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Just curious, why? Performance reasons? Compatibility? Something else? Speaking for myself, I run Linux on the desktop and Windows in a VM for office applications and so forth and …

Wine? Virtual machines?

Ah, well, in that case what you're getting out of older technology is "externally imposed self-control". Douglas Adams' publisher famously locked him in a hotel room because he was…

On the first point, I agree, the article was very much misleading and I hope they correct it. As for the rest, frankly, this just adds more fuel to my belief that the first thing w…

> It could be that the screenwriter used to use that MS-DOS program back in the day, and already knew and liked it, had a well-developed workflow around it, etc. Then running it on…

Digging up and using some old piece of technology instead of using an existing, multi-purpose computing device is the definition of "[building] his life around it", as it requires …

> As cited in this article, Frances Haugen is arguing against allowing Facebook to use end-to-end encryption because she suggests Facebook should have more surveillance of private …

Man, there is a profound lack of self-awareness when you cite 1984 in an article defending Facebook, when Facebook is complicit in the creation of modern surveillance capitalism an…

Eh, you can get that distraction-free experience with modern technology if you want it. When I want to focus on writing, I have a Vim setup that gives me a screen with a cursor. I …

I really wish I could see an industry/education level cross tab. Anecdotally, we're seeing a lot of churn in tech where education levels are typically quite high, but in the data i…

Again: Your point being what, exactly? Does your little observation, here, have any bearing on the article? Does it make the facts less factual? Does it make the numbers less numbe…

> It just gives people with bad thoughts a thing to look at. The word "just" is doing a lot of work, here. By your line of reasoning, propaganda isn't anything anyone should worry …

Honestly, as a pedestrian and cyclist myself, wearing closed-backed, ear-obstructing, or noise cancelling headphones as a pedestrian, cyclist, or driver, is pure insanity as far as…

> There is a significant population of folks who are car-hostile here on HN And there's a significant population of folks who are bike-hostile here on HN. In fact, there's probably…

And that's ignoring the fact that code is a terrible spec. Trying to reverse engineer a file format from a software implementation is a godawful nightmare, and I say that from pers…

This was actually a pretty even handed article compared to others I've seen on this topic. It's fascinating because it sheds light on internal work Facebook is doing; work that, if…

They're absolutely related. In fact, a lot of discussions around the Right to Repair specifically center on the issue of e-waste. For example, you'll find that all over Framework's…

> So having a platform deny access when it values such spirit is somewhat disagreeable. If Android required a platform for software distribution, I might agree, but Gab can (and do…

> I don't use my lawn to distribute other people's apps/signs, it's not its purpose, and I don't advertise it as such. And I suppose somewhere FDroid advertises itself as an open, …

> But my lawn is not a platform. Sure it is. It's a platform of one. Or are you now saying these rights kinda depend? If so, what's the threshold? What makes your lawn special? Doe…

> The whole point of free speech is to allow for speech you find reprehensible No one is stopping Gab from speaking. FDroid is just refusing to amplify their speech. Since when did…

> Yeah. If people don't have a problem with gab being blocked on fdroid for essentially dressed-up political reasons, then they also shouldn't have a problem with the play store or…