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   by xcv123 3y ago

   It still makes a few dollars. New players are born every day. The original Half Life has a lot of sentimental value for the company and they won't let it rot.
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   by xcv123 3y ago

   That's too bad. I only use Windows for games. Have not had issues with the script there. If you're forced to use Windows for work then it's worth finding the minimum set of crap you can remove while keeping things stable.
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   by xcv123 3y ago

   > The trouble is keeping it up to date between Windows updates Just run the script again after a major update. Only takes a minute. And don't let Windows update automatically. I have used this script and it works well. Also found th
4. 574.▲
   by xcv123 3y ago

   Takes less than a few minutes with this PowerShell script: https://github.com/n1snt/Windows-Debloater
5. 575.▲
   by xcv123 3y ago

   Brave is built on the open source Chromium project. As long as it's open source they can't stop Brave doing whatever they want and ignoring these changes.
6. 576.▲
   by xcv123 3y ago

   I never expected a first world country to pay that little. I live in New Zealand. Your colleagues are earning less than our minimum wage. So apparently first world is not the same as "high income". In that case I would buy somethi
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   by xcv123 3y ago

   > Wasm will never take off. Already has taken off. > having to use rust You don't have to use Rust. There are wasm compilers for dozens of languages. C, C++, D, Java, C#, F#, Python, Go, Lua, PHP, etc.
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   by xcv123 3y ago

   It is open source: https://github.com/randyrossi/bmc64 No Linux kernel there https://github.com/randyrossi/bmc64/blob/master/kernel.cpp
9. 579.▲
   by xcv123 3y ago

   Correct. It is booting from the BMC64 image.
10. 580.▲
    by xcv123 3y ago

    The equivalent Dell Precision laptop is about the same price. A laptop lasts for several years so thats only a few hundred euros per year.
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    A $2000 USD laptop would depreciate to nothing over five years so that is an expense of only $400 USD per year. At a moderate $80k USD developer salary, the laptop costs only 0.5% of that. And this is the main tool you depend on to earn an
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    > Not a single Mac was ever close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G3#PowerBook_G3_Fire...
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    > Also, how do they know that "Apple does not intend to lock down what OS you can use on Macs" They don't. And it really doesn't matter to some people. The current hardware is not locked down, therefore it can always
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    > Can you point me to an official ackgnowledgment of Asahi Linux by Apple? No but there is this: https://asahilinux.org/about/ "Does Apple allow this? Don’t you need a jailbreak? Apple allows booting unsigned&#
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    > expecting them to support all variations of software in this landscape is unreasonable. They don't support variations of software at all. They support the hardware. If the drivers work then the software just works. Software is bui
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    https://github.com/LMP88959/PAL-CRT
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    I know. So take OpenBSD for example. That works best on older Thinkpads. For developers personal use they focused on making those work well enough. They care less about the other models of Lenovo laptops. For Dell you would focus on XPS onl
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    > and while you will hear the fan now and then Never heard the fan on my M1 Pro in a year of ownership, and temperature is never uncomfortably high. I'll pay double just to never hear a shitty laptop fan. > but most of them are n
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    Yes
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    The top 6 vendors have 85% market share. Just choose Lenovo or HP or Dell. Top 6 vendors by number of units shipped, 2022 1 Lenovo 24.1% 2 HP 19.4% 3 Dell 17.5% 4 Apple 9.8% 5 Asus 7.2% 6 Acer 6.5% Others 15.5% https:&
21. 591.▲
    by xcv123 3y ago

    The study may not be perfect according to your impeccable standards, but it is not entirely scientifically worthless either.
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    Participants were selected from a university. This is statistics. Polls have a margin of error.
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    There are fundamental genetic differences between men and women, which determine differences in our brain structure, therefore behaviour. The study is not pseudoscience. Social constructivism is an anti-scientific perspective. Even if the b
24. 594.▲
    by xcv123 3y ago

    Look it up in the dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clusterfuck
25. 595.▲
    by xcv123 3y ago

    KDE is not even remotely a clusterfuck. It is stable and has been a reliable desktop for my job for years. KDE and Gnome are the two most popular desktop environments on Linux and both are stable and usable.
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    Of course Steam itself is not KDE Steam runs on KDE on SteamOS
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    > I understand that KDE is a clusterfuck Nah it's the most capable desktop on Linux these days.
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    So you are using KDE
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    > Do you want me to start my project and stop after the trial period ends? CLion projects are not IDE specific. CLion uses CMake. If the trial ends and you want to continue using it then buy it. If not, then don't buy it. Your C++ p
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    by xcv123 3y ago

    If we're talking about base OS install then its a different story. Which options do they choose as default for all users? Are you suggesting that Microsoft create an OOTB setup perfectly custom tailored to this one tiny niche requireme