Crazy how ethics work. Like a pig might be more physically and mentally capable than an individual in a vegetative state, but we place more value on the person.

I looked this up in my ethics textbook and it just went on and on about pigs being delicious.

I think I might try to get a refund.

Controlling people’s media experience to push political propaganda that helps powerful people and harms individuals - that seems really shitty.

I can’t think of any app developer or political party who would do that.

(This is an attempt at surrealist humor.)

I’m sure they will grow out of it, by the time they turn 21

(This is intended as an amusing reference to DOGE’s habit of hiring surprisingly young professionals.)

“$450 is an insanely high price for a new console, so I’m going to buy a $400 2 year old console instead.”

Sure. But it’s also a choice between a library that will forever cost $70 00-$90.00 per game, and a game library infamous for game sales so good that an average player cannot finish their library because the seasonal sales are too good to pass up.

Oh, that makes sense. Local multiplayer on SteamDeck can still be pretty rubbish, so I probably just didn’t notice.

Most KDE apps will run on Gnome and vice-versa, but they might not run particularly well under those conditions.

I used to run into issues with this all the time. Recently, I find, for poplar apps, there’s always a version built for my chosen desktop environment.

Of course, I’m not very picky, anymore: Libre-this, Open-that, Free-Whatever. I usually find the one that comes up in the app search is good enough for what I’m doing.

I feel like linux demands an understanding of the relationship between hardware and software more than windows does.

Yes, when we install Linux on something that didn’t ship with Linux installed.

But in an apples to apples scenario - pre-installed OS provided by the manufacturer, it’s Windows that comes with more bullshit.

And there are (finally!) plenty of options to buy a pre-installed Linux computer, today.

It’s a tiny fraction as many as pre-installed Windows or Mac, of course. But it’s still plenty. There’s a half dozen companies with solid reputations and hardware specialties, and I only need one.

I will warn that some of the Lego games are rather buggy on PC.

I had the same issues on my Windows PC. But they run great on my SteamDeck.

I haven’t especially heard the Linux or Rust stereotype, but it’s fair enough for a funny joke.

Stallman is one of the world’s most prolific C developers, so that part of the joke may be just making fun of his (likely) reluctance to adopt Rust, which is often recommended to C programmers.

My little sister has two, and most of her friends do too. It’s weird.

I suppose that makes sense. Support has gotten much stronger, in the last decade or two, for using multiple monitors.

Plan to share a link so the hackers can check your work?

I’ve heard good things about vibe coding primary use cases for common problems.

I have experience vibe coding unusual use cases. The AI was worse than useless for those.

So I’m curious how the corner cases and security stuff on common problems turn out. (I always get that kind of thing from a library, so I have no experience vibe coding those cases.)

(Genuinely curious. And obviously, no worries if you don’t want to risk sharing.)

I would welcome a utility that makes it easy to find donate links for my software packages, based on my Apt, Flatpak, and F-Droid package lists.

The picture was slow to load for me, and I expected Beanie Babies or some kind of precious metal or BitCoin.

Have you considered turning it into a paint ball arena?

It probably wouldn’t be a good investment, but it would make a great story.

I had not heard of Trinity Desktop. That does look like a much simpler path to beautiful Windows XP stylings.

Apparently, many people want to make Linux look like Windows 95?

I’m a developer, so my chances are pretty good. But I take your point.

Even if I weren’t, there’s enough software options out there that I don’t have to pick between paying for proprietary software and living with abandonware.

So I think the need for this security is exaggerated.

Of course. I used proprietary software for a long time. Having things I relied on get abandoned got old, but it worked.

I just expect more from most of my software, now.

It’s funny that Ouya’s brand recognition is so infamous that no additional explanation is needed.

I’m happy to pay for software, but I want more than just permission, I want long term security that my investment in the tool will last.

If IntelliJ would open source their oldest versions, I would make my boss buy me a copy of the newest version every year.

I’d say Linux is somewhere around early Windows XP when it comes to usability for a normal person.

I was confused until it struck me that maybe you don’t consider Windows XP the peak of operating system user interface design.

I’ll admit, Vista really messed with my perspective.

That’s why we got together and agreed on one version of Linux to recommend to new adopters.