Is Swift really safe?
It is his project and I'm not going to create an issue on github lambasting him, but I do have an opinion. He's clearly not an idiot, it just isn't a decision I agree with 🤷♂
Disagreement != hate. Life isn't made up of extremes.
Re-installing an OS is easy
Hmmm, this is where our opinions diverge. It's easy when things go right. UEFI and MBR changed that. And I've had a few linux installations fail for obscure reasons (mostly hardware support).
Installers also say "backup your data" but if you're coming from windows, what do you do when your stuff is on onedrive? What if you know nothing about partitioning and the installer just wipes the entire disk clean even though you expected your D:/ with your backup to be kept?
Oh, an should you keep that windows recovery partition? What's on there? How do you access the data to check?
There are a bunch of things to consider when installing to prevent data-loss and IMO they aren't as straightforward as they seem.
Doing a regular system update or upgrading from one LTS release to another are comparable to oil-check and changing a tire. Installing an OS, IMO, not so much.
There's just a lot of stuff going on and everybody can make an argument for knowing something:
- Maths is the most important tool to mankind
- It is imperative to understand your own brain because it makes a lot of decisions
- If you drive a car, you better know how it works
- Politics is crucial to our society and being an informed citizen is paramount
And so on. It's all true, but you only have so many hours in a day, and everybody has a different life. You could live in the most affluent society and be dealing with stuff that has nothing to do with computers.
Also, who decides what's "basic knowledge"? I know a lot about software, what I know about hardware is minimal. What's minimal to me though might be advanced to another and vice versa.
We should be trying to be more empathetic. Recommending an advanced Linux OS to a newbie isn't empathetic. Expecting a user to know how to install an OS isn't empathetic.
Excuse me for my ignorance, but what is the importance? Which questions does this answer, what does it confirm, and what does it mean for the future? As a layman, I'm in the dark on this.
No the issue is that we had a second eternal September when the iPhone dropped, and since then the computer literacy of the average boomer was allowed to become what we expect out of everyone.
That is true, iPhones have made people less literate, but it is because many many devs are just like other experts: proud of their ability to do stuff the minority can. We have very few tech-folk who are willing to make things usable for non-techies.
There is a huge "git gud" and RTFM crowd out there, and I for one am glad they get to stay in their niches or get called out for that elitism. Linux forums were (probably still are) the epitome of elitism with people saying insane stuff like "its people's own fault for using windows" and in the same breath "I don't want more linux users because it will destroy the experience". Just a bunch of hipsters gatekeeping stuff with non-existent or shitty documentation, doing their darndest not to let people in for fear of losing the ability to proudly claim "I use linux".
Look at the Arch crowd. They still haven't grown out of their ridiculous propensity to scream "i use arch btw" or recommend it to newbies. Arch users smell ineptitude and will promptly call it out to ridicule it or start frothing at the mouth before letting loose their 4 favorite letters: RTFM.
It's taking a minority of devs who care about UX and large corpos to bring linux to the masses. Without them, we'd still be hard-stuck in with technical troglodytes that have a terminal illness and can't stop mentioning a recompile every 5 minutes.
Programming language: Swift - owned by big corp
Source forge: Github - owned by big corp
Communication channels:
- Xitter - owned by big corp
- Discord - proprietary and non-searchable
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Can anybody explain what conda provides over python + pip or python + poetry? I've never needed conda in all my years writing python for various purposes - except data science, but pip install numpy and pip install pandas had me up and running in <1 minute for some test projects.
What does the new UI look like? There haven't been any noticeable changes for me, but I'm on 2024.1 at the moment.
It used to have a graphical updater. I don't know why they did away with it...
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Analyst: Windows on Arm is not ready for the complexities of the PC gaming landscape
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Anakin Padme meme:
Anakin: I will use agile to plan my project
Padme: 2-3 sprints ahead right?
Anakin:
Padme: 2-3 sprints ahead right?
I honestly would pay to have this done by a professional. Hand in my old USB2 device to replace the connector with a USB-C one to cut down on eWaste. Although, I don't know how many people would do that ...
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