Linux is like the Star Citizen of operating systems: There are people who see the potential and trust things will be fixed. And there’s the people who have been around for a while.
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News@lemmy.world•ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US | Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools
8·6 days agoNah, that’s America. Children as young as five and two years old, some sick and all without parents, have been abducted for months all over the US and all comments were mostly about hurrdurr-conservative-values. Things only got really heated when two white people got shot. People are only in it for themselves.
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News@lemmy.world•FBI supervisor resigns after trying to investigate agent who shot Renee Good
15·10 days agoSomeone inside law enforcement called it “An exodus of morality” that was going on across all agencies.
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3DPrinting@lemmy.world•The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?English
517·11 months agoI don’t understand why this is such a big deal. There is no huge open source scene for regular printers. Because it’s a tool, not a hobby. People want a print on paper and move on. This gatekeeping gotta go: It’s holding 3D printing back. Bambu did for 3D printing what Apple did for mobile phones: They made 3D printing clean, simple and easy. If you want to fiddle around with custom firmware and usability hacks and cobbled together components, power to you. I’ll be over here, actually printing things.
They are not changing anything. They are warning the customer import charges wil incur if the purchase proceeds. They gain nothing and stand to lose a sale.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You FreeEnglish
281·11 months agoThe old internet was hidden behind dial-up modems and TCP-IP stacks and weird telnet and usenet protocols. This complexity worked as a filter and the people using it were mostly academics, students, techies and other nerds (me amongst them). The moment uncle Bob could poke his way through social media on his phone from the shitter, the whole thing cascaded into Eternal September and “the old internet” was lost forever.



Honestly: “Journalist discovers Apple product still functions properly after 10 years” sounds like a headline to me.