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The range of formats it can play with extensions is so good I still use it, even on Linux. Nothing else can deal with all the old tracker formats.

I recommend XFCE. I used both for years and in my experience it's like KDE but stable.

I love the hum of ozone in the morning.

>The historical implication: because there is a lot of it, I put a lot of thought and effort into writing it Really? That must be some ancient history, because I've seen rambling w…

Can you really take over a project anybody can fork? Freedom is just a name change away.

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Yep. Each screen is just a list of prebuilt columns reused over and over. Then they used a form of crude RLE on the lists.

There's other desktop environments. XFCE has worked flawlessly for me for years, though its Wayland support is still experimental.

As long as it's not a proprietary horror dystopia.

I had to help someone elderly set up Windows 11 recently and it was monstrous. The error messages were useless and when we finally got it going, the UI was horribly sluggish. There…

Don't know if you responded to the right person since I didn't mention Debian, but I did try it and the other major distributions a long time ago. Honestly, distros mostly felt the…

For over a decade I never heard anything good about Arch. The most common pitch was something like "it's fun to fix when it breaks", so I was completely blindsided when Valve based…

Good salad is delicious. I think more people would realize that if they weren't exposed to nothing but iceberg, cheddar, and ranch monstrosities during childhood.

>You do not own your airspace. The FAA owns your airspace. Makes sense. If castle doctrine applied to the skies, people could take potshots at low flying aircraft above their house…

Then the ideal armor must be sea snail teeth woven together with spider silk. This advancement could save millions in mythril and adamantine.

Tangential, but which of the 7 ended up being the best experience?

>now everyone else is going ‘how could you be so dumb to believe it’ and/or ‘you sure fucked up by admitting it was fake’ all at the same time. Not necessarily mutually exclusive. …

Keep your head down or bail. Being right doesn't matter if you aren't calling the shots; you can't cash in those I-told-you-so points for anything. Sometimes a project gets funded …

I know someone who had a pet rat who was a real pain. The rat, on the other hand, was great.

Do PII laws apply when you don't have any and have to make stuff up?

I hate bloat and don't use Electron apps, but garbage collection is such a silly thing to pin it on. Tossing stuff like Lua and D in the same bin as the massive enterprise framewor…

> (I've tried it a few times with Wine, and was never impressed vs. running it natively on Windows) Really? I noticed it's slower to start up but other than that it seems the same.…

killedbygoogle.com will need an extra entry, plus a whole new subcategory.

I'm generally sympathetic but the chatbot dig is just silly. A lot of the absurd promises of AI capabilities have already come to pass, and anyone with a browser and a throwaway em…

If they can remotely kill the engine of any Waymo car in motion, so can hackers.