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by ninth_ant 9mo ago
Even if you dislike Wayland, forwards-going development is clearly centred around it. Development of X11 has largely ended and the major desktop environments and several mainstream Linux distributions are likewise ending support for it. The
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by ninth_ant 9mo ago
The parent comment was edited after my reply.
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by ninth_ant 9mo ago
It’s over 50% and there are plenty of plainly obvious parallels both historical and contemporary.
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by ninth_ant 9mo ago
The melting points of tallow and lard are extremely similar (30-31 degrees), and are well above the common definitions of “room temperature” (20-22 degrees). Yes this is biased towards English/American definitions of room temperature,
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by ninth_ant 9mo ago
Lard is also solid at room temperature.
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by ninth_ant 9mo ago
> These past six years have been absolutely bonkers incredible for Linux, and it can all be attributed to Microsoft shooting themselves in the head with Windows. It can’t all be attributed to Microsoft. There have been huge efforts by
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by ninth_ant 9mo ago
I get the argument from this article that it’s possible. But I don’t get the argument that this is somehow desirable. Just because it’s possible to smash a square peg into a round hole doesn’t make it a good idea.
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
> They don't because too many people pirate games to make that a viable business. This is an opinion, stated as if it’s fact. There are many factors contributing to the ongoing success of steam. Ease of access, a strong network effe
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
There is no “end game” it’s just hustlers out for a buck for themselves — YouTube, the slop makers, the ad companies, the bots scraping videos, all of em. Same as it ever was. When this cash cow proves worthless or runs out it’ll be another
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
Canonical has demonstrated a willingness to work with vendors to get their software preinstalled or supported. So they already are the major player in this game and will have a leg up on others trying to enter the same space.
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
Ubuntu LTS is currently on track to be that. Both in the server and desktop space, in my personal experience it feels like a rising number of commercial apps are targeting that distro specifically. It’s not my distribution of choice, but it
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
Perl was my introduction to web programming in the 90s, and then I moved onto python and php. Perl’s alien syntax and how there were multiple competing “best practices” put off newcomers and made it difficult to code review. Perl also stagn
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
> Outside of a very narrow use case, the iPad product range is useless, despite the endless rantings of the brainwashed fanboys The use case is rich iPhone users who want an easy experience to watch videos, read, or consume social media
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
My recent-model Samsung TV repeatedly opens a pop-up info window about their AI features while my AppleTV is playing movies and shows. So I didn’t connect the TV OS and it’s still thrown in my face. It’s not the end of the world to have to
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
This is only accurate for people who choose enthusiast-centric DIY distributions such as Arch. “Regular” users have plenty of distribution choices where there are zero of these types of headaches.
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
> With a purely Open Source strategy, you'll have to pay multiple external consultants to take care of part of this, and/or cover these roles in-house. And suddenly, you've taken up a lot of tasks completely foreign to you
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
You hate that, but what I hate that so many of my tax dollars are funnelled into bloated software run by awful foreign companies with massive lock-in scams, when better free software is available. I hate that lobbyists and consultants get t
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
That is not how the world works, be it the past present or future.
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by ninth_ant 10mo ago
Your errant interpretation of the title would imply that Valve was funding individual game developers to support valve? This would be a fool’s errand, compared to the much more obvious interpretation that valve is funding a compatibility la
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by ninth_ant 11mo ago
> When you get new hardware and new features, you don’t want them sitting idle while you wait for patches to get upstreamed. Whether you develop for IoT, automotive, audio or mobile, when you get new features in a system-on-chip (SoC), y
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by ninth_ant 11mo ago
I’m not suggesting sympathy. I’m disambiguating between your projected image of a cartoonish villain desperate to do anything for a buck, vs humans having a massive blind spot due to the inherent biases involved with trying to make a team p
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by ninth_ant 11mo ago
That’s overly reductive, based on my experience working for one of the tech behemoths back in its hypergrowth phase. When you’re experiencing hypergrowth the whole team is working extremely hard to keep serving your user base. The growth is
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by ninth_ant 1y ago
A media outlet which depends on ad revenue as a primary income source is unlikely to suggest this. Ditching these deeply invasive products remains a good idea, independent on any decision to use ad blockers or not. The Meta/Yandex inci
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by ninth_ant 1y ago
That’s a fair assessment. If the intent of the article was to say that Google is creating an environment which incentivizes publishers to lock away content from scrapers, then that’s probably correct in the medium and long term. But I feel
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by ninth_ant 1y ago
You don’t have to convince hundreds of millions of people to use something different, you can just use something different.
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by ninth_ant 1y ago
If Google Search gives you the experience you want, you should probably keep using it. I was discussing options for people who are dissatisfied with their product or product direction.
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by ninth_ant 1y ago
For one, I didn’t say anything about email or you had to boycott Google completely. You can just change your browser to use another engine it takes like 10 seconds max. Google Search is not the web. Second, since you brought up email —- I’v
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by ninth_ant 1y ago
Implicit in this article is the idea that you have to use Google, and that Google Search equals “the web”. I’ll be the boring nerd, I guess, who has to be the one to say there are many other search engines out there. If you don’t like Googl
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by ninth_ant 1y ago
Fragmentation is only one of the problems. The bigger problem is that these devices are still largely toys for hobbyists. This isn’t an insult… I’m one of them, I have a variety of fun little arm and riscv boards. Lack of mainline kernel su
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by ninth_ant 1y ago
Then entire point of the article is to answer this specific question

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