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A few... Some about jobs in general. Some through the particular lens of happening into technology work, out of a tinkering habit, from a loosely-related arts field. Not all of the…

> So the issue with RCS is that google just this last year made the move from their internal implementation of E2EE for RCS to the standard implementation based on MLS (now that th…

To the best of my knowledge Plex has never been open source. It's just easy to mix up because it's been using Kodi as a base the whole time.

> something more established like Codeberg, or if f/loss, Forgejo or Gitea? Codeberg's git hosting is a Forgejo instance, actually.

I acutally see the reduced burden that comes with actually sharing resources. To extend the previous analogy: Valve didn't make desktop Linux viable on their own. A lot of it is ow…

I don't think it needs to be framed purely as generosity. You just need a sufficiently self-interested actor that sees open ecosystems as a necessary part of reducing their own ris…

Fair, I more so mean for digital releases. Movies, on digital marketplaces, have had this kind of distinction for a lot longer than games have.

Not to defend this, just to further observe the different nature of their marketing -- games also haven't historically had similar "rent" options in the first place. Timed demos ar…

It kinda feels cyclical, tbh. Bang-for-buck entrant that's friendly to modders shows up in the market, enthusiasts flock to it, it chases a bigger market as it grows, and then it e…

Notably, from their FAQ: > We’ve taken inspiration from other open-source projects that have taken a similar approach, including Wikimedia, Red Hat, Rust, Python Foundation, Apache…

Yeah, I had significantly less apprehension about it myself on reading their docs, but thought it was still news XD

Yeah, I'm pretty sure these are all descendants of SnapDrop, but development or hosting or both seem to keep dying off the various forks every few years. That one is, apparently, n…

I'm aware these aren't mutually exclusive. To me, the bigger benefit of not integrating them is that I can just rotate in freshly charged batteries anytime they die, and don't have…

See, you also lose me at non-removable cables as a point of failure, for the same reason OP loses me at "toothbrush"

> My XReal Beam Pro¹ has two USB-C ports: one for charging, one for Thunderbolt video output (both support data transfer IIRC). I know what you're saying, but to be a little pedant…

As much as it still pisses me off reading the Surface product head's comment that if you love USB-C then you love dongles -- while shipping a Mini DisplayPort connector -- I also t…

See, I agree with this too. You wouldn't have to worry nearly as much about the random little things that are specific to just one device or another (IR blasters, the DAC on old LG…

I too am a USB-C maximalist, but with a handful of differences from OP: - You lose me at "toothbrush." I don't want personal care items that have internal batteries at all , becaus…

Then let them turn into SEGA.

libopus isn't even an outlier in using it for a media format specifically. See: everything coming out of the Alliance for Open Media

It also assumes the company still exists .

Adding to this: as much as I'm asking what smart glasses can do that a smartphone and tethered glasses can't, there's a second question here. When the dumb display can also extend …

I mean, I'm more than willing to take the reductive approach and just say that the purpose of a system is what it does. But if we assume that it wasn't designed maliciously, we can…