Raphaël A. Costeau

I see a lot of Millennials using G-drive instead of torrent, actually.

They could steal your personal data without you knowing

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I agree that is a extreme example. That’s precisely why I started with keyboard shortcuts. I don’t think anyone is required to know LaTeX and Markdown, but it seems to me that fewer and fewer younger people know them. If there are fewer people who know the basics, there are proportionally fewer people who know the advanced ones.

In my country, this generational divide doesn’t make much sense. But comparing those born in the 90s and early 2000s with those born from the late 2000s onwards, there is a fundamental difference: there was, even in the public education system, a variety of computer courses available to many people. With the arrival and hegemony of the app model, which is designed with the idea that it is intuitive and does not require anyone to be taught how to use it, computer courses have been disappearing. As a result, millions of young people use computers daily and have no knowledge of simple concepts such as shortcuts Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, let alone advanced features of Office suites, not to mention that they have no idea what LATEX and Markdown are.

Untrue, I was born in 2003 and torrenting go brrrrrrrrrrrr

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And that didn’t make sense in this case, almost no one pirates games with online multiplayer, even if it has a single-player mode

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There have been Linux distros that cover 100% of Windows functionality without the need to use CLI (and even add more functionality) for years. I think the only possible way to have problems is with Wayland and NVIDIA. Usability has never been the problem: the problem is that Windows is the industry standard, so most applications and games are developed for it, most workplaces use it, all computers come with it pre-installed…

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… and that’s how Unreal become a monopoly in 3d game development

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Even if it’s just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things.

The problem is that when it is relocated, processor consumption increases. And as matter of fact, my operating system doesn’t cache anything and still opens applications very quickly, even faster than Windows.

Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it’s a non-issue and no argument.

Maybe isn’t a issue to you but for anyone with a laptop it is and it’s pretty visible.

Also, please, don’t fall for the Reddit (and now Lemmy) bizarre habit of showing a screenshot of Windows using 4 GBs of RAM and claiming “iT’s AlL tHe bLoaT” because that’s not how Windows’ RAM allocation has worked for the past two decades.

RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money.

You can think that it’s normal to do a bunch of things that threaten the system stability to get an OS that barely pretends it’s not spying on you anymore. I do not think it’s. I don’t think it’s normal to have to disable advertising on a paid system, but to each their own “¯_(ツ)_/¯”.

It won’t even run with less than 8 gb

Didn’t you read the post? They are probably doing a remaster or remake and don’t want people to buy the old version…

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The Lorax

Perhaps to make people pay for the new one.

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What is the conclusion of this statement?

First: nothing you buy will ever be free from exploitation under this system.

Second: buying one product over another will make no difference in society and the world.

Actually, this second conclusion is also a derivation of another statement: individuals do not change a society, collectives do. Boycotts, which are another attempt at conscious consumption, sometimes manage to shut down companies, but they never manage to end the harmful production pattern that these companies were applying in the first place.

And that doesn’t mean we should stop consuming everything, because it’s impossible to live without consuming.

In the end, conscious consumption only serves to feel good (falsely) about yourself. What is an honest reason to do something.

Aham, all the people that are talking about buying one Fair phone these days doesn’t already have cellphones. That’s veeery credible…

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I have a few better (in my opinion) motives to why I am not getting any fair phone:

• There’s not such a thing like ethical consume under capitalism.

• It isn’t environmental good to change from a working phone to anything.

• The new costs above $600 and the old ones costs around $400. This is a bunch of money and here in my country is almost 2 monthly minimum wages, without taxes, of course.

So I am sticking with my old Samsung, thank you.

So you change from the payed system that advertises but at least still have the option to use other things to the free os/over priced device that doesn’t need to advertise since the only option is to use their shit? Really an improvement…