Well it kind of works. The palantir was (were? are there more than one?) used for remote viewing and Sauron corrupted it for his own purposes.
Here, palantir is meant for surveillance and this corrupts that by allowing the user to use the presence of the camera to curtail surveillance rather than submit to surveillance.
Nope, still doesn’t work. The palantir — and yes, there were more than one, there had to be, they were each nodes in a kind of closed-circuit communication network; the current user of one stone could see what the current user of any another stone could see, but if one of the two current users was sufficiently powerful of mind they could deceive the other current user — weren’t surveillance devices until they’d been employed by a bad actor to that end, and that bad actor was turn the presence of the palantir untrustworthy. The analogy doesn’t work because it was trivially easy to know a palantir was present (at least one was several feet in diameter) and just as easy to know if one was actively being used (if you could see anything through one then someone was present on the other end)… the problem was you didn’t know if it was being used for good or evil once one was in the hands of Sauron precisely because the being on the other end could always be the Lidless Eye.
All you had to do to curtail the use of a palantir was throw a sheet over it… the problem was the temptation to use one was too great.
If it's their own computer, what better way for them to learn than by making mistakes? And if it's a shared computer, Linux container tools (e.g. https://github.com/containers/toolbox) would let them "sudo rm -rf /" in their own environment without jeopardizing the base system or other users.
This is the case with being a zealot for and trying to 100% adhere to any ideology. There’s a very good reason Linux runs on a huge percentage of world server infrastructure and virtually none runs on GNU HURD.
The real world doesn’t care if your model is theoretically better. At the end of the day, actually shipping things is what truly matters and strictly adhering to an ideology tends to stand in the way of that.
Thank you for typing this all out because I could not articulate this nearly as well as you did but this was exactly what I wanted to respond to that comment.
My windows button properly handles windows. Window + left arrow snaps left. Windows + down snaps it down. Etc… It’s literally the best default window manager any OS has.
Nothing proper about that. Your right hand is on your mouse, which you use to move the window border. What's your Winkey answer to that? The actions you named don't resize in the way you want to and require moving your hand off the mouse to the cursor keys... and then back.
You're correct! I wrongly assumed that people were using their computers with:
A) Both hands on the keyboard, making it easy to reach both the Win key and the arrow keys at the same time to snap your windows.
or
B) One hand on the keyboard and one hand on the mouse, making window snapping instant with the mouse.
But I forgot that this is HN, so a significant proportion of readers also use their computers with both hands on the mouse, or no hands and one foot each for the keyboard and for the mouse.
You wrongly assumed that your perception of what's "faster" is correct just because it's setup that way by the OS.
> A) Both hands on the keyboard, making it easy to reach both the Win key and the arrow keys at the same time to snap your windows.
It might be "easy" to reach arrow keys, but it's even easier and faster not having to do that
> B) making window snapping instant with the mouse
Your left window slightly overlaps the right one. You want to resize it by reducing its width by ~5% and its height by ~9% to avoid that
Name your "instant" list of mouse actions to achieve that.
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