The point, in one sentence:

If you are the product, not the paying customer, then not only is there no incentive to cater to your needs, there exists incentive to make the product worse for you if it means the paying customer extracts more from you.

Users of freemium software are basically nothing more than willing cattle. Housed and fed for free only to be slaughtered.

Maybe people just can’t help themselves? I fear we can’t have a fair and free market if people are so easily manipulated.

I grew up with a Nintendo controller in hand.

There’s a very good reason I now game almost exclusively on PC. None of this is going to convince me to come back. Quite the opposite in fact.

OG had three CD’s, three major acts, across a pretty epic journey. Breaking it up into three parts is really not that surprising.

Personally, I love the expanded development of characters like Jessie.

I dunno. You could throw yourself down the stairs. It’s an awful choice, but you could still do it…

The point is, a choice with all kinds of negative consequences to it isn’t really a choice.

This is what happens when stack overflow is used for training.

… and so is thus inferior.

The thing holding me back is multi monitor support. It’s just atrocious on Linux (and has been for a long time). I have issues with:

• can’t duplicate screens (“not supported” huh?),
• random screen not detected,
• broken layout when screen changed,
• flickering and constant layout changes

Not sure if anyone has tips? NVIDIA and Intel displays, scarred to even try VR.

The software is not the problem. Software breaks all the time. The problem is monocultures and centralization. Building entire industry ecosystems all around a single point of failure. This is the just-in-time manufacturing supply chain disruptions and fragility all over again.

Who knew, a diverse ecosystem was a strength, not a weakness.

Not too surprising if the people making malware, and the people making the security software are basically the same people, just with slightly different business models.

I think this is satire. Poe’s law is stronger than ever

Terminals are powerful and flexible, but still slower than a dedicated UI to see states at a glance, issue routine commands, or do text editing.

Terminal absolutists are as insufferable as GUI purists. There is a place and time for both.

The benefit of AI is overblown for a majority of product tiers. Remember how everything was supposed to be block chain? And metaverse? And web 3.0? And dot.com? This is just the next tech trend for dumb VCs to throw money at.

Just wait till the advertisers find out the eyeballs they are paying for are also just AI sock puppets. Enshitification strikes again.

Can’t tell if you are joking. I know a lot of junior developers who think this is a legitimate solution.

Reject the temptations of short term convenience and adopt sustainable consumption.

Demand ownership of goods. Demand offline-first.

Asking your employer for more compensation because you are exerting more effort due to inexperience isn’t so different than a AAA studio charging high fees for a crappy product because of corporate bullshit and inefficiency.

In fact, these two things tend to be two sides of the same coin.

I’m pretty sure Windows is a key part of their “cloud stuff” strategy. You are right that consumers are not the direct focus of Windows, since they are not the direct paying audience, and that shows in the direction Windows is going, but getting consumers to use Windows is a big part of creating corporate buy in for Microsoft cloud services. Corporate environments will shun Microsoft cloud services if employees can’t use Windows, or Windows features run afoul of corporate policies (like blanket LLM bans).

You wouldn’t do this with a stranger’s device, so why insist you do it with your employer’s device? Just don’t.

If you have a workstation and want to use the same monitors/headsets/peripherals with both the company device and your personal device try one or two KVM switches.

I think you are mostly right, except Lemmy and reddit are not organized.

when they were a scrappy bunch of nerds working out of a house

Much of the recent criticism relates specifically to toxic/bro culture and a work culture that encouraged cutting corners, mistakes, and burnout. I’m not sure what was going on in the house behind the scenes was a model of a professional workplace.