I had been a kde user for many years and still like it as a general purpose desktop, but switching to a tiling WM (hyprland) has been a game-changer for me. Bit of an initial hurdle with key combinations but it feels so much more powerful and responsive to me. I actually look forward to starting it up and using it.

Ever heard of 'hyperbole'?

How on earth does this happen? I can barely get Claude to edit a readme without it saying it needs permission or flagging a 'cyber issue' ??

oh really?

If only USA could apply the same production efficiency to EVs that it honed on chickens. That was a weirdly absorbing piece thank you.

Or, put another way, the 100% US Section 301 tariff applied to Chinese EVs, on top of regular vehicle tariffs, makes gas trucks the less bad choise.

What were you saying about market manipulation ??

actually BenFenner somewhere below posted links to the pale moon forum, and there was some pretty shitty/weird behavior from this dev over there. Bit of a weird vibe all round.

Because then everyone would be bitching about him using AI *and* Rust.

Eh? Wtf are you talking about?? It commits to git and you release under a licence. I can fork that repo and quite easily pass it to codex or Gemini or whatever, or even build on it myself. I get there are a lot of AI haters in here, but try and pick an angle that actually makes sense.

hi Andreas - well done for doing something, instead of just sniping from the sidelines and shitting all over someone's efforts like vast majority of idiots in this thread. As a non-member of the Computing Purity League I wish you all the best.

yeah I think there are a lot more variables involved here - any new product, even 'like for like', needs cognitive adjustment and muscle memory change from users. So change management has to be a big part of deployment. I don't know how much time or effort went into that here.

The other part is that Teams is pretty well embedded in the microsoft walled garden - so identity, integration with calendar etc all comes for 'free'. These guys are trying to stitch together a bunch of good FOSS apps into something similar - I wish them the best of luck.

yes it does. if it supports ID-entra-like user management, meetings, calendars, and mobile device management then I'm sure the entire EU got it wrong.

absolutely. the worst of both worlds. I was using WSL on a work laptop for a few months, even got as far as having linux apps launched from the start bar. But even then I still kept hitting the UX stupidity of windows and rage-wiped it for CachyOS. My boss is mad I don't get sophos updates any more but I've never been happier.

Those are two separate things. The murdering is reserved for Uyghurs, Tibetans, odd religious sects, gays, protesting students, that sort of thing.

I agree with your conclusion, but the reason Chinese appear to be less negative about Xi is that the state runs a gigantic propaganda machine, prohibits the entire population from accessing websites of their choosing, has literal slave camps euthanizing people, sends goons to harass expats who aren't kissing enough ass and now wants to literally forbid you from leaving the country to go anywhere for any reason just because you have marketable knowledge.

yes America is becoming less free and a slim majority of the population are patently retarded based on recent voting patterns but anyone here trying to argue against the fact that China is a totalitarian shit hole is either a wumao or otherwise ought to be ashamed of themselves.