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  • There may be technical things we may not like about Ubuntu, but Ubuntu has been the flagship distribution which has brought countless people into Linux. After that introduction, many have gone to other distros.

    There are successful distributions based on Ubuntu, so Ubuntu doesn’t limits choice or freedom.

    I don’t understand shitting on financial success of FLOSS. Remember, free as in freedom, not necessarily as in beer.

    Ubuntu doesn’t prevent you, technically or legally from disabling snaps.

    I rather not use Ubuntu, though but I think the impact has been a net positive.
















  • rarsamx@lemmy.catoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldIs It Just Me?
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    17 days ago

    I don’t think it’s just you. Like it wasn’t just one person thinking computers would make us dumb or the automobile making us lazy. I’m betting that someone somewhere thought that cooking food on the fire would make us weaker.

    Technology has that ability to generate opposition from status quo.

    And as with any technology, there are good uses, bad uses and frivolous uses.

    Remember the awful nonsense web pages of the early 90’s?

    I think AI will make the life’s of some of us easier. But I also think it will continue widening the digital divide.

    The biggest concern is that, by nature, AI needs massive amounts of power which can only be paid by people with big resources and those people are training it. AI has the trainer’s bias.

    However, end consumer AI is the tip of the iceberg. AI will succeed when we don’t even realize it’s there.