circuitfarmer

The fact that it’s immutable isn’t necessarily good for people new to Linux. If something does go wrong, or the user wants to change something significant, most of what they read online about how to do that will not work like many other distros.

For experienced users, sure, there probably isn’t much difference.

It used to be bad. In the last few years, it isn’t. We want other people to use Linux now.

Or literally any other distro.

Pop is probably much easier to be up and running vs. Bazzite.

I’ve been thinking of the “capitalism breeds innovation” thing a lot lately.

It may still be true, but the latest innovations are always in money making. There is no incentive to innovate in a way that serves a common good, but there is massive incentive to “innovate” in a way that drives profits up.

Subscriptions to everything and the erosion of ownership? Innovative.

Insurance companies taking your money and then denying your claims? Innovative.

Uncapped campaign finance and buying politicians? Innovative (well, it’s been done before, but not to this scale in a very long time).

Exactly this. There was a meme (or maybe many) rolling around long ago about how the intention was not to have humans do all the jobs and AI do all the art: quite the opposite.

This is related to the growth in productivity we have seen across industries for the last 50 years. It is through the roof, but wages are lower per unit production and aren’t showing any signs of ending their stagnation.

The problem there is the same with all this new tech enhancing lives and production, while people still have to work as much as before, if not more: the gains, monetary or otherwise, are being pocketed by someone else.

It’s like wage theft, but “better”: it’s progress theft.

This is a good, nutshell explanation of late-stage capitalism.

As far as the answer to “what’s the endgame”, I do not know. I suspect that many or most of these rich folks are so moneyblind that they don’t know either. Or, they simply don’t believe that their collective actions will eventually cause the system to fail.

But most likely, I think, is that they believe someone else will bear the majority of any negative impact. Of course this makes less sense in the face of a systematic collapse, but again: it’s probably very difficult to see when you have dollar signs in your eyes.

Yes, but 1080p content looks like dogshit on a 1440p display

I was probably 10 when my best friend (at the time) and I would play Super Contra on the NES for hours. We loved everything about it. We’d get as far as we could. We’d give each other lives. We could sing the soundtrack. When it was game over, we just restarted it.

Those days were simple and beautiful. I don’t think another game could give me anything like that experience, since it wasn’t really entirely about the game.

I haven’t even gotten on the 4k bandwagon yet. I fully expected to by now, but then again, my eyes aren’t getting any better and 1080p content still looks… fine.

I suspect, at some level, that the confusing naming is kind of the point.

What’s the difference between Pro and Max? If the names were clearer, you probably wouldn’t check the website to clear up the confusion.

It nudges potential buyers into interaction with company marketing.

One more example of a private service being used as if it were a utility.

This one is especially egregious considering it’s an Amber Alert, but it isn’t necessarily unique. Despite the internet being designed as open, it has been taken over by private entities, and any popular service is ultimately controlled by such entities.

It’s a hard problem to solve. Look at federated platforms like Lemmy: they take a long time to populate, and their usefulness is partly a function of how successful that population is. By definition, a free, open platform will not have the advertising, reach, or “it factor” of a corporate service. When given the choice between an open platform and a corporate one, we see people choose the corporate one time and time again.

We have taken our open network and handed it, willingly, to private enterprise.

The personal donation part is weird. This sounds like a deliberate attempt to appease the fascists while trying, desperately, to maintain Apple’s image.

Never played Shadow of the Colossus, but it has been on the list for a while!

Arthur Morgan’s death scene in RDR2 really got to me. But perhaps even more so, when my horse was killed right before. I remember pausing the game for a moment because I had had that horse for so long and somehow it felt like a major deal that happened so quickly.

Never had a game affect me like that before.

And it can be even more keyboard focused with Pop Shell over the top. That adds tiling and window focus by shortcut, similar to i3-wm.

The Sansui of the crypto world

The mouse cursor showing up correctly rules out a physical connection issue to the screen.

What is supposed to be on the screen right now? Is it just the deskop, an app, a game… ? That might provide more insight.

But I’d guess a hardware issue off the bat. Something with the GPU, or perhaps more specifically with VRAM.

but overall macOS feels much less hostile to me than windows.

Sure, but this is a purely subjective measure. Same with Linux.

And the fact is, the Mac has been consistently marketed to creatives since its inception. It is, at the very least, difficult to see how it would have fared without that approach.

But it would be a stretch to say that support is the result of current macOS. The Mac has always been popular with creatives, since way before it was UNIX-based.

I’d argue the popularity with creatives is largely from being marketed to creatives since its earliest days.

And he still does not understand that free speech ≠ freedom from potential consequences based on exercising that speech.

Edit: but to be fair, I don’t know why anyone would expect a robber baron emerald mine nepo-baby from South Africa to understand free speech.