When you (try to) use libre software, the problems you run into tend not to be related to insufficient engineering, but more societal and economic, where they would be less likely to appear if there were more people in your cohort.

Examples:

- An important document is sent to me in a proprietary format

- A streaming service uses a DRM service owned by a tech giant that refuses to let it work with open source projects

- A video game developer thinks making games work on Linux isn't worth getting rid of rootkit anticheat

The downside is Windows users would have to live in a world without subscription-based office suites, locked down media, and letting the CCP into your ring 0.

Ah, the mid-2000s, just before Linux became the dominant user kernel on Earth.

I don't understand this comment in this context. Both of these features work on my Steam Deck. Neither of them have worked on any Windows laptop my employers have foisted upon me.

And it went from unrealistic paranoia to 'like... obviously?' seamlessly.

It never was "you're paranoiac", it was "I don't care". Which still holds true when the providers don't abuse this power.

Yes but before 2005 we didn't have Reddit, so we didn't have people who learned about prescriptivism from there and think it means all discussion about taste and style is immoral.

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Use *h₂enǵʰ-ish please.

This article asserts 7 times that jobs are being replaced by AI and the only data to substantiate it is a link to an EY report that is paywalled, doesn't hold up to the text of the link, and doesn't hold up to what contemporary journalists wrote about the report.

Bad article. Hope a human didn't write it.

At another university I once had extenuating circumstances preventing me from taking an exam in one of the main exam halls. I was invited to take it in a normal classroom, where a session was being held at the same time for people who get additional time. I was able to start later and still finish with the normal allowance but without having a chance to collude with other students.

Does that matter? I lean towards the yes-the-ISA-matters camp, but I'm also under the impression that most silicon is dark.

Ironically, the thing that annoys me most about Gemini is the Discord-esque loading messages in the CLI. Twee is one thing: mixing twee with serious hints is worse.

You can turn that off in /settings