The unworkability is a feature, not a bug.

Same company acquired two very similar apps.

One required a $14/year subscription, the other $90/year

So, why are you using a subscription at all, and not a free and open source app?

You know what Blender is? It’s the industry standard. Why is it the industry standard? Because it’s free, open-source GPL, it can never be taken away from you, it can never be “acquired”, everybody’s using it, and everybody is contributing towards improving it. Nobody is bitching about how Blender is extracting millions of dollars from its users and reducing its feature set at the same time. (*cough cough* Photoshop *cough*)

Free and open source software. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. Fuck subscriptions.

Everybody who is hated and popular gets death threats. Hell, even the nicest actors get death threats.

They are easy to write and send, and there’s 0.01% of the population that is mentally unstable enough to actually do so. You and I don’t get death threats because we aren’t popular enough.

Pulseaudio was introduced in 2004. How come it took almost 20y for it to be replaced if it was that bad?

Did you learn nothing from X11 usage? May I remind you that X11 was invented by Xerox in the fucking 80s?!

Bad software attaches itself to OSs like a cancer.

People want to charge $15-20 for a CD, and if I did that for every album I listened to on Spotify, I would have spent at least a luxury car’s worth of music. I’m not going to ever pay that much again. Concert prices are already bad enough.

Piracy or streaming, pick one. Because the choices we had before that sucked.

The real problem is oversaturation, and the general worth of music. Good music is everywhere. People are making it every day and putting it out there, on Spotify, Bandcamp, wherever, and it’s all free or very cheap to listen to. Why should I specifically pay attention to Yee or Lil Shitstain or whatever is the college rock band of the week that got insanely popular?

You can do some wild shit with pipes:

• head -10 /var/log/syslog - Look at the first ten lines of one of your log files, with timestamps on the front
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 - Splits the lines by a space delimiter (the -d' ' part), and grabs the first “field” (the one with the timestamp, using -f1)
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 - Splits the timestamp at the “T”, and leaves only the date
• cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - Gives you a count of each date
• grep systemd /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - For only the lines with ‘systemd’ on it, gives you a count of each date

The standard GNU toolkit has a ton of utilities like that for doing stuff with text files.

I’ve been using DDG for a bit, and honestly, it’s kinda garbage. They are just borrowing data from Bing, and it shows.

Nothing is “an apocalypse” for anything.

JFC, people, stop pushing these extreme opinions on AI. It is not simultaneously the solution to everything and the end of the world. It’s just a goddamn tool.

It’s almost as bad as the opposition’s comparison of it to Skynet. People are never going to understand technology without applying some fucking nuance.

Stop hyping new technology… in either direction.

Only the Sith believe in absolutes.

Imagine playing Borderlands with a controller…

We’re talking about software engineers, not plumbers.

Then don’t live there.

I’m sorry, but I can’t sympathize with normal people with normal salaries that choose to live in the most expensive cities in the world, and then discover that they can’t afford shit, especially when they find themselves out of a job.

Move out, find towns that are affordable, go work for employers that embrace remote work, get a normal salary, and enjoy a low cost-of-living.

It is 2025. The job market is global and remote work is now. If you’re relying on salary to be magically tied to where you live, then you obviously don’t know how capitalism works.

Shitty media’s greatest trick is cherry-picking and anecdotal “evidence”.

Here’s your damn nuance: “In Germany, we’ve removed all Nazi symbols and references. Unlike films and other works of art, video games in Germany are forbidden to use such symbols and references as they are classified in Germany as toys and not media art.”

Toys? Sorry, I’m not going to call The New Order a toy, nor most of the other story-centric video games I play.

Oh, geesh, where have I heard this pattern before with technology? Is it self-driving cars? Remember when the sky was falling because everybody said car transportation was going to change overnight because a bunch of fucking college students figured out how to win a self-driving car race. Where the hell is my fully-autonomous Level 5 self-driving car that was going to replace all of the truck driving jobs? Oh, what’s that? Are all of the jobs still here?

Technology moves the needle. It does not jam it all the way to the other side. Stop spending trillions of dollars on pipe dreams, only to have to force expectations back to reality ten years later.

Those assholes don’t give a shit about “freedom of art” when video games like Wolfenstien can’t get released in Germany.

Sooo, American Gods?

you see in Yeezus that he’s kinda bringing the experiments of groups like CLPPNG and Death Grips to the mainstream.

You mean this Yeezus merch? This was the same timeframe. (Sorry, different concert. This was later.) He wanted people to buy this shit as a bundle with a concert ticket.

Also, Death Grips was already mainstream. They didn’t need some insane motherfucker to sample their work to get popular.

Only off by a few orders of 10^x.

Typical shit journalism can’t be bothered to look at the units on their calculator.