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by olivierestsage 4mo ago
No horse in this race because I don’t want a Claude app, but the median Linux user is increasingly just a normal person who doesn’t want spying telemetry or ads or whatever
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by olivierestsage 4mo ago
Sure sign that we are not dealing with a coercive situation! :)
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by olivierestsage 4mo ago
I've noticed a tendency among people who have built careers known for visionary, forward-thinking work that they hesitate to make the natural move into more "conservative" positions/approaches as they age. This leads to
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by olivierestsage 4mo ago
Is there any reasonably practical way to play a "restricted" version of MtG with physical cards and a somewhat stable ruleset, reminiscent of what play was like in the late 90s (as I remember it)? I like what's being proposed
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by olivierestsage 4mo ago
The problem is that something like (say) a song is much more than an idea. It’s an idea + work (arrangement, production, performance, etc. depending on the situation). The argument for owning work, at least for X number of years in a limite
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by olivierestsage 4mo ago
The US is going to lose a lot on that bet
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by olivierestsage 4mo ago
The perfect OS doesn’t exi-
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by olivierestsage 5mo ago
Save us Richard Stallman
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by olivierestsage 5mo ago
Is the practice on this site now to flag anything critical of AI...?
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by olivierestsage 5mo ago
In a world of slop, one truly noble project emerges
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by olivierestsage 5mo ago
Flagged… incredible. Mockery is the way
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by olivierestsage 5mo ago
This post is right over the target. I see others posting that the author is out of touch, so here’s a humble +1 to the view that they’re not. Cathartic stuff here
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by olivierestsage 5mo ago
First thing I did upon opening this comment thread was ctrl-F for "pretentious"
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by olivierestsage 5mo ago
I think it's because its main use in this particular context is to produce results that the creator does not have the skill to produce and/or does not want to invest the time to produce. I guess you could argue that drum machines
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by olivierestsage 5mo ago
If win2000 got updated by the community with improved driver support people might actually prefer it to current Windows, which would be humiliating.
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by olivierestsage 5mo ago
I wondered which of this distros would be the first to attempt this shit. Hopefully Red Hat has more sense
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by olivierestsage 5mo ago
Nice work. (The author is right, that printing ASMR in the video is incredible.)
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by olivierestsage 5mo ago
It is not a sentence unless “to technologist” is a verb.
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by olivierestsage 6mo ago
Do typical users care that much about a bit of jank, though? All the “typical users” I know are on spyware infested Windows laptops and just interpret the horrible shabbiness of the whole experience as being normal.
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by olivierestsage 6mo ago
I think what you're seeing is partly a consequence of how capable Linux has become. Linux is in a weird phase where it can still be enjoyed by hobbyists/enthusiasts/eccentric types, which were arguably its original audience,
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by olivierestsage 6mo ago
It's crazy how much negativity there is in comment threads like this. I would get it if FreeBSD was a product you paid for, or someone was evangelizing about how you're missing out if you don't get the FreeBSD laptop experien
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by olivierestsage 6mo ago
Swans is good for programming. And good for gnosis.
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by olivierestsage 6mo ago
Mamma Mia soundtrack also works well \m/
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by olivierestsage 6mo ago
No thanks
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by olivierestsage 6mo ago
Around 10 years ago, I picked up an old Thinkpad T42, put FreeBSD on it, and had an amazing experience. Actually used it as a daily driver for a while, which seems crazy in retrospect, but I enjoy trying to work within that kind of constrai
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by olivierestsage 7mo ago
Whenever someone says online that something's declining (Hollywood movies, video games, UX experiences in desktop environments, etc.), I see a variation on this argument: "actually the options are even better today, they're j
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by olivierestsage 7mo ago
He's downplaying the "social change" aspect. For many, open source/free software has a political element, at least implicitly. That element is strongly opposed to aggressive centralization of capital and surveillance pow
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by olivierestsage 7mo ago
You gotta be out of your damn mind to give your kid an AI toy
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by olivierestsage 7mo ago
Nothing against the MacBook Neo, but this reads like an advertisement.
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by olivierestsage 7mo ago
Another person who I remember really coming out as a villain in that era was Gene Simmons from KISS: "Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars."[1] [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/10/

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