“Are we the baddies?!”

“I fight for the user” has been lurking in the hindbrains of so many tech workers since the Tron years, somehow nestling comfortably alongside of the idea that “I don’t need a union, I’m a temporarily embarrassed founder.”

Oof. I don’t like this sentence, because I’m in it.

Fascinating. Thanks for the link.

The first dude seems like a blatant copy of Guile to me, so I had to look up what the court thought:

In spite of the intentional similarities between the two games, the court concluded that Data East did not infringe upon Capcom’s copyright, as most of these similarities were not protected under copyright.

Capcom vs Data East

So 100% guilty of being a blatant copy, but not illegal.

was there some other reason?

Compiling to an additional OS, today, can be a pain in the ass.

Compiling to an additional OS, a couple decades ago, was a monumental ongoing never ending pain in the ass.

It’s weird to me that there isn’t a full four paragraph rant in the Wikipedia article about J# - just complaining about how everyone’s first “Hello World” was guaranteed to fail to compile due to bugs in the file rename algorithm.

The usability failures in J# are the stuff of legend.

Thanks. I hate being reminded about J#.

I have never of anyone calling C# Java.

Sounds like you missed the fun of it’s first release. We (C# developers) all called it Microsoft Java.

Edit: I remember answering the question "What the hell is C#?!” with: “It’s Microsoft Java”.

It gave folks new to the language all they need to know: It aimed to solve the same problems as Java, and didn’t have Sun’s commitment to Open Source behind it.

Ouch. Relying on case sensitivity is a lousy coding choice, anyway. No one is made better off by having a case change carry meaning.

Edit: Before anyone asks, I like case convention as a courtesy, too. But my code doesn’t rely on it.

Are least it’s evidence that worry they might need to need to influence anther election.

Silver lining…?

So long as the car doesn’t require a Facebook account, I’m happy.

That’s a pretty good summary of my criteria for my next car purchase…

If I’m putting it into a bag, I’ll power it off. It (Debian Laptop) boots faster than my Android tablet anyway, and I worry about it overheating without airflow.

The rest of the time, I just lock it and leave it to make it’s own power decisions. Whatever the defaults were, from install, they seem fine.

It boots so fast, I don’t notice if it was suspended or a cold boot unless I happen to have an attentive moment to watch the boot sequence carefully.

That was my reaction, to the question, too.

I’m not sure what power down options my current (Linux) OS has. I just let the battery die sometimes like a normal person.

Edit: The battery management defaults are so good, I have to forget about it on a shelf for several days before it - well I don’t know what it does, because I’m ingoring it. Maybe it powers down, maybe it suspends, maybe it does some kind of emergency shut down…

I read somewhere that the induced electical field shift near a lightning strike is - while orders of magnitude calmer than the strike itself - still powerful enough to burn, maim and kill.

I think it’s what Wikipedia calls “side splash” in the article on lightning injury?

But then there’s the sign by the bathroom asking guests not to use it for summoning demons.

Now I want one. That’s delightful.

I mean… Have you seen the stuff my parents share…?

I’m just thankful that my kids will never be embarrassed by me. (This is sarcasm. Of course they will!)

I actually hope my kids are at least a little embarrassed by me, someday. I hope they will embrace new kinds of pragmatic effective compassion and community, even if I’m unable up adapt.

That makes sense. Innovators and early adopters.

No, It’s not like there’s an abundance of options for this around.

Agreed. It’s getting better, but there’s a long way to go.

But putting a new OS on something is always going to be a worse experience than pre-installed.

For folks that can find and but something pre-installed that fits their use case, things are very nice, now. Considering most users who just want to surf and stream, it’s a really good percentage of folks.

AutoCad / Not every day but often

Lucky guess, I suppose - but yes - that’s a more common complaint, and still an unsolved problem. I wouldn’t consider it a typical user’s issue. I understand how that doesn’t help you.

Another example of a recent problem I had was I couldn’t open pdfs off my network storage because the application didn’t understand the SMB in the path.

I’ve had mixed-to-bad luck with SMB, both on Windows and Linux. For a counterpoint, SMB has been utter shit on Mac, for me. Buy I agree, Linux SMB support should be made better, if possible.

Then there’s the fact that my secure boot enrollment randomly disappeared which somehow prevented it from booting regardless of if secureboot was on or not and I had to start from scratch with a new install just to get going again.

At least pre-installed Linux should address this, once hardware available catches up to your needs. But again, since you need more hardware, that doesn’t help you, today.

Edit: To your point, I don’t disagree that web browsing isn’t the entirety of many people’s computer experience. It’s just funny to me how often AutoCad comes up. Maybe it’ll be a moot point someday in the next few years.

but when you’re hitting roadblocks every step of the way on what to you are everyday tasks in Windows

Did you buy hardware with Linux pre-installed?

We need to be better about clarifying that, for apples to apples experience, it’s best to buy hardware with Linux pre-installed.

Or is AutoCAD one of your everyday tasks? We all have different definitions of “everyday”, but I haven’t had an issue web browsing on Linux in ages.

I was too afraid of windows corrupting my linux if I ever booted it. So I effectively just had a Linux machine with half half the disk space. Never had a problem with it though.

That’s basically my story, as well.

I eventually had a close call where Windows almost booted by misclick - and it scared me it was going to mess up the Linux install I actually use - and I decided the stress wasn’t worth it, to me, to keep a fallback copy of Windows around.

Joking aside, antifa-whale was a really interesting character in an otherwise predictable film.