Aren't these metrics fake anyway, Linux user dont usually want software to track them, who's counting everyone and with what as a data source. There is no fair collection point, the best data collection point in my mind would be UA stings on ad networks, but then the metric is users who dont use an add blocker, or users who use facebook. These factors atleast, are certainly not independent of a users choice of operating system. I believe that gnu+linux users are likely to be very underrepresented.
Thank you, interestingly the thing that prompted me to ask was a tech joke, all (4) down-votes, I removed a jab at Apple and added a picture and the the responses was positive. The lesson must be one of these: That we have mostly strong apple fans here; jokes need a picture even if it does not add anything; or people look at the vote total to decide their mindset while reading and the first vote was down by bad luck. Or some combination of these.
Maybe it depends on the kind, because when we let mosquitos in and use the bug zapper, we dont get bit. It would have to be quite the luck if it was not attracting them one way or another. It certainly works on almost everything that flies and harasses you at night. It sounds like a controlled experiment is in order.
Well hold on there, im not tryna praise them. I think we need a free and federated alternative. I only mean to say that an answer always has some verbal feedback on it.
its strange because its not the disapproval that gets me, its not knowing why. I guess the lesson is that if someone did not even say why, its not really something anyone actually cared about.
i understand that whatever repels them one year, if its used by enough people, attracts them after they get the chance to evolve, a couple years. Could be wrong, but my family in Maine said this happened first with the standard deep woods bug spray, then with a natural oil blend everyone started using.
i dont think its age, people of all ages have no mental model at all about how computers work, they just "never thought about it". I'd be interested in the result of a survey conducted in person on paper wherever the old and the young can be found together.
I agree. Though palgerism as an institutuonal rule is a lot stronder than it is in real life. If i write a paper for you and tell you that you can use your name on it instead of mine, maybe because you payed me to. I belive the law is totaly fine with that, but your readers may not like it, and your school may go as far as kicking you out.
Aren't these metrics fake anyway, Linux user dont usually want software to track them, who's counting everyone and with what as a data source. There is no fair collection point, the best data collection point in my mind would be UA stings on ad networks, but then the metric is users who dont use an add blocker, or users who use facebook. These factors atleast, are certainly not independent of a users choice of operating system. I believe that gnu+linux users are likely to be very underrepresented.