It’s alright! We don’t all have to host our own instance. Existing ones can easily accommodate hundreds of users.

The docs are not only often difficult for an inexperienced user, they commonly omit points of failure.

Various prerequisites, problematic settings, possibility of the user choosing the wrong menu etc. etc. should always be considered.

Lol, that’d be good

Two different people, though not without similarities

Chris Titus the IT mastermind

System will work, but it will gradually get less and less secure, which can get quite bad.

There is an insane amount of ways to break Windows XP and even Windows 7, it’s basically script kiddie’s level of knowledge.

And there are real exploits out in the wild that target such systems specifically - while the pool of potential victims is smaller, they’re very easy to target unless they are competently firewalled.

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It’s easier to make cigarettes than vape juice. Everyone can produce them.

No reason to believe it’s any hard to build a similar monopoly on that, too

Also true

So, it is a drug, but it’s not right to call it one?

There’s no indication they use cameras in there. It’s most likely just a sensor for vape smoke, similar to your common fire alarm.

And if it makes bathrooms a place where everyone can breathe without inhaling nicotine, I’m all for it. This is not a serious privacy concern.

Doesn’t Phillip Morris profit from vapes, too?

Bringing vapes as a popular nicotine delivery system is literally the way tobacco companies are able to proliferate and return smoking into fashion.

Also, smoking should be prohibited as well. Not only because it hurts the smokers themselves, but because others are affected without their consent.

Lemmy generally has a pro-drugs sentiment, which is certainly unsettling.

Also, can I visit bathrooms and not get into clouds of vape smoke, pretty please?

Nicotine is a drug.

Alcohol too, btw.

For that, one should test all the software personally.

Of course if you use something with only the old reviews, leave a new one! But the fact is, utility of the service is often dampened due to this fact.

A bit more politeness goes a very long way.

Try being more civil, this will earn you way more support, especially since you want to change people’s minds.

I see - thanks for clarification!

Got confused because beforehand there was GNU IceWeasel (now GNU IceCat), which is now separate from IceWeasel. Quite a shitshow.

I was under the impression IceWeasel changed to IceCat.

And, honestly, from all I could remember, the default protections are so strong a good half of sites doesn’t even work properly lol

Typical GNU maximalism.

(But yeah - it really blocks all the bad stuff and doesn’t do anything you don’t ask it to do, not even call for updates by default)

That’s so cuuuuute

A teenager making a simple and cute calculator and deciding to share it with the world and the world takes that, people contribute, and project emerges

This is actually inspiring

There’s much more to company’s popularity than just the product quality.

Google, along with some others, pays money for browser developers to be the default engine - so that people never bother to try something else and actually see how good or bad Google is compared to everything else.

Facebook (Meta) is known for predatory business practices like forcing startups to sell out or have their concept forcefully stolen and them destroyed.

Amazon dominates by plunging the prices of their in-house products below payback to drive the competition into bankruptcy, then acts as a monopoly, driving prices up.

There’s plenty more such examples, but let me stop here for now. Giant corporations have powerful levers that are only available to them as they approach market dominance. And when they get 'em, fair play is over.