Holy shit, Math Blaster 9-12. You just threw me back SO far. I just had a vivid image in my mind’s eye of the home office I played it in.

Thank you for the throwback.

Same here, to a certain extent.

I was referring only to Linux’s lack of bullshittery in comparison to Windows, nothing else.

Far easier to do too. I did one of each last month and there’s no question that the Windows setup experience is terrible in comparison.

I’d happily pay a one-time fee to be able to use my own cloud service like Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud.

You can do that without paying. Obsidian vaults are just plaintext files on your disk. Just make a vault in your GDrive/OneDrive/iCloud sync folder and it’ll be synced.

There’s likely a extra hoop or two to jump through if you want mobile access, but it’s not too much extra effort.

Ah I was just referring to my laptop there. I do still use Android, but with LineageOS instead of my device’s stock image.

How am I the product when I bought it outright and installed Linux before ever booting it up?

I guess I didn’t buy my phone or my laptop then?

1.12 is a long way off from a full release

Looking at the size of previous updates, there’s only ~5 more lines of code to write!

It’s odd how poorly phrased the text on that first image is.

Sign in with work, personal, or school account to access to devices and apps

Surely it should be:

Sign in with your work, personal, or school account to access your devices and apps

Alternate title: Apple charges fortune for underspecced machines, morons still buy them

Please tell me, as someone who has not given Apple money in over a decade, how I am paying for this.

Sundar wants them feet pics

Can you be more specific?

I may be reading this wrong, but it sounds like you think Linux requires all your files to be converted to some other format before you can use them. There is no such thing as a Windows-JPEG and a Linux-JPEG, it’s just a JPEG. All your files will still work. It’s the software that opens the files that might need to change (e.g. MS Word or Photoshop).

Unless you’re talking about filesystems like NTFS and ext4, in which case there is no argument to be made as Linux supports NTFS already. In my experience, it “just works”.

Just out of curiosity, I calculated that the article’s (War and Peace * 875,000) claim would net you less than 1TB of storage space (~973GB), assuming it was GZipped (and ~3x that if not).

The most concrete number we have is from another article (also on an official Microsoft page) that claims it’s upwards of 7TB.

It might feel that way, but people switch from one platform the other all the time.

It’s not impossible, just inconvenient. People nowadays often seem to conflate the two.

If there’s no real upside and no real downside, there’s no point adding it. Why would the developer spend time on a feature that provides nearly no value when there are more pressing things to spend time on like bugs or major features?

I opened the app having never used it and immediately felt like it was an app I had used for years.

This is a telltale sign of fantastic design.

If you want an answer to your question, spend your 3 seconds typing it into a search engine or AI.

Why not have the best of both worlds? Set up a repo with all the information, then run a bot that periodically updates a pinned post with the data from the repo.

5000 seems like way too much. That’s roughly 1 every 15-20 seconds, including at night.

I would be interested to see what percentage of those are actual real interactions (e.g. DMs), which are general interactions (e.g. “XYZ liked your post”) and which are marketing CTAs.

Ah that makes more sense. I feel like wasted energy is a much better reason for not having LEDs than excess heat.

It almost feels like saying you don’t like a car because of its colour rather than because it eats 3x as much fuel compared to anything else in its class. Both are valid reasons to dislike it, but one is kinda more important than the other.