If you don’t live in USA then I think yes that would be true, but in USA I’d imagine you’re out of luck since I don’t think USA is known for having the strongest consumer protections possible.

Sure yeah, my comment originally mentioned designers and developers, but I was too tired to remember that in my follow-up comment.

It’s hard to be extremely detailed and also remember every single detail of what I was mentioning as well.

Oh, sorry, I wasn’t referencing the FOSS world with my comment. I was responding to the tech company’s part.

My comment was specifically about designers working for companies, with management forcing them to design things in a way that they would rather not.

It’s kind of less about designers having to justify their existence (although, yes, there are far more often entire re-designs that seem like nothing else about this) and more about them being forced to create designs that management want, rather than what end-users want.

That’s what my comment was about.

I kind of get the idea that code should be self-documenting, but at the same time, there’s so many crazy business rules that comments are basically a necessity if nothing else other than to explain why in the hell the crazed mess that provides the required functionality for the business rules exists.

While this is true, designers are constatnly beholden to management (much like programmers are), so while designers would love to create a nice looking usable application, they end up having to go with the mockups that management requested which are of course a worse experience for the end-user.

It’s really sad.

Yeah it was quite the experience lmao I used to always have lunch at home in elementary school but staying for lunch at high school definitely made some memorable experiences over 4 years lol

Ah alright, fair enough. I was wondering how you knew you were exceptionally good and that’d be a pretty surefire way to know how good you are lol

Now that it’s my birthday, I’ll tell the “drive by rat” story. I was eating lunch with my friends (there’s a pattern here) and we saw a giant rat run by while we were eating. A couple days later, we noticed a pest control vehicle while we were in class. There were always rumours that the school had rats, but that basically confirmed it for us.

There was also a student and his girlfriend who pushed another student through a glass window and I got to see them being taken away in handcuffs also during lunch.

I also made a time capsule with one of my friends during chemistry class because there was a broken desk where the wooden top of the desk would come off, so we wrote on some papers (I think we wrote something like “yeah yeah yeah GSL” etc because we were very into StarCraft at the time lol) and pushed them into the desk legs. I wonder if they are still there or if anyone found them lol

Apparently I have a lot of stories from when I was in high school. lol

Back when I was in high school, a student a couple years before me bit off a bite of an apple and pretended that it was a grenade and threw it, but the apple hit an alarm bell, and then the fire alarm went off and the school had to be evacuated which resulting in them sending two firetrucks to clear the school. I don’t know if it was a coordinated move where he would throw it and his friend manually set off the alarm, or if the apple hitting the alarm bell damaged the alarm somehow which triggered the fire alarm to go off.

I know, it doesn’t sound believable to me either, but I’ll never forget it because I saw it lol

Also I was sitting eating lunch with one of my friends in high school, and someone randomly walked by and threw a piece of bread at me. None of us even knew that person or ever saw them before, but we referred to that event as “drive by bread”. There was also “drive by rat” but that’s a story for another day lmao

Do you know what your rating would approximately be in chess? I’m wondering just how good you are with no memory of learning it.

It’s also the difference between individual ownership and company ownership. Companies simply have too much power.

I feel weird because I’ve like never had a problem with bed temperature lol maybe pillows but even then that hasn’t been a problem for me in years.

I assumed you knew I was talking about the DXVK dev given that he’s literally an employee of Valve, as you mentioned. Either way, I’ll now be more detailed with my comment.

Of course all the contributors to Wine deserve credit too, and I do have an active Crossover license, but Valve are the ones who explicitly made a push for gaming on Linux and focused specifically on the gaming aspect. Wine covers everything, not just gaming, Proton is specifically for gaming. It’s doubly true given that they want to sell more units of the Steam Deck so they can get more people into the Linux and Valve ecosystem. Not that you don’t know that, but it’s worth pointing out regardless.

I’ve been daily driving Linux since before Proton was even a thing, and the difference between gaming then versus now is not even comparable, it is infinitely better now and keeps improving. I no longer have to hope that a new game will work or that I can somehow manage to get the right set of libraries and flags to get it to run, if a new game comes out and it doesn’t have a kernel-level anti-cheat, I can expect that it will work out of the box just fine without any tweaking because I have seen this happen multiple times now. I’ve even started getting into Mac gaming to get some of that tweaking and configuring thrill back that I used to get from Linux gaming, having to tweak and configure things to get them to work properly or to work even better.

Depending on the games you play, thanks to Valve with Proton and Steam Deck, most games are actually already playable on Linux. The only exception is newer multi-player online games with kernel-level anticheat. I haven’t done any gaming on Windows in years pretty much.

That’s hilariously disgusting. lol

I’d say “expected” might be a more fitting word.

That’s if it’s as high as 1%, I’d argue it might be 0.1% or less. It is one of the nerdiest things.

I think you’d be surprised. The average person has trouble remembering to check a device is plugged in when they’re wondering why it won’t turn on. People generally don’t know what “hosting” means, let alone “self-hosting”, it’s far nerdier than you give us all credit for.

How many people in your city know what self-hosting even is, though? Is it anywhere near hundreds or even tens of thousands? I’d be shocked if it was even 1000 in my city. I’m willing to bet every single person in this thread has technical skills that far exceed the average person.

Sure, I was just confused by the time period of which there was a 10% drop in BTC price - it’s now up 0.87% today, down 5.54% over the past 5 days, up 1.24% over the past month, and up 37% over the past 6 months, none of those are down 10%.