Mikeb85

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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Kotlin is JetBrains only Google has blessed it... Also compiled languages have longer staying power because if you move on from the language, you can still make use of the binaries but simply never write it again. Look at all the Fortran l
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
And this is why you should avoid using SMS for 2FA at all costs... Backup email, authenticator app, actually save the recovery codes, etc...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
There's been bugs like this in Windows and MacOS too. But they'll just blame the hardware vendor and it'll get warrantied... Also spend some time reading product forums. Windows and MacOS have plenty of bugs... Anyhow, a qu
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Of course everything you're complaining about means that the company has been successful enough to get to that point... Startups that act too much like big companies just don't ever get product out the door and fail before you can
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
So do you prefer the Linux DE that looks and acts like Windows Vista or one of the 10 that looks and acts like Gnome 2?
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Well, we have relatively little baby stuff compared to some parents, it's still enough though. Some monitoring tech, stroller, car seat, bassinet, diapers, clothing, some early age books to help develop eyesight (supposedly), plus bat
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Windows isn't "grandma" friendly based on the amount of times my grandparents called their children (several were in IT for years) and grandchildren for support over the years after breaking things... Literally the only devic
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> The entire point of advertising is manipulating human beings. That's quite cynical. No the point is to connect products to interested consumers. Case in point: we recently had a baby so I've been googling for baby stuff. N
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
IMO Gnome IS the best user experience. And KDE is always there if you want more customization. I'm not necessarily against a new distro and new desktop but it does seem like they're abandoning hardware for no apparent reason...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Not sure why System76 is going this route... Everyone is clamouring for a high quality Linux laptop and instead they're using subpar Clevo laptops and creating a new distro (with a bad case of NIH) that no one asked for... The hardwar
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
And with such outdated software it doesn't run on a laptop until it's ready to be replaced...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> I've heard rumor that the future of OpenSUSE Leap is now in doubt. Yes because the future is OpenSUSE MicroOS aka ALP. Rolling release, immutable system, all apps are containerized (Flatpak and Toolbox/Podman). Using it rig
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Ubuntu, Fedora/RH and (open)SUSE have been the top desktop Linux distros for 20/30 years... Sure others come and go but there's been plenty of continuity. I also don't see Pop_OS supplanting any of the big 3...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> Free software is supposed to be the superior software. Free software isn't supposed to be anything except free. If it's superior that's nice but that isn't really the goal.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> Programming with Vulkan is like asking everyone to be a device driver developer and a GPU hardware engineer. Yes, that's the point. To use a programming language analogy, OpenGL is C++ and Vulkan is LLVM.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
I mean, the article has all the answers. It's an economic problem and the fact is lower class men are, for lack of a better word, fucked.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> Tons of AAA game developers make their own engine Recently a bunch switched to Unreal. Are there THAT many that still maintain their own? Seems like it's just big studios and less than a dozen. Even a massive company like Square
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
I think the biggest driver of Vulkan adoption is the fact that since all the graphics APIs are so low level nowadays, everyone is writing abstraction layers. Plus, Vulkan is a hedge against all the proprietary APIs. Also, 2/3 major c
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
No game developer is using raw Vulkan, Metal or DX12. these APIs aren't the same level of abstraction as OpenGL... Vulkan is AMD's Mantle open-sourced, it's far too low level for devs to waste time with, it's a target f
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Only 1 country marched across the border of a democratic country that doesn't belong to them committing every war crime in the book along the way... Don't both-sides this one...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Well, this blog post specifically seems like MS is doing 95% idiotic things. But you look at something like Linux where obviously the Linux of 2022 is going to lag on 2002 hardware the answer is definitely that it's prettier and does m
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
This blog post seems like a Windows problem specifically... That being said, in general, modern software is more bloated than ancient software because it does more...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
It's easier than ever if you ignore all the 'professional' tooling. Just Chrome or Firefox dev tools and an HTML file and you have an environment with instant feedback, auto-complete everything but none of the nonsense that
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Everything is better except the amount of packages available for it.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
VC is the type of grassroots investment that still can be called "investment" in the economic sense. Ie. you're not looking for immediate returns so any money pumped into startups by VC firms helps the economy whether or not
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Or you do it the Gnome way and have a thin top bar all the time but hide the dock and use the keyboard most of the time for opening and switching apps.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Are we sure the same hasn't already been done is what I'm getting at? Ie. Play store shut down in Russia? It just wouldn't be as big news...
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Android isn't locked down though... Any Android phone can side load app stores and apps.
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> Less investment means less investment to lose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_(macroeconomics) https://archive.unescwa.org/investment-spending I think you're thinking of a different
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
> "lower investment rates," Higher investment is NEVER a bad thing. We're not talking putting money in the stock market, we're talking willingness to put money to use.

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