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Yes, any deal would involve someone making a profit but that isn't important. The question "follow the money" implies is, was this decision made because it was the best decision for the circumstances or was it made because someone is getting a kickback? I don't know the answer and I'm not implying anything but I feel saying "any deals involves someone making money" is being obtuse to a certain extent.

Explain this comment to me. It seems reasonable to come to the conclusion that someone is profiting on the side from this deal. Especially given the current postmaster general. Is there some other trail of thought you think is being neglected from jumping to this conclusion?

First link is a 404 and second link is from 2017 and doesn't have the information I want which is how much money they are making from storefronts.

Is Krita transparent about their finances? Because I would love to know how much money Krita makes on this front. My guess is not much at all.

> I can't understand why people tolerate spoken instruction

Not only do people tolerate it, some people prefer it! I'm going out on a limb here as I have no data to back this up but I'm willing to bet that the average person has not done any dense reading since they finished their schooling. With that context, it's probably not hard to imagine why most people prefer video instruction over blog post and what not.

I feel like you are in the minority. Most people prefer narrated games over having to read dialogue.

I agree you about LTT to a certain point but I think you are dragging them too much. LTT has done some very good tech journalism in the past and brought some very important stories to light. While I do not prefer them for my hardware information for reasons you stated, I would not call them the polar opposite of quality.

If I wanted to get into linux phone development, what's a good entry point into this?

Regarding skills not being transferable. This is only somewhat true and the author is doing some goal post shifting here. What he said really only applies to game engines, not game frameworks and certainly not game programming in general. If you want to learn game programming and not a game engine, I recommend using something like Pygame or LOVE2D which are less prescriptive game frameworks as opposed to engines.

However, even with game engines, I have spoken with AAA developers who have worked with both Unity and Unreal and they all say the same thing. Game engines are a lot like programming languages in the sense that once you learn truly learn how one works, picking up a new one isn't that difficult.

Sure it's possible.

What does this have to do with people in tech communities being rude?

> It's second only to my all time favorite of "I left a company, and here's a blog post about why you should care" post.

As a counterpoint, one of my genuinely favorite post is Michael Lynchs "Why I left Google" post and his yearly solo developer updates. A lot of people simply blog as a way to organize their thoughts, not because they believe people care and need to hear what they have to say.

Personally I would say most people here and in tech communities in general are insufferably rude but YMMV.

> Word. Excel.

Microsoft absolutely has sales people for the B2B side of Microsoft Office constantly shilling Office 365. This absolutely doesn't sell itself.

Not grandmother but my non-technical dad cares about this.

Doom Emacs and Spacemacs are the most popular two. I recommend Doom Emacs although Spacemacs is what I started with and I find it to be more user friendly.

I used it for a few months and I did have a few intermittent issues but it worked for the most part

How is the VPN bad? If I recall, it's just Mullvad with Firefox branding.

There will be tons of people who will rightly rake Mozilla over the coals for this so I don't need to do it.

That being said I honestly feel for Mozilla in some way. Making a browser as your primary product is just not profitable without monetizing your userbase in some form or fashion and it takes a shit ton of work to keep it modern and secure. They will get dragged through the mud no matter what they try. People still rag on them for accepting money from Google to be the default search engine.

I've done both and I'm indifferent.I recognize this is probably a very pro WFH crowd but there are pros and cons to both of them. I find collaboration is just easier in person and most of the big "aha!" moments I've had came during water cooler talk.I've also had co-workers whose quality of work completely shit the bed when we went WFH and some of them were let go by management because of it. On the other hand, being able to just get up and go to the kitchen whenever I have down time or get some chores done whenever I have a moment is pretty great.

I think what's really happening here is that most people, especially older men, are realizing how much of their social life is tied to work and going to the office. My advice is to get some hobbies, make some friends, join some groups. Even if you aren't willing to go out, finding groups and chatting online in a voice or video call is probably better than just sitting in your home alone.

> But it'd really not be that big a deal compared to stuff like saying "healthy 20 year olds in their prime at near zero risk from this virus are now legally forbidden from dating".

This idea that young people are at near zero risk is not true. Pro athletes in their prime have gotten covid and suffered terrible side effects. Jayson Tatum is 23 and needed an inhaler after getting covid because he couldn't keep his wind. Tom Sweeney got myocarditis and had to end his football season early. Several young MMA fighters and pro wrestlers have nearly died. These are all people in their fitness prime.

I enjoy this series quite a bit and read more than a few but these books are far denser than people realize. After each manga section there are several pages of an afterword of sorts that feature some of the densest textbook level explanations you'll ever see simply because they can't give the needed depth in the manga parts of the story if their goal is to actually teach something.

The problem is most people (or at least the loudest people) treat it as a black and white situation. You are either for this or against that.

I would like to know who "the like" include because as far as I know it's just Plaid and maybe Intuit doing this. Until banks provide APIs directly to developers this just gives Plaid a monopoly. All devs who want to make finance apps securely have to go through Plaid.

If screen scraping is illegal just know that pretty much every budget and banking app is also illegal because they all use screen scraping.

Yes, KaiOS users are pretty much all in India. KaiOS is basically a step up from a feature phone but not quite at the level of something like Android or iOS so the phones it runs on are very cheap.

Whether you agree or disagree with it, ISPs have the right to fire you as a customer. However, I don't usually see that exercising that right unless it's for piracy.

> but over time this is very ugly and frustrating (as it requires manual intervention) and you block the disposable Email provider they used ...

This seems like an ego issue honestly. Like you feel like you are being taken advantage of. If only a very small numbers of users are doing this then I don't see it worth the dev time to block the email providers they use possibly hurting valid customers. Just leave it alone. I use Relay for services I genuinely pay for but don't want to give out my email address in case of leaks.

> We aren't short on 'resources', we are short on doctors and nurses.

When I say "resources", people are included in that. Human resources one might call it.

> Nurses are a little more flexible in that more money might mean more nurses, but only up to a point. In either case, throwing a ton more people into a long term career to deal with a short term problem (I don't see hospitals needing the same capacity in 3 years that they do for the next wave) will cause other problems down the road.

I understand what you mean but I think you greatly underestimate how many nurses work contract and are not employed by hospitals. Almost all nurses I know, and I know quite a few, are all working as contractors for agencies. The hospital assignments are just almost never worth it.