dabockster

8 ms·

61.
by dabockster 10mo ago
WPS Office is Chinese. OnlyOffice is Russian. Those really only exist because of Western tech sanctions.
62.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> plenty of developer talent > number of humans that are literate enough in business, marketing, communications, and software development to pull this off > There aren’t the same thing. That's exactly what I'm saying! Hec
63.
by dabockster 10mo ago
I think the big takeaway here is that unionization can sometimes be just trading one bad manager for another. It's not a silver bullet to fix a workplace. That being said, though, I do encourage unionization in general. But you have to
64.
by dabockster 10mo ago
I want viable alternatives too. But Microsoft's stuff accounts for a million+ edge cases that you don't really encounter until you're neck deep into whatever you're working on. For the sake of conversation, though, there
65.
by dabockster 10mo ago
I think it is economically viable but we as devs have to realize our true worth here beyond just a paycheck.
66.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> the last pre-subscription version Heads up that you can still buy perpetual licenses to Office either directly from Microsoft or through other sellers throughout the internet. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros
67.
by dabockster 10mo ago
Office 2000/XP with the XML based file formats would be perfect.
68.
by dabockster 10mo ago
Not the same feature set at all. And doesn't LibreOffice still have decade+ long issues on anything that isn't strictly word processing?
69.
by dabockster 10mo ago
Which is funny because here in Seattle there is starting to be a resurgence of DTP to some degree. But it's very underground and, being already in a tech hub, likely very niche from a macroeconomics viewpoint.
70.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> Nobody has developed a real alternative. It seems like most companies are more than willing to leave this entire market to Microsoft. I'd say it's more that this is the actual "developer shortage" that was being tal
71.
by dabockster 10mo ago
Oof that's bad. Makes it seem like ChatGPT is really more hacked together than we all want to admit.
72.
by dabockster 10mo ago
Then Arch is a special exception for sure.
73.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> You set it up once, exactly the way you like it, and it runs stable forever. No it doesn't. You still have security patches to install and stuff. And one minor patch can still introduce a breaking change that largely destroys your
74.
by dabockster 10mo ago
That, plus fewer studios mean less creativity goes to the mainstream. If you thought AI slop was bad, go re-watch Star Wars Episode 8.
75.
by dabockster 10mo ago
And not everyone wants to use a cloud AI either. Remember that when tons of cash is on the table, things like license agreements become less enforceable and more of a "don't get caught in the cookie jar" thing. All it would t
76.
by dabockster 10mo ago
The failed merger and similar clawback clause between Kroger and Albertsons is currently destroying a significant part of the supply chain for food in the Pacific Northwest. Grocery stores that have been open for 50-75 years - stores where
77.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> sometimes I just don’t have the patience for fiddling around with computers to coax them into doing what I want them to You shouldn't have to do that even on Linux. It's a big thing that holds Linux back.
78.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> After it suggested some undocumented kernel param with the nvidia kernel module, I said that's it, let's try something else and reinstalled with Gnome. > To my surprise, it worked without issue. I've been using it lik
79.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> not everyone has the time or the will to tinker And the more RTFM style talk I hear about getting Linux to work, the more I want to buy a bunch of Mac Minis instead. I have actual work to do.
80.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> Arch is great (because it is) It's good as a cutting edge OS but I don't consider it the most stable.
81.
by dabockster 10mo ago
This kind of bug shouldn't happen in the first place. Totally unacceptable move by the CachyOS team.
82.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> If you're using something that isn't KDE or GNOME you're probably going to hit rough edges. Anymore it's literally anything that isn't GNOME. Red Hat is basically keeping that project going.
83.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> Desktop Linux is more of a love project, it has basically no real support. Ubuntu and RHEL exist, but you're right that they're outliers. This is potentially the next killer app if someone wants to take this on.
84.
by dabockster 10mo ago
If this was a paid job, both you and sprash would have been fired or at least PIP'ed several comments ago. This kind of behavior has ZERO place in any code project - professional or volunteer.
85.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> All of the X11 based WMs are slowly bit-rotting. An absolute metric TON of code in general that is/was largely dependent on free $0 volunteer labor has been bit rotting for the past 5 years. The COVID pandemic and the ongoing tech
86.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> Arch based Lately, I've been going the opposite route and using RHEL more and more. I've had a couple breaking changes lately that have been caused by software under rolling release practices, which has made me begin to appre
87.
by dabockster 10mo ago
> In my experience, distributions changing the defaults and customizations seems to be the norm rather than the exception. Which makes each and every one of those totally different operating systems that can run similar code to each othe
88.
by dabockster 10mo ago
No citation needed. It should be an assumption and thought as a malicious cybersecurity threat.
89.
Ask HN: Is Techmeme getting paid to boost certain articles?
3 points by dabockster 11mo ago|1 comments
90.
by dabockster 11mo ago
It would only be effective if HN blocked the majority of known ways to spoof someone's location (eg blocking connections made through Tor and the largest VPN providers, at the very least). I'd only support displaying country flags

More ›