I fundamentally disagree that users should not be allowed to install whatever they want from wherever they want.

You can install whatever dodgy file from wherever you want. I (and many others) don’t think that should be the default

I think out of hundreds of matches I’ve had like one person ask about my height. I’m pretty average, height-wise (under 6’)

There’s definitely a lot of cargo cult* thinking in software. People don’t understand the why of things but they want the results. That’s why most “agile” I’ve seen is a waste of time.

*Is there a less problematic phrase for this?

I’ve wasted entire days with people like that because they couldn’t be fucking arsed reading error messages and figuring things out by themselves.

I’ve had a couple interview tasks that are like “clone this repo and run it. Try to do [action]. Tell us any errors you find and how to fix them”

One of them was some sort of redux app, and the problem was a state mutation. Another one, the CSS had some weird so stuff rendered crazy. Both were pretty easy to track down and fix. You could probably also do something that’s like an error thrown, but people would probably just feed that into an AI now.

One of the guys I worked with said be prefers the chatbot because stack overflow always made him feel stupid when he’d ask for help. The emotional dimension is big for some people.

I just recommend checking things from the live boot environment. I found out once that some things didn’t work (HDMI , Ethernet, Wi-Fi) only after installing, and it was a hassle. Ended up switching to a different distro that did work out of the box.

The worst is when people don’t know how the system works, and then won’t listen to answers

Like I was at a job and product was going on about “our system has no concept of project owner. We have all these projects but there’s nothing unifying them under a single owner. We need to build this!”

I was like “… what? That’s just not true. There’s a “company” object that does that. It’s got a foreign key with project in the database. I guess it’s a weird name but it’s there”

It took several back and forths over multiple meetings. They eventually got on the same page and I saved us doing a whole useless project, but they did insist I rename it to “account” in the database and code. I would’ve rather left it because that could’ve been dicey, but alas. (The rename did go out fine, but I had to go looking for every reference.)

I didn’t say anything about YouTube. Why would you think I have a more favorable opinion of YouTube?

I feel good about not using Spotify. They’re a shitty platform.

I know it may be hard to believe if you only browse Lemmy (like myself), but the average person actually likes these so-called “AI” tools or at least a significant amount of them do.

This is probably true but makes me sad. I tell all my friends not to use the lie machines but a bunch of people at work use them all the time.

I don’t think there’s any evidence that AI needs to be baked into the browser. They have a robust extension ecosystem for this sort of thing.

The worst part is when my fellow Americans are very “we tried nothing and we’re out of ideas” about it. Or worse, actively fighting any changes.

I played it on a free weekend and didn’t like it at all.

The combat mostly felt like paper tigers. I just wasn’t having fun, but I can’t remember any specific details anymore. This was a couple years ago, but after they added NPC quest stuff.

This checks out.

Many people are really emotionally invested in cars and car-centric life. It’s depressing. I think sometimes it’s a defense mechanism- convince yourself the car world is good actually so you don’t have to feel bad. Tell yourself that people who live in walkable areas are just privileged jerks out of touch with the world, and then it doesn’t feel so bad.

You don’t seem like the kind of person who can identify and sort through their emotions.

Are you joking? It doesn’t follow that all cowards have large cars. That’s like textbook incorrect logic. Do you also think all rectangles are squares, because all squares are rectangles?

Furthermore, not all discretion is cowardice.

What’s your emotional investment here, anyway? Do you drive a large car and park in the bike lane?

Do you think I drive a large car? How on earth did you come to that conclusion?

I kind of want to make stickers that say like “I’m an asshole that parks in the bike lane” or “I drive a large car because I’m a coward” or whatever and discreetly slap them onto these abominations. Sadly my lawyer has recommended against this action.

For the code, open source is probably the way to go. People should be able to build from source. Otherwise, how do they know you’re not doing something shady. Open source is generally a net improvement on security, assuming people actually look at it.

For screenshots, first fix it so the screenshots render nicely on narrow displays.

Would probably need to be open source to be trustworthy. Running a random executable from the Internet seems dicey.

Needs more screenshots. The two that are on the site don’t render great on mobile. Can only see a small portion.

I’m unclear how you find another user and verify who they are.

Website should have a clearer feature list. The user manual wants to download a text file instead of showing it in the browser.