It used to be about 1%, so actually huge gains have been made

No organization is willing to pay companies to support Linux

Well that’s a lie. Lots of companies use Linux servers, Linux embedded devices, even Linux desktops for programmers or engineers. Android devices are everywhere too.

That’s because organizations like the Linux foundation primarily serve enterprise and server customers, they only need a good enough UI so that’s what desktop users get. Nobody is paying money for Linux and few people donate.

One of the most common uses of Linux is smartphones. Chromebooks are also fairly popular. It’s more that the kind of people that use Linux desktops aren’t happy with smartphone like functionality and customisation.

The better question is why aren’t people supporting desktop Linux? We have increasing market share after all. My guess is a combination of fragmentation and the fact that the user base aren’t the kind of people they want to sell too. It’s hard to sell MS Office for Linux to your average Linux enthusiast who might even be an Open Source purist. They are also more likely to jailbreak or pirate your product.

That’s fine for opening the front doors in the model 3, but have you seen how to open the rear doors in the cyber truck? That’s what I was referring too.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/GUID-903C82F8-8F52-450C-82A8-B9B4B34CD54E.html

I don’t think something needs to be identical to Windows to be a good replacement for it. I think there should be a replacement for Windows, and distributions like Linux Mint are that replacement for some people.

I also think that parts of the Linux ecosystem have major problems. Not necessarily problems with the kernel itself, but problems with the surrounding software like programs and user interfaces. Wider application support would be a start. Some distributions and parts of modern Linux systems can be unnecessarily complex or downright esoteric. Some features like HDR have very poor support, and are difficult to enable/setup where they are supported. It’s also difficult for developers to publish to Linux because of the wide variety of different Linux systems. Flatpaks and snaps help with this obviously but have divisive in the Linux community for one reason or another.

I did manage to switch to Linux. I can understand though why people are hesitant, there are still things that are tough in Linux, or near impossible in some cases. That’s despite having used Linux on and off for years.

I believe they also have a jump port for exactly that purpose. If that doesn’t work you are stuffed though, as I believe has happened to some cyber truck owners.

When the car isn’t driving I believe the main battery isn’t connected for safety reasons. It’s a high voltage battery, and having it connected all the time even when the car is being serviced is an unnecessary safety risk.

Yeah they could and probably should use a different battery technology than lead acid. Preferably something with a wide temperature range. Lithium Titanate Oxide anyone?

They do have a manual way of opening the car door if memory serves. It’s just in a hard to find place where a toddler wouldn’t think to look. Either way it’s a bad design. Nothing wrong with manual door handles imo.

Text and images and hyperlinks; maybe audio and video if you’re lucky and you can prove you can be trusted.

Those things still require a GPU to render efficiently.

All the other stuff you talk about don’t need a GPU or really any systems permissions at all. So even if the web changes to your twisted view the flatpak would still require the same permissions. All you’ve just proven is that you don’t understand technology.

If any such thing as GPU access is provided it should be to deposit data, not to run code.

You don’t know what a GPU is apparently. Regardless the same access is needed for both.

Also you use Lemmy, which requires scripting. Pretty much every online game, shopping website, calculator, and so on require scripting of some kind. Scripting isn’t just for bad things like tracking. It makes a lot of cool stuff possible, that you doubtlessly use everyday. As a plus it’s generally more secure to use a web app than have a myriad of different programs or applets replace all these different things, as websites are sandboxed. There is a reason JavaScript replaced Flash and Java applets.

You’re confusing a technology problem with a society/capitalism problem.

Thanks for that information. Perhaps no writing system is truly perfect, but it’s good to know that at least something better is possible.

Either way something is wrong with the writing system here is my point.

It doesn’t matter how common it is. You’ve missed the point completely. The fact it’s so common yet people constantly get it mixed up is just more evidence that it’s a bad part of the writing system.

You don’t think her going to protests is collective action?

That’s the opposite of what an apostrophe is normally used for, to show possession. So it’s not actually a well thought out use of an apostrophe, as it’s completely unclear if it’s a contraction or possessive. As I said, this is a badly constructed writing system.

Nobody does invent the rules for English. There are several versions used in different countries, which is generally based on how people use it in everyday life. Eventually the whole it’s/its thing will disappear as the language evolves. At least I hope that will happen if idiot language pedants like you fuck off.

Edit: It’s been pointed out to me that apostrophes used for contractions are more common than apostrophes used for possession. I still don’t think it changes the argument that we shouldn’t be using the same symbol for both, or that a language’s writing system should be simple and follow the pronunciation.

That’s not at all what I am saying. I am saying that Gen Z aren’t as tech illiterate as people seem to think and using myself as an example.

Why are you so negative?

Not all user friendly distros have a parent distro. Checkout Solus.

There are sometimes things upstream causing problems. The Linux kernel itself isn’t one of them though as Linus is pretty adamant that Linux distributions should be easy to setup and use. KDE is also designed to be pretty friendly while being customizable still. The main issues seem to come from apps and distributions.

I mean yes, how exactly would you want the web to work? In order for it to be secure we need website code to run in an isolated environment. Modern web browsers have gotten pretty good at this.

Though we say it’s a JavaScript Virtual Machine it’s not the kind of virtual machine you are thinking of. It just means it’s being interpreted in a certain environment rather than compiles code running natively. It’s not like a whole OS. Running a web browser in a Virtual Machine is unironically a method to improve security; checkout Qubes OS for an example.

Also the permissions it’s asking for aren’t that serious. Basically GPU access and download folder access.

Point being I’ve used tech from the era before smartphones.

That’s a fraction of the life of a single car, for an AI model used by millions of people. AI isn’t that big of an energy consumer if done right it seems. Look at how much energy data centers used before the AI shenanigans, or how much Bitcoin uses.