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Keep is for notes, optionally with cross-device sync.

Yeah but I won’t because I like dopamine.

Oh I agree. I’m just not there because twitter was never my thing. Keep up the fediverse propaganda, comrade.

Chances are it’s really just that, a start. See OpenAI.

The thing that it really has going for itself is that it simply isn’t twitter. And Muskler made sure that’s a huge deal.

Futureless or featureless?

I am not upset in the slightest. Maybe I should have made that clear. By all means voice away! It’s just like I said, Windows benefits heavily from us learning its quirks when we had the time and patience to do so, and with much lower standards than today. The comparison doesn’t seem all that helpful as a result.

Mounting a network share is beyond the usage scope of the DAU you describe. They need a functional default desktop environment, working standard drivers for their standard hardware, and a browser. That’s pretty much it.

And let’s not pretend there’s anything intuitive about Windows distinguishing between accessing a network share, and mounting it as a virtual drive. This is just the staying power of “whatever I’m used to from an age when I had the curiosity and patience to figure stuff out”.

I did. It told me I needed to uninstall them. 🤐

Yeah fair. I expected we’d talk about how Linux could displace Windows on Desktop, to which SteamOS and Proton running on an x86 laptop chip is a lot more relevant than an Android phone.

When I tried Arch in '23, it worked well. Then I got busy and lazy and didn’t use it for 2-3 months. When I came back and did yay -sYu as I had learned, dozens of KDE and core packages were throwing errors and wouldn’t update. Unfortunate.

When I met a close friend’s husband at an event, somehow PCs and Linux came up. He asked if I’m a Linux user (which I like to think you can’t immediately tell); I assume he wanted to build some nerd cred. I said “yeah, I technically have Linux with me right now”. He asked what I meant, so I pulled out the Steam Deck. He was unfamiliar, so I briefly explained.

When he heard it’s (obviously) a commercial product, he actually pretended to faint. And then kept acting as if I had personally insulted him, not in a joking way.

It was a strange experience. Not even in hackerspaces I’d ever had a conversation like that. So these people are rare but they do exist.

Does XFCE today look any less late 90s than when I tried it 10 years ago?

“this may increase costs for the consumer” argument is flawed. It always implies they would have left profit on the table otherwise, rather than squeeze the system and everyone within it for as much as it’ll give and then some.

I hate what they did with the clock.

For one, on 10 you could click it to display seconds when needed. No longer an option on 11, clicking only shows the calendar. You have to enable seconds in the taskbar itself, which 11 warns you will increase power usage.

Secondly, it’s literally only clickable now on the primary monitor.

Just a basic feature made significantly worse for no reason except to be different.

… Did anyone really think 2D pixel art is rendered in real-time from individually animated 3D 9bjects?

That sentence could just as easily mean “I’ve never played it, but it looks like a really bad game”.