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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My three operating system hills:

  • Windows peaked with 2000 (design-wise) and XP (functionality-wise)
  • macOS’ separation of the application vs window concepts β€” i.e. an app has exactly one menu bar and dock icon, and is expected to be able to stay open without any windows (without needing nonsense like tray icons) β€” is much better than anything else and it sucks nobody is copying it
  • Flatpak and everything related is atrocious architecture-wise in every single way and it’s a massive condemnation of Linux (desktop)’s compatibility state that it actually solves a real problem
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I declare war on this hill!

  • Peak windows was Windows 7 in both design and Function. It was pinnacle User Experience of a traditional OS before Microsoft started chasing fads, (Touchscreens in Windows 8, Cloud integration in Windows 10, and now AI bullshit in Windows 11)
  • No opinion on macOS. My only complaint is that its not linux.
  • Instead of Flatpak I would replace that with AppImages. At least with Flatpak I get some semblance of the SW Integrating with my DE and a semblance of a package manager. AppImages I feel like are like rolling the dice on how much effort the dev put into it.
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (11 children)
  • Modern flip phones (e.g. Samsung Fold) are stupid and gimmicky industrial design failures.
  • Humans are not good by nature. They are taught to be good but even babies cry and get angry without anyone teaching them.
  • The Cat in The Hat movie with Mike Myers was not as bad as critics claim and actually had good undertones patched together with modern humor that is more profound in recent times than when it was originally released. It was actually ahead of its time.
  • Apple/MacOS isn't actually a better platform and is only designed to give the impression that it is simpler even though people still have to learn how to use it.
  • Adult services should be legal in all countries and the workers involved should get paid with benefits/protections just like everybody else. This is assuming capitalism cannot be removed from the picture.
  • VTubers shouldn't be showing their actual bodies. It defeats the purpose of using the moniker in the first place.
  • Education should be free without any debt involved. There is legitimately no good reason why education and knowledge should be pay-walled.
  • Euthanasia should be legal where the person no longer wishes to subject themselves to failing health is granted control over their body. Forcing such people to keep living is selfish and pertains cruel and unusual.
  • Hollywood should not be idolized and is actually part of the problem with things being f'd up rn. There is no good reason why actors or any kind of artist should be making all that money while the rest of society gets by with the scraps we toss around while the rich get richer. The same goes for any kind of celebrity, really. I don't even leave out sports people in this.

This took me twice as long to finish because every other point I ended up with something political. So this is pretty much the least triggering or offensive I can make my list. Good grief.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Paid refers to money. Payed is a nautical term.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago
  1. The big hill in my neighborhood park.

  2. Capital Hill

I don't really know of any other hills or why I would be near them so if I die on a hill it will probably be one of these.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Soft serve is not ice cream

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

American cheese is cheese as much as sausage is meat.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Misuse of their there and they're.

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