It's mostly WINE though isn't it? Well, Proton but still. That has the 64bit-32bit thunking layer required. Native Linux builds would need to be 64 bit true, but that's where I was going with the "10-20%" bit.

I run 32bit Windows games on ARM via Rosetta/MacPortingToolkit. So long as the game itself is tricked into believing it's in a 32bit universe, it's happy.

gah - Kinoite. Spelling.

That's chicken and egg though. I use Bazzite, Fedora Kinorate with some gaming tweaks. Fedora wanted to drop 32 bit and there was a lot of noise as things like Bazzite or any gaming usage at all from that distro would break.

But, if Steam went 64 bit then that's 80%-90% of the issue solved straight away, and the last 10-20% would quickly sort themselves out in response. Summary is the distros have already indicated they don't want to do the work, and it's userland that's holding them back right now. Would be mutual benefit to lose them, but userland has to move first.

Everyone online knows that. The vast majority of the population doesn't - it's not general knowledge outside of people that spend a lot of time online. That where you get this 'the famed hacker 4Chan' or 'CEO of Bitcoin' nonsense in reports, it's simply not their world and they don't swim in these waters.

I mean, I've been online since about 1989 and even I don't know that much about actual 4chan, to me it was always the Lion King's "You must never go there" scene (and then came 8chan - my god).

It doesn't surprise me that those who aren't immersed in this environment daily don't actually know that much about it.

This one in fact, saying that survey response rates for official UK data had collapsed from 35% to 5%.

Survey fatigue is one, but I think people are also more wary about having their opinions attached to data these days. At least for formal, official data anyway, obviously social media is still going strong. I think a factor is that people aren't sure how it's going to be used and if it could come back to them in some way.

Lean on your keyboard for long enough and you'll have a valid Perl program. You won't know what it does of course, but then how does that differ from any other Perl program?

Because for music, we're in a post-scarcity future. The world is not short of new music, and the tools for producing it get better and better and better. There's no shortage of people wanting to write, you can reasonably easily self-publish (and on a completely unrelated note...check out my two albums and my singles...)...there's no scarcity here.

The problem isn't availability. The problem is gaining an audience.

Debit cards are available to under 18s - you can have one from the age of 12. Credit cards aren't - that's why they're picking credit cards.

This is the UK - debit cards are the norm, credit cards are not universal. Most people have one of course, but most - certainly not all particularly at the 18-24 type age range.

It didn't seem to be - two examples of its 'useless' jargon were 'intranet' and 'EFT', both very specific terms. Without getting access to the source study I can't tell if that's a bad article or a bad study of course, but certainly the linked article didn't provide the point it thought it was making.

Thing is - this kind of behaviour is what I want to avoid by buying iOS. If I wanted multiple stores - well that capability already exists, I buy Android. There's no monopoly, I can buy an Android device tomorrow. I can buy one right now online.

The argument is made that if alt stores become available then it's a user choice as to whether to install them or not - no-one's forcing me to and I could just stick with Apple's. Well, this behaviour from Sweeney is exactly the counter-argument - the moment alt stores become possible, every corporate exec and their dog will immediately insist on their apps only being available via their store, with none of the same rules as the main one. All the web dark patterns would be back - an obvious one might be no one-click unsubscribe, for example.

It's less open, but that's the trade off I actively chose to make when buying an iPhone over an Android phone. Those who prefer Android made different choices - absolutely no shade on their preference, good for them for picking what they'd prefer. But it's stripping my choice away when people try to turn iOS into the same thing.

...I thoroughly support whatever measure is necessary to keep Tim flaming Sweeney comically going "whaaaaahhhhhh!!!" every two weeks. Why people are taking this self-interested hustler seriously beats me.

"Now Playing Axel F, by Harold Faltermeyer".

Adding to this - is it just the icon that's gone, or will new Macs also be formatted to the name "Macintosh SSD" instead of the even-older-than-the-icon "Macintosh HD".

I'm fine with the idea of updating the image and using an SSD. But it's possible to detect whether SSD or spinning rust I think? If so, why not both images?

I have an HDD I use for for backups - Time Machine. Speed is not of the essence there, cheapness and large'ish capacity is. They're still in use then - until 4Tb SSDs are as cheap as 4Tb HDs they're fine for backup.