Star Trek is the only reason I’m paying for Paramount+.
If Lower Decks and/or SNW go, I go.
Star Trek is the only reason I’m paying for Paramount+.
If Lower Decks and/or SNW go, I go.
I really hope stepping down as CEO leads to Linus surrounding himself with people he trusts to call him out when he’s missing something.
He strikes me as the kind of person who is susceptible to a few certain mental traps you kinda don’t want to see in a leader of a large influential organization:
None of these constitute outright malice, IMO, but boy can they lead to a problematic working environment.
I’m sure there will be quite the flame war as a result of this, which I think is a bummer. Linus strikes me as someone who’s acting in good faith, but has an unshakable habit of making rushed decisions without considering the full scope of their impact, and is (or has been) lacking the appropriate feedback structure to help him learn to either a) make more thoughtful decisions, or b) fully delegating those decisions to folks who are better equipped to make them.
Here’s hoping this leads to positive change.
Most of the comments here are talking about the x% of time Linux gets messed up it can be really intimidating for new users and getting the right help can be a challenge, or simply more time than it’s worth.
I think this is true, but I think there’s another thing that irks people:
Software Compatibility
The general public primarily interacts with their computers through established applications that commonly aren’t available on Linux w/o intimidating work around (if at all).
A noob who switches to Linux isn’t going to know the limitations up front, and the second they decide they want to learn Adobe Premier for work, they’re kinda fucked. They’ll either spend hours/days of online research trying to figure out if it’s even possible, or they’ll ask for help only to have someone tell them they’re wrong for trying and to use some FOSS alternative because Adobe is an evil megacorp.
It’s a recipe for frustration.
Honestly that strikes me as perfectly reasonable of Beehaw.
Maybe a little kneejerk to de-federate preemptively, but given their stated moderation goals I totally get it.
IMO there are big risks consuming news & opinion from any single source.
Whether it’s the CCP manipulating the TikTok algorithm, Russia buying ad space on Facebook, or American conglomerates pushing narratives on western mainstream media, there will be implicit biases everywhere.
The only real answer is to get news from multiple sources with diverging perspectives, try to find where facts overlap, challenge your own implicit biases, and form a perspective in line w/ your values.
Seeing America blame TikTok for pushing propaganda is the pot calling the kettle black – and honestly more of a distraction than anything else.
The real important issue is that people are dying, and the existing power structures are doing jack shit to stop it.