can you define “left-leaning bias”? because many people say that and actually mean “doesn’t arbitrarily go ‘both sides!’ every time an issue is brought up”

it’s not “left-leaning bias” to recognize the state of the world and the solutions to it, that’s just being sane and not-evil.

what also helps a lot is not using sites like temu and amazon

What’s been working for me so far is just hard reloading the page, after that it seems to forget all about it so long as i’m on the same tab, though it also works just fine to keep making new tabs and hard reloading every time.

the vast majority of my feed is really good and i have a bigass pile of subscriptions to channels i want to watch basically every video from because they’re really good

learn to tell the algorithm to fuck off and serve you better things, don’t just blithely slurp up whatever it feeds you.

hopefully a case of “if i don’t include this keyword i will miss out on tons of shit from stupid people who want into the trend”

you do realize this makes everyone immediately discard your opinion, because it’s useless, right?

prune as fuck

you are aware that TUI has been a standard thing for ages, right? wanting GUI features inside a terminal isn’t new and i’m not sure if you had a point with this comment other than trying to dunk on them…

yeah no i’m sorry but this just sounds completely fucking made up

I’d summarize the current OS situation as

Windows Just Works until it doesn’t, at which point there’s basically nothing you can do about it and you just have to kick it until something clicks into place and it starts working properly again.

Whereas linux Just Works to a slightly smaller degree, but when it stops Just Working it does so in granular steps most of the time, and every part of the ecosystem tries to help you fix things when they break.

Windows is a resin-potted black box that takes input and does stuff, if it breaks you’re supposed to just chuck it and buy a new one.
Linux is a slightly bulkier thing that you can just unscrew and replace a capacitor when it breaks.

part that, and part just that windows is successful because it’s successful. Everyone learns windows, thus everyone uses windows, thus everyone teaches windows.
It’s like how all life on earth produces and consumes a specific form of sugar, but when you make sugar in a lab you get both forms, and the second form is completely inert to all digestive systems on earth.

the cringe part is them not organizing and resisting

i like the idea that AI is actually competent enough to insert exploits

you’ve left out the most important part: the CEO can make decisions that harm the company but benefit the other higher-ups (e.g. signing a moronic contract with a subcontractor owned by them), and then when they’ve done that enough that they can’t justify keeping them as CEO any longer they can kick them off with a massive golden parachute that gets portioned out to the same higher-ups, then they can repeat the whole thing to keep sucking the corporation dry like a disgusting mosquito.

i have never understood this complaining about subscriptions, it has always worked absolutely fine for me

i subscribe to a channel and their videos show up on the subscriptions page, that’s it, it works?

i for one welcome our grub bootlorders

test in… preproduction?

people who unironically recommend anything arch-based (haha yes steamos is based on arch, yes you’re very very clever, i’m sure you can even figure out why it’s an obvious exception if you think about it for a minute) are just detached from reality and simply want to be part of a group.

The only time arch is suitable for beginners is installing it in a VM to learn linux via brute force, after you’ve gotten used to going through that process you’ll have a very solid base of knowledge for using a more suitable distro.

great way to make people detest gnome and flatpaks for the rest of their lives! brilliant move!

I think i have 3 big criteria:

• Track record
• Structuring things to pre-emptively keep themselves (and more importantly, those who might take over later) honest and aligned with the collective good
• Good people involved and ideally in charge of the project

Other people have mentioned things like venture capital and that’s certainly something to bear in mind (arguably part of the structure), but there are projects like Matrix where that feels quite marginal to me, the aforementioned aspects more than make up for it.
Like when the main figurehead of the project goes on stage and nerds out about the code, that’s a pretty fucking good sign in my book.