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by tormeh 11mo ago
That sounds so incredibly German. They love paper, and have zero understanding when that paper simply doesn't exist in a non-German system.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Have you taken a look at how to install the Haskell variant? It's a full-on recipe, or a docker container. I'd take a desktop application over a website any day, but that was not on the menu. It was an SPA vs a devops exercise. Of
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Release-day Mesa updates is something that would be irrelevant for a normal distro, but important for a gaming one.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Often the person being marketed to is an investor, not an actual user. "XYZ is what's next for [huge market]" may not sound like a product you can buy, but it does sound like something that can make lots of money.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
A key benefit of being the world's factory is that factories are easier to convert to war time uses than banks and software offices are. Some kinds of software is clearly going to be important for the next world war, but a lot of the s
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by tormeh 11mo ago
"It's all fake?" "Always has been"
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Also, gamers at least want the latest drivers. Not the ones from three weeks ago. The latest ones. That's why everyone is recommending Arch-based distros for that purpose. I'm currently on Pop, and waiting months for Mesa updates
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by tormeh 11mo ago
It's just entertainment. I don't think there's anything to it. The four chord song over and over. We all want some sort of excitement or maybe magic, and these superstars give it to us. The reality distortion fields around th
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Honestly? Good. We can't just let propagandists from Russia or anywhere else ruin our democracies. When I look in comment sections online on mass platforms (think Facebook, Instagram, etc.) the amount of hate is unreal. The sheer quant
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Yeah, you'd want some sort of micro-kickstarting website where users can pool money that goes into paying for some fix or feature if the committed money crosses a threshold.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
> Why not stick with what already works? Well, apparently it doesn't work. Personally I think almost all their glassware is either ugly or generic.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Yeah, existing in the modern world you're surrounded by mind-hackers. Everywhere you go there are hacking attempts against your mind, trying to get you to buy stuff you shouldn't or want stuff you don't. It's really absu
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Yeah. They're grandma glasses at this point.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
I remember looking at their website and thinking the product design was horrible. The "Picardie" design is iconic, but not really in a good way. In my mind it says "functional" and "old". That's probably u
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Why does this app have a nice landing page? Who paid for that? Why? Nobody makes a landing page to wcratch their own itch. In some situations I'd rather have a readme.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Are you sure you're not just seeing the transition of a company from a growth company to a value company? I.e. "there is no growth potential left. Let's dump it on the public", and then a new leadership team comes in sla
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by tormeh 11mo ago
No. If you want to build big products, you need big organizations (i.e. companies). Big products have moats, often network effects or natural monopolies or whatever, but if nothing else then just the sheer investment required to build a com
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Looks like this is an Apple problem that can ve solved by not using Apple products. Every once in a while I look at some Apple device and think it's nifty. Shortly after I'm made aware of some thing or other that they can't d
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by tormeh 11mo ago
These correlations are not good, obviously, but in which direction does the causality go? As someone with attention issues, I've had to remove these apps from my home screen and disable notifications because I can't handle them we
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Exactly. This should be the default for production code at companies like Cloudflare.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Partial disagree. There should be lints against 'unwrap's. An 'expect' at least forces you to write down why you are so certain it can't fail. An unwrap is not just hubris, it's also laziness, and has no place
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Someone important's career is attached to this project and its logo. And they're making sure it's as visible as possible.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
This would be my preferred way of document distribution. Images and video is allowed, but they have to be part of the same document as the text. Everything is in the same zstd'd tarball. No separate roundtrips for fetching images. Eith
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by tormeh 11mo ago
What do these things have to do with each other? You can't debug your way out of bad Nvidia support or nonexistent Dassault support. You have to just not use these products in combination with Linux, or just accept the issues that come
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by tormeh 11mo ago
> a comparable desktop experience to the commercial OSes Isn't it alteady comparable? My Linux desktop has almost the same game compatibility that Windows has, and none of the advertising and jank. Gone are the legendary days of xor
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Also it's incompatible with makeup and messes up your hair. So it's a dead product for like 60% of the working age population.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
In principle the consoles themselves and the exclusives are both loss leaders. Or, sold at cost, anyway. The actual money is made from the 30% cut on any third party game sales, and the online subscriptions required to play online. Consoles
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by tormeh 11mo ago
Sort of, maybe. I read it more as them assuring everyone that it's still a PC if a customer ends up wanting a plan B.
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by tormeh 11mo ago
But think of the shareholders! No, but really. Humans have property rights because humans are useful to the dominant species on the planet. What happens when that stops being the case? Human investors will no longer be needed. So what are w
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by tormeh 11mo ago
> While it is common advice that someone who is concussed should not be allowed to fall asleep in case they go into a coma, for general cases this is not supported by current evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C

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