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Around here most companies just have subscriptions or get to them through university libraries. It is still annoying, i aggree. Ot is funnier once you realize that they completly rely on free work as well.

That said, standards are imo one of the greatest t achievements of humanity. And if you’ll ever be involved on that process, you’ll quickly see why this whole thing is expensive.

If you don’t want to pay that much, don’t curse at ISO, put pressure on your government to provide ot for free. Imo well invested tax money.

My personal main problem is that companies sometimes infiltrate the process.

Yep. I use Gimp, digiKam and Darktable for literally decades now. I am utterly lost on Adobe software.

We have ISO standards. Fuck every single company that ignores those (Microsoft, Apple, …).

It was.

Lots of the money comes from the US and US companies. But as you said, it is open source.

Linux was awesome 15 years ago. They probably just had driver problems. Those used to be much worse.

Kubuntu is great nowadays.

I still.like fortran better. (And I am not even lying.)

@yahoo.com is still somewhat popular among us old farts.

As a C64 player it took me years to find out that manuals even exist. :)

I do think it has potential to reduce workload in specific jobs. E.g. in stuff like recognizing patterns in input data for data analysts. But only to a small degree and defintly not at every job.

But any company that actually uses chatgpt itself must be crazy or really not have a problem with data breaches.

It is kinda crazy. Been using Linux since 2005 or 2006 on my desktop/notebook. I cannot believe we are almost mainstream now.

It is not a steam user percentage, but according to the site by user data from web pages, it explicitly mentions search engines and social media. I doubt that the steam deck is extremely significant here.

I mean, there have been more than a dozen confirmed assassination attempts on Hitler (even suicide bomber attempts among them) and a few more unconfirmed possible attempts. The future did try their best (or just some brave people from the time itself).

Once you stop taking sugar in coffee and tea you’ll also notice that both tast so much better without sugar. :)

Yeah, it is kubuntu for me as well if I am honest. I just wanted tk be edgy.

I use Ubuntu btw.

(I am a provocative guy.)

I miss the internet where we tricked our friends into looking at a picture of a man’s gaping asshole

Tbh, I don’t miss that. Neither do I miss spacedicks.

Then you are pretty much the archetype of what I thought about. :)

Yeah, maybe under special circumstances that might also make sense.