why do you think microsoft is that concerned with their user's wellbeing?

there are other industries who's entire business revovles around selling to addicts, why would MS of all companies suddenly balk at that line?

i don't see how it's a design mistake, linux allows more footguns in general to not decrease utility. Allowing you to manually give root prompt access (with warnings!) to a non-root user is one of them.

you can also just not run docker as root and not add normal users to the docker group

it already sends data back to google, the ai stuff, everything that goes in the address bar goes straight to google unless you specifically configure chrome to block it

the on-device ai just offloads some work onto your device

i doubt anyone will be banning chrome, for some reason "it's for ai" is a valid excuse for any amount of sillyness

https://forgejo.org/ already exists, I suspect the issue would be hosting it at scale

DNS is the cause of all problems, but it's also the solution - just like anyone can run Apache or Nginx, so should anyone be able to run a git setup. Then it scales really well, as everyone is doing their own thing on their own domains.

Of course, you lose out on some things like ease of user access and various protections.

Anyone can run a git setup. You need git and SSH installed on a server and you need an SSH key for each user.

You don't need this. git and a local drive. git and a shared drive. git and an https engine (can be a plugin to apache/nginx, not a full github like solution). git and ssh but people use username/password.

Full github/gitlab: git and Gogs, Gitea, Forgejo.

i think it was just poorly implemented. i didn't use the circles feature because all my friends would be in one circle and my family were all offline, but i still had to deal with it for no personal benefit

opt in probably would have been better, like just default everyone to one circle and make it obvious how to split them up after you're a bit more comfortable with the platform

they made a bunch of other obvious blunders like attempting to force real names and spread them to youtube, mandatory account linkage etc etc but i think there were probably just too many conflicting high level voices at google trying to set direction

I had a few different circles depending on if friends were interested in running, cycling, hiking or computers and then I could make posts that could be just for specific groups.

Of course, it takes 2 seconds to shit out an ai song. I'm surprised it isn't way higher

Unless this is improved greatly from the last time I used it is pointless, any command you would use it for instead requires you to right click, open as administrator a command prompt to get the expected result

Only the top guys are allowed to do insider trading! You guys are making it very very slightly more obvious!!

I just use geary, it's less annoying and does the job

team geary needs more love. geary works well for most day to day tasks with no showstopping bugs.

Regular tv with all the ads?

could be worse, there's always radio...

Regular radio with all the ads?

On regular TV, you can change the channel when the ads come on. On YouTube, there is no alternative.