HobbitFoot

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  • No.

    Some media criticism I’ve seen has been as much a critique of the audience as it is of the text. Why do some conservatives like Star Trek? How can the Matrix be used both as a trans allegory and adopted by anti-trans alt-right people?

    Other media criticism keeps the author alive, but looks into what made the author and how did media change because of it. How did the death of big budget music videos affect cinema? How does a career built on click bait YouTube videos affect how the author creates larger work?

    It feels like you can have larger and more meta analysis because the audience is there for more meta analysis.













  • Windows isn’t trying to do what Linux does.

    On the server end, Linux beat every competitor out there, including Windows Server, because it was free and development occurred along the lines of educated users making improvements. So, at first Linux was worse to use, but it was cheaper. Then, Linux was about as easy/stable as paid for versions, but it was cheaper. When it became easier to use to educated users and more stable and cheaper, all paid server OS’s died.

    That said, I bring up educated users because Linux is only a kernel and Windows by itself does more than Linux does by itself. On the consumer end, no one has been able to threaten Windows without a DRM’d app store. Consumers won’t do bug fixes at the scale that enterprise users will. Consumers generally need more developed on the UI side to make the OS functional while you can run Linux in terminal mode. Most of Windows’ development went into this, making Windows easy/desirable for consumers. In contrast, most Linux development time went to making Linux more easy/desirable for enterprise users/servers.

    This is really the first year that Linux for consumers is viable and a lot of that work packaging Linux for consumers came from Valve putting the various pieces of open source software together and sanding down the rough edges. In contrast, Microsoft has been doing that for a generation.