HakFoo @ HakFoo @lemmy.sdf.org

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I think they're plenty at fault. Mandating an online platform up front rather than seeing how the market breaks down is tail-wags-the-dog stupid.

I could marginally see if it were a console title and they wanted the PS Plus revenue or to be consistent with other online games on the platforn, but to throw away the biggest hit of the year to demand free accounts, it screams desperate data thirst.

Hey, isn't this exactly how Microsoft torpedoed Win11 by mandating accounts too? I guess nobody even looked over at their taskbar for precedent.

And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.

And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.

GNOME always seemed to be a solution chasing a problem, particularly once the licensing fears for Qt/KDE were settled.

But now it's one of the things Red Hat seems to impose on the world. Feels like everything controversial comes out of them or Canonical. I guess they have the commercial cash to prop up things like GNOME and Wayland and systemd and snaps until they gain traction, while more community-focused products can't break the world for no reason.

I sort of liked GTK back in the day when it was still the Gimp Tool Kit first and foremost. When it was 1999 and your other choices were a broken Lesstif, an early C++ centric Qt, clumsy Tk, and pre-Cambrian Xaw, it was nice to have something full-featured and tasteful.

Now I hesitate to pull in a GTK app because it won't theme right (I want to use the same bitmap fonts I liked in 1999, but apparently Pango stopped supporting them) and runs the risk of convincing the package manager to dump several gigs of GNOME crud on my drive.

I gather even the GIMP itself no longer tracks current GTK-- it's become solely in service to GNOME and their absurd UI whims (* * * * client side decorations)

So next they'll use AI-generated infantry?

Xbps on Void does it for sure.

I always wanted to see a dentist with the branding "Sharp Fangs - Dentistry for Goths."

They're like gyms-- all the marketing materials are 1000% interchangeable.

Why can't we subsidize American carmakers more?

Holding out for orc husbando myself.

I meant more how Milei is selling it to Argentina. The absurd political overweight of the Cuban self-exiles in Florida is well known.

I'd love to know what the domestic spin is on this.

What specifics is he promising this will deliver domestically? I can't imagine Buenos Aires is on Putin's shortlist even without the threst of NATO, and it's not like Americans are goung to start beating the doors down for Argentine imports.

There's tactful good relations, and then there's "sempai notice me". Although, the Cosplay Crusader may well be familiar with that trope.

I liked ASrock when they were in the ECS tier of quirky and weird. Got a Socket 939 board with the ULi M1695 chipset that was really nifty.

Then I had an awful experience with an AM3 board that claimed to run a FX-8350, until they edited their support list.

I grudgingly chose them for AM5 because it was $50 cheaper for the featured I wanted, and it's been okay, aside from me breaking the x16 slot clip due to hamfistedly removing a shipping-container sized GPU.

Check my post history, posted the laptop a couple weeks ago.

I do like that there's a reasonably comprehensive website with docs covering a lot of common pain points, which is more manageable than fighting with searching through a galaxy of wikis of varying degrees of currentness and relevance.

Reminds me of the celebrated docs of BSD systems.

There's also a case that going a bit away from "easy Windows replacement" is useful because even trivial users need to get some bearings shifted to avoid floundering when they reach something not-quite-Windowsesque. (I. e. dealing with updates and software distribution is an important lesson that isn't obvious if they hide everything in an ersatz App Store)

Of course, my first proper Linux setup was Slackware with a 2.0.30 kernel. I wanted the Unix-like Experience.

There are some canned choices like "50 newest tracks".

I always leaned into "Commercial Unix Workstation Circa 1993". I've considered CDE/NsCDE, but a lot of the pack-in software is of limited value, so I'm going for FVWM on the desktop and MWM on the laptop.

I should mod my big tower case to look like a brother of a HP 712.

There's a window manager called "progman" https://github.com/jcs/progman but it gives you the look, but not the program selector.

The US is desperate to rattle sabres with China.

I suspect there's a lot of nostalgia for the Cold War in the US gerontocracy. They were the centre of the "free world", who had to accept American foreign policy on a "you're with us or against us" basis, and they had a permanent excuse to splash cash on defense bric-a-brac, all without the political snafu of actually going to war.

It feels like the PRC avoided being a 1:1 replacement for the USSR; they never represented a "They'll nuke Dubuque" threat, so you couldn't rally support the same way. And the West is too wedded to cheap imports and entranced by new markets to accept a hard trade cutoff right now, so they pick little fights (semiconductors, EVs, TikTok) hoping to make bold gestures. Behind the gestures, it's not about a direct military or national security angle (if people are using social media on military bases, that's a discipline breach whether it's TikTok or Facebook) so much as trying to push back the day that the US is not the unquestioned dominant economic and military power.

So in n years when the courts finally sort it out, TikTok will fire-sale to someone who doesn't know what to do with it and let it rot, 90% of the users will have long ago moved on to the next social platform with a 5-year lifespan, and a bunch of foreign investors will have a bitter taste that if you make a product Americans willingly choose, their free-market-loving government will screw up your commercial investment to punish you for being Communist.

I believe "headpats" is the only valid answer.

She may also need an elecyrical socket.