• artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      118·
      2 months ago

      Reminder that they already responded

      The Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, and is working closely with Ofcom to implement the Act as quickly and effectively as possible

      • Armand1@lemmy.world
        89·
        2 months ago

        Doesn’t stop us from continuing to push. Since they responded we got 300 000 more signatures.

        • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
          42·
          2 months ago

          Wouldn’t it be sick if y’all just responded on voting day?

          Here’s the pitch: Do you want to prevent horrible nonsense shit from happening? Do you like money? Are you okay with people in general? Fucking vote.

            • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
              18·
              2 months ago

              I do not realize that, I’m not from there nor do I pay attention to their politics. This was more so a call to everyone everywhere to show up at whatever booth it may be and prevent shitty policies from being considered, let alone passed.

              That said, I do appreciate the info, and moreso appreciate that you archived it and linked a paywall free version. That was thoughtful.

              • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                19·
                2 months ago

                To translate it to American, it’s a similar two party system as yours, and the UK Dems are the ones doing this.

              • Armand1@lemmy.world
                5·
                2 months ago

                Yeah unfortunately one vote every 4 or 5 years is not enough granularity to weigh in on specific issues. Also, politicians lie about what they will do all the time.

                Showing that a large amount of people are against an action, whether by petition or protest, is one of the tools we do have.

                This particular piece of legislation has been in the works for two administrations of two different parties. We’re kind of sick of both of them so I think many people will likely vote for a 3rd party the next time around. Possibly the more progressive splinter group of our 'left" party.

                • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zip
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  I hope you’re right. But in my experience, every country ends up voting for 1 of the 2 largest parties because “that other party will not get even 5%” and the whole population ends up disregarding them. And this is by design.

                  Honestly, I pray that you’re right and the UK people actually tells the main parties to fuck right off.

            • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
              6·
              2 months ago

              The game has been rigged.
              Voting exists to stop you changing things.
              It makes you believed you solved the problem
              when you’ve actually accomplished nothing yet

              The voting is game is lost before it began
              with psychometric micro demographic targetting
              they can convert money into votes with simple manipulation
              it’s just a matter of which money interest push more
              on their preferred option

              but neither of the two choices is on your side

              None of the choices in democracy are working for you

              • arrow74@lemmy.zip
                7·
                2 months ago

                So main issue with this comment is the UK system allows for more than 2 choices.

                • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  Yes there are many choices, very similar degrees of ultimately the same thing. Same thing here in Canada.

                  Often it’s the business elite party and the “business elite but pretending to care about the people’s interest party” and that second one is also split so the straight up business elite party has a chance to win. Followed by series of do-nothing statistically insignificant, flavour-text parties just for the impression of diversity. It’s all a little circus to give you the idea the population is in control while being completely out of the equation. It only really serves to dissipate their frustration and make them believe they’ve already done everything they could so we don’t get guillotines in the streets.

                  Make no mistake Fukuyama is right, this IS the end of history, there will not be any democratically elected changes unless the powerful decide change is in their interest and will maintain or increase their power.

                  Nothing will change until the power is physically taken away from them and history restarts.

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
          15·
          2 months ago

          Point is, this law was not created in service of the public. It’s just another surveillance measure. Much like Chat Control, which they’ve pushed over and over again, despite getting pushback from literally everyone around the world every time. You could have everyone in the EU sign that petition and it wouldn’t matter because it’s not for you.

      • Guilvareux@feddit.uk
        19·
        2 months ago

        A huge petition that undermines the government’s democratic mandate is never a bad thing, even if they responded.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 months ago

      You don’t need Linux, you just need to get the driver from Nvidia’s website.

      If they can’t figure this out, they really don’t belong on Linux.

    • Kaerkob@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      These delineations are quite silly especially when used in a derogatory way. But if one plays that game, there are still “zoomers” who are minors.

      • Lfrith@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 months ago

        Those are probably only on mobile so their knowledge of navigating a PC is probably worse than a boomer and don’t even understand the concept of folders and files.

        • Kaerkob@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          I personally know several in that age group (minor zoomers) who game on Windows and Linux.

          • Lfrith@lemmy.ca
            2·
            2 months ago

            There’s always going to be exceptions among those with a more natural tech based interest, but it used to be that everyone was exposed to using a desktop and not something that someone had to individually go out of their way to learn.

            This article all day way from back in 2021 showed professors having to rethink how to teach the basics, since now skills that were expected to be known were starting to not be common knowledge.

            Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.

            https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

            So yeah people who are more interested in PC gaming, streaming, and even pirating are more likely to find resources to be self taught. But, the regular people who are increasingly growing up only using phones as their computing device aren’t doing the same until forced to.

        • zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yep. I feel like a failure of a father. I was talking to my 12 year old about some website and she was all “what app is that?”

          It’s not an app, it’s a website.

          But there’s no website app.

          You use a web browser? Like Firefox?

          What’s a a web bowser? Is Firefox a new furry?

          • Lfrith@lemmy.ca
            1·
            2 months ago

            I’d probably be the same if it wasn’t for video games. Wanting to build my own PC was what educated me the most about computers and how they work and learning basic desktop usage. Especially getting into Skyrim and Minecraft mods. There whether someone wants to or not they will have to know basic folder structure and where things are saved and located.

            But, without a self driven reason to dive further beyond mobile devices it doesn’t seem like schools are teaching people computer basics anymore. So not something learned by everyone by just every day life.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
      68·
      2 months ago

      It’s like people are just now noticing that they have zero ability to control their own digital lives because they traded it all away in order to not have to take the time to learn how to do things for themselves.

      • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        We all need to make what we know freely available in a friendly manner to make the path to Linux easier and more fun.

        • dropped_packet@lemmy.zip
          21·
          2 months ago

          I have been offering 1:1 chats on signal to anyone who wants help switching to Linux.

          Asking questions in forums and social media is intimidating. I despise the snobbery that often represents this community. I just want to help people regain some control over their digital lives.

            • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              Or raising the polling rate of USB mice above 10 Hz (as in ten - that’s not a typo).

              I don’t know the answer, but I’m interested, what do you use that for?

              Fortunately, copying or moving more than 1 GB to or from USB sticks without crashing the entire machine (no matter if NTFS or ExFAT) was solved last year, probably because of a kernel update.

              I believe it has a lot to do with the default amount of dirty memory. dirty memory is mostly the write cache, which is unnecessary to have a lot of, as that does not improve anything after a certain point, but at best it can mislead you to believe that a copy opetation started with 200 MB/s and that it finished when it actually did not yet.

              https://web.archive.org/web/20220828115647/https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/decrease-dirty-bytes-for-more-reliable-usb-transfer/62513

              https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.html

              you can fix these limits with sysctl files. they are loaded on boot on typical systemd systems. suggestions are in the manjaro post, relevant for any desktop linux system.

              maybe it’s worth to set these up even if you are good for now. It’s good to hear a kernel change could have fixed it though. maybe they have finally revised the defaults, they wanted to do that for a few years now…

                • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  I will have a look, didn’t even know about kernel.org, nobody before you mentioned it.

                  its mostly developer documentation about programming APIs, but there’s also admin docs, not only at the admin-guide pages.

                  if the script would get executed whenever I start the machine or go out of standby. Which is not the case, sometimes it just doesn’t happen and I have to do it manually.

                  what is its current trigger?

                  if yours is a systemd based system, it’s often recommended to make a service unit file for the script, like this:

                  [Unit]
Name=restore gamma on resume
WantedBy=sleep.target

[Service]
After=sleep.target
Exec=/usr/local/bin/yourscript.sh

                  save this in /etc/systemd/system/gammasleep.service (runs services as root), and run systemctl daemon-reload for it to notice the new file. systemctl enable --now to start it and make it autostarted on boot.

                  I have written this from memory on phone, so it might need corrections, but this is basically it, plus edit the exec line. docs is in man systemd.service, man systemd.unit. man systemd.directives tells you which man page documents a specific key.

                  you can check logs with journalctl -u gammasleep.service. an f gives you a running log with shorter history.

                  probably I could have written all of this after you confirmed you did not use a systemd service yet…

                  It’s all those little inconvenient and unreliable things that keep me from using Linux for anything that goes beyond browsing the web or doing office stuff

                  oh I felt the same when I first tried to switch to linux on my main desktop. everything was inconvenient without my usual tools and the system was breaking down from time to time. I got burned out, 2 years later I retried and now I haven’t gone back to the windows install for months, and there’s not much problems now. probably I was being clumsy and doing things the wrong way 2 years ago, but it’s hard to tell because I don’t remember.

        • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          7·
          2 months ago

          in a friendly manner

          Emphasis on “friendly” because there’s a big “RTFM” issue on some Linux communities. Sure, it can be annoying getting the same questions constantly. But the “RTFM” response is condescending and artificially inflates the barrier to entry. People shouldn’t be expected to read, understand, and remember 200 pages of dense documentation just to learn how to update their graphics drivers. If someone is learning how to drive, telling them “read the owner’s manual for your car” is just toxic. Sure the owners manual will have lots of useful info, but that doesn’t actually help the person who is trying to get started.

          At the very least, point them in the right direction. You can say “RTFM” while still being helpful. Oh, you want to know how to do something specific via CLI? Cool, here’s a link to that specific section, which explains what the command you need does. As it currently stands, a lot of the most crucial info for newcomers is buried in obscure wiki articles and books. And longtime Linux users treat the struggle like a rite of passage. But not everyone is interested in that; They just want to ditch Windows because they can’t install Win11, and they’re looking for friendly alternatives.

          • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
            8·
            2 months ago

            I do agree with a lot of what you’re saying.

            Linux has historically been a space for tech people and so the default assumption is that the user is competent (jokes aside…) and capable of understanding technical writing.

            So, naturally, if a person asks a question which is answered in the documentation then they’re reminded that the answers exist already in the expected places and asking other people to do your own research for you rude.

            The Linux demographic is shifting and we need to adjust, but cultural norms change slowly.

            and they’re looking for friendly alternatives.

            I think that this is part of the trap that keeps people stuck in the spyware/enshittification market.

            Technology is complicated.

            Try to imagine, from a technical point of view, how complex it is to run a service like Netflix. There are a lot of highly trained people designing, managing and maintaining the various systems to run the service that lets a user touch a picture on their phone screen to see a movie.

            The user has an easy, friendly experience but that’s only because Netflix handles all of the complexity. This seems like a good deal initially. I mean, $10 $12 $15 $19.99/mo is a good price to pay to not have to know how to do all of that.

            But, now the user is completely dependent on service providers to stand between them and the complexity of technology so they never have a chance to learn because they never see how anything works.

            This Faustian bargain is what lets these companies continue to spy on people and jack up the price of services while offering less service. Where are the users going to go?

            Linux and the open source community offer a different bargain. You have to learn how to do things for yourself, but now you have actual meaningful choices about how you use technology and a community of people who are trying to solve the same problems as you.

            Sure, it isn’t as easy. But easy isn’t free, and I’m tired of paying what they want to charge.

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          Up until now, we’ve been hiding it in wikis and books, where we know nobody will look. 😂

          There are some user friendly distributions, but even they will be uncomfortable and frustrating to use when you’re new.

          Having to relearn how to use a computer is daunting for people. It’s a lot easier to just touch an app and have the instant gratification.

          The point of all of these apps and services is to get people dependent on them so that they’re unwilling to leave because the alternative requires effort. I don’t know that Linux, as a whole, can ever be that user friendly. But, eventually some people will be tired of being squeezed for cash and spyed on just to save a few weeks of reading and learning.

      • bluejayway@lemmy.zip
        12·
        2 months ago

        not trying to be rude, but it’s easy to get tunnel vision especially with tech spaces. before becoming involved in tech i had no idea that linux was even a thing. most of these people need education, they just didn’t know their options. they didn’t “choose” to throw away their rights because they didn’t know they had a choice.

    • tane@lemy.lol
      9·
      2 months ago

      This happens all the time. I still see what I call boomers (likely younger than actual boomers) call gen z millennials constantly. The oldest millennials are like mid 40s but in the popular imagination we are still kids in our 20s. It’s like society is 10-15 years behind almost

  • thyristor@lemmy.pt
    44·
    2 months ago

    It’s in the name… can’t access graphic content without ID, can we? /s

    On a more serious note, what about AMD graphics cards?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    29·
    2 months ago

    Boomers will also get locked out of a lot of content because verifying their age is too complicated. I feel no sympathy.

      • Aimeeloulm@feddit.uk
        11·
        2 months ago

        Labour hasn’t been anywhere near the left since Tory Blair became leader, he grew up a Tory supporter, failed to get in as a Tory politician so decide on transforming Labour into the neo-Tory party which he was successful at, not that Labour before hand was the friend of the average worker or the poor but at least they were better, now they are hostile to the working class and the poor 😞

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          Labour hasn’t been anywhere near the left since Tory Blair became leader

          Well, there was that brief bright moment with Corbyn. But then he got the Julius Caeser treatment for siding with the Radical Islamist Extremism of the anti-genocide movement.

          now they are hostile to the working class and the poor

          Okay, but have you considered all the new AI they are helping create.