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  • But can it run proprietary software used in the industry? From Excel to Photoshop, if you are in a collaborative professional environment, you can't run away from those, and don't tell me you can use the alternatives in Linux, because no, you can't. This is not linux fault, but it's still an issue you can't handwave.

    I love linux, but you can't expect people to adopt it just because it's objectively better than windows.

  • You can have something similar to what music streamers are doing. Sure Spotify has a majority, but you still have perfectly fine competitors.

    I had not pirated music for more than a decade now.

  • A cheap USB hub solves everything you are describing. You can just leave it dangling from behind.

    Saying that, I'm not in favour of only usb-c motherboard though.

  • Beamer has a very high steep learning curve, especially when you just want a few slides to show preliminary results. In PowerPoint you literally drag the image, resize, and that's it.

    Also I feel that beamer pushes the user towards the "bullet point" presentation, which sometimes can be very boring.

    For documents, I love latex, but I actually prefer LibreOffice or onlyoffice when it comes to presentations.

  • Because all your colleagues and collaborators use it because it comes free with the company...

  • I'm not a rocket scientist, but I research complex systems. Failure is the best way to improve something, even if you know it's going to fail, you want to see how and what are the repercussions. I've done so many experiments that I knew were doomed, but I still have to do them just because I wanted to see how the system is would react.

    Not a fan boy of Elon by the way, not trying to defend him or anything.

  • As any tool, it's as great as its user. I think younger generations are probably more eager to explore and expand, but it's ok to be suspicious when used incorrectly.

    AI is great when used for some specific applications, but I had a discussion last week with someone asking chatgpt about immigration advice... Ehh no thanks, I rather talk to an actual expert.

  • I mean, Dylan is an amazing lyricist and musician. But the technical prowess of his voice is known to be average at best, this is a common opinion even among musicians.

    Dylan changed the game, but there's nothing wrong with acknowledging there are much better singers (from the technical point of view): Mike Patton, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Jeff Buckley.

    No need to call someone dumb for a simple opinion, especially in something this subjective.

  • Like or not, it's a de facto standard. Good luck trying to convince your 60 yo colleagues to change their workflow.

    I love Linux, but I would never recommend using Microsoft Office on Linux especially if you work in a collaborative environment. Saying that Linux can run Microsoft office without any issue is a blatant lie. I run virtual machines basically so I can run Microsoft Office, but I don't think everyone wants to go though that much hassle.

  • Or reference managers. I'm in academia and it's a pain because I can't edit anything on Linux without breaking the fine, I tried everything, LibreOffice, Only office... Nothing works.

  • That's still much better though. Lots of people die from lung cancer and other lung related illnesses due to pollution in cities. Also, if emissions are concentrated somewhere else it's more economical to treat them, instead of being spread out in an urban area.

    This whole crap that something has to be 100% perfect to be a proper solution has to end.

  • That reminds me of a discussion with someone who thought Hispanics can't be white, I was like, have you ever seen seen a Spaniard?

  • It's an option, but if "none" wins then there's no shared knowledge of anything. The question really is, do you prefer to cause genocide but have new tech, or keep old tech with no genocide.

  • I mean if you live in a country controlled by a terrorist group that kills anyone who is not their side, and someone goes to your door and asks if you support them... What would you say?

    It's easy to dismiss this issue by thinking they have the same freedom of speech as we do in the west, and they can have political opinions without any repercussion.

    Same can be said about north Korea.

  • People choose policies that might be beneficial in the short term, but very harmful on the long way. For example, restricting immigration might have a favourable short term impact on wages, but in the long term it will stagnate the economy and pensions schemes, and make people even more poor.

    So... People who are hungry will vote for whatever brings food to their table today, so they don't really have a choice, because those policies or politicians are not actually on their side, they are just benefiting from the misery of others.

  • Jesus was friends with a prostitute. I'm sure he would be ok with some twerking.

    The problem is religious nuts who take everything to the extreme .

  • Whaaaat? You filthy windows lover.

    But seriously though, some people talk here like if folks have a choice.

  • I feel you... some machines in my previous lab were running on windows 98.

  • I understand, but my point is why people are being so judgmental and prejudice about it? Maybe that's her actual working laptop, I've seen companies indulging their best workers with stuff like that.

    Even if it's an odd choice to bring to court, it's still just a laptop, it's not like she decided to go to court in bermudas.