Pills don't keep me alive, and if they did, Republicans in America wouldn't be able to take them away from me. WTF is this babbling nonsense?
Not everything is about Republicans, not everyone is even American. WTF is wrong with you?
You really need to join the rest of 2010 and get off fark.com.
I assumed this happened years ago. I know tons of people who when they say "I just read such and such" they really mean "I listened to the audio book of . . . "
I just figured this already happened.
Especially when you count ereaders. Outselling the hardcover isn't outselling all the read copies.
100% of people who say "look it up" instead of providing a source are idiots.
The Law & Order effect is real, Dick Wolf is low key one of the most insidious influential people in the world, there's a lot to discuss there.
But this comment is a low effort attempt to hijack an unrelated thread.
As a kid who grew up in the 80s/90s I've literally heard, loudly, my whole life, is reason you tip is the workers make below minimum wage.
We can't then act surprised that when you then tell everyone tipped workers are getting a wage now, people tip less.
Maybe we should tip even more, but come on. We can't just pretend that hasn't been the pervasive message for decades.
Because money. For years, where has most of Mozilla's revenue come from? Default search deals.
When you read:
"We're not incentivized to push one model or the other,"
You just have to understand that what's implied is:
"Yet. But we'd like to be, it's for sale."
And then, unfortunately, it makes perfect sense.
This has been true and kind of just an open secret in K-12 and higher ed for many, many years now.
When you create a bunch of "free" programs, families with resources tend to be the ones who have the knowledge and means to exploit them.
For just one of many examples:
https://www.law.georgetown.edu...
Studies have shown that (government backed) scholarship dollars disproportionately go to wealthy students too.
This is frankly the core of our education system. Listen to "Nice White Parents" if you missed it a few years ago. Perpetually relevant.
People love to tell themselves they came to their opinions all on their own. If a chatbot tells you something, no one, not even some author, convinced you of anything. You never had to concede some opinion you used to have to another human being. You just "did your own research."
Title is basically "Thing that sets a record every year for last ten years maybe now driven by new thing this year?"
Come on.
Seriously. It's up every year, with the exception of 2020-2021. Nothing anomalous going on in those years.
Now every time someone on the internet says your brain isn't developed until 25, can we start saying 83?
Seriously.
Set aside gaming for a minute, this is a project only Valve could do. Ten years, ridiculously long time to see any results. There's a lot going on here. A lot of open source, a lot of a few individuals sticking to their guns and principles.
The reason Valve gets things like this done, is because they are a private company. We have so few influential tech companies, that aren't out there chasing quarterly reports. Which is why most of them can't do this.
Gabe is one of the only guys around who can get things like this done, and really shake things up for the much bigger companies.
With so many examples out there like Radio Shack, the first thing I always wonder is . . . does it actually have anything to do with Creative Labs?
Or did someone just buy the brand for pennies and this is what they're doing now?
The product does look kind of interesting. My desk is kind of a mess when it comes to speakers and microphones.
Seriously, what are you talking about?
GNOME listed Framework on their donors page, they are either the first or second corporate sponsor to be listed there:
I don't know how to interpret that as turning down their money?
It's so weird to me how a certain crew of Linux detractors just love to cut and paste this video all over but don't seem to have any idea what it is.
For one, it's not over four years ago, that's just when that one video was uploaded. It's from 2014, it's over ten years ago. I mean I guess uhm actually ten is over four but . . . come on, that's not what this person meant.
Two, most of them don't exist today, at least not nearly in the same form. I mean, Linux is still open, that openness will always mean that for example, you can distribute your app however you want. You will never have "sideloading" on Linux broadly, there will always just be loading. But flatpak really is a game changer from 2014. What he says about distros expecting people to compile things also, just doesn't apply that way. I'd bet literally 99.99% of new Linux users who use Steam, have never compiled anything.
His other points to, are dramatically different than they are from 2014, that clip just isn't the uno reverse card you think it is.
The biggest shift I've noticed in conversations around desktop Linux is when someone says something like this:
"Is Linux really good enough to do $x? Such and such didn't work, OMG LOL."
Maybe they want to run photoshop, or some game, whatever.
In 2010, this would be met by a bunch of advocates basically begging that person to use Linux, or trying to shame them to get good, and everyone would just sort of get smug and walk away. The original person who started the conversation says something like "This is why you jobless neckbeards can't use real operating systems" or something silly.
In 2025, the conversation often goes "so don't run Linux, it's cool, Linux doesn't need you, the growth is happening with or without you." And the original poster says something like "no no, I still want to, I'm cool too." Because running Windows, is just not cool at this point. If you're like a PC building gamer, it's not something to be proud of. Upgrading from 10 -> 11 when PewDiePie is upgrading from 10 -> Arch, just isn't something to make noise about.
The tone has totally changed, go check out like
Follow the links and you'll see that wasn't the issue. It was that it wasn't clear the code was GPL compatible, untested, and then the maintainer tried to remove all history of it by force pushing to git.
It's not like being mad some coder used VS Code instead of vim, "if someone provides free work for you, they decide what tools they use" just really isn't the story.
Sooo many AI code issues are really just the same old issues of cut and paste code but we discuss them like they're new because AI. Those things are clearly problems regardless of AI.
Nothing succeeds like success. -- Alexandre Dumas
