Options are great when you can make an informed choice. Too many similar choices lead to choice paralysis and regret, which is bad for first time users.
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3·1 month agoIt’s been dead to me ever since they started adding ads to their premium services. None of their decisions have made me reconsider.
It’s anti vacc all over again!
I remember seeing JP on YT when he wasn’t really that famous yet, arguing against that Canadian law about not using the correct pronoun for someone being a criminal offense when regular swear words aren’t and I thought okay, that’s reasonable I guess, inconsistencies are bad. Let’s see what else he has.
And then came the lectures about natural hierarchies or something and some other things where I went okaaay, I guess I don’t have the full context of his lectures. Suspense of disbelief and such.
But three videos in and it was clear. Glad I got off that train before it left.
Oh hey, the Jordan Peterson experience!
37·5 months agoAbstraction layers? In MY messy pile of spaghetti ass code!?
But my highly complicated git UI will let me do the same thing with 100 clicks and without understanding what I’m doing!
One million years later: “The study has been inconclusive.”
Ah, yes, my bad. Need a file for hard links.
$ ln -s ~/Downloads downloads
You can even hard link it if you feel fancy.
MinGW can do that, too. Useful for Git.
Pretty insane that around 0.4% of all IPv4 addresses are wasted.
ebian? You gave away the D? Is this a trans joke?
CLI is effective because every command serves a specific purpose. UIs are the opposite, you have to imagine all possible intentions the user could have at any given point and then indicate possible actions, intuitively block impossible actions, and recover from pretty much any error.
Wir sprechen Kraut, bitte sehr.
Also, Windows is catching up on the breaking of things, while Linux has improved dramatically. At least some distros are incredibly stable.
No-one deserves your donations, but that sounds like you’re letting perfect get in the way of good. There are tons of things that speak for Signal. They made the whisper protocol and they consistently protect privacy where they can. I’ve used it for years (meaning I’ve actively generated costs for them without any revenue), and that qualifies as good for me.