Its a tool. It should be designed to be useful as possible to anyone who needs such a tool.
Twenty years ago I might have agreed. Now, in hindsight, I can say that giving everyone access to computers & thereby the internet has brought out the worst in humanity, including mass-manipulation and authoritarian regimes thanks to people making even worse calls in elections than they used to.
My main point is: If the desktop environment “expert” toggle is set once, gimmicks like this one here would be disabled by default. On a default installation, with the “expert” toggle to “off”, those same gimmicks might be enabled by default.
The kind if person who would benefit from that shouldn’t be using a computer. But then again, most smartphone users shouldn’t be using a phone. How about choosing different default settings in an installation based on a central “expert” vs “newbie” setting?
This kind of bullshit shouldn’t ever be on by default. KDawful reminds me again why I ditched it for XFCE.
indeed. At this point, the only thing related to 'murica that I care about in terms of relations is to keep them from nuking other countries. And with their empathyless billionaire cunts in charge of the rapist buffoon, that is basically impossible to ensure. Might as well do our own thing entirely.
representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir
I know my Gandalf like your average LOTR fan, but boy do I wish death upon these people…
Don’t give them ideas. Next they’ll cut the blood stream to your brain.
Fairphone has really gone off the deep end. 6 phone models in what? less than 12 years? That’s what they call dedication to sustainability? Really? They used to say the most sustainable phone is your old phone, assuming you can continue to use it. Yet - my Fairphone 1, still in good working order hardware-wise, I had to “scrap” because no more SW updates. When my FP2 hardware (charging port) eventually failed, they no longer sold the relevant spare parts.
What good are exchangeable parts, if they are removed from the shop around the time that a well-treated phone might need them?
It’s the thing that the only person who can know for sure you have it is you yourself. If you have to ask, I might have to assume you could be a biological machine.
Upvote for being a European (EU) based product. Sadly, we are also in danger of slipping into totalitarism.
The FAQ has an entry for this that I just stumbled across:
We dream of a world where technology (both SW and HW) is completely open, but at the moment, this is not entirely possible. Our goal is to contribute to progress in this line by publishing all our developments to support the community.
However, some components (such as the communications module or the CPU) do not have publicly available schematics and cannot be replicated. This prevents our device from being fully open source. Nevertheless, we are committed to publishing all our own development work and continuously seeking for components that respect user freedom without compromising usability.
Regarding the software, the entire operating system will be open source, and all LiberuxOS developments will be published. The installed software will also be open source. However, some parts of the firmware will remain closed, as some manufacturers do not release their code. Still, we will do our best to open more parts of our system over time.
Except that wouldn’t explain conscience. There’s absolutely no need for conscience or an illusion(*) of conscience. Yet we have it.
Read the thread again, it seems you slipped somewhere. This was all about the claim that implicit conversion to string somehow could make sense.
Also, you contradicted yourself just then and there. Not a single of your examples does string concatenation for these types. It’s only JS
C# is filthy. But it explains where you got your warped idea of righteousness.
You are entitled to your opinion. implicit conversion to string is not a feature in most languages for good reasons.
I don’t think there’s a way to retrofit JS - but php versions are deprecated all the time. Why not do the same with client-side script versions? :)
Why would you need an entirely different way of concatenating strings? “11” + 1 -> exception. “11” + to_string(1) = “111”
Executing after undefined behavior is arguably worse than terminating with an exception. A terminated script can’t leak data or wreak havoc in other ways.
Vintage? That stuff is so new it was already crap gaming compared to PC :p