That's the exact point. I didn't realize firefox was open source despite the fact my package manager had probably built it for me at some point.

Reminds me of the time SEO put a tech blog article as the top link for "Facebook login" and they got a shitload of people complaining about how they couldn't log into this new Facebook and wanted the old one back.

https://nyulocal.com/the-internet-inept-mistake-readwriteweb-for-facebook-hilarity-ensues-482cc4d1ba68

I have a love-hate relationship with Logseq. I fantasise about rewriting it to better suit my needs, but it's definitely a lot of work to do this for both desktop and Android.

Exactly! Like, how? People who have worked office jobs their whole lives…I just don’t get it

I dont think thats being fair and I dont think that is true. Linux users perceive a video showing real issues on linux to be shitting on linux but do not consider a video that contains windows issues to be shitting on windows.

Condescension means "patronizing attitude or behavior"; your comic doesn't show condescension so you probably need the dictionary definition spelled out.

.../s

Sorry, english isn't my first language and I confused shortcuts and symlinks. I meant shortcuts of course!

Like everything else Syncthing, it works well when it is working well.

Far from foolproof.

lots of people know about firefox, they would just never use it.

opera

I had a quick look, and all I could see is this post Taleya made where no-one made those claims.

when more and different people get involved for different reasons then they will change things. since a lot of growth has come from nearby gamer communities, they will bring those habits and forms with them.

1 million of people is a lot. 1 million out of 8 billion is not so much.

QGIS sounds really cool! I'll definitely bring that up so she can practice that Environmental Sciences degree. :)

Insane about the liability angle. I had never considered that! Sounds like far too serious a business for my tastes.

I'm glad there's a lot of open source libraries, and Linux is heavily employed in scientific and academic circles, at least. :)

Ya caught me bein' a bit lazy! X_X

Thanks for the formatting help. :)

and i oop

and a lot of people just use chrome on desktop anyways. not counting all the browsers that are just chrome in a costume

I was expecting worse from Firefox actually. Mozilla have had a lot of layoffs in the past few years.

That's how they became relatively bright, by asking questions to learn about new things!

Been using it for 2 years now with a large number of individual shares, 0 issues other than the occasional exclusion list. You must have use cases I don't have.

Nonsensical argument. Just because a piece of software is FLOSS and non-Google, it is not automatically a "weekend side quest". Big Tech is very happy that these false equivalencies have spread as well as they did, but they don't hold a kernel of truth, at least not anymore.

How did you get the idea that only 1 million people know of Firefox? I'd say the true figure is at least two, perhaps even three orders of magnitude greater than that. Browser user statistics don't really say much about that.

What I find more disrespectful is people that join the greater community, but who have no appreciation for the giant amount of philosophical and political (on-top of the technical) work that was done to enable the relatively free/libre and open environment we have with Linux-based operating systems today. I find it so sad that GNU haters have successfully established divisive memes such as the Stallman GNU/Linux copypasta. We owe so much to the GNU project and GPL license, and I think we would be in a much worse place today if Linux had not been licensed under the GPL. I am fundamentally opposed to people who try to move the distributions into a less free direction. Some may see this as elitism, but this opposition is not born out of a desire to dominate or humiliate anyone, but rather to protect the many great achievements of the FLOSS movement.

That was an example for a "grand scheme" of things.

Say, out of 1000000 people only 22600 are Firefox users. That is quite a lot. Now remove two zeros and we get 226 users per 10000. Remove 2 more and out of 100 we got 2 people who use Firefox.

2.26% is a fuck to of people. But if we compare to the whole market, that is negligible. Chrome, for instance, has 68%. Add other chromium based browsers, would make around 75%.

Our generation ! I am part of (older) GenZ myself.

I get the point, but going away from Google search is so easy.

Gmail on the other hand I understand why people are still stuck using and I don't push them to switch away.

But it drives me nuts that some normies in my life will complain that Google has gone worse, still refuse to switch. There are some who don't know how to change default and I still get it, but there is one mf at my work, he changed his default in edge from bing to Google and when I said since you know how to change default why not use DDG or startpage or honestly any other non giant alternative. He just says too much work.

Yeah, I really like it. But I also started with it because my university at that time only taught open source apps, and later on other universities did Arc but I just did the same thing in QGIS. But when you're starting it might be a little of an adjustment.

They also just released v4.0 with full migration to qt6, I haven't tested it out that well yet.

Btw I am currently working on a programming language that uses custom syntax to do fun analysis related to networks (directed graphs). And I have a GIS support for reading/writing network and attributes. I made it for rivers first, but I'm expanding to all directed graph. I've a mix of Computer and Geosciences background so I had fun doing something in the middle that most people don't.

Edit: I am looking for people to try it out, but I have problem finding people that want to code in a new language, and for network related tasks.

Not so much office jobs, but that the late 70s to the mid 90s was when you had to figure all this computer shit out on your own, in order to play games and connect to the internet and whatever other shit. Before that people just weren’t exposed as much, there wasn’t even really a commercial market. And after that, everything was made simple, pre-installed, easy user interfaces, more technical details were hidden to make it easier for the consumer to consume content without needing to be technical. That’s why around that age group I would expect to be the most tech savvy.

I don't know you

I'm Edgar :)

I can never see any media hosted from files catbox.moe, am I the only one?

Gmail was about easiest to switch away from. You can just create a new email account and have two mailboxes. Then update the new email to services as they go.

I'm loving Logseq. It's the open source software I support monthly. It (plus what I learned from "Building a Second Brain" by Tiago Forte) changed my life. Having a low-barrier (daily journal everything) place to dump everything (easily discoverable later with back-linking tags) helps me manage my ADHD.

I highly recommend it. Once you wrap your head around the idea that the daily journal is where you dump just about everything, it's pretty smooth sailing. (The daily journal automatically dates everything, then the pages themselves automatically pull a reverse chronological feed of every time you wrote about the thing, and queries allow for more targeted, dynamic searching, like all tasks due in the next week, or all tasks for the project, etc.)

lol, are you me? Our Signal chat is ⅓ chat, ⅓ grocery list, and ⅓ my wife's notes to herself.

With banks and financial services in general being a bitch about changing contact details. That's a form and a visit to the branch for each bank, broker, investment advisor, direct fund provider. That's already almost 30 applications. I haven't even counted stuff like vehicular services, government tax portal, property tax portal, electricity provider, gas provider, internet provider. Not all of whom allow changing for email address digitally or without some complicated support ticket.

It's such a mountain of changes I myself have only gotten through the list halfway and it's been 4 years of trying. I can never recommend that to anyone in my family, they'll just hate me.

P.s. This might just be my country specific problem, I understand other countries are easier.

Wow never thought about that, I changed it to all those digitally and it didn’t require much at all. One service required me to send an email and that felt a bit old-fashioned, but nothing like you described.

I might be. Have one of us time-traveled recently?

Come to think of it, if we're time-traveling, does recently even have a viable definition?

Looks like there's an outage at the moment

I think this might make for a stronger argument with "Linux" instead of "Google".

oh man it sures takes all my weekend to install firefox and set a search engine

You're not alone, I can't either. Not sure if I've ever been able to.

it doen'st.

lokening???

Honestly, switching search engines is pretty normie friendly. I've got a lot of non-techy friends or family, that use Ecosia or something. They also did it on their own, I didn't even encourage them to do it.

With things like Linux it's a bit harder. But if they don't rely on any specialized software, they are usually fine with me offering to upgrade their Laptops so Linux. I installed Linux Mint on my Mom's Laptop and she can use it as well as Windows. She never complained about it.

It's surprising the number of people who don't do that last part

It comes from anglish "loken" meaning to heal, it is related to Old English "læce" IPA /ˈlæː.t͡ʃe/ meaning doctor.

https://wordbook.anglish.org/

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/læce#Old_English

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Every group of nerds assumes average person knows more about their obsession...

Do you happen to live in Spain during a football game

Yeah it's fucked. And the worst part is, most of these places don't even open on non working days, so I can't even do these on weekend.

My country does have identity theft problem running rampart, so I don't totally blame the services, it's a pain but at least a leaked email password here and there wouldn't automatically mean losing access to finance. I understand why it's been designed such a way, but man it's a such a mountain of a task.