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by npteljes 2y ago
I think you and OP are both right. You are right because it does feel like shit. I'm not experiencing it with AI, but I did experience it several times with technology already. Not a good feeling! And OP is right because that's
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by npteljes 2y ago
>Slow and steady wins the race. Not in software. I can't think of a single example of that. Slow doesn't win the race, it means that the dependencies will go out of date, and some of the work has to be repeated over and over to
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by npteljes 2y ago
I wish this project godspeed. I used Pidgin on and off over the years. Last time I gave it serious use was around 6-8 years ago, when I created a full Lync / Skype for Business setup for Linux with it. I could even do screen shares and
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by npteljes 2y ago
That's actually later than I remember doing all that frontend work. It wasn't for production though, that's for sure, so I used it as soon as it appeared instead of my usual "red". Thanks for the clarifications.
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by npteljes 2y ago
I used rebeccapurple a lot as well, unknowing of the touching story behind it. I coded CSS by hand (back in like 2010), and for placeholders, I used the simple colors I knew, like "green" or "blue". And "red",
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by npteljes 2y ago
Fantastic stuff, this launcher. It can even download and use pre-packaged wine and proton "environments", very similarly to how Steam does it. I'm a very happy new user.
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by npteljes 2y ago
That's a good point! I don't actually think there are any file-buying services which enable re-selling the files bought - if these files are not tied to physical media, that is.
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by npteljes 2y ago
Sure, but similarly, while you purchase a CD of a musical album, you don't own that either, right? I mean, you own the piece of media itself, but its contents are subject to copyright and such. Same deal here, I own the files from GOG
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by npteljes 2y ago
It's not really a license, since you buy the files, and get the files, and off you go. The license is for actually using the GOG infrastructure to get the files. It's like buying music on Bandcamp.
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by npteljes 2y ago
Savegame sync is very good news to me, thank you for sharing, I'll definitely check this out. Also funny that the GOG client is not working on Linux, but someone else made a client for them. I wonder who is behind the Heroic Games Laun
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by npteljes 2y ago
95 was very bad for me, I had to reinstall it on my PC like every week, because it was just unstable. Vista is also not great, and it's missing from your list. XP was also very, very bad first, and got better over the years with its se
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by npteljes 2y ago
Same for me, but I dual-boot Linux and Win 10 LTSC. I try everything on Linux first, and if it doesn't work well enough (Space Engineers) or has anti-cheat (Rainbow 6 Siege), then I use the Win 10 as a fallback.
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by npteljes 2y ago
They had plenty of time to prepare for this. There were advance warning signs as well, for example, the end of the active support for Win 7 at, let's see, 9 years ago.
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by npteljes 2y ago
That's an issue with Windows in general, not just Win 10. Let's not pretend that 7 is any better on a moral level than what 10 represents. Among other things, I'm meaning updates to Win 7 like this one: https://www
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by npteljes 2y ago
That's a wholesome change, I feel. I also disconnect from social and news from time to time. The quickly refreshing content on the internet is very tempting, but it's more toxic than not, beginning with its very nature of being qu
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by npteljes 2y ago
It's not too much. It's a storm in a teacup, until major user migration happens. And I think that their business strategy is working way better than that.
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by npteljes 2y ago
>[manufacturer] deprived me of a choice in this case This seems to be the industry trend with these remotely managed machines, like Apple or Windows PCs. The update mechanism, for better or worse, takes power from the user and assigns it
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by npteljes 2y ago
Epic and Blizzard also very popular. And there are other distributors too, like GOG or itch.io, who serve a lot of users. And there are popular titles that come with their own launcher, like Genshin Impact.
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by npteljes 2y ago
Not if offered as a service. That's why they introduced the AGPL, that one has the service restriction too. In terms of a service offering, GPL software is free for the taking, and the restrictions don't apply as the distribution
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by npteljes 2y ago
I think you are on the mark. And, also, it's a happy accident that this also means an advantage for CoPilot.
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by npteljes 2y ago
Ubuntu was my gateway into Linux, to which I'll be forever grateful. I really appreciated, and am doing to this day, the effort to make a nice OOTB Linux experience. I also think that the Ubuntu release names are the best in the Linux
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by npteljes 2y ago
I was keeping an eye on this project as a nicer Keepass(X,XC) alternative for me, but now it looks like I won't make the move after all.
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by npteljes 2y ago
>High performers tend to get bored with the reality of most development. This usually presents as over-enginerring and a reluctance to do dull but necessary tasks. Oh hell yes. This exactly matches my experience. To the point where I act
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by npteljes 2y ago
What do you mean by noise of hell in particular? I do notice that the images are almost always uncanny in a way, but maybe we're not meaning the same thing. Could you elaborate on what you experience?
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by npteljes 2y ago
Bar was very low, and they didn't win by making a better product, they won with business techniques, let's put it that way. Bundle Windows with new machines, have schools teach Windows and Office, let people pirate Windows and cra
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by npteljes 2y ago
Their own Pixel phones have unlocked bootloaders by default, in fact, it's very user friendly to put another OS on them, like Graphene. I can only recommend.
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by npteljes 2y ago
There's a handy addon for Firefox called Privacy Settings that can take care of that. Explicitly adds and option to have the referers be not sent, and a quick way of re-enabling it, in case it breaks a website. Because of course that h
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by npteljes 2y ago
Natural already means "things undisturbed by human activity", among a good lot of other things. As long as there's a clear need for such a word, it would do us good to have a separate word for that, like notmanmade or whate
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by npteljes 2y ago
I think this is a perfectly humane solution. Especially considering it in the context of their cultural embedding, in which animal welfare in general are not the greatest. And also considering that the alternative is that feral cats starve
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by npteljes 2y ago
The trouble here is that this is a minor, technical nitpick, which I can't really support. "Natural" as a layman's term doesn't just mean "thing from nature" but also means "thing undisturbed by human

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