Yeah, I’d rather play on my deck instead

I think “20 minutes ago” is a lot more useful than seeing the full date on every comment and having to do mental math. It does make it harder to see the precise date, but that’s a far less common use case, so the tradeoff goes towards making it more usable for the more common scenario. So I see that as the reason: it’s usually better. The full date is still available on hover, which seems reasonable to me.

I disagree with your premise that web developers “want to make it hard”, as that isn’t the motivation. The motivation is to make it easy to see when a comment was posted, which is far more useful as relative time. That it makes it harder to copy the full date is not the goal, but an unfortunate side-effect of the tooltip disappearing when you stop hovering over the relative time. Which I’m sure you could submit as an issue to the lemmy devs, because likely it just never came up, and isn’t some evil plot to “make it hard on purpose”.

Looking into git commits, the unselectable property was added by @dessalines@lemmy.ml, so maybe we can get an answer right from the source instead of guessing?

It’s interesting you say they “obscure it”, where in your example they went out of their way to make it possible to see the precise date and time when you hover over the relative time. They could easily not add the tooltip and yet they did.

Why is it not selectable? My guess is that most people would want to select the content of the comment but accidentally also select the time since it’s very close to it, so to make it easier to select just the content, they made the time unselectable. It’s a tradeoff but helps in more cases than it harms. Just a guess though.

You can alt+drag windows, which is more convenient anyway since you don’t need to aim for the titlebar, can hold it by any part of the window.

Yeah, but not everyone has someone to help them, and many people will prefer Windows for the simple reason that it doesn’t give them problems they need to seek help about, even if the problems have good solutions available.

I don’t use Gnome, but I assume that in the Help menu of that window you will find contact information for the project. Submit a serious version of your image politely explaining the issues, and maybe if you feel like it a better designed alternative.

I imagine the author, who is probably a single person, would appreciate the feedback.

Yeah, but for non-technical people this is an insurmountable barrier. My aunt isn’t “trying a virtual machine”.

Your answer to “how to harden SSH?” is “harden SSH”?

I know your two other points gave concrete suggestions, but it’s pretty funny you suggested to “harden sshd” when that is what OP is asking how to do.

The only time I’m there is when I search for something and the answer happens to be a Reddit post/comment. I hope this will happen less and less often, but there is genuinely a good decade of knowledge in there. It’s not rare that a 7 years old Reddit comment solves my issue.

Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I’m triple booting Windows 10, Windows 11, and Linux for a few years now with GRUB, and Windows never broke it.

Yes, so either the reviews were all death threats, in which case I’m fine with them being removed, or Google/Apple is secretly collaborating with Reddit.

How did they remove bad reviews, and on which platform? To my knowledge neither Google Play nor the App Store allows developers to do that, so it would have to be a more complicated situation with Google/Apple collaboration.

AMD is ideal but Nvidia is fine

Not in all cases. I need GPU passthrough to play VR games in a VM. Only Nvidia cards work for that.

OP already has a Nvidia card and isn’t planning on buying anything. Yes Nvidia is a horrible company, but that doesn’t answer OP’s question. What answers OP’s questions is: Yes, go ahead and try Linux, your Nvidia card is going to work just fine.

OP isn’t asking what card to buy. He already has a Nvidia card and is asking if it’s going to work on Linux.

It’s a thought experiment. Of course such a stick wouldn’t exist. OP’s question is what laws of physics prevent this theoretical scenario from working.

Did anyone read the tweet? They are defending their decision not to change the name, because the change isn’t official. No, they haven’t “announced they will change the name”.

Yeah, you can logically conclude based on that that they will update it once it’s official, but the reporting is the opposite of what they said.

Every time I saw someone I know built a PC, they reused the license key from their previous one. And the first one was a free key from their university.

It definitely happens though!

Fair enough. To me the fact people don’t do it and that it’s rare is perfectly expected. In other words, I would be surprised if people commonly did that, but they don’t, so I don’t see anything surprising. But I can see your point of view, it’s looking at it a bit differently.