Hey I work in cyber security. Just because an app has a backdoor doesn’t mean that the backdoor can be accessed by anyone. Accessing this backdoor would likely mean compromising meta themselves, not just the app or its communications.

Thanks! I feel obliged to say I built my PC in 2023, but Linux still feels exciting to me. Trying to avoid becoming that annoying Linux guy who tells everyone to install it lol.

I came from macOS and found GNOME pretty accommodating. It’s more akin to macOS than to Windows, both looks and customisation-wise. I’m also a software engineer! :)

If they can achieve similar results without the subscription I think they might consider moving over. That being said I’ve seen what companies pay to use Microsoft shit lmao.

misinformation is more likely to spread without correction

This hasn’t been my experience on Lemmy at all. Misinformation here is usually called out in the first comment, which is counter to what I’ve seen on Reddit, Facebook, twitter, etc. where people are more interested in making funny quips than actually engaging with the topic.

Linux is not that hard. These days it’s easier than Windows in some ways.

Fair enough! I suppose I had a more surface-level interpretation of the post than you, just seeing how much more appealing the area looked without all the big roads. I can see how you could think the post is misleading.

Isn’t part of the point of the post that the freeways are ugly? Just because it’s rich people thinking it’s ugly doesn’t make it untrue.

Touching on the burnout section of the article, it’s not quite as cool as the PSP but I’ve been playing a lot on my Switch 2 as a form of digital detox as well. I put limits on all the addictive apps on my phone, and downright uninstalled most of them, so when I’m itching for dopamine my phone can’t give me it’s nice to turn to a game console. The switch 2 also doesn’t have notifications or egregious game updates. Currently playing through factorio and having a blast just kinda … ignoring the state of the world.

As the number of cars goes up the right begins to look more and more like the left. While both can exist it is not propaganda to compare the two in this way.

Same! Them using markdown means I’ve been able to make an Obsidian-like app for Wear OS, with a phone app to sync your vault to the watch. Wouldn’t have been possible if they weren’t using markdown. Hoping to launch it on the Google Play store in a month or so :)

I’ve been using Linux and MacOS my entire life, with brief stints on windows when my job has required it. Every time I have to use Windows I’m gobsmacked at some of the design choices, bugs, lag, and anti-patterns.

You’re absolutely right that it’s mostly the same, you mostly use the same apps, you still use a mouse to interact with them, there’s still a file system, etc. But when the experience is mostly the same it just makes the parts where they differ so much more frustrating in my experience.

Unfortunately my experiences trying to use Windows as a daily driver have been much like yours with Linux, I find myself messing around with stupid bullshit in a never ending cascade of settings menus, each more janky than the last, just trying to do simple things. It’s unfortunate Windows has become so janky as I remember it working quite well back in the xp days.

All this is to say, I think at this point Linux is often as good as Windows (it does depend on the distro, tons of bad ones out there), but familiarity is king. I’ve spent decades using all three operating systems, and have mainlined Linux since 2023, so that’s just what I’m most familiar with now.

I’ve lost track of what we were originally talking about, but yeah. They’re all good enough just use whatever you’re comfortable with and don’t overthink it I guess 🤷

You’ve used modern Linux and modern Windows and think the experience is almost identical? That’s an uncommon opinion.

Nobody thinks you can’t do software engineering on windows. It’s just worse.

It being foreign to you is literally an anecdote too you fucking idiot lmfaoooo

But that’s a slur that does hurt people. Clanker doesn’t, whether said in public or privately. I also agree that it’s not really a slur since it’s targeted at unfeeling robots. I think people mostly just call it a slur because it’s funny (to them, though morally classifying it as such is murky).

You said it was foreign to you… So I provided an example of it happening…

Last year my job refused to give me an inflation adjustment, then they laid me off 6 months later because they didn’t have as much growth as they projected.