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Comment Re:Why (Score 2) 49

So instead of fixing the constant bugs and crashes, you're hardcoding a "feature" we already had with plugins? This isn't an improvement; it's a step backward. We used to have the *choice* to add these effects. Now you're forcing them on us and removing customization. Focus on making KDE stable, not on trivial visual garbage.

I'm absolutely certain that rounded corners will be the only change in a tenth update...
(I don't know what's more douche-chill inducing and depressing, the comment itself, or the fact it's marked "5, Insightful")

Comment Re: Not exponential growth (Score 1) 150

and forced use of a MS-cloud account.

This is exactly why my nieces (ages 9 and 6) are currently linux users. My sister discovered the 9-year-old took a photo of the 6-year-old au naturel which was automatically uploaded to the cloud, and she bugged

I know that apple is sticking to their story that some 1337 haxOrs combed through millions and millions of accounts to find a couple hundred titty-pics of celebs (with many of the celebs swearing they deleted said pics), but no one is really buying it.

Comment Re: How it's made (Score 1) 215

Last time music had integrity was when Milli Vanilli was destroyed for doing shit that’s acceptable fraud now.

I guarantee there's currently a hot/new rapper that's 100% a yamaha vocaloid who's 'embodied' by some model for videos. Like, I have no doubt about this.

When you currently have actual humans effecting their voices to the point that they sound like vocaloids anyway, because that's the 'hot sound' of the moment, it would make absolutely no sense to not do it. It greatly lowers the cost and simplifies the supply chain to have the same Scandinavian producer who's creating the music, do the vocal performance at the same time, instead of having to find some kid from Atlanta who can actually rap, if the end result is going to sound exactly the same. You can always pay a model with a six-pack and tats to lip-sync the result in videos, while making hard faces. Essentially "being" the rapper, for MUCH less money.

tl;dr Milli Vanilli 2.0

Comment Yes! (Score 1) 7

Have a old lenovo tower I've been using as a htpc (my third time ever using that acronym), and both windows and plasma are pains as I have to keep a full-sized keyboard with a little built-in trackball on my coffee table.

I saw the existence of 'bigscreen' plasma, but you couldn't actually -y'know- download it. Just that it was theoretically this thing that theoretically may exist someday (having seen a lot of theoretical linux things die on the vine, my breath remained in-and-out). But once it's out there, I'm first in line (remote support doesn't faze me that much. I mean, it will be nice when there. But in the meantime, I have a little trigger-grip trackball)

Comment Re:Uh, the 18-24 demo (Score 1) 68

Have you actually met any young person lately?

Well, I just got done working at a university, and I think there were a couple...

I was constantly stepping over $300 e-scooters that were left in the middle of the sidewalk because the batteries died and the owners 'didn't feel like dealing' (besides, if they decide they want another, they'll order one from amazon using the credit card their parents pay off). Use whatever other example that pleases you

The 18-24 demo tend to spend money in dumb, frivolous, impulsive ways, and isn't an accurate example of spending as a whole = Forest
Pirating games = Tree

(ps I guess the staff must have been spending 80 hours a week torrenting anime since apparently the students weren't responsible)

Comment Re:KDE is the best DE (Score 1) 134

There might be a bit of a branding problem. I can guess what "konsole" is, but Kate, Dolphin, and Okular? What in the world are those?

If I, a software developer for 35 years, don't know what these things are, I guarantee your Grandma doesn't know.

Uh, Dolphin's icon is a folder. I think a 35-year software developer and their grandma can figure that one out. After which, double-clicking a .pdf and .txt will solve the other two. Just saying,

Submission + - KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast' (theregister.com)

king*jojo writes: Linux desktop darling KDE is weighing in on the controversy around the impending demise of Windows 10 support with a lurid "KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" campaign.

KDE's alarming "Exiles" page opens with the text "Your computer is toast" followed by a warning that Microsoft wants to turn computers running Windows 10 into junk from October 14.

"It may seem like it continues to work after that date for a bit, but when Microsoft stops support for Windows 10, your perfectly good computer will be officially obsolete."

Beneath a picture of a pile of tech junk, including a rotary telephone and some floppy drives, KDE proclaims: "Windows 10 will degrade as more and more bugs come to light. With nobody to correct them, you risk being hacked. Your data, identity, and control over your device could be stolen."

Comment Which is why whenever I know (Score 1) 100

I'm being overpaid due to the employers desperation, I consider it a 'temp job'. Bosses always figure out they can pay themselves more, once they can get somebody to your job for less (although, it takes some of them a frankly shocking amount of time for this to dawn on them. But, in the eternal battle of greed vs complacency, the former will always be victorious, sooner or later)

That said, as long as they're giving, I'm grabbing

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