I forgot where but some time in the last 3 hours I read that the goal for steamOS is to be supported on all PCs, though it’s an ongoing effort.

Powershell is nice for scripting things close to the (windows) OS. But (granted I’m not exactly some PS wizard, I’ve just used it a few times for minor things at work) I agree it often feels unnecessarily verbose and cumbersome. For example the fact that you need to define a whole function to alias even just a single command with parameters. And just overall I find it very hard to read (though maybe that’s on the guy that did the powershell stuff before me, I don’t have great sample size here).

But I’ll take what I can get.

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It’s incredible how many people fail to understand the simple “significantly inhibits normal functioning” of diagnostic criteria. I really don’t think it’s a hard concept yet here we are.

For us they just make the people that click them do some online training. I don’t think anyone learns anything during that but I suspect not having to do the training serves as a great incentive to be careful.

It doesn’t help though that we’ve had multiple cases of obvious phishing mails everyone just deleted that were followed up by a “no those mails were legit please click the link” by HR…

I tend to just hop in the shower for a sec.

But all of that is only really an option at home, anywhere else it’s eternal wiping.

The order thing is very debatable tbh, I generally agree that going in origin culture order is better (easier to keep consistent imo), but there are at least a lot of japanese artists that swap the name order when romanized. (And I don’t think I’d care if someone swapped my name order when speaking chinese).

Missing the “Sau” (no idea if Sau Lan is one name romanized as two words or two names) feels like a product of ignorance and pretty disrespectful though, yea.

How popular is non-american football in the US? I know its been getting more popular recently, but unlike most of europe and south america, it’s far from the #1 sport.

I have no doubt the canadian and mexican games (and the finals) will be sold out, but with these prices, the state of the US economy, and no sane person wanting to travel there, I wouldn’t be super surprised if some games in the US weren’t. After all, if you’re not from NA, you can just go to the next one 4 years later and it’s probably much cheaper.

Sadly it won’t be the ghost stadiums it would deserve though.

I don’t hate on gnome because people can use what they want but coming from windows the UX was so unintuitive i had to switch to a different session without a DE to get rid of gnome. I’m sure it’s learnable and then depending on your preferences pretty great.

I also don’t think plasma is messy though. To me there’s nothing worse than a system hiding options out of the assumption that I don’t need them (see also: windows over time, which is a big part of why I made the switch to linux in the first place).

Well, it’s about maximum profit. So if they could make more, it’s insane that they wouldn’t. But it might be that profit in the short term was higher by not spending as much money on R&D, and if there’s one thing stock markets are great at it’s incentivizing short term profit over long term viability.

With school i complained about how shit it was and how much I hate going there because it felt so fucking pointless (also the bullying), at least with work I get something done and I get paid and the people are nice so I only complain about all the things going wrong but overall it’s alright

The original audio after mastering is also still called a master, but I haven’t seen anyone complain about that. And that (as well as the same meaning for other media) is the word that the branch name master came from, so etymology can’t really be an argument there (though I also think etymology is terrible reasoning for renaming something in general).

There’s also the possibility of having genuinely good intent, but still speaking entirely from your own conjecture of what might make others uncomfortable.

Ultimately, you should always talk to the people actually affected and take action based on that. But anyone can and should start the initiative when they think something is harmful.

That depends on whether the person in charge has any. See rupert murdoch, or the red bull owner basically saying it would be great if he could also be like murdoch.

A company that’s controlled by investors (aka mostly banks trying to get returns) will basically always just chase short term profit though, and that’s most of them.

To pressure these companies into doing the morally right thing, we would have to pressure the banks, but that seems hardly realistic since shifting your money away from one in response to an event like this is anywhere from majorly inconvenient to impossible, plus there’d be a direct monetary tradeoff that a lot of people either can’t or aren’t willing to take.

Iunno, ignoring concerns about the building being structurally sound, this seems pretty great. Assuming there are some amenities inside as well most of what you need is close by, and after going out the (admittedly probably 2-3 minutes away) front door you’re greeted by a small park.

The good thing is that all sane instances can just defederate and we won’t have to deal with them. They can use the software all they want, and we can shut them out from our spaces all we want.

Federation at its core promotes echo chambers because instance admins can just defed from any instances that popularly have different opinions. But it’s also a benefit because really safe spaces are also just echo chambers (and less extremely just “a place where you don’t have to argue with nazis” means shutting out some opinions) and they have their place because sometimes you just don’t want to deal with the world’s bullshit.

The nice thing is that you can choose an instance that fits your own needs for that and still interact with others that prefer different moderation, so long as your own instance isn’t part of the defed list. So if someone wants to argue with nazis but still participate in idk lgbt spaces, they can, and the nazis still won’t bother the lgbt space.

And if everything fails, you can also host your own.

Origin is irrelevant, the reality of how it’s used today is what matters. Language evolves and slogans are just language.

It’s the same as with the CEO. Sure, if we could otherwise force these fucks to stop persecuting people and generally making everything worse for the entire world, I’d prefer that. But I still feel nothing but joy at anyone whos a “close trump ally” dying.

Because “close trump ally” reads the same to me as “close hitler ally”.

I see “ahh” for ass everywhere and it annoys me so much because it completely kills the reading flow for me