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  • Ah, you’re one of those guys…

    In the initial stages of the fight, before the first major ceasefire, Israel was causing a historically low number of casualties. It was around 0.8 dead Palestinians per dropped bomb. That’s not how you do genocide, however you want to look at it.

    Food and water was being delivered from Israel, they did a vaccination campaign, etc., etc. There WERE efforts to protect civilians.

    Mind you: I’m not saying that no crimes were committed during that time, of course there were. But it was very, very obviously not a genocide.

    Unlike now. But now people hear about “genocide” and just roll their eyes.







  • In a world without dark design patterns, there would be a single pop-up when you first install the application, to ask if you want notifications and/or suggestions for new features

    This is exactly how it works in things like Office or Edge.

    If you click “no”, it should never bother you again unless you go into a menu and opt in

    Yup. Or unless a new feature is introduced, in which case a new pop-up appears. That’s precisely how it works.

    Ideally, that pop-up wouldn’t even exist. They could just have a collective “don’t bother me again” checkbox on every non-essential notification

    Edge, most of the time, just opens a new tab with “Your Edge was updated” and a list of new things.

    If your user has already indicated that they are not interested, any further pestering is essentially harassment.

    If it was about the same feature that you already dismissed - yeah, I get the sentiment. If it’s about completely new things - it’s a really weird thing to say. How are users supposed to know that something new was introduced? Sift through thousands of lines of changelogs…?







  • I love Linux. I’m running Linux and love the experience.

    But…

    i7-4970 i7-4790 so running windows 10 with all its bloat was not going to be an easy task for em

    What in the world are you talking about, man??

    Even ignoring the silliness of the “bloat” - i7-4790 eats Win10 alive and asks for seconds.

    I stated that as long as they dont know how to work with wine/lutris or know any specific linux packages that run windows games on linux they should not be able to play in the middle of lessons

    So… No, you didn’t stop them from doing that. All it takes for them to get back to playing games is to google “linux roblox how to” and 20 minutes later they’re good to go. Windows has AppLocker, and GPO to prevent running unwanted software - have you researched alternatives for Linux?

    does this mean linux now is ready for the education sector?

    Well, depends on scale. The setup you did is fine for, what, a single classroom? Two classrooms? It’s completely unusable for a larger school - for that you need an MDM solution, ideally with some form of IAM. In the Windows world that’s SCCM/Intune with AD/EID (local/cloud). Correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s only bare-bones equivalents in the Linux world for that, which would be the bigger a problem the larger a school you’d be dealing with.