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Please don't do this. Microsoft chat services are the absolute worst. I've had to use Skype for years after Microsoft purchased it and it was bad. I have to use Teams for work and it's just abysmal. I don't know why but everything Microsoft touches in this space turns to absolute trash.

I get what you're saying and I agree up to a point but I don't necessarily believe the distinction is necessary. LOVE2D is very "easy to use", easier than Raylib in my opinion, and probably has the most extension documentation I've seen for a game framework.

https://love2d.org/wiki/Main_Page

I've finished a couple projects in Raylib before and I really like it, however, the downside to Raylib for me is that there is no real documentation. You get a handful of examples an a "cheatsheet" of functions and nothing else. When you bring up the fact that Raylib's documentation is borderline non-existent the community almost takes it as a point of pride, points at the examples and goes "figure it out." This makes working with Raylib a very hacky, trial and error experience which just constantly reminded me of the phrase "do you want to make a game or a game engine?" I want to make games so I stopped using Raylib and moved on.

This feels like it was made to get to the top of somewhere like HN but I'm actually very confused.

>I want it to be, but which can also be used to communicate securely with anyone on the planet without being observed by a third party. I don't want to be spied on by Microsoft or Google.I don't want the NSA intercepting my conversations or even their metadata.

I don't see what this has to do with the actual computer honestly. You don't want Microsoft to be involved so I'm going to assume you are going to install Linux on whatever you get, awesome, this doesn't stop the NSA or Google from harvesting your data because that doesn't really have anything with the computer. Seems like you want a search engine and ISP that you own as well.

Standard.tv is Nebula

IANAL but the idea that you lose your trademark if you don't actively enforce it is not true except in rare edge cases. Whether or not this is an edge case is up to the courts.

This is good info. I'll spin up a VM running Sway or something and give it another go and see what roadblocks I hit.

No problem, the biggest ones I tried were Godot, Krita, and Steam. Godot does not run on Wayland although support seems to be planned somewhere down the pipeline. Krita "runs" on Wayland but a lot of the features do not work nor does pen support last time I checked. Steam just doesn't work.

Edit: A commenter on this thread mentioned Emacs. I have not tried that as I have recently switched to Emacs but if that is true then that would also be a big one for me.

I have no beef with Wayland specifically and I agree that if you are harassing maintainers of any project you're probably an asshole. However,

>Maybe Wayland doesn’t work for your precious use-case. More likely, it does work, and you swallowed some propaganda based on an assumption which might have been correct 7 years ago.

I'm a game developer. None of the software I use works reliably or at all on Wayland. None of it. And I'm completely fine with that, I'll keep using Xorg and you can give me a call when my "precious use-case" is handled.

I disagree with this. He made his position on Gamestop known a year ago and people on WSB laughed at him for it. I wasn't until the stock rose to $20 and he posted that he made 11 million on calls and people realized a short squeeze was possible that it turned into a meme.

Book publishers just have an archaic business model. I happily pay for Safari Books Online which gives me access to all O'Reilly published books and I imagine I'd be willing to do the same if other services offered something similar for non-technical books. Instead of looking towards how the video industry handled piracy, book publishers just seem stuck in their ways.

Can world leaders stop using Twitter to say shit? How did we even get here?

Ignoring everything else wrong with this comment, you should know Foxconn is a Taiwanese company.

Can you not just place a regular call over wifi through Signal? It typically requires a phone number so I don't see why it wouldn't allow that.

The whole Parler thing is very interesting to me. Many people point out that Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks have the same TOS violating content that Parler does but I wonder if this will come down to a "reasonable attempt" situation like Youtube copyright.

Youtube and later on Twitch got into trouble with the RIAA and other major media groups because Youtube allows users to upload copyrighted material. I believe the result of the lawsuit vs Viacom was that Google has to make a reasonable attempt to keep copyright material off Youtube which brought about the ContentID system.

Circling this back to Parler, Twitter and Facebook both have the same type of "hate speech" that Parler does that would violate Google's, Apple's, and AWS ToS but the difference is they can make the claim they make a "reasonable attempt" to keep those comments off while Parler does not.

There's also the argument that now that the Democrats are in charge, the heads at FAANG is increasingly worried about regulation and getting broken up so it's in their best interest to take a harder stance on this. I think the coming months will be very interesting.

I've been a Gumroad user(consumer not creator) for a long time and remember the whole VC situation. At the time, I feared it might be the end of the service. I'm glad it wasn't. A lot of people want companies like Google or Tesla, however, my honest goal in life is to have a company like Gumroad.

As much as I would love to just jump on the whole "Youtube Bad" thing, I can't even tell what this channel was about. This post is so sparse on details.

> avoided by anyone who knows anything

Most people don't know anything. The 99.9% of people buying domains don't browse Hacker News or stay privy of news regarding domain registrars.

These list never have good alternatives for Google Voice which is probably the most important Google service I use.

I use Orgzly for my phone.

http://www.orgzly.com/

No I'm more or less with you. My laptop went out early this year and I just haven't felt the need to replace it. I might get a Chromebook or something cheap but I don't really feel the need to have an entire dev environment with me.

>Lots existentials to go through. Should we force AI to go through that? Maybe should be a prerequisite before we let it "live."

Isn't this literally how every killer AI is created in fiction? The only way to protect humans is to kill all humans or something along those lines.

I find Obsidian's licensing to be overly expensive if you intend to use it for anything that will generate income.

Building existing tools in a language you are learning has been a thing forever. I would argue it's one of the best ways to learn a language in fact. The README also compares it to existing tools and explains why it's different from them.

I first came across Standard ML in Dan Grossman's Programming Language course on Coursera[1]. After previously trying Haskell and Scala, this is where the benefits of functional programming and static typing really clicked for me. Really wish the language had caught on outside of academia so I had an excuse to use it more. In addition to the implementations mentioned in the blog post, The University of Chicago created Manticore[2] and Tohoku University in Japan created SML#[3]

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages

[2] http://manticore.cs.uchicago.edu/

[3] https://www.pllab.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/smlsharp/

The fact that they are the most valuable company on Earth suggest that many consumers do benefit from it.

I appreciate the snark as much as the next guy but I don't believe Hacker News is the right forum for it.

Unity filing for an IPO is very interesting. I use both Unity and Tableau and they have always seemed very similar to me in terms of marketing. They have massive communities and excel at getting people up to speed and making you feel powerful. However, once you get passed the "beginner-intermediate" phase you realize this isn't really all its cracked up to be but at that point you invested time into learning them and they technically get the job done so you stick with it.

This is a fair point that I was overlooking and was more focused the part of the article that talks about Apple selling their own products and being the "only game in town" regarding selling apps.

My issue with the article is that despite acknowledging that Android market share overall they are acting as if Apple is the only game in time. Maybe my thought process is just overly simplistic and I'm missing something because every time the app store gets brought up my general feeling is just don't use Apple. If enough developers abandon the platform they will be forced to change.