I used Linux as my desktop exclusive for about twenty years. Jumped ship to Windows because I wanted a convertible laptop (specifically a Surface) and the Linux experience was pretty terrible. Didn't handle high-DPI displays well (it required making separate config tweaks for GTK+ and QT, and per-app for other toolkit), didn't handle multi-point touchpads well, didn't support the digitizer, didn't handle display geometry changes cleanly, etc, etc.

They didn't even have WSL at the time, but since the majority of Linux apps I needed were command line anyways, Cygwin and Putty accommodated my needs well enough, and WSL clinched it.

The level of integration with WSL2 now is incredibly slick, with access between the two platforms almost entirely seamless. I've thought about going back to Linux but honestly don't see the point on my main machine.

You really think that trying to port a thirty-year-old code base written for 16-bit x86 processors with no support for modern necessities like character encoding would have been easier?

If you're replicating someone's work with AI, then you should pay them.

But the idea that the union can force companies to pay voice actors in general instead of AI is BS. You don't have a right to be hired because you're in a union.

it's well understood that most people won't take those steps.

Well understood to everyone but extra well understood to google and apple.

If they win any sizeable market share, their prices will go right up.

I don't think that is an issue. If the prices become uncompetitive then someone else (even Apple) is free to step in and offer a cheaper alternative.

The whole reason Apple got away with charging so much was because they set the App Store rules so no-one could offer an alternative.

I predict that within one hundred years computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.

I was figuring I'd upgrade my W10 box after more W11 bugs were shaken out and MS retreated on some of the user-unfriendly decisions. But from everything I've heard, the 24H2 release was a disaster and is still broken for many users today. The number and severity of known issues with 24H2, and how many of them persist half a year later, seems unprecedented for a feature update in the W10-11 era.

On top of that, MS seems to be adding more user-unfriendly decisions (such as going to considerably more lengths to force a Microsoft account login).

I've taken steps to keep 24H2 from installing on my W11 machine and I am just hoping the picture improves before the W10 EOL date this fall.

wtf does xr mean?

Why accomodate any browser at all? HTTP is a standard. TLS is a standard. Why does the software matter if it implements the necessary standards?

First they came for Boeing, and I didn't say anything because I wasn't all fucked up.

Got to be pretty unconventional to count as unconventional in QM.

I tried to like Perplexity and just couldn't make good use of it. Maybe I was doing something wrong but the responses I got were rarely any good.

Being a hippie never goes out of style.

Not everyone has enough money to do groundbreaking things like put a car in orbit.

I saw it when it came out, and thought it sucked donkey doodles.