Fucking finally. Been my biggest gripe for about a decade.

set up workspaces or whatever they are called instead of virtual desktops. The ability to do independent wallpapers is like 50% of their features

I think this is a bigger deal than it sounds like when you consider cut and paste, or just moving files. The writing would've been thought to be done even if the cache is still flushing, so it deletes the source files, but the write can still fail after the source files are deleted. The device could fail, it could be unplugged, you might kick it by accident, or have a power outage.

They will never allow that again.

what's next?

they'll allow you to have different wallpapers on different virtual desktops?

The completion progress and complete notification only reflect copying to the local cache and not when the data is actually written out to the removable storage.

Ubuntu went to shit long ago

I think dusk means it would also be difficult for hackers to find these bugs without AI, which probably is true (given how long some of them seem to have existed). Hard to say how it balances out in the end though.

"Seems" doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Plenty of gnome users just use it. No reason to talk about it and lord it over anything else.

I'm locking the thread because it was reported as off-topic (and it effectively is.) As means of keeping the conversation going, I did a crosspost on: tech community on this same instance: https://p.programming.dev/post/programming.dev/58587248

Nice try, Claude...

Don’t follow noisy accounts and block boosts from accounts that abuse it but are otherwise interesting. Mastodon like Lemmy is entirely about how you set up your feed, nothing gets pushed to you unless you specifically sign up for it.

I glance for a couple headlines once in a while but I agree that place has become a cesspool. I deal with enough AI bros in my day to day work I don’t need to hang out with them on the internet as well.

I'm somewhat of an optimist about it -- that true intelligence can never truly be restrained, and if you gimp the model to pander to your views you immediately reduce it's efficacy by leaving gaps in its knowledge that it's too dumb to see or question.

The alignment problem is more a problem for the plutocrats than for anyone else is what I'm really saying.

Definitely agree that there's a massive loaded incentive when the CEOs tell us it will kill us as a way to inflate the impact of their product.

Using the Voyager Lemmy app which lets you filter out posts by domains and block communities

I've been hearing good things

How do you block the domains? With a Ublock filter?

I want to like Mastodon, but I find it too disorienting -- way too much noise over signal. Lemmy is too, but one can lurk in a space (politics, electronics, etc.) until something happens

You're probably right that that's likely enough for non-interactive tools

I don't care for Ubuntu myself, but I think it's disingenuous to paint it as just preconfigured Debian. Honestly, if that's all it was I don't think I'd dislike it at all.

It was, and the discussions you'd get there were people trading their experience and feedback. It was lovely

True. Still, there was nice a time window where 2+3 won out over 1

Yeah, it's become a grift. Someone recently showed a new StumbleUpon type thing, which was a pretty fun way finding good content. I used it a lot on the first day. By the third day, the next few pages you'd visit were Big Tech landing pages...

I knew the free lunch couldn't last, but it couldn't even let me finish breakfast?

I mean, I just use Kubuntu