Wait, what's the gag?

I mean I would say it's user friendly but very very picky about its friends! I think it's good, but I would not say it's good for general use exactly.

As a far left radical cat hating bike riding commie hippie, I'd dearly love to increase everyone's fuel costs. Unfortunately it appears Trump got in on the act first so there isn't much left for me to do.

Jesus christ, a quiz and a slide show? Are they trying to turn reading a book into a parody of a bad educational experience??

When reading Tacitus, I'd like a tool that helps decipher Roman naming conventions that continuously evolved in the early AD years.

That's called a "translator". Unless you're reading it in the original Latin, that's what a good translator will do in footnotes. It even exits in English. Take "The life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman". Written in 1760, so modern English and so perfectly readable... in theory.

Except it's basically wall to wall slang, memes and pop culture references in a kind of post-modern (predating modernist!) ramble which makes it basically unintelligible without more footnotes than the entire book has text.

Hmm. I don't know about that. If an AI distilled all of Robert Jordan's or RA Salvator's or Brandon Sanderson's books I think AI could most certainly produce another short book that sounded like the individual author

Well that's the failure right there: you cannot produce a short anything in Robert Jordan's style ;)

Digs at Jordan aside, I think an LLM could probably do a reasonable job at small scales: if you were to pluck out a random paragraph from the author vs the LLM it could do a reasonable job of aping the general word choice and structure.

I'll admit I've not read much AI generated text (because it gets boring to read real fast) but have red a lot of code. It works, but is often long winded, pretentious, overblown, poorly structured and mises the underlying points. I can't imagine the writing is much better.

Writing style is so much more than just paragraphs pasted together.

So I ask you (everybody): Is anything good?

FVWM obviously.

But joking aside: I have FVWM because I like it. I regularly use machines with XFCE on and its absolutely fine, perfectly usable. Not sure if I've used KDE recently but my recollection was it was also fine, but by default a little cluttered and also a little heavy. I used LXDE on raspberry pi's and it was fine.

I try gnome every so often because it's often there and frankly it's weird and wonky. Every time I end up switching it over to something else. With XFCE, unless the machine is my daily driver I would not bother, and even then I take a while to get round to it. I keep bumping into GNOMEisms like the file dialog, and it's frankly bad. This guy explained it well:

https://woltman.com/gnome-bad/...

I stumbled across the one in the section "Child Window Behavior is Incomprehensible" myself and after a stream of WTF I eventually found that article.

And on top of all the weirdness and lack of functionality it's a massive hog.

Uh huh, you "hired trump" Anna he's doing what you told him to do.

Did you hire him to lower prices? Said he would and hasn't.

Did you hire him to "close the border"? Are you really stupid enough to think he has? I mean yes you still believe things a pathological liar tells you so you are clearly a complete idiot. But humour me, I would like you to rationalise away the net migration statistics:

https://data.worldbank.org/ind...

In the real world, not fantasy trump land, net migration cratered in 2020, due to COVID. It first sharply again in 2021 and 2022, but under Biden didn't return to the same level and started to decrease YOY. Anna in trump's first year in it dropped by the same amount as Biden's last year.

So Trump has been no more effective than Biden, but yet you love trump for things he hasn't done. Anyway please rationalize that away including excuses about how it's everyone else who's the really racists really because if you shout that hard enough you might just believe it. We won't though.

Why are you lying about what people's positions are?

The cognitive dissonance is much easier to handle if you simply lie about opposing positions to the point where they're easily dismissed. Somehow it's easier to allow yourself that outright lie than to think a reasonable position is unreasonable.

[Citation needed]

He doesn't need one: you don't support Trump and the Republicans because of facts or reasoning. Any lie is OK as long as it feels right.

I find it baffling that farmers, a not on the whole a famously rich group, have decided that the parties of the monied classes and business owners are the right fit for them. They also voted for Brexit over here and appear to have been genuinely shocked that the massive EU subsidies went away, they're somewhat cut off from the huge market next door and the new promised trade deals struck to stop us running out of food do not massively favour them.

Oh also fishermen. Those fucking morons have whinged and bitched and moaned forever about the EU for preventing them from causing a fishery collapse. Then they all got massively surprised when the EU wouldn't let them take as many fish as they wanted from EU state waters.

Many people will vote against their own interests because they, frankly, can't think things through. If something right in front of them is annoying them right now, it's bad and must go. Bonus points if a known grifter who stands to benefit promises them sunny uplands if it goes...

Why are you always trying to "bothsides"

Notice how it's never "bothsides so I voted Harris". The "bothsides" people know they dis something reprehensible that need excusing, and that's why they're trying all the time to excuse what they did.

The people who still back Trump are willing to put up with his antics because he does the substantive things we actually care about.

Yes you elected the president of peace because you were fed up with all the wars being started and

by taking the fight to Iran.

Oh right, never mind, you love war now.

and is cleaning up entitlement corruption

Somehow in Trumpland, the president massively enriching himself and his family isn't corruption.

his predecessor who gave 100B+ to a corrupt Ukrainian regime,

Ignoring your made up bit about corruption (see above: either you're lying about there being corruption or lying about thinking it's a bad thing), that's called "keeping your word". Remember the Budapest memorandum?

President Autopen,

Trump has admitted to using the autopen, numbnuts. Just admit it's not about any of the things you say, you love Trump and that's it.

and told doctors to mutilate childrens genitals.

Oh right you're one of those people obsessed with children' genitals (you sick fuck). No wonder you don't ant Trump to release the Epstein files!

Ah my sig-stalker is alive and well! Hello good sir, how are you I have not seen you in a while! I am still curious as to who I'm supposedly thinking about, other than a name that doesn't sound wildly uncommon.

There are a few idiots here who still seem to like trump. I note that they all stay away from stories about him doing the more randomly stupid things, because those they can't defend whereas everything else can be blamed on Obama, burden or Hillary or some sort of 1D connect 4 or whatever game they think he's playing.

I'm other words they do actually know, but they just hope the right people will get hurt anyway.

Based on what? What makes something wrong or right in production providing the toolkit works and exists to allow it to be widely adopted and mass produced, and the end goal of the device is achieved?

Exactly. About the only thing that matters for "in production" is "meets requirements", whatever those may be. It's pretty rare that one of those is "squeeze the maximum possible performance out of a single-cycle multi-hundred MHz MCU". Sure for mass, low cost consumer products, it's worth pending a lot to save 10 cents on the MCU but it isn't for most of us.

I've seen similar complaints before: "Arduino has no place in production,

I've seen that too. I now point them to Finder PLC. It' an industrial unit that is basically an arduino with relays etc in a nice box.