So am I the only one who's noticed that average non-tech users are absolutely horrible with managing passwords and passkeys would be a huge improvement over reusing "ddccbbaa!" across every login they have?
Canonical makes decisions based on their own self interest. Not for their users and not for the benefit of the greater community. That's what drove everyone away.
The Mac OS X of around 15 years ago had an elegant simplicity to it that I really appreciated. Everything just seemed to work well.
That seems to have been lost. New and often unwanted features just add to the complexity. A lot of first party applications seem subpar. And iCloud often seems more like a nuisance than a feature.
I still like Apple hardware but I’m looking forward to trying Asahi Linux soon.
They've been horrible about communication since the Twitch ban a month ago. And they didn't even reveal anything about their plans to the press leading up to last night while they were promoting their return.
Just my opinion, but I wonder if the changes were their decision so they could own and monetize their "original" ip.
They have every right to cover their costs but I don't appreciate the bait and switch. It seems like a desperation move since I don't see how they can sustain and grow their user base at these price points.
It's a 150% price increase if you don't want metered search. I probably would have been ok with a reasonable price increase, maybe 25% to 50%. But it's a lot to ask of your users when most of us have to manage a number of subscriptions and almost all of them have had price increases over the past year.
The tech was solid but the implementation left a lot to be desired. I still shudder when I think about the RHEL 6 Itanium DB cluster I "inherited" and had to maintain. A very temperamental serial console that would constantly freeze up. No local storage so we were forced to boot from SAN. I prayed every time we rebooted that it would actually come back up. Plenty of times it didn't.
As someone who’s dealt with emotional abuse, this really struck a chord. You can see and understand the objective facts. But it’s very hard to accept positive reinforcement emotionally. You don’t believe it’s genuine.
I played trumpet, baritone, and tuba from elementary through high school. Learning how to play well was a grind for years and I didn't really start to enjoy it until I reached high school and was a part of a good ensemble.
It's definitely not fun when you and everyone around you is bad. Having a horrible teacher for a few years along the way didn't help either and drove most of my classmates to quit.
I do miss it and part of me wishes I had continued in college because I would have really enjoyed the challenge. But I was tired of "band cliques" and wanted to move on.
May I ask how you accomplish this without any sort of burden? Because from my perspective, managing strong unique passwords for hundreds of accounts across desktop, mobile, servers, and other devices is a major pain and I’m tired of dealing with it.
It’s human nature to take shortcuts and develop bad habits when you’re dealing with a flawed system and poor tools that puts the burden on the end user to manage everything. And if I’m struggling with four decades of experience, how is the average non tech user expected to do it properly?
I believe Apollo 8 was originally supposed to be a low earth orbit shakedown with the LEM. Because the LEM wasn’t ready, they decided to send them to the moon.
id Software has a long history of dysfunctional management that goes back to its inception. It’s probably not fair to single out John Carmack but there was plenty of backstabbing. All four founders left the company on bad terms.