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I'm pretty certain the execs who run the large AI companies would limit their children's AI usage also.

So eliminate their bargaining power and job and wage protections because parents aren't doing their part to ensure their kids are learning? Doesn't seem fair to me.

Don't mess with us again AMD! Lest you rouse our anger.

People want to be addicted to fentanyl after they’ve tried it a few times, does that mean we should legalize that too?

Meanwhile in the States, their government is doxxing the victims and masking the identities of the perpetrators.

I often wonder whether the folks at Apple have the Asahi team on their radar. Are they in awe of the reverse engineering marvels coming out of the Asahi project, or are they indifferent to it?

Very underrated show and I hope your post gets more people to view it.

I wanted to go all-in on Guix but the installation process was made too difficult due to the lack of non-free software available during install time. I wish they would take the Debian approach and leave it up to the user to decide which packages they would like installed on their system or not.

I've found openSUSE MicroOS to be a great homelab server OS.

Now I get what the folks using FreeBSD typically like to point to as a reason why they prefer FreeBSD over Linux because there is a clear distinction between the base system and userland.

If Apple doesn't have the sense to reply to this in a sensible manner then that company is in far worse shape than I thought.

The emergency response system is broken in many areas. I once dialed 911 in Los Angeles seeking help for a motorist and was put on hold for 8 minutes. A lot can happen in that time.

I run OPNsense (based on FreeBSD) for my home router/firewall and it's amazing what it can do compared to the typical home router.

I'm so glad the chorus seems to be getting louder over just how bad things have gotten with Apple's software stack. This piece has been mainly centered on UI/UX but it's also really bad when it comes to functionality as so many bugs have seem to come up in both iOS and macOS. I will never understand how a company that has so much riding on the way their products are perceived by their users has fumbled the ball so badly--especially with how much money they have in the bank.

1997 me is jealous.

I know the gentleman who runs the Distrotube channel on YouTube is/was an Xmonad user and it would be great if he made the call for help on his show to reach a wider audience.

I used to tinker with a bunch of different Linux desktop environments and had a hard time deciding on which one to standardize on because there is something to love about all of them. I suffered from major analysis paralysis as a result. In the end, I went with KDE Plasma across all of my devices because it's the most well-rounded and allows for customization without too much fuss. Fedora's Kinoite is perhaps the best KDE Plasma edition out there in my view.

I love Debian and have a tremendous amount of respect for the people who work on the project. I no longer use Debian, but I think it's vitally important to have an anchor Linux distribution which isn't overly reliant on a for-profit entity and is truly community driven.

Did they really have much of a moat to begin with?

All the more reason to switch to Signal. I use Signal and donate to the non-profit behind it every year because my privacy is worth protecting.

Every time I try to use NixOS I start off excited about all the benefits it can provide, but it always ends up frustrating me in some way and I'm reminded of why distributions exist in the first place. I don't want to have to dig into a config file for every little aspect of my OS to be in working order and then worry about having some hackey workaround when something has issues due to the lack of adherence to the FHS.

I'm not an open source maintainer or even a dev, but it seems bonkers to me that with all the numerous distributions out there, all facing the same problem of package management, that they couldn't just refocus their combined efforts toward improving Flatpak and guiding it toward universal adoption.

This is disappointing news. The Save to Pocket feature was one of the core features of Firefox that kept me using it. It feels like Mozilla is circling the drain lately.

For me, the bootc project is one of the most exciting things happening in Linux right now. It would be nice if projects like Debian adopt it as one possible delivery format for those who prefer the atomic containerized workflow way of doing things. There is so much to be gained from a stability standpoint vs how things are done now.

Side note: Judging by what I see on Reddit, the ability to theme a desktop is one of the top reasons someone develops a personal interest in Linux to begin with, so no need to justify that in my book.

I really hope someone high up the chain at Apple reads this post because it's only the tip of the iceberg in describing the myriad of things wrong with Apple's software experience lately. For a company so flush with cash and resources, it boggles the mind how they could let things get this bad.

Great that there are people looking into this. I wonder if there would be similar findings were they to perform an audit on MacPorts or the Nix package manager.

Finally got to see the Pet Shop Boys live a few years back and they put on a great show. If you took a survey of the biggest influences on electronic music acts of the early 2000s, my guess is that Depeche Mode and the Pet Shop Boys would be at or near the top of the list.

Awesome news and boosts the utility of the Apple TV tremendously.

Debian stable + Flatpaks is the most stable Linux experience I've worked with. Thanks to everyone involved in the project.