even if distances are unrealistic

That’s the distinction I was trying to make. People are moaning about not being able to fly from planet A to planet B or walk from POI A to POI B at real scale and speed, prolonged treks across vast expanses of absolutely nothing

Yeah fr. I think there are some ideas about game design that are a lot more fun to talk about than to play. Everyone complaining about how you can’t fly from planet to planet or walk from POI to POI on a planet surface in Starfield, like who in their right mind would want to actually do either of those things? (yes I know they’re about to release an update to add supercruising). People are weird. People will like “big” features in game that are not there to be used, but simply to be there so… they can tell other people that you can fly from planet to planet. But not ever actually try it themselves.

If you were going to play Daggerfall without the fast travel you might as well play Desert Bus instead, at least that game would require you to be physically at the controller between destinations

Nor does it prevent him from being one

Something? You think? You were talking like you knew

It’s only gotten worse, far as I’m aware. Right wing grifters and crypto grifters.

If it’s any consolation, LibreOffice Calc have now merged Table Support for the next release, 13 years after it was requested. (Link)

Jitsi Meet would be the first one I think of.

I really liked that bit in Twin Peaks where he’s in the car and his head is exploded and David Lynch looks at him through the window and he’s like “He’s dead”

Then there’s the “these people will never be happy” slippery slope line… after all of those changes, people celebrated and appreciated them and that was it.

Nota bene: Not just laid off, replaced. With other people.

Basically spent a ton of money and talent and business disruption to turn over 80% of his workforce for shits and gigs.

That’s how they’d love everyone to think. Violent response gives pretext to drive the jackboot in. If you try to go to pick a fight on a force with a monopoly on violence, you’ll get yourself killed and embolden them.

Successful overthrows happen when elites break ranks, when organised alternatives exist, when military, police and bureaucracy take another option.

Organise peaceful protest, appeal to those in power rather than threatening them, and make the alternative more attractive than the status quo.

Zac Bowden used to post a video for every single new insider build of Windows to cover any change he could, he’s bought the original Surface table from 2007, he’s been covering and championing all things Windows for at least a decade. To get someone like him off side, you really gotta be fucking the dog.

I know that the market verdict is “eh who cares”, but I really dont think anyone should think that invasive kernel-level anticheat is at all acceptable.

In the near-term, a better idea might be to establish an alternative under a co-op model, like Subvert is trying to do for music as a Bandcamp successor. Vendors are part-owners of the entity and have input into its governance. Any code should be open source, too. Federation would be great to later help turn it into a truly resilient global platform.

Yeah fr. Edge is a better browser than Chrome. I know that’s a bar you can walk over, but…

Hasn’t been the case so far with sidebar, Firefox view, Pocket or any other stuff I’ve not wanted in the past. If they did start doing dark patterns bullshit with this AI stuff, then yeah, I’d switch. In the meantime, I’ll use FF until it gets worse than the alternatives, or an alternative gets better than FF, whichever comes first.

There are people who are seeing a therapist, and people who need to

Great distro, I ran it on the daily too for a good while. It’s extremely well designed and if you are willing to give the benefit of the doubt with its design opinions, I think you’ll often come to agree with them (not all, but many)

Only thing I don’t like about it was the bugs and not having an in-place upgrade path stops me from calling it a “beginner friendly” distribution. I admire their ambition though, given they’re just a small boutique distro and they’ve done some great work for UX in the free desktop.

This is good enough for me. If they have an on boarding step/popup to say “Try our AI crap” and I have an option to say “No and don’t ever bother me about this again”, then it’s fine.