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I've been following the development of this war closely on Reddit and Twitter, and even if it's clear there's a ton of Western and Ukrainian propaganda, I wholeheartedly welcome it. The more it seems Ukraine is doing well, the more it'll help the Ukrainian morale and it's going to spread in Russia and possibly lead to the toppling of Putin and his sycophants. Maybe even leading to a democratic Russia.

Because the only chance for Ukraine and possibly NATO is for the Russian regime to crash and destroy itself. Putin won't become any saner than this, and the worse case is a war with NATO, which is unthinkable.

So I welcome the Ghost of Kyiv, the Snake Island 13, the Sunflower Babka and the Zelensky gigachad memes. The videos of Russian kids surrendering, normal people making molotovs and fighting for their liberty. May these memes spare us any more bloodshed. There's not much more us Western civilians can do.

Interesting premise for an article, then it just ends without going further into the topic. Meh.

That and possibly the Western intelligence/military has been training and providing hardware to the Ukrainians to set up redundancy in their network. The threat of invasion has been there since 2014.

Which made me wonder whether an open-source kit to create an inexpensive 4G connection tower with an ethernet plug at the other end exists? Such a project would be _invaluable_ in areas hit by war or other disasters in the modern age of information. I'm thinking something as cheap as possible with an open-source firmware that can be flashed onto cheap hardware such as a Raspberry Pi: build it, flash it, plug it in. Is anybody working on this already?

On my Fastmail I have the opposite problem. Spam gets filtered correctly, but 90% of the spam I receive is from gmail.com accounts.

It is not rare that I buy a game at full price, and it's on sale within a week from my purchase.

In fact Valve has recently decided to shorten the big sales cycle to one every 28 days (plus the small weekly flash sales).

You probably open it pretty infrequently (or you're on the beta branch), because I open it daily and updates happen once a month if ever.

It'd be the same if you were to open Chrome once a month and it wasn't autoupdating itself in the background. Steam doesn't have an autoupdate background process like Chrome does.

> For a very long time, Netflix was the go-to place for any movies, and piracy was on the decline.

In the US, maybe? Because here in Europe Netflix or any other streaming service has never been the go-to place for _any_ movie. You get to watch what they offer today, but if you want a specific movie, tough luck.

Steam is the place to be for 99.9% of PC gaming, anywhere in the world. This is why gaming piracy is pretty much dead while people are still downloading movies and tv shows to this day.

They don't need dark patterns, they're already making a boatload of money indeed. If the trend continues, that means more paid consultants working on open source Linux desktop libraries [1]. Win-win in my book.

It actually feels good that the 30% cut Steam takes out of my purchases partly goes to improve my Linux desktop experience. Better for me as a user than if they were taking a smaller cut and focusing on Windows only.

1: Valve has been sponsoring work on Wine, Wayland, KDE, mesa gfx drivers, dxvk, and others.

So am I. Using Linux on every device you own doesn't automatically qualify and make any statement you utter a truth. I've already replied in the other comment why your opinion spread FUD (especially from a self-described "provocateur"), so I have no interest in engaging with you even further. Good day.

Ah because of a bug in an app (or it's packaging), the whole flatpak ecosystem is corrupt and causes data loss? How is that different that someone mistakingly causing an rm -rf /home in an RPM post-install script?

Try again.

It's trolling of the "everything new in Linux is crap" type, just check their post history. Random data loss because one uses Flatpak, seriously?

> Flatpak. Sandboxing taken to it's (il)logical extremes. If you like random data loss, confusing package manifests, low-performance and generally broken software, this is the way to go.

Talk about FUD and taking to logical extremes. Your constant trolling on Linux threads is not appreciated.

Heard of Flatpak?

Only Terraform uses a one-off poorly specified DSL.

Pulumi is based on real programming languages. The criticism might be that their libraries/API is poorly specified. But the languages it's based upon are standard with all the tooling one's used to.

> makes-my-eyes-bleed font on nixos.org

AKA the curse of macOS designers that have that setting that makes all fonts a little bolder, so they think 300 weight is perfectly acceptable for a documentation site, while everybody else have to strain their eyes to read too thin a black font on eye watering white for hours.

Just go on nixos.org, remove the font-weight: 300 and see how much readable it is.

> I have no idea why everyone isn't using NixOS.

Because NixOS is a valid, but too rigid and cumbersome a solution to a real problem.

ostree+containers is the realistic solution to that problem, in my opinion. Worse, sometimes, is better.

That's an excellent analysis, thank you. One thing I wanted to expand upon:

> posts/root-comments with engaging comments subthreads would still rise to the top, to ensure that those subthreads are surfaced to appreciate. (Probably there'd have to be UX for this case, highlighting the aspect of the post+comments that's so engaging.)

I think HN does something like that, and I appreciate they don't have any particular UX to indicate any "surfacing", but it's just organically applied to the ranking.

Example:

* Just posted top-level comments get the first spot for some time, so people have a chance to interact with them. Often you open a big thread with hundreds of comments and the first comment is 1 minute old. That's great.

* I'm pretty sure HN (and possibly Reddit, but I have no evidence for either) rank a top-level comment higher if a reply has a lot of votes/engagement.

* I'm somewhat positive HN downranks top-level comments that have a very high number of downvoted/controversial/high comment-to-vote ratio replies. I'm certain HN does that for posts (comments > vote = probably controversial post, slightly downranked).

* All of these things don't require UX, so they're a little opaque so people won't try to gamify their comments to manually nudge them toward some position in the thread.

Possibly unpopular opinion but serving a lot of data via Ethernet is much simpler than creating a low latency modern hardware accelerated desktop with VR support and playing audio through my latest Bluetooth headset.

> What's so controversial about it?

Your body burns incredibly more energy just "being there" than you burn moving about.

Exercise certainly increases your calorific expenditure, but it's much easier to ingest less fuel than to run 5 more miles because you had a portion of fries.

There are benefits in exercise, apart from the obvious ones the raising of the baseline metabolic expenditure, because muscles are expensive to maintain, but again, if you want to lose weight eating one less portion of fries is easier and takes less time than going for a 5 mile run.

> body optimizes for energy expenditure

No that's wrong, it optimises for energy maintenance. Genetically it's better to maintain fat and survive the next famine, than burning all the energy today. Which is why the body is so efficient at _not_ losing weight unless it has no other choice to maintain homeostasis. And thus to lose fat, we need to preferably eat less, not run more. Do both, and you'll do great.

What's not used for fingerprinting nowadays?

It's a good font for those that think that the world and computer technology peaked in 1971. I don't share that opinion.

> What if the new hire doesn’t know Slack? They’ll miss all the messages until figure out how to configure their notifications

In my experience, the "new hires" are overwhelmed by Slack notifications, turn them off, and I have to remind them later, after they failed to respond to semi-urgent public @ and direct messages, that they can configure Slack to be notify only on @ and direct messages, and they won't be bothered by regular chit-chatter on public channels. It's happened to me with at least 4 people it can't be a coincidence.

I certainly receive a lot of spam _from_ gmail accounts. 99% of the spam I see has a gmail.com address.

I am not angry, it was tongue in cheek and an opportunity to share more Gary Bernhardt with the world, but JS is indeed ass.

Verified accounts

No it still does force you to login upon loading the page, can't proceed past. I know because it just happened to me.

Not for me, it repeats the same top ~20 posts over and over when I use i.reddit.com

And it's functional like a WAP site in 2001 was functional. It's incredibly barebones to the point of being useless. I reckon Reddit forgot it exists at all.

Yes, these days it's hard to see actual investments on PC as a platform. Everyone has been cultivating their own walled gardens for the past 20 years, and now that a corporation tries to make profit off an open platform there's a lot of doubt and pessimism. Actual Stockholm Syndrome.

I'd rather have a handheld PC based on Linux than a closed, warranty-void-if-opened box from the other players such as Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft.

Yes, let's make more substances illegal. It has worked really well in the past.

I understand not liking coffee, but calling for it to be illegal because _you_ don't like it is utter nonsense.

> completely divorced from all the details leading up to the conclusion

You seem to be the one completely divorced from anything that has been shown in these reviews. Hot, barely acceptable performance, abysmal battery, what?

Have you seen the competition, or are you just comparing it to some idealistic pipe dream of a handheld that just exists in your mind? I've seen nothing but cautious optimism and surprised at what Valve has managed to achieve with current tech and that price point.