest "grinds my gears" is seeing people run their emails through GPT to make them sound "professional".

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 7 points 4 days ago

If they had gone with my plan of 24 seasons of 24 episodes each then there would have been plenty of room for both!

It's an objectively better plan I don't understand why they didn't listen to me

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I believe Firefox is completely FOSS.

Looks like it is! I was under the apparently false impression that it was only partly.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well, because FOSS apps are usually the best/most user friendly option even if they're not always the most popular. If you woke up after a 30 year coma and had no prior commitments to using any particular software, there would be absolutely zero question that Linux is the best OS today.

An OS is a complicated thing, yet the FOSS option is the safest, most user friendly, and most versatile. I'm just a little surprised there isn't a browser that checks those boxes too, since the browser is a widely used thing. But I'm guessing because Firefox exists the number of devs willing to give the time investment just isn't as many.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

I'm not saying that nobody does this, but the idea that there is a widespread problem of people prioritizing GPT over their own cognition for a majority of their decision making has "trying to create a new moral panic" written all over it.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 14 points 4 days ago (10 children)

I'm not under the impression that a web browser is a simple thing to build but with Linux advancing the way it has in recent years it continues to surprise me that the "best" browser out there isn't FOSS.

Hopefully that is about to change!

 

Note that r/coolguides is a very "normie" subreddit and may require extra handholding. There are a lot of people who don't seem to understand what "open source" means. Some looking for "The Lemmy app" etc. Be patient and helpful!

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