Your standard off the shelf easy to setup Linux ISO (mint for example) is like 4 GB after install, it includes a whole office suite, a few games, screensavers, GIMP, and a whole bunch of software you may not ever realize is on there or even need.
Did you know many distros standard install includes the GNU C/C++ compiler? Do most people need the GNU compiler? No, but the whole OS and all these tools is already smaller than a barebones install of windows since microslop just ships bloat.
Yeah I think it was removed in windows 7 or 8.
“Update and Shutdown” still acts as “Update and Restart” on windows. They added a whole new feature that is indistinguishable from the previous feature.
Though I agree macos has the problem of “well Firefox was open so I was stuck here over night”
I don’t disagree that there needs to be regulation. I fully agree there needs to be regulation. Companies can and will fuck customers over with little to no concern. See for example the enshitification of pretty much everything.
All I am saying is that there are times when voting with your wallet has successfully bullied companies into complying with the will of the people.
Not voting with your wallet doesn’t work? Someone aught to tell Disney that after many people ended their Hulu and Disney+ subscriptions once Kimmel was fired.
Because no human did any work to create that slop. People deserve to be paid for their work and ai slop is just plagiarism to an industrial scale.
A quick googleing says tidal has 110 million songs, spotify 100 million, apple music 100 million, youtube music 100 million… you get the idea there is functionally an unlimited ammount of human generated music. You will never finish any of these services’ catalogs. Don’t use slop.
Reminds me of that tweet:
"Does microsoft understand concent?
This kinda reminds me of when Sony decided to declare war against people putting Linux on their PS3s. Like, buddy, this isn’t someone you can win a war against and you are wasting your time and good will trying to.
At my last job while doing a lot of win 11 computer replacements, I managed to snag a couple of laptops that were going to be ewasted. One I keot for myself was an early surface. SSD and RAM are soildered to the motherboard so no upgrade or replacement path. Runs warm and the cpu is kinda trash.
Whatever, free computer is free and running mint its usually fine.
Are you following the conversation? You changed it when someone asked why they would want to update it
In this thread, people telling me to read the thread who have not read it themselves and accusing me of saying things other people have said. Please screen shot the comment I made where I asked why someone would update their TV. Do it. Show me where I (drcobaltjedi) said that.
Okay, so you haven’t experienced it, so it’s not possible. Just like people not having their tv bricked…?
Literally never said that.
Again this is on a post about TV’s being bricked. Someone who is NOT ME suggested using a streaming stick who asserted that they cost $20 to avoid having bricked expensive tvs. I am making the statement of fact that replaceing a streaming stick costs less than a TV and that in the event an HDMI port somehow breaking isn’t the end of the world since TVs are shipped with multiple HDMI ports so somehow if one breaks its still better to replace the less expensive streaming stick.
You both keep putting other peoples words in my mouth I’ll send you both the “Redditorest person of the year” award.
Mother of fucking god read the thread. I never claimed streaming sticks were $20. Someone else did, and I ran with it since it was their prompt to set up this conversation. But fine they’re $50 and an update bricks them. Its $50 to replace them which is somehow the worse option than spending $200 to replace a tv that gets bricked by an update.
Anyone who had their kid use their work laptop had it replaced witha work desktop computer that stayed at work, most people weren’t plugging in and unplugging their keyboards and mice every 15 minutes and hell when I ws a child I never fucking with cables to the point of breaking the ports. Fun fact TVs can be mounted above where small children can reach.
I still don’t understand what is hard to understand here. These TVs get an update that bricks them, the TV no worky now, TV no worky because of update. TV no update if TV have no internet. Streaming stick let TV still have netflix, streaming stick cost less than TV, if streaming stick brick then streaming stick replaced, streaming stick cost less than tv, tv have many hdmi port.
Just like a tv being bricked, you also realize that your stick is a failure point too and can be bricked? Or does this not exist in your imaginary scenario?
I literally mentioned it in my first comment in this thread. The literal first thing I said in this thread was:
Not the person you’re replying to, but if a bad update hits the streaming stick you’re out a $20 streaming stick not a few hundred dollar TV
And if I have multiple TVs without apps I would need multiple sticks, or only the one. And if that’s the case it would be moved and hence why the ports CAN be damaged. It’s thinking ahead to remove that possibility. So yes, it’s all related, so go whing to someone else. (Having $100 in sticks isn’t a smart choice, I don’t think this needs to be explained….)
Buddy the person who owns 5 smart tvs can clearly afford a new smart tv in their masion. I would have a hard time placing 5 tvs in a single house or appartment I have ever lived in or been in or any friend has lived in or been in. Where are you putting 5 TVs? Are they in your bathroom and kitchen? At that point the componding issue of expense is magnified in my favor. If they’re all these brands facing bricking updates then yes it would still be better to have 5 streaming sticks since thats a 5 $20 replacement instead of 5 $500-5000 replacement.
This is a post about tvs being bricked from updates. Tvs bricking is a real thing that multiple people are facing right now. HDMI ports breaking is something I have never heard happen unless a user is actively destroying them. I used to work in IT at my last job and I had to replace monitors because the panel failed never because the port failed. Additionally, what even remotely modern TV doesn’t have multiple HDMI ports?
I have nwver had an hdmi port fail. How often are you shoving things into it to break?
Not the person you’re replying to, but if a bad update hits the streaming stick you’re out a $20 streaming stick not a few hundred dollar TV. Sure the problem has moved but the damage from being moved is a lot more manageable than it was before.
Ibwish more linux people had this mentality of “if its not broke don’t fix it”. After years of floating around different distros, I just want something that works, is stable, and the OOTB is easy and works. So I’ve just gone back to mint debian edition. Idc, I don’t have time to be tinkering with my computer
Oh shit, is this it? Is this actually the year of the Linux desktop?