Most applications that are Electron either only support Windows or also want to support Android, iOS and Web. I assume there is some toolkit out there that supports everything, but honestly HTML5 is more well known and tested.

It’s easy to get fame as a programmer: Just make a popular open source project and you’ll be surrounded by people angry at you for not doing enough upaid work on it.

This is why you use Arch/Nix because the package is likely in their repos.

The software probably still won’t work, but you can waste more time on it.

Nowadays I find myself checking changelogs to see what features they’ve broken and what AI features I now need to disable…

Looking at how much of a reach some of the disruptive + proprietary stuff is… Yeah, there isn’t a lot of recent innovative proprietary stuff, is there?

Although I would put Chrome under “disruptive”. It absolutely was when it released decades ago, and even now it’s still changing the browser landscape.

Average xdg noncompliance moment.

Oh is that what it is…

* awkwardly zips up pants *

Crazy how realistic AI is becoming.

“Hey kid, hold still while we throw some fake money on you and take a photo. It’s for marketing.”

Got curious about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Clashes_between_web_and_X11_colors_in_the_CSS_color_scheme :

One notable difference between X11 and W3C is the case of “Gray” and its variants. In HTML, “Gray” is specifically reserved for the 128 triplet (50% gray)  . However, in X11, “gray” was assigned to the 190 triplet (74.5%)  , which is close to W3C “Silver” at 192 (75.3%)  , and had “Light Gray” at 211 (83%)   and “Dark Gray” at 169 (66%)   counterparts. As a result, the combined CSS 3.0 color list that prevails on the web today produces “Dark Gray”   as a significantly lighter tone than plain “Gray”  , because “Dark Gray” was descended from X11 – for it did not exist in HTML nor CSS level 1[8] – while “Gray” was descended from HTML.

I had a visceral reaction to this because obviously the wish count should be decremented before the wish takes place. Even though I can’t think up a convincing technical argument for it.

Main.

Don’t get me wrong, the whole debate is Microsoft just being performative (why not use your vast wealth to actually help people?). But honestly, putting the debate aside, “main” is just a clearer and more intuitive name.

240v on the USB data lines.

People who have a favourite pencil.

Just a heads up to anyone reading this: Don’t format your home folder as FAT32/ntfs. Some stuff in there needs Linux specific permission bits and you might be limited in terms of maximum file size.

Consider mounting at /home/usename/shared or something instead if you want a shared drive.

Think we can get them to rename it to xy11? You know, because only having x is part of the feminist agenda.

Incidentally, both bad sex and code documentation both involve std vectors.

People have absolutely taken a multi-year break from Minecraft before.

Really though, why is there a time limit at all? Google still allows you to convert old Youtube accounts to Google accounts, why can’t Microsoft do the same?

… Didn’t they revoke the Minecraft licenses people purchased because they didn’t manage to migrate their Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts in a short amount of time?

Ironically, I find myself writing more code when CI is broken and I don’t have to babysit it.