There’s no way in hell we have the resolution to see continents in another star system.

Linux is the most widely used OS in the world, if you include servers.

If servers’ OSes can’t be legally used in California anymore, that would be funny.

Linux distributions should react by asking users to confirm they’re not in California. They’ll backpedal fast.

Those suspended magnetic mouse wheels could be different in that way. How could I tell for sure? Without disassembling the mouse and almost certainly breaking it in the process because I’m extremely incompetent with my hands, I mean.

Well there’s a focus on American events, American billionaires, and the distinctly American flavour of extreme policing

A lot of people are against it because they see it as the first step towards evil, but I still think we should have some sort of recommendation algorithm. New content discovery on Lemmy is way too manual for normies like me.

The sign-up process should be streamlined. It’s really intimidating to have to choose an instance when you don’t even understand what the heck that is. And then there’s the manual account validation. I’m not sure what the solution is but we might want to find one.

And we need to do something about the extremists. They have a right to exist, but the abnormally high prevalence of American-coded communist/anarcho-communist content that just casually talks about executing the rich and the like is weird and intimidating even to me, a decidedly left-wing person. Americans, who are famously doubtful of communism, probably run away from the platform seeing that. And as for non-Americans… Well the proportion of content that’s specifically about American politics is even higher than on Reddit, which is saying something.

Huh. I was convinced there was a bigger difference.

Doesn’t that kinda make Canada look smaller than the US?

Technically you can call a chain of three if/else conditions an AI but come on, you KNOW that’s not what we mean.

Maybe look at old office PCs for sale. Some of them aren’t THAT old and you could get a good CPU upgrade from one of them. Slot your graphics card in and that could be a significant improvement.

I see RAM at somewhat high but reasonable-ish prices on Facebook Marketplace all the time. Might not be the case elsewhere, but keeping an eye on the used market is a possibility.

Kinda nice but I would have never guessed

Trains, trams, bike lanes walkable neighborhood, even busses. Anything but goddamn cars.

Friend, the only solution to traffic is fewer cars and better alternatives to driving.

Just one more lane bro, I swear. I just need one more lane and we’ll solve traffic.

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I’ve seen lots of such crap written by humans. I guess AI had to learn it from somewhere.

That text is not devoid of merit. It’s true that often when my coworkers are spending an unexpectedly large amount of time on a task, it’s because they’re getting sidetracked or being too stubborn to ask for help or, as the article describes, are way overthinking something.

But.

That’s only generally a relatively minor problem; and the times when it’s a major problem are rare.

What’s a major, fundamental problem that regularly explodes in our faces is speed. Decision makers pushing for unmaintainable, barely functional crap under the excuse of pressing client deals and MVPs, and “go fast it’s just a prototype I swear” that gets shipped straight to production and never gets cleaned up.

No, slowness is not the main thing you should be focusing on.

Never used one but I’ve heard the UX is rough in a few ways. Sorry, vague memories is all I have to offer

I feel like GOG would be more popular if their client were better. Maybe more usable with a controller too?

And something that would help competition in the game launcher space in particular would be if OSes had great built-in controller support (and controller OS navigation) so we wouldn’t have to rely on Steam for it.

If I’m feeling energetic and I really hurry and I don’t need to wash my hair I can do 20.

Usually takes me 30+. And that’s just the shower part.

I don’t understand how a significantly faster shower is possible.