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I much prefer gnome for multiple desktop switching and app switching in general. Seeing this article I know there are many on macos who agree!

he's not really dead, one of his morning push-ups just launched him into a new universe.

Wow a Nintendo lawsuit that doesn't bother me ;-)

I think Libresprite is a fork of Aseprite from before it changed its license. In that context, maybe not a big deal.

Great article

So I'm sorry to hear about some of the problems with Linux font rendering in this article, it goes beyond my knowledge. I want to say though as a user, I have, between Linux, Mac and Windows machines over the years, literally always preferred Linux font rendering over cleartype and now even Mac not caring about lower resolutions and non-mac screens. You shouldn't need a 4k screen to get crisp and smooth fonts and sometimes even when you do they still look like shit, especially cleartype.

I love ubuntu/linux for everything. Development, games under proton or classics via lutris, emulators or sourceports. It's just mecca. My "lesser" hardware performs better than Windows 11 and I am more free to customize. This is the greatest time to be a Linux user ever, and it's only getting better.

In French and German the word for engineer is "Ingenieur"

This is a fine article, but it ends right when it starts to get good. I was totally ready for the less common knowledge or a juicy story.

I am on Lutris a lot. It's awesome what can be played on Linux these days. I think it may end up being the primary home of vintage gaming.

It seems like if the company did a bunch of A/B testing on a wide range of customers, they could figure out if such legacy customers were truly satisfied with the existing product, or perhaps prefer the new UI.

Yes, that's a good strategy. Ask for permission rather than forgiveness. A former colleague and I did just that for awhile, and we were able to avoid the politics and fit the work into sprints.

There's a lot of truth to this. Back when I was doing UI for a big bank, I urged them to cleanup their frontend technical debt and unify their interface into a more consistent modern look and feel. They ignored it and I ended up leaving rather than hack into jQuery all day.

They understandably emphasized stability over replacing tested components, which financial is often known for. However I think their visible sign of improvement to the customer is severely lacking even today (this was five years ago), especially compared to their competitors. My overall feel is that the site is brittle regardless of what's happening under the hood.

This article is way over the top to me. Eich shouldn't be discredited simply because he donated to some conservative cause once. A lot of companies do that to hedge their bets in DC. And let's say Eich is what you would call anti LGBT or what have you? I don't agree with it but I don't think someone should be attacked for it. Maybe he has some religious beliefs or something. Or maybe, since that was years ago, he changed his mind or became a different person. It seems illiberal to me. It seems the best way to get people to agree with a point of view is make solid arguments and see if they come to a new decision. Going after him or anybody and trying to destroy his career seems less ethical than what you are accusing him of frankly, considering companies pull this kind of stuff every day. There is a much better way to criticize Brave than stoop to this thin emotionally low article.

Mary: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart!

I think it really depends on the book, type of printing and its purpose. You might have a first edition you never open and read the kindle instead, have a cheap paperback for the beach that has sand and water wrinkles, or you might have a well used out of print tech book that you are gentle with in the hopes it will last longer than you do. If someone wants a display quality hardback to line their living room bookshelf to impress guests or accent their video meeting background, so what?

Life is too short to read everything. Read what keeps your interest, page by page. If a book bores you, don't finish it. Sell it, give it to a friend, drop it off at goodwill, let it gather dust. So what? Just my two cents.

Yes I think there is definitely a positive angle. Hollywood's influence has been protected in large part by union influences controlling access to bankable actors, among other reasons. The possibilities for a surge of truly independent decentralized productions is promising.

This could really help low budget games as well. One person could do all the animations for low-poly models with text based dialog or generated voices.

SoCs, ARM especially, are the future I don't doubt. I am thankful Apple is pushing the industry to advance. But :-) until these kind of battery advancements trickle down to Linux and Windows, I really don't care to be in Apple Prison(TM) as a trade-off.

Also, Apple has a long and storied history of specification marketing hyperbole, so I am extremely skeptical these chips will get 'real-world' 2x battery life.

I will keep building my cased x86 behemoths and refurbished Thinkpads as long as there is stock available :-) Hmm, where did that rotary phone go...

Sublime is great! Ultra fast. I feel like VSCode will be as sluggish as Visual Studio eventually.

This is fascinating, thank you.

I hear you brother! Sounds like an awesome movie. Reminds me of the Reno Air Races :)

Genau!!!

I had to do several TÜV inspections. The requirement to have uniform headlight brightness and color is really awesome and much safer!

Speaking as an American, I spent a summer in Germany, Austria and Denmark delivering cars shipped from California. They were largely turbo diesel and stick shift, and I loved every minute of it. My friend's business had us hunting in LA for good used deals that went under the "old-timer" tariffs.

German roads are far superior in every sense: materials, construction, maintenance, drainage, etc. They pay a price in taxes and construction traffic to be sure. But driving there makes you realize that half your experience with a fancy car will be shit no matter what, if your roads suck.

Driving is really "a privilege and not a right" in Germany, not just a slogan. Last I checked, a license cost thousands of euros and there are many other ways to get where you need to go besides driving, compared to the USA (depending on where you live of course).

That's not to say I don't appreciate that I can buy and maintain German cars and usually spend less money than the Germans would at home, (awful!!!) here in the states, and we have tons of great roads, however the quality.

Any idiot can get a driver's license in the US. This is not true of Germany. The consensus among the Germans I knew when I was there was they are better drivers. (Of course they would say that, right?) And if there was a bad accident, it would be less frequent but bad. Totally anecdotal but that was the truth I felt/experienced.

The driving enthusiast in me could never accept additional speed limit restrictions in Germany, regardless of how rationally the data may argue against them. <shrug />

It's Mecca.

I always buy used/CPO German cars, with stick if I can get them, and I'll do that to my grave. (despite unfortunate changes to the market against the enthusiast). Love babying them, love the maintenance (really), love the superior feel and handling. :-)