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This entire thing is just idealism vs pragmatism for the trillionth time. The idealists are mad because they think all ads are bad and we shouldn't try to work with advertisers in any capacity. They do not believe reducing the harmfulness of ads is a valid approach, because that would be an acknowledgement of ads. Common talking points there are about how this is technically working with advertisers and how the internet shouldn't have ads in the first place.

The pragmatics also think ads are bad, but believe that an Internet without ads is very unlikely to happen, so they believe attempting to reduce the harmfulness of ads is a valid approach. Common talking points there are about how this isn't giving advertisers anything they don't already have and about how this doesn't matter if you're using an adblocker.

Like all other debates of this type, this probably isn't ever going to be resolved to anyone's satisfaction and we've really just been seeing the same talking points over and over again since the beginning. So I hope y'all have fun duking it out, I don't think I'm gonna bother looking at these pointless PPA threads anymore.

Yuzu wasn't. Suyu was.

first screenshot doesn't look like aero at all tbh. second one more so. this is the most accurate port I know of tho https://gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma

There is no such thing as a fully uncontacted tribe. The term is used to refer to peoples that choose to remain in isolation. Therefore, "uncontacted" and "reclusive" can more or less be used interchangeably.

B was based on BCPL, which I assume is where the name came from.

But the actual A language would be APL, which stands for A Programming Language. It's a few years older than B and was pretty popular, so it could've influenced the name.

It would probably make more sense for "ADVANCE" to be "ADVANCED"

Yes you can. UI color is in Settings -> Window Color Scheme. Editor color is in Settings -> Editor Color Scheme. Both are editable separately.

If it is a royal we, then you are excluded from the conversation and the amount of Microsoft in your household is irrelevant.

I was doing computer science and we were asked or recommended to use the following pieces of software:

• Citrix Workspace App, which has a native Linux version.
• Docker, which has a native Linux version.
• Google Chrome, which has a native Linux version, but I chose to use Firefox anyway.
• Laragon, which doesn't have a Linux version, so I just used XAMPP instead.
• Microsoft Excel, which doesn't have a Linux version. The school offered an Office 365 license, so I could've used the web version, but I chose to use LibreOffice Calc instead.
• MySQL Workbench, which has a native Linux version.
• Open ModelSphere, which has a native Linux version.
• Packet Tracer, which has a native Linux version.
• Slack, which has a native Linux version.
• VirtualBox, which has a native Linux version.

Didn't really have any problems using Linux. Might be different if you need other software, tho.

There are pros and cons. I use both, because Lemmy on its own just isn't big enough to replace Reddit. Lemmy has a decent variety of active communities for very broad/mainstream topics, plus technology and left wing politics, reflecting the shared interests of most Lemmy users. But then for any topic that's more niche and doesn't have a disproportionally large overlap with the interests of Lemmy users, it kinda falls appart. A lot of the more niche subredddits I participate in have no Lemmy equivalent.

I'm also hesitant to call Lemmy's moderation better. One thing I've noticed with Lemmy mods is that they tend to be far too lenient with off-topic posts. Right now the top post for me on "All" is this post from !science_memes@mander.xyz. You might notice that it isn't a meme in any way shape or form. You might also notice that it was literally posted by a mod from that community. This kind of thing happens a lot, communities on Lemmy are very prone to getting derailed away from their nominal topic.

man why do people always label the most cold-ass takes in the universe as hot takes

calligra plan has this iirc

Right, I'm well aware that that article is the reason why a bunch of people have been making the unsubstantiated claim that Nvidia has hired people to work on Nouveau.

Nvidia hired the former lead Nouveau maintainer and he contributed a bunch of patches a couple of months ago after they hired him. That was his first contribution since stepping down and I'm fairly certain it was his last because there's no way Phoronix would miss the opportunity to milk this some more if they could. He had said when stepping down that he was open to contributing every once in a while, so this wasn't very surprising either way. To be clear, it is not evidence that he or anyone else was hired by Nvidia to work on Nouveau. Otherwise, I'd like to ask what he's been doing since, because that was over three months ago.

Last I checked, there is no evidence Nvidia has hired anyone to work on Nouveau.

this is just going to cause indexers to ignore robots.txt

seems better to just spend the 100M like he wants and then just give the remaining 900M away.

The manga? Start with chapter one. The light novel? Start with chapter one. Only the anime made it needlessly confusing.

These are known as the short scale and long scale systems respectively. Though the United States was indeed the first English-speaking country to switch to short scale, pretty much all English-speaking countries have used short scale almost exclusively for a long time, including the United Kingdom. Saying that it's simply being influenced is an understatement. From Wikipedia:

British usage: Billion has meant 10⁹ in most sectors of official published writing for many years now. The UK government, the BBC, and most other broadcast or published mass media, have used the short scale in all contexts since the mid-1970s.^{[12][13][43][15]}

Before the widespread use of billion for 10⁹, UK usage generally referred to thousand million rather than milliard.^[16] The long scale term milliard, for 10⁹, is obsolete in British English, though its derivative, yard, is still used as slang in the London money, foreign exchange, and bond markets.

I've never actually seen the word milliard used in English outside of discussions about the long and short scale systems. However, many other languages do mainly or exclusively use long scale. For instance, my native language French.