Was that from Bluesky or somewhere else?

I like this idea, but I don’t know how you build a site to facilitate that without also being super appealing to children and pedos at the same time.

You misunderstand. This IS Trump’s chosen stooge. FTC Chairman Carr.

He’s complaining about tech companies “censoring” conservatives for “speaking their minds”, aka being hateful bigots and spreading misinformation during a public health crisis.

About two or three months ago. It’s not for all content, but their more in depth stuff, How X did Y articles, and other writing that’s more analysis and opinion than reporting on facts usually goes behind the new paywall. Anything you’d care about for news or breaking stories is still free, which is about 75%+ of the content on the site.

Okay that gave me a hearty chuckle, thank you.

Probably not in the sense that the average American uses the word “communist”, which is more about their remembered history of authoritarian regimes of the USSR and mid 20th century China and those sorts. Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and the atrocities thereof.

Linux is communist insofar as it is open source, and therefore less affected or tied up in capitalistic practices. Capitalists still use and contribute to Linux, but often those contributions go back into the commons of the open source code.

You probably know all that, I’m just feeling long winded.

So that’s “getting shittier” but not “enshittification”. The latter is explicitly a profit-motive driven phenomenon, coined by Cory Doctorow in 2023. Here’s the original post he made about it: https://doctorow.medium.com/tiktoks-enshittification-bb3f5df91979

I… think we are saying the same thing with different words and emphasis.

The problem then was the immaturity of Linux for gaming. Valve has done a shit ton of work to make that possible and focused on a specific experience with the steam deck for several years. Now they’re just expanding and building on that success, which is awesome to see.

Under pre-computer conditions, ideally a competitor would disrupt the market with some novel cost saving technique, more efficient processes, or some other way to stand out from the crowd and claw consumers away from the Big Thing.

Unfortunately, nowadays with computer stuff, it’s virtually impossible to build new or novel features that the Big Thing can’t immediately (or very quickly) copy and implement before the little guy can meaningfully establish themselves.

At this point… it comes down to the people. Nebula popped off not because they had a rad new feature or player, but because they had a certain target audience where those types of creators were releasing content there first, well before posting on YouTube. Same for Dropout. And because both of those endeavors aren’t subject to the same business model pressures as YouTube, they’re liable to only get better over time.

I don’t know how you do a social media site with that strategy though. Lemmy is the best I’ve experienced, but even this isn’t without its drawbacks.

Yeah I just learned that this morning. The Bazzite website still has a piece of text on the site that explicitly says it doesn’t support Nvidia stuff, but it looks like that’s an artifact that just needs to be removed.

Perhaps I shall look into it.

No idea, I was just looking into Bazzite specifically.

Aw. Bazzite can’t do Nvidia GPUs. I’m still rocking an RTX 2070 and likely will be for a good while.

Yeah I used Krita (which works on Linux just fine) for about a year and a half. But once I went back to CSP, I immediately felt that “oh this just works and doesn’t require a million workarounds for stuff” sigh of relief.

I’ve also seen some folks have gotten CSP working on Linux, but it looked like a pretty hairy process. And with CSP having no official Linux support, they might break that process at any point.

It’s tough. Might be worth it anyway, depending on how much Microsoft continues screwing the pooch here.

I think it’s simpler than that.

I think Windows 11 feels unresponsive because of how many features have Internet-enabled features built deep into them. All those little delays opening menus, etc, I think are actually network delay, so the little ads or other stuff have time to fetch and load and show simultaneously with the rest of the UI. Meaning the UI itself has to be delayed slightly to make it less obvious what’s being fed to you from online vs local.

Nothing makes my Windows 11 PC shit the bed harder than an unreliable or interrupted Internet connection. Literally crashing the whole PC sometimes.

Gaming and Clip Studio Paint for me. (Maybe some other stuff that I just haven’t thought of.)

Needless to say, every day my Windows 11 machine bugs out on me I get closer and closer to just giving Linux a solid try for the first time since college.

Sounds like you shouldn’t trust those people then. We are in agreement.

I thought we were talking about trusting or not trusting the “central authority”? I think you’re thinking about trusting individual posters or not.

I said “shows itself to” not “claims it does”. Big difference.

Yep that makes sense. Thanks!