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Kind of feels disparate from it being a video game, but it's difficult to really make this experience another way:

I wanted to play a healer in an MMO. It was a shitty MMO, so healers could only be female characters wearing skimpy armor.

Well, it took about half a minute until I had people walk up to me, to then just stop 3 meters away. From the way they were moving, I have to assume, they were working their cameras to look underneath my skirt, and probably doing so with only one hand.

Some of them were sending me "hello :)" messages, which I guess is basic decency, if you're going to use my body, but it felt weird, too, since we had nothing to talk about.

All in all, it felt uncomfortable. And I did not even have to fear for them to start touching or even raping me. Plus, I was able to log out, delete my account and basically just leave all of that behind.

Well, except for one thing I did not leave behind: I do not want to be the other side in that experience either.

Well, it's a non-commercial project. There's going to be issues in it that may seem smart to fix, for which there's simply no volunteer. On the flipside, there's other issues that won't get prioritised in a commercial DAW, which are not a problem in LMMS.

As for Wayland support, LMMS works under XWayland and I don't think that's going away in the next decade. But LMMS is also built with Qt, so it's likely not a big problem to get native Wayland support.

LMMS development is perfectly active. The master branch sees new commits every few days. They just haven't had a release in a while, and well, apart from maybe this scaling issue, I think that's quite fine.

I work in a company where our 'customers' are from the same company. So, it makes little sense to fuck over our customers.
They do want to do things with GenAI now, and while I have no personal interest in them, nor think it's a terribly great strategic decision to go all-in with that, I don't have to care. My company can fuck itself over, that's fine by me. And well, while I prefer to and am significantly more efficient, if I work with tools that I care to use privately, at some point, it is a job and if you pay stupid amounts of money for me to learn that on the job, then so be it.

I thought, I was having text encoding issues for a hot second there...

Yeah, this is now using the libinput gestures. It's mainly exciting, because it's available out-of-the-box, even for non-techies and lazy people (me).

With general technological advances and I believe Windows having similar gestures, it's now also rarely the case that touchpad hardware doesn't support multi-touch input...

Some time ago, I saw "ant buffet" in a shop here and for just a splitsecond, I thought, oh wow, are they now selling products akin to bee hotels, so folks can help out the struggling ant population?

And well, you guessed it, it was euphemistically named poison...

It's with three fingers on a touchpad.

There's some short clips of it here: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.25.0/

Well, yeah, but they made that decision, because X11 is a pain to implement and debug this stuff on.

I hear, it's so potent, you can dilute it all you want and it remains just as dangerous...

For the past few months, they have been rather aggressive with IP bans for Piped instances, yeah.

I have two open-source games to suggest. These not being in it for the profit means they can spend an eternity fixing bugs. Downside is that they're not the most modern games in the world.

Anyways:

• 0 A.D. – Sort of AoE2 meets Empire Earth. Mind that the AI is brutal in this one.
• Battle for Wesnoth – Turn-based, tile-based, with different terrain and time of day giving different races advantages. So, relatively dynamic gameplay despite being turn-based.

Or just make it a GIF, for when you're trying to cross during rush hour...

I get jumped by a hog-sized cockroach and probably die TBH.

The GDPR literally does not apply for non-personal data. I don't get why companies are so ridiculous with their cookie banners. Nevermind that they have no qualms violating the GDPR in plenty other places.

Well, they do already have that as part of their normal theming options. There's just software where KDE's theming doesn't apply, like games and webpages, and best they can do for those, is to offer such filters...

Well, I'm not just talking about issues.

everything looks good, time to run it

This sounds like they did not or could not explicitly compile it. Pretty much all popular languages are compiled. JS isn't, but people are less likely to say that they 'run' that one. Ruby isn't, but it's not as popular as Python.

Well, and my preferred version of "everything looks good" is "everything compiles", which with a strict enough language does also make failure during the first run much less likely.

I'm also not saying that these aspects are unique to Python.

The language failing to tell you where the issue is also happens in JS/TS, C/C++ and I'm going to presume Ruby, too.
Python is just again rather popular and some of these choices don't make sense with my first hunch.

I am not saying that you don't get frustrated at your work in other languages. I'm saying this particular frustration is characteristic.

A few years ago, I worked interim at two logistics companies. At both companies, Amazon was a pain in the ass of a customer, demanding special treatment and behaving like a jackass, if anything wasn't quite right.

One of these companies was selling parasols, which really doesn't seem like a typical product to order online. And yet, one of the higher-ups there told me around two thirds of their orders come in via Amazon. As a result, even though they would absolutely prefer to not do business with Amazon, they cannot afford to do so.

That was 2016. I have to assume that power dynamic only got worse...

I mean, I guess, it depends on your perspective. Some folks work in garbage/proprietary languages all day and would be very glad to have Python-levels of compiler help. Others work in JS/TS and do have similar nonsense to deal with as in Python.

But lots of languages, e.g. JVM languages, Rust etc., don't struggle with semicolons and the like.
And they don't have to compile at runtime, so they can easily outclass Python for more complex error reporting, which is at least my experience.

Personally, I have pretty much only had the experience of "tell me where the error is" in Python and TS.