I don’t have that fear, no. But I’ve also never really had my privacy invaded in ways I didn’t officially condone, either. I bet if that happened even once I’d be a bit more anxious about it.

Sodium ion batteries are also supposedly gearing up to be a solid li-ion alternative in the next 2-3 years. Not as energy dense yet but they’re closing the gap.

Fingers crossed that pans out.

Under pre-computer conditions, ideally a competitor would disrupt the market with some novel cost saving technique, more efficient processes, or some other way to stand out from the crowd and claw consumers away from the Big Thing.

Unfortunately, nowadays with computer stuff, it’s virtually impossible to build new or novel features that the Big Thing can’t immediately (or very quickly) copy and implement before the little guy can meaningfully establish themselves.

At this point… it comes down to the people. Nebula popped off not because they had a rad new feature or player, but because they had a certain target audience where those types of creators were releasing content there first, well before posting on YouTube. Same for Dropout. And because both of those endeavors aren’t subject to the same business model pressures as YouTube, they’re liable to only get better over time.

I don’t know how you do a social media site with that strategy though. Lemmy is the best I’ve experienced, but even this isn’t without its drawbacks.

I assume you mean the dev of Photon UI?

An important thing to remember when it comes to feedback is that there are different audiences. The only feedback you’ll get here is from Lemmy users, the people already here, the grognards, the Linux heads who don’t understand why anyone would need a GUI at all when the terminal is right there! All to say, a bunch of wads who would rather leave a big community for a smaller one that suits their preferences. They don’t know jack all about jack shit when it comes to designing for a general audience.

All to say, if what you want to design is accessibility… solicit feedback from people who need and understand accessibility features. I have no idea where those people are but I bet you’re savvy enough to find them.

If you can design something that looks like OP’s screenshot (and better, based on your comment), you straight up need not concern yourself with the negative feedback on this thread. Bunch of wankers. Continue being awesome and making awesome stuff!

Yeah I just learned that this morning. The Bazzite website still has a piece of text on the site that explicitly says it doesn’t support Nvidia stuff, but it looks like that’s an artifact that just needs to be removed.

Perhaps I shall look into it.

No idea, I was just looking into Bazzite specifically.

Aw. Bazzite can’t do Nvidia GPUs. I’m still rocking an RTX 2070 and likely will be for a good while.

Yeah I used Krita (which works on Linux just fine) for about a year and a half. But once I went back to CSP, I immediately felt that “oh this just works and doesn’t require a million workarounds for stuff” sigh of relief.

I’ve also seen some folks have gotten CSP working on Linux, but it looked like a pretty hairy process. And with CSP having no official Linux support, they might break that process at any point.

It’s tough. Might be worth it anyway, depending on how much Microsoft continues screwing the pooch here.

I think it’s simpler than that.

I think Windows 11 feels unresponsive because of how many features have Internet-enabled features built deep into them. All those little delays opening menus, etc, I think are actually network delay, so the little ads or other stuff have time to fetch and load and show simultaneously with the rest of the UI. Meaning the UI itself has to be delayed slightly to make it less obvious what’s being fed to you from online vs local.

Nothing makes my Windows 11 PC shit the bed harder than an unreliable or interrupted Internet connection. Literally crashing the whole PC sometimes.

Gaming and Clip Studio Paint for me. (Maybe some other stuff that I just haven’t thought of.)

Needless to say, every day my Windows 11 machine bugs out on me I get closer and closer to just giving Linux a solid try for the first time since college.

Sounds like you shouldn’t trust those people then. We are in agreement.

I thought we were talking about trusting or not trusting the “central authority”? I think you’re thinking about trusting individual posters or not.

I said “shows itself to” not “claims it does”. Big difference.

Yep that makes sense. Thanks!

Trust it as much as it shows itself to have your interests in mind, or how well you judge it to be working towards the intended purpose.

“foot guns are nasty”?

“X need to just…” is a surefire way to never change anything. People will never just. They won’t.

A UI can be measured in a bunch of different ways, most of which should be measured and balanced against each other.

I recommend this video essay, where a UX professional (formerly at Microsoft) took over the UX for the FOSS music composing app Musescore and shares a lot of the lessons learned along the way: https://youtu.be/Qct6LKbneKQ

Lol, I saw “drop federation” and thought you meant the concept itself, not just the word. “Well that doesn’t make any sense” I thought. Got it now.

I am straight, but my social media habits put me into a lot of contact with memes from gay, lesbian, pan, and everything else under the sun. A lot of it seems relatable, even if I never experience those same feelings IRL with real people. Definitely makes me question my sexuality semi regularly, lol.