What anticompetitive practices? This normally refers to things like selling at a loss long enough to destroy fledgling competition and the like. As far as I’m aware, steam just… provides good services that other stores don’t?

The cool thing is that since it is correct there is no barrier to vanilla wine using it, and stuff running well in vanilla wine instead of requiring proton’s hijinks is cool.

I wouldn’t assume that Java is only half as fast as C for every workload. It’s probably a lot closer than you think in a lot of real world scenarios.

I could never understand why microsoft is so against local user account. There’s a similar freedom from corporate fuckery when using Linux and everyone is ok with that.

Everything that you said is correct, except the prevalence of the career advice. I would bet most people looking for their first job out of school don’t even know COBOL is a language.

I wouldn’t necessarily agree it needs to be rewritten. Hiring programmers that are willing to work in cobol would certainly be harder than other languages though, because you’ll have a much smaller candidate pool and people would be unlikely to see learning cobol as a good career investment

Java can be pretty damn efficient for long running processes because it optimizes at runtime. It also can use new hardware features (like cpu instructions) without having to compile for specific platforms so in practice it gets a boost there. Honestly, the worst thing about Java is the weird corporate ecosystem that produces factoryfactory and other overengineered esoteric weirdness. It can also do FFI with anything that can bind via c ABI so if some part of the program needed some hand optimized code like something from BLAS it could be done that way.

All that to say it doesn’t matter what language they use anyway, because rewriting from scratch with a short timeline is an insane thing to do that never works.

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/flatpak-kcm/

Looks like its only optionally required by plasma-meta. I’m not familiar with it but it looks like a GUI for editing settings rather than something fundamental so I’d be surprised if uninstalling it is the source of your issues.

https://neocities.org/

Unfortunately hidive’s user experience is complete garbage. It doesn’t even have functional “continue watching” that will show you when new episodes are added

I keep hearing about how modal editing is faster

I’ve always been skeptical that optimizing text input speed would make a significant difference to overall performance. IMO if you are unhappy with your setup then look around but if you’re not you don’t need to have FOMO about it.

I’ve only ever given a cursory look at personal repos when they’re volunteered. I’m most likely to just look at a readme and maybe look at a small section just to see what the style looks like and if any characteristics stand out, then maybe use discussion of the project (with standard topics I ask everyone unless I happened to see something interesting) as a discussion starter.

In summary, at least from my perspective, I would recommend just doing whatever interests you and being ready to discuss, if you volunteer a project. I also generally think the impact of presenting a portfolio of personal projects tends to be overestimated.

I’d think it’s just as likely they reinvented a wheel for fun/learning if I’m looking at a personal project… I also don’t judge hobby projects for absence of unit tests.

I have used those topics as discussion points after looking at code someone volunteered as it can be very enlightening, but to hold hobby code to a professional standard is kind of nuts tbh.

The benefit over fsync is that it’ll be more correct. Fsync works for the majority of games, but there are programs that will be fixed by using ntsync instead

Find myself wondering if the quality of the remaining questions is higher. There definitely has airways been some of the gate keeping that people complain about, but a lot of it has also legitimately been people upset that they get redirected upon asking low quality or duplicate questions.

It’s even more complicated than that, because for full accuracy, it must also emulate the clock speed at which the emulated processor ran, as well as the various memory busses etc

Yeah the search persistence is the only one that raised an eyebrow for me. I think it’s cool as long as is easy and obvious to get url if you want.

The @keyword thing seems cool to me. I use the various shortcuts (random symbols) for those occasionally and have to relook them up so a slightly longer but easier to remember alternative seems like it would be nice.

In what way?

One thing that holds people back sometimes is that bash scripts that set environment variables don’t work by default. https://github.com/edc/bass is an easy solution

I would recommend just trying to cultivate a YAGNI mindset. I add a little more to the rationale - we are not very good at accurately predicting future requirements so rework/unraveling work becomes likely.

Following from there, trying to use technology (I could be misinterpreting but I think that’s what you mean by “systematically restrain”) is also going to be things you don’t need.