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by Maken 3y ago
That's still not open source. Try cloning their repo and making it public.
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by Maken 3y ago
They don't. XDG specifications are recommendations. Their only power is that your software will integrate poorly with other software (specially desktop software) if you ignore their guidelines.
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by Maken 3y ago
¿Who cares about anything else if the Sun could kill us all tomorrow? Proceeds to walk directly into oncoming traffic.
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by Maken 3y ago
It has already surpassed it.
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by Maken 3y ago
Until we have proper app sandboxing in Linux desktop, in the sense that third party proprietary programs use it, that's a minor concern.
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by Maken 3y ago
To be a complete success, PipeWire merely needed to work at all.
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by Maken 3y ago
PulseAudio is still not there after 19 years.
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by Maken 3y ago
It's fascinating that something like that is being built at a time when most blockbusters are essentially animation films.
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by Maken 3y ago
I do agree that "desktop" computing is not going away any time soon. But there is no point denying that PC market is shrinking and the average user is migrating towards smartphones and tablets. There is no more space to grow here
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by Maken 3y ago
Their current approach to Windows seems to be to milk it as much as possible before the desktop dies out.
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by Maken 3y ago
Aside from some some odd duplication in the system UI (they have like three different "control panels" with overlapping functionality), Windows 10/11 are not such a bad UX. As long as you actively op-out of all the BS they ke
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by Maken 3y ago
> Nope, not malware. Just Windows. So, it was indeed malware.
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by Maken 3y ago
A 700€ pricetag is definitely premium for me. I can understand why they have to charge that much for the Fairphone, but personally I have never spent more than 250€ on a phone (smart or not).
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by Maken 3y ago
You can help to complete the archives.
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by Maken 3y ago
Because that would not be Their Vision™.
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by Maken 3y ago
If it's so stupid, how do they manage to get so many billions out of it?
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by Maken 3y ago
Do not forget the Carbon Fiber age.
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by Maken 3y ago
Adobe killed almost everything they bought from Macromedia.
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by Maken 3y ago
Not a single mention of memory safety either.
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by Maken 3y ago
Roof tiles are just that, but made of a material that stands water much better than than any metal. In any case, corrugated roofs made of asbestos where really popular until people realized they were not good for their health.
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by Maken 3y ago
On a serious note, it concerns me a little how easy new generations accept that everything is a magical black box and not even question how their smartphones work.
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by Maken 3y ago
Wayland is still trying really hard.
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by Maken 3y ago
This latest generation has been completely dwarfed by the Switch.
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by Maken 3y ago
I don't know what you mean by evidence, but "things have always being this way" is too often the excuse to avoid change. Social change is not necessarily always good, but rejecting novel policies just because they are not cur
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by Maken 3y ago
Which makes me both happy and concerned. On one hand, I am finally able to use my main computer for gaming without having to deal with dual booting nor emulation (in the VW sense). On the other, Proton completely kills native Linux porting.
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by Maken 3y ago
It also ended serfdom. Being wary of change is usually the excuse to perpetuate awful systems in both technology and society.
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by Maken 3y ago
Sometimes I think the fears of extremely convincing AI-generated post-truths influencing public opinion are greatly overblown. People is already brain-washed by poorly made, low resolution JPGs shared by bots in social networks, the entire
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by Maken 3y ago
In a sense, it contains a compressed database of its entire training data. That's where its knowledge comes from.
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by Maken 3y ago
I think that was updated to a Rust button long ago.
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by Maken 3y ago
Do you have more info about this? Sounds like a interesting design decision (I'm not a aeronautical engineer).

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