Comment by raw_anon_1111
7 days ago
So yes if it weren’t for people wanting convenience the “Year of Linux on the Desktop” would have happened 25 years ago.
What do you suggest? Everyone carry around their desktop computers and our CRT monitors like we did when we wanted to play Quake with friends?
> What do you suggest? Everyone carry around their desktop computers and our CRT monitors like we did when we wanted to play Quake with friends?
The exercise would do people good. Jokes aside though, there is a nuance between completely inconvenient and designed for the marching morons.
You mean 80% of adults worldwide are “morons”? Have you ever thought that they may know something you don’t know?
If 80% of adults worldwide somehow became unable to tolerate the slightest inconvenience, then yes, I'd say they would be morons, but I doubt they are. I'm unsure where you're getting the 80% statistic from.
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yes, getting emails or text messages instead of having app alerts is luddism.
Get real, dawg
Uhh yes - when 90% of adults worldwide have moved to smart phones - yes you are the Luddite.
Email is for old people has been a meme for two decades
https://www.techdirt.com/2007/11/15/email-is-for-old-people/
Anyone who says "email is for old people" is a fool, at least on that subject.
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You can get email on your smartphone.
No, it's cool tho, worry about being "hip" and enjoy the authoritarian surveillance state that you are enabling because you've been indoctrinated to want "new thing" and to reject "old thing".
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