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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders has a new release date and it's next week⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks fun! I hope someday we have holodecks where you can ski a mountain with a never-ending run, with no crowds of people to navigate, and no snow-boarders.

  Not trying to dis snow-boarders – they’re fine; I just think everyone is better off when alpine skiers and snow boarders are segregated. Ideal conditions are different for each group, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda says the Acura RSX will be the first original EV with the Asimo operating system⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, me too.

  Here’s Honda’s speil about it. Light on technical details.

  One thing I took away from reading it, though, is they’re doing the usual “disguising monitoring and collecting information about everything you do as some sort of desirable benefit.”

  “We track your peeing habits to conveniently show you where rest stops are!” They don’t say the “and sell it to third parties” part out loud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show a wallpaper as a background for every window?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a long while since I’ve used any WM that allowed overlapping widows, but AFAIK picom can be configured this way. I have some desktops with tabbed layouts, which I think with like overlapping windows, but it’s always the background when the windows are faded. I’m pretty sure I’d have set out up that way, since the other way it dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qt || ^Qt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not; I’m saying that, IME, the average Qt app is far more likely to also depend on one or more KDE components than the average GTK app is to pull I’m Gnome dependencies. I know there are Qt applications that don’t depend on KDE; it just seems that they’re relatively few in comparison to Gnome-less GTK applications

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qt || ^Qt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. If I used a DE, it’d be KDE.

  I wouldn’t force a tiling window manager on anyone. I think that’s the end of a journey of discovery about how mice are great tools for some jobs, but making them the core interface tool and building UIs around them was a great evil. When you realize keyboards are still the best interface, and eventually arrive at TWMs, that’s good. But TWMs are kind of nasty for folks raised in a world where most systems they encounter are Windows or Macs.

• Qt || ^Qt
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried Bookwyrm? It’s also available self-hosted, if you want to ignore or limit the social media part.

  Someone else said, Openreads is a good, entirely local, app, with CSV in/export, and written in Flutter so you should be able to run it on your desktop, too.

  Or, if you read e-books and don’t want the social media part, use Calibre. My only issue is that it doesn’t sync all of the information my Kobo obviously tracks, like read times and star-rating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US judge says Google must open Android phones to rival app stores⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worse than that. Apple charges application developers just to put their apps on the app store. This is a big contributor as to why there are so few OSS iOS projects: I’m happy to share, for free, the app I wrote for myself, but I’m not going to pay someone money to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US judge says Google must open Android phones to rival app stores⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooo! Oooo! Do Apple next!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deadlock cheaters are being turned into frogs as players get chance to vote on their fate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an anticheat system I can get behind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Determining the efficacy of a restart from a bash script (Debian)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On an average Debian server reboot-required is really only ever triggered by kernel upgrades and those happen more often than you want but also not very often.

  Cries in Arch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify blokis Esperantan podkaston⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kial?

  Manke de klarigo ne eblas scii la veran kialon de la forviŝo, sed eblas suspekti, ke iuj algoritmoj de Spotify trovis la elsendon suspektinda, eble pro la nekomprenebla lingvo, la internacia aŭskultantaro aŭ alia specifa eco, kiu igas ĝin malsama ol neesperantaj elsendoj.

  Ili nun transiris al alia servo. Dumtempe, mibkredas ke Usone Persone troviĝas al

  youtu.be/PNIzabWyaQw?si=bua4udaOZx5kMhaj

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jon Stewart's first episode back on The Daily Show⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. You’re right. It’s pretty close, though, and “genocide” is handier than a drawn-out, nuanced description for which there isn’t a convenient term. Abusing the word “genocide” is little worse than using the extremely broad and easily downplayed “human rights abuses.” The latter is as equally appropriate to US police treatment of minorities as to China’s treatment of the Uyghurs, but you’d agree they’re vastly different in scale and scope, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Key & Peele in "Planning a Heist" - One of my favorite sketches from the show. What are yours?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Al Quaida is good, but Airplane Turbulance makes me laugh so hard I cry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Blade Runner’ Star Rutger Hauer Took Exception to His Character Roy Batty Being Labeled a Villain⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

  But, Tyrell Corp is pretty villianous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Our Flag Means Death’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Max⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I will never again lament that a show didn’t find closure before cancelation.

  We were really liking Ragnarok (Netflix), but when it was clear thege wouldn’t be a fourth year, the writers threw together the worst, most unsatisfying, rushed, cop-out conclusion. Ever. Like, GoT season 8, but worse. Like they collectively said, “cancel us? Then fuck you!”

  I honestly wish I’d have quit in the middle of S3. Not knowing would have been better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think until AI writes and debugs code better than the average programmer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve managed software development orgs, and have seen better code from CS interns than from many veteran devs.

  There’s a joke that goes:

  Q: What do you call the med student who graduates lowest in his class?

  A: “Doctor”

  It applies to every career, IME.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think until AI writes and debugs code better than the average programmer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This can’t be understated. Like many professions, software development is full of mediocre professionals.