I use it, and it works fine. OpenOffice had a massive following before the LibreOffice fork so realistically most people moved there as a default option. Doesn’t mean Only office is bad, just that many FOSS users are more likely to use its competitors.

I managed to eke out 49% after getting a steam deck in 2022. now it’s 100.

once got interviewed by a guy who used to be lead dev on the classic F1 games (pre EA) and nowadays he just runs a team that makes horse racing simulations for casinos.

of there was proof that chickens could contribute to the Ecmascript standard I would probably stop being vegan tbf

There’s probably more at play, but the govt is willing to back companies offering loans to cover higher and higher tuition costs, so said companies haven’t got to worry if the loans default or don’t return the full amount - it’s about setting an exorbitant “graduate tax” to keep a permanent stream of guaranteed income for as long as possible.

Higher loans means more repayments, and more money for universities, so they both raise tuition higher and higher to meet the limits of students. as long as banks or govt don’t ever ask for their loans back (which they won’t because it’ll collapse the whole system and possibly the economy with it) the price can inflate at much at it likes.

the same is at play in the UK, only we have “tuition caps” that every university course sets their prices to because there is simply no benefit to charging less, and no downside to charging more. Everyone can get a loan, no one is denied, and the government backs this process because it is essentially being held at ransom.

I know I turned it into a rant about UK education but the financial systems feel very similar. There’s simply too much money held up in a make believe cycle of IOUs that would immediately collapse a huge chunk of the American system if anyone willingly let it pop.

The only problem with this is that eventually it might just pop on its own, and no one will be ready.

web Devs aren’t ignorant to optimizing but the kind of interfaces used in web are very different to that of desktop. Cross platform technologies can work, but anything built on top of web engines is going to be a little dogshit on native platforms.

Web tech was designed around the asynchronous and comparatively slow nature of the network. Now, those same layout and rendering engines are being shoehorned into an environment where the “server” is your local disk so it’s suddenly doing a bunch of work that was intended to be done iteratively.

Same goes the other way of course. Software designed for “native first” experiences like Flutter aren’t as popular in web dev because they work on that same, but reversed, assumption of a local disk being your source.

It would be like wondering why physical game disks aren’t popular on PC - it’s a fundamentally different technology for fundamentally different expectations and needs.

I know people complain about Nvidia and Linux but one of the best parts of my experience with it was never having to deal with GFE. Just a bunch of project managers trying to make themselves useful by shovelling needless slop into your GPU driver.

It’s not even like Linux is that much better in terms of UI/UX but being able to control the user experience with fine grain controls the way it’s done on SteamOS/other distros is a massive advantage. All other Windows handhelds are stuck with some poor imitation of a gamepad-compatible shell.

Suddenly I’m very interested. I know you can install HoloISO or whatever distro you want but some first party support for drivers is gonna be awesome.

Lenovo’s handheld was probably the one that was most appealing versus the Steamdeck - Similar control scheme, good specs, but included detachable controllers which is one thing I wish the deck had after coming from the Switch. It makes coop/party games easier, and there’s more maintainability when you don’t have to gut the internals for a single joystick.

they’re trying to make him sound insane by referring to his manifesto with vague and scary language so I think we got our answer

like a voice assistant? that would be awesome for us - the Google nest va is profoundly dumb

So 90% of “AI” brands

Mauritius won’t get the rights to .io, it’s already held by a British corporation. Unless there’s some kind of change since then.

The top-level domains for the soviet union still exist, so io isn’t gonna go, especially since it’s so popular

IP and copyright laws have been the bane of the internet. Not only stifling fair use but it has become nothing but weaponised for corporate warfare. the DMCA isn’t fit for purpose.

none of them. you don’t need a CEO to keep a drink at $1 a can. I know it’s a meme but y’all libs will go too far with it and coopt it into “awww we can’t hurt Elon musk he’s too uWu smol bean” by the weekend. I saw what you did with brat summer.

both are parasites.

Reddit ahh Lemmy instance

A few adjustments to his policies may be necessary

imagine if he turns up and no one knew