Not gonna lie, I was expecting this to end with The Undertaker throwing Mankind off Hell In A Cell.

As a software house, running our own infrastructure would be a nightmare in so many ways… Just thinking of all the hardware that needs to be deployed, and how many sites worldwide we’d need just to provide the same level of service we have now, and then being able to scale up massively during peak time but have all that capacity go to waste during low season, then dedicated teams on all sites to handle emergencies 24/7, the massive loses of revenue anytime the services are down…

“Just in-house it” is definitely not the answer, there’s a reason AWS makes so much money.

Thanks for the straight answer, brother.

This is surprisingly myopic from someone who supposedly works in the field.

Where do your full stack applications run, my friend?

Because unless you’re in China or Russia, the answer is either AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

Nobody is looking to reinvent the wheel. The call is for the EU to invest heavily in infrastructure, like building its own chips, creating its own data centres, and yes, developing its software industry to provide alternatives to all the proprietary/closed stuff.

Sleeping on those roots though… I can feel the back pain from way over here.

I’m a firm believer that hardware must never be linked to any sort of subscription to function. If it does, then it’s because the hardware only serves as a way to access the content, but in that case, it must allow competition between providers for that content.

If I buy something, it’s mine. No one should be allowed to dictate how I use it, I want to be free to do what I want with it.

What the heck are you on about. That’s the worst possible solution to this, are you some sort of masochistic?

If Siri is something that needs to be paid for, don’t bundle it with the system. Charge extra from the start, and people can opt in to that shit.

Also, they run a massively profitable software store, and THAT is what justifies and pays for the bug fixing and security patches to the overall OS.

The “cell a year” practice isn’t to cover development costs, it’s to bring in massive profit by milking the consumeristic herd that buys their crap.

Only issue I’ve experienced is with sound, I have a wireless plantronics headset I use for meetings and it likes to adjust the audio volume automatically for some reason. Doesn’t break anything, but is mildly annoying because of the pop-up slider randomly showing up.

Other than that, it doesn’t get in my way, and it’s the best compliment I can think of.

I don’t have specific software I need to run for work or anything, it’s just vscode and browser, so it’s smooth sailing.

For chilling, I’m massively impressed with how much proton/wine have improved, I’ve been able to run several windows games I usually play with zero hassle, except for the occasional visual glitch with shader effects (I have a Radeon card).

Heeey, another Windows to Mint convert! I did the same thing a couple of months back and have been having a great time, hope it goes smoothly for you too!

So many games work on Proton/Wine these days, it’s not really surprising anymore.

Nowadays you have a huge chunk of games being built on massively popular engines like Unity and Unreal, making it much easier to support/optimise for.

Another big point is that you’re not developing exclusively against DirectX. Vulkan is very popular, and both APIs are frequently supported by game engines. This introduces some “good habits”, in that it forces the devs to think about compatibility from the get go, instead of trying to come up with shady tricks to get one or two extra fps that only work in specific conditions and crash the game otherwise.

My hot take: yes it’s perfectly acceptable.

You are only partly correct when you say “cruelty doesn’t change minds”. I’ll up that and say that you cannot change the mind of a jackass who buys cyber trucks, no matter what you do.

What you do is show them that there are consequences to their choices, that they’re not somehow immune like they think they are on Facebook or on their preferred social media echo chamber.

And if that doesn’t change their minds or makes them consider their choices much more carefully, then they fucking deserve it.

EDIT: also, that’s written in the dirt, isn’t it? Is that what we call vandalism nowadays? What do you call it when the french burn a few cars down when protesting, a world war? Just go wash the shame off, you slob…

slow claps

Well done sir, well done.

I like to imagine that the early heroes who programmed in punch cards and basically raw machine code knew exactly what the CPU was the computer was running, but who knows…

Compiling your own packages only ensures that, well, you’re running packages that you compiled. This definitely does not mean that your computer is running what you intend at all.

Half the time I don’t know what my CPU is executing, and that’s code that I wrote myself.

I still can’t play my videos on Firefox without transcoding them, so I honestly hope they get it right this time.

taste a lot like soda water to the non-american beer drinker that is used to a lot more body and/or bitterness.

This right here, you’ve nailed it exactly!

Otherwise described as “tastes like piss”, they usually taste like a watered down version of a proper beer.

It’s like being used to freshly squeezed orange juice, then someone comes along and adds half a cup of water and a bit of sugar because it’s “too acidic” or something.

So you can’t download them, you should run them directly on tencent cloud or something? Smart…

Big ones too. Case in point, USA.

Even in Xfce ALT+F4 closes windows. Maybe bro changed it at some point and forgot about it

NGL, you had me in the first half…