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[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 7 points 3 days ago

Nintendo is clearly hiding something; they clearly are highly afraid of critical reviews and this is clearly a strategy that is not unlike what Nvidia, led by Jensen Huang, does.

What they are hiding will remain to be seen. I'm sure that the bad reviews will not go away...only be delayed by a week or so.

If you are wise; you will avoid buying the Switch 2 for at least a month. If you can't wait a month to see what Nintendo is hiding; just be advised; you bought into it blind and have no right to complain about the bad reviews later, nor should you take it personally when people start talking poorly about the Switch 2.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

In a perfectly reasonable, civilized and rational world; this would be seen as an additional feature in "Bad taste".

There is no rational reason for the company to permit any kind of detailed filtering; the longer you're swiping through photos, the longer you use the app and the chance that you potentially give them money for services remains.

There is no rational reason to discriminate against people based on their height either. While it's quite natural to have preferences, generally speaking, you know when you find someone attractive. I don't think I've ever heard of someone genuinely only attracted to specifically only tall or short people; there's usually something else there behind the reason. That reason could be any number of things from feelings to experiences and more.

Attraction, much like people, is a complicated and not so straightforward thing. It's reason for being isn't based on rationality always, we don't always size up our mates the way a computer would. In general it's oftentimes emotional, and attractiveness can be something that happens when someone manages to emotionally convey an appearance or vibe that matches something the one feeling the attraction might be looking for.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This is a good a start as any to market Linux to the common end-user. It's not about the software being better; it's about the software offering the user some advantage, like not needing to buy new hardware.

Linux is, far from perfect still. It has a metric ton of "foot guns" that cannot be pointed anywhere away from the feet; the user MUST move their feet away to avoid these "foot guns". It has a lot of pain points and still lacks polish in some ways. Most things mostly just work; but may the gods and goddesses help you if something for some reason does not work, or does not work as expected for any reason. Coaxing it to work exactly as expected might seem impossible for average users.

Then there's the issue of Linux having only volunteer support in most cases. Getting help from an overworked and under-interested FLOSS developer is like pulling teeth; even when they're literally the only person on the planet who can solve your problem

That being said; Linux is free and mostly usable. 9/10 times it does work and can save you a lot of hassle and headache if all your computing needs are basic and predictable.