Fish and Kate hell yeah 🤜 🤛

I think WSL is pretty much a developer thing in reality

Something people may not realize is that the deck serves as a target system for developers of pc games. Obviously at some point a new target makes sense, but there is a careful balance in release frequency if that target status is to be maintained.

For instance you mention steam deck verified - when steam deck 2 comes out, does steam deck verified get bifurcated where a game can get certified for either system separately? Does it just reference steam deck 2 at that point? Not easy questions

I would be surprised of that was the case. Valve said they wouldn’t release another one until there was a generational improvement and I don’t think we’re there.

VR headsets are still niche, and a lot of people find them uncomfortable for long sessions and/or get nauseous using them.

Fair. I just think is prudent to draw a line between natural difficulty and cultural resistance to change.

Moreover, codebase in pure funcional languages is hard to understand and maintain, that’s why they are rarely used in production.

This is incorrect. They are rarely used because procedural languages have momentum. It’s way more likely you’ll get Joe Codemonkey to learn and be productive quickly with functional features added to a procedural language than to learn and be productive quickly with an entirely different paradigm. So that’s what happens.

Play with cheaters, or play without DRM/Kernel level anti-cheat, pick one. Because you unfortunately cannot have both.

The answer is to go back to having user run and moderated servers instead of having giant centralized player pools with nothing but automatic moderation. Not everything has or can be sufficiently solved soley by technology.

How is this relevant

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.