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There, I made that kind of comment more useful!

Also GPU drivers.

If you’re mad at NVidia for their closed-source drivers, then remember that ARM seldom makes their Linux drivers available for free, so you have to either have to deal with absolutely no GPU driver while the CPU does the graphics rendering (might not be a big deal on a NAS though), or with open source drivers that are less capable than the Nouveau drivers and even fiddlier to install. The ARM Mali driver issue is so bad I was legit thinking on a solution to run the Android binary blobs (which at least are available by ripping them off from the Android kernel) on regular Linux, a lot of function call redirects would likely take care of that issue.

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I’m from the generation that used to have sound cards, and I’m very sad about what Creative did to the industry…

My first encounters with it were very rough to say the least. Developers getting used to the jankiness of the graphical user interface (if they had one), was commonplace, and often I was pulling my hair when I was forced to use older versions of Blender and similar productivity software, and any suggestions for UI improvements were met with massive resistance from the developers, due to wanting to avoid “spoonfeeding”, and “not introducing users to write their own shell scripts, thus making them lazy and never discovering its feature of automating complex tasks”.

However, this changed when I started to get into drawing and downloaded Krita. It showed me that open source software doesn’t have to be an absolute nighmare to use, and not hiding handy but less-commonly used features behind a barely documented CLI. Even Blender became more usable in my experience than many more expensive 3D rendering software.

It’s simple, I saw it for the con what it is from the very beginning.

I have never used ChatGPT

Eventually they will join, but will take a while…

It just takes a bit of time, then people will evetually come to the fediverse.

Twitter nowadays is like an unclean toilet that barely flushes.

Depends on what you’re doing. Functional programming has its own downsides, especially once you want to write interactive programs, which often depend on global states. Then you either have to rely on atoms, which defeat the purpose of the functional programming, or pass around the program state, which is janly and can be slow.

I personally go multi paradigm. Simpler stuffs are almost functional (did not opt for consting everything due to performance issues), GUI stuff is OOP, etc.

Yes, but the Fediverse is only one part of the equation, and has its own pitfalls.

Free and open source software could overtake the proprietary software market in theory, but in practice it often fails since many FOSS projects are made for developers by other developers, most of who tend to be power users. And the average user needs ease of use, and easily accessible common functions, not a lightweight command-line interface with scripting.

Even then, things like games and other stuff might only will be partially FOSS, like engines and frameworks, the rest being behind a paywall. However, I think people should experiment with what I call “open source universes”, which is basically creating shared universes that are open source. Maybe even make some open source RPG system with it too, so we could have an open source alternative to the likes of D&D, WH40k, etc. At one point I tried to make something like this, but the issue was that it was based on an old webcomic idea of mine, which I started working on when I had totally different views on many things. Might revisit it with different ideas later on.

Open source hardware will be a really hard uphill battle, with a large issue coming from closed-source drivers (Thanks ARM and nVidia!), cost and difficulty of manufacturing silicon, etc.

I wanted to make a parody religion called “the church of slitting the throat of random bystanders on the street”, to make fun of doing harm and limiting the freedom of others under the name of religion. Would be also a good basis for some comedy/action-thriller movie/whatever, wgere a serial killer manages to legalize his killing spree by making it a religion.

Chaotic good, one 32" 2560×1440 display, one old 19" 1280×1024 display (mainly used for referencing docs, for a debugger, or watching a VTuber or a conference presentation).

On stackoverflow, even asking questions is a privilege.

You won’t get banned for being toxic, but you will if your question isn’t a “proper” one.

Actions speak louder than words…

Use google to mean “web search” in general!

Let them loose their trademark over the name google by generalization!

I used to flex on other programmers by telling them I code in D. Nowadays they tell me to try Rust instead. (D is still better IMO, especially with no const by default, which isn’t always convenient, especially for stuff negatively benefiting from functional programming.)

Linux doesn’t have a standard file extension for executable files, and that wouldn’t have been good for this meme.

As long as you don’t check the task manager.