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The most valuable sites are already advertisement free. Anyone remaining who implements this standard just reduces their viewers. People will do without or other sites will offer an alternative. The tech is doomed to fail because the consumer is always right.

I imagine 80% of student homework starts with a chatgtp first draft. Machine learning is now shaping human learning…

lol - I was thinking iPhones which are still USB C <-> Lightening (at best), and not yet USB C<->C.

*most smart phones…

When a physical button is buried under a menu, it ceases to become a feature and instead becomes a chore. Rear ac on / off should always be a dedicated button if not knob.

I wouldn’t mind voice activation however.

Why be pro any *ism or *ist? Why not be pro *ance?

“Emotions are not facts”

Write Lemmy.world and see if it is the same

Lemmy is way more fun for me. I am done with Reddit.

Why was .ml selected to begin with?

Rabbit

Hell, medium should be paying me to read them

That is really awesome. Well done!!!

Yes, I have yet to have a zero-config experience even on vertical (but open) platforms like RasberryPi. What has been your experience?

GPU, Sound, WiFi Day 0 / 1 / 365 are not yet on par with MacOS or Win11, for me, anyway.

For me, it is important to recognize there is a larger time investment, otherwise how does it get better?

I agree. Linux is great when one has the time but not the money.

However for a system that just works - MacOS is one of the best bsd distros of all time esp on arm.

Sadly MacOS also comes with the downfalls of a closed and proprietary ecosystem.

Wonder what dent the 40M rasberry pi’s make, not to mention virtual desktops and the like! The number may be higher than 3%!

Why is that a good or better thing?

For media, a state platform in order of goodness:

non state (open) platform > non state (closed) platform > State owned platform

most times when the state takes an action it deprives it’s citizens of the beneficial outcomes of that action (skill, monetary).

Which would be better - open instances in each country where the state ( country and regional/s) is a participant along with its citizens?

Or instances where the state and its infinite power is private and above the people the state would govern?

My reaction is not to a state using mastodon nor twitter for that matter. My reaction is to a state running mastodon separate from the people.

It looks like a state government was creating their own mastodon instance which, when plugged into the rest, would give them surveillance and digital wire tapping powers that today they do not have?

lol! yes, we likely agree. A free market refers to a market free from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies, and artificial scarcity.