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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS

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  • Eh, I would have agreed a few years ago. But now default Ubuntu boots up basically looking like MacOS with the browser (firefox by default, not Chrome) right there in your face ready to launch. For someone truly not aware how to use a computer beyond a browser it couldn't be much easier (except booting directly into the browser). The only thing preventing that from catching on is that those people don't even know what an operating system is, let alone that it could be changed.

  • Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS

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  • The idea of ChromeOS is simple: it's just enough Linux to get you online. It turns a PC into something akin to a tablet, with a full-screen icon-based app launcher. The desktop is very simple and vaguely Windows-like: there's a taskbar at the bottom, a file manager, drivers enough common hardware that most things just work out of the box, including a bunch of common GPUs, networking including Wi-Fi. In terms of apps, there's a built-in Google Drive client, and of course the Chrome web browser.

    This is more or less describing one of the many immutable distros that only run programs with flatpaks. It's entirely feasible if someone wanted to make a distro with even less functionality, but why?

  • Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS

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  • [Solved] Google holds my photos hostage?

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  • Why can't you just download them and delete the copy in Google photos?

  • Locked

    so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down.

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  • No one person can control everything.

    Doesn't seem to be stopping you from trying!

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    so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down.

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  • Eh, I think you're projecting. He literally owned his instance. He was playing with his own ball at his own house and you got "butthurt" because he didn't want to play with you.

    It's no secret that a lot of people are attracted to Lemmy because they felt Reddit mods were too overbearing, but some of us like Lemmy because we didn't think Reddit mods were doing enough about the overbearing users.

  • Locked

    so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down.

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  • He said "this" experiment, not "the fediverse" which I interpreted to mean his instance (or perhaps Lemmy).

    That said, I'm honestly curious what do you care about his "toxicty" if he's not an admin of your instance? You don't seriously believe you have a right to dictate what he does with his own hardware do you?

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    so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down.

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  • I'm glad we agree.

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    so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down.

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  • What did you interpret the premise to be? I read the post when it was up, and it read to me like OP was saying essentially that too many toxic users and not enough admins willing to stand up to them make the overall experience not fun.

    EDIT: Which is accurate in my mind at least when it comes to Lemmy

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    so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down.

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  • Sounds like a major perk of that instance to me.

  • Where’s Firefox going next? You tell us.

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  • Man I am the complete opposite. I need my browser to display the Web with tons and tons of tweaks and adjustments and filters in place to make it actually readable for me. Rawdogging the Web in 2025 is wild.

  • Does anyone truly think times are better now than 30 years ago? (US)

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  • I don't disagree, but OP didn't ask for trend predictions. Anyone who tries to convince you "things" are worse today than than they were in 1995 is either trying to gaslight you, or doesn't consider the experience of the LGBT community to be as equally valuable as everyone else.

  • Are smart glasses allowed in public in EU?

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  • Using a camera on public property in the EU is broadly very legal.

  • Home server advice

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  • Using recycled parts is the best advice. As you said, it's almost certainly overkill and the price can't be beat.

  • Does anyone truly think times are better now than 30 years ago? (US)

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  • Unless you’re part of a marginalized group I suppose.

    This is a pretty dismissive take. "Sure, things have improved for the blacks and queers, but what about us... uh, regular folk?"

  • IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee)

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  • Thanks for the explainer, that last point is really great actually and I'm surprised that Amazon/Google etc are pushing for Matter if the data isn't sent to the internet.

  • Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

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  • I love the notion that even Twitter users had too much empathy and the platform wasn't getting Nazified fast enough on it's own so they had to program a robot to go around and spread propaganda.

  • What are some recommended RSS feeds for privacy news?

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  • IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee)

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  • I am just getting started on this journey but zigbee seems great and I like that it works fine even if the wifi goes down. I'm not sure what the drawbacks are or the benefits of Matter.