That is all fine. Why does it have to happen on an expensive Apple device?

Apple should instead be a trendsetter and call out AI for what it is: a fad that will pass. Jobs would have done that (especially after seeing it's horrid mistakes) and he would have told any investors who don't like it to piss off. Cook lacks balls.

Which features? IRC can do all of the same things. For images a client would just need to support showing a preview. Personally I prefer to see a link and instead of being forced to see an image. Especially animated clips from media that are used as reactions. Ugh.

The other option is Matrix which comes closer to Discord but I see no need over IRC.

It's always been bad. No open protocol, no source. Preferring to even have a closed off SDK. It's a damn shame that open source projects use Discord over better alternatives.

>I guess it really is too much to expect for folks to understand that we leverage the national debt and our military in order to prop up the US dollar so that we can have trillions of dollars of imports for a fraction of their actual real world value thereby increasing the standard of living of the average American by leaps and bounds.

Fuck you that's a stupid way to do things. It's completely unsustainable.

Because it's not a platform you can control? It's not an open protocol? None of it is open source?

Yes it truly is sickening when major projects stick to Discord. Ugh.

Correct but today I think EA owns about 99% of that '3rd party' code.

No. Children suck.

Yes. Microsoft wants everyone to move to their cloud for everything.

I still get the issue where WinGet lists packages that don't have clear version numbering yet I want those but in order to update I must pass --include-unknown.

There should be consequences but there won't be.

Yes not at all caused by the huge uptick in fossil fuel consumption caused by unwanted never asked for LLM AI services.

At least it wasn't PHP.

And with regards to the JS "stack", the reason it has millions of packages is because the standard library (Node or ECMAScript and/or the DOM in web browsers) is small and terrible. This is a bad thing.

What I have found is that the only sure way to know your code works on any platform is to write tests to ~100% coverage and then run said tests on the platform. See if they fail and see if you get the same level of coverage. You cannot claim 'runs on Y platform' when you do not try it yourself. Anyone who is building Python any version on new platform Y (like a new OS and CPU) and not passing the full test suite + not passing the test suites of the packages they install is just running on hope.

I maintain a lot of Python packages on Gentoo and MacPorts. Especially on Gentoo we always try to make sure Python packages pass their test suites when installed.