All my professors taught and programmed in linux, but when it comes to exams, you need windows for the lockdown browser to do your exams. If you only had a linux machine, you won't be passing your classes!
At least for assignments, the professors requested pdfs and not docx or smth.
Yeah it's crazy. I grew up reading about how the "three laws of robotics" are still imperfect, contradictory and filled with loopholes.
But these sci-fi worlds at least tried, imperfect as they are. Turns out IRL no one gives a fuck.
I installed arch myself too. But i still don't see what benefits it brings over the simple GUI installers from Debian or Fedora. Just click a few buttons and I'm done. What was the point of all the complexity of arch installer anyway? I develop open source linux programs too, the arch installer stuff has very little relation to the actual development of linux projects. I don't see much reason for it, it's complexity for the sake of it. Just use a GUI installer and be done with it.
That's actually not as crazy though. Linus himself said people don't install operating systems, it's not what most people want to do in their free time.
We have our own version in linux too. Arch/Gentoo/NixOS, neovim/hyprland/kitty unixporn evangelists who clearly have a very different idea of what's worth spending time on, compared to the average user. Like gosh, ubuntu, konsole and vscode work perfectly fine too!
Yeah, really do it ok? Not only are you helping yourself, you're helping everyone by shoving it up the clueless execs at microsoft who still have no idea why people dislike their stupid spy AI thingy.
We've got local llm models, we've got local text to speech, isn't it a matter of time until someone puts in the work to build one? It shouldn't be surprising. I'm surprised there weren't more of them.
If you follow programming communities, the most popular thing beginners say they want to build these days is "local AI chat assistant" or some variant of the concept.
Who knows. Maybe they have that one dev on the app team that's on a crusade to detect every single abnormality.
He might also be following the rooting/magisk scene. Back then whenever magisk updates its root hiding system and successfully bypasses apps, mcdonalds are the first to detect it again. He's so fast that back when I was still using a rooted phone, I've never successfully bought a meal with the app.
Now they're blocking work profiles on non-rooted phones, which is a native android feature and not a security risk. But they're still blocking it anyway because it's slightly abnormal lol.
CM5s have 16GB of ram, some people might be building a postmarket os port for it too. Just need someone to design phone hardware for it.
The biggest problem are the banking apps. If you're standing at checkout and your payment app says
"Unverified apps have been detected on your phone. Please uninstall and try again."
99% of people will delete FDroid and never sideload anything ever again.
They'll probably also release a new API to allow apps to check if user have enabled sideloading. Then overzealous apps like fucking mcdonalds will throw a hissy fit about it and refuse to work unless you turn it off. Also your bank too, just to really make it as hard as possible to include sideloaded apps. Sideloading will remain available, but so painful, most people just give up.
Just recently mcdonalds app stopped working when installed in a secondary profile. Long history of them trying to detect root hiding methods too. Fuck them. Once this sideload block thing arrives, mcdonalds would be the first to block it.
If you only live in the GUI layer, you aren't the driver. The implementation details are abstracted away from you. Your software are the real uber drivers, you're just being driven around.
It's fucking weird people have such strong opinions about issues like X11 and systemd. They're meant to be working in the background away from the user, and that's exactly how I treat them. Actually systemd still provides some functions a user might have to interact with manually, for X11 I'm just baffled.
When I take an uber, I don't care whether the car has an automatic or manual transmission.