I’d expected much more glass on this one too. If you’re underwater for fun you want to see shit!

With the minor difference that trekkies usually don’t kill people.

Imagine adamantium cancer.

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Great first date question!

Never blow someone while hungry!

Bottom left is green E.T.

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can you give me a like, more clear practical example of a good use of blockchain?

Do you see how all the answers are generic, tend to be long and read like a sales pitch? That’s because the actual answer is: no, there is no practical legal application that isn’t better solved with conventional tech.

The only application that is successfully used in practice is paying for organized crime: buying goods and services on the dark web and paying for extortion like ransomware attacks.

Now add that trustlessness is impossible and you can scratch the blockchain box for good.

You cannot get rid of trust in some form. You need entry to the system, so you need to trust its gateway. You need to trust the network to not have some vulnerability like a 50% attack. And eventually you need to trust the developers not to add critical bugs (that alone is virtually impossible) or pull off some scam.

So, since you need to trust someone, might as well choose some government regulated party like a bank or a lawyer and choose conventional and efficient tech.

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Nobody has the right to live inside your body except yourself.

Oh, many more were upset - just too lazy to inconvenience themselves with switching platforms.

toughen up folks.

Common notion - until people need therapy themselves and realize it can hit everyone, also the “tough” ones.

Are we being overly anal about semantics here?

Usually not but your whole activity in this thread reads like you’re just hating on Linux for some reason: “too diverse!” “it destroyed my ssd!” (which I doubt). In that context your claim to have been a user just looks like a half-truth to give yourself some credibility.

Anyway, back to the actual topic: I don’t care about mass-adoption. Everything turns to shit when the masses pour over it. In my opinion, Lemmy has reached the critical amount of contributors to get it going, except more actual scientists maybe.

People know the unix system under the very successful product that is MacOS.

What? Only techies know that, 99% users don’t and wouldn’t care.

I used to use Ubuntu, and before that kde btw.

I’m starting to doubt you actually did since KDE isn’t a distro.

I won’t nitpick how Linux is a kernel not an OS but how is it not widespread? It just runs basically the whole internet…

The reasons the average Joe doesn’t use it for their desktop are convenience (Windows and macOS come pre-installed) and that you can run into technical issues due to bad support by hardware vendors. The latter is a chicken/egg problem and will possibly never be resolved.

Anyway, I disagree it’s due to the number of choices - we don’t need monopolies. Your grocery store is full of different brands of cheese and all of them still stay in business.

learning programming is BORING

Then it’s not for you. No shame in that. I don’t understand the notion that everyone is supposed to be a coder now.

If anything, the low-level coding part is something AI models may well make obsolete relatively soon. Unlike any craftsmanship - why not learn masonry or carpentry instead?