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Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Re: Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Post by chopin »

colordrops wrote: post #160
jdblair wrote: post #38

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Exactly! I made the same calculation 8 years ago, though now the cost Apple hardware has me reconsidering a PC with Linux for my next personal laptop.

It's a much different era than 8 years ago. I've been using Linux as my main OS for 4 years now and it's been very stable. Mind you I bought hardware that I knew would work well and did a lot of upfront work with configuration, but now its all automatic.

I've got it to work on hardware I bought previously. No problems on an older Dell laptop, some hassles on a PC with two AMD graphic cards.

Linux comes with strings attached. On the other hand I had to deal with Win7 issues as well (such as the Windows Updater hogging up 50% of the processor) which weren't easy to fix either. In hindsight, it's on par. On Linux, it's easy to switch to a previous kernel, I like that really. And I use timeshift before critical updates.

The only concession I did, was to buy an HP printer recently because of HP's support on Linux.

Re: Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Post by chopin »

killjoywashere wrote: post #157
halbritt wrote: post #81

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Come to the dark side. It’s glorious (with maybe one or two minor issues).

> one or two minor issues Don't be fooled. By minor he means "Yes, the kernel panics on boot, but the kernel did load."

If you use grub, it's easy to switch to the previous one.

Re: Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Post by chopin »

moises_silva wrote: post #52
hinkley wrote: post #28

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This is how so many developers ended up on OS X. They wanted bash and the command line, but they got tired of dicking around with their machine all day.

So true. I used to be a gentoo user, then fedora and arch, all in my laptop. It was fun to tinker with it but eventually you have other stuff to do and just need a laptop that works. Now, I won't say every time cuz even OSX has glitches but rarely (for my use cases anyways).

Why not Ubuntu or Mint? These generally work out-of-the-box.

Re: Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Post by TuringTest »

cheald wrote: post #50
chii wrote: post #47

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> I don't like Google Maps and I deleted it. Now I can't see the map! i mean, is it common for a user to hold contradictory thoughts like that?!

I see you've never worked a helpdesk. :) (Depressingly, yes. PEBKAC is the most common diagnosis and people get really angry about it.)

What technicians don't realize is how often PEBKAC is located at the programming station.

Developers surprised by users lacking a mental model of the operating system, who follow HIGs without understanding why they exists, or who never see how their applications are used, are prone to build applications that kill by a thousand paper cuts.

It doesn't help that people skills are moved to a separate discipline and not taught as part of the essential CS curricula.

Re: Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Post by speedplane »

ppod wrote: post #67

>Many people, it seems clear, experience surveillance capitalism less as a prison, where their agency is restricted in a noxious way, than as an all-inclusive resort, where their agency is restricted in a pleasing way. The possibility that a free, democratic publishing platform increases the agency of the average citizen is not permitted here.

> The possibility that a free, democratic publishing platform increases the agency of the average citizen is not permitted here.

One day the trolls / bots / advertisers will find out that a lot of well paid influential engineers regularly read HN, and that will be the end of it.

Re: Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Post by grigjd3 »

humanrebar wrote: post #113
tracker1 wrote: post #30

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Or the concept of corporate free speech, person-hood and "too big to let fail."

Freedom is assembly and freedom of speech add up to freedom of group speech, including unions, political groups, ethnic groups, and so on. I don't know why corporations would be special groups without that right. But, yeah, corporate personhood and bailouts need to be revisited. It's too bad that we need to have a functional policital culture to make any significant changes like that.

Corporations exist to limit the liability of owners, in particular to decrease risk to owners. Given that owners of corporations are given such special treatment, it makes perfect sense that such an organization does not inherit the rights of the citizens that are protected from the results of the corporation's actions.

Re: Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Post by ironic_ali »

MarsAscendant wrote: post #166
dane-pgp wrote: post #104

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For those who prefer a slightly more pleasant looking acronym, there is also: PICNIC == "Problem In Chair, Not In Computer"

I like that better. That said, imagine the office: — "It's PICNIC again, guys" — groans all around

We had PICNIC back in the day in the UK too, plus "ID ten T" often went on the notes.

ID10T

Re: Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Post by krageon »

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #159
hackerbrother wrote: post #141

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I don't think it's too hard on Windows...

Hmm, my impression is that they will only play video if you have a secure connection from the graphics card to the screen. So, unless you have access to a HDCP stripper, I don’t think there’s any way to tap the video stream.

This is wrong. It's perfectly possible to screenshot your netflix stream.

Re: Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Post by dogma1138 »

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #159
hackerbrother wrote: post #141

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I don't think it's too hard on Windows...

Hmm, my impression is that they will only play video if you have a secure connection from the graphics card to the screen. So, unless you have access to a HDCP stripper, I don’t think there’s any way to tap the video stream.

You can use the built-in DVR in Windows intended to record games to record Netflix with audio....

Re: Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

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Post by paradoxparalax »

dane-pgp wrote: post #104
MarsAscendant wrote: post #71

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For those curious: PEBKAC == "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair", means you, the user, are the cause of the issue, not the hardware or the software

For those who prefer a slightly more pleasant looking acronym, there is also: PICNIC == "Problem In Chair, Not In Computer"

some car mechanics say that it is a problem of the piece/part located between the driving wheel and the driver's seat.
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