I just randomly tried KDE recently and made the swap from Linux Mint to Kubuntu a week ago. Definitely agree on the polish factor, everything just feels great with KDE and I've been pretty happy

The whole point of adopting this hard-charging management style was to get employees to innovate faster and catch up to competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the all-consuming battle over AI. Instead, Meta has been falling farther and farther behind.

Falling behind in what exactly? The race to the bottom?

I thought you could still install apps from other app stores if you just enabled the setting and wait a cooldown period like 1 day? Maybe they changed the policy though not sure

Sorry if I'm daft but what's the pihole blocking? The "Live on LG channels"?

I have an LG OLED but I don't use the TV OS

The other day I saw a guy struggle for 2+ mins trying to scan his membership card on his phone to activate a gas pump. Meanwhile cars were lining up behind him, he was super flustered and eventually he had to pull around to the back of the line to try again. Have fun with your phone apps but that shit ain't for me, I'll just be an old dude carrying my cards around

If you've been on that version for a year and a half, probably nothing major is broken. And with software these days, that's invaluable 😂

It sounds like OP is already self-hosting and wants an external backup solution?

I'm also in that boat and use rsync.net. It's been reliable enough and pretty cheap. Borgmatic runs a nightly job to sync to a local + remote repo

Depends on the state/law. Also from the blog

It can get worse. New York’s proposed Senate Bill S8102A requires adults to prove they’re adults to use a computer, exercise bike, smart watch, or car if the device is internet enabled with app ecosystems. The bill explicitly forbids self-reporting and leaves the allowed methods to regulations written by the Attorney General. Practical methods for a bill of such extreme breadth would require, in many instances, providing private information to a third-party just to use a computer at all. Privacy disappears.

Gambling seems to me like one of the most destructive addictions out there. If you have money you can pretty much consume as much drugs as you want and still have money. Gambling is the one addiction that scales with your income and can leave pretty much anyone homeless no matter where you start from. It's terrible

tfw your cat identifies as a purple monkey in a bubblegum tree

I do! And also got my dad to switch to it this year 🙌

It's always been good, and in the past few years they have been adding scanning for various documents, the lack of which was my only complaint about it before.

Hmm I transferred a lot of my stuff from GitHub to GitLab a while ago mainly because of the free private repos. Was thinking about moving fully off GitHub but glad I waited 🙃 Still going to do it but gotta figure out which providers actually have their heads somewhere other than up their ass

I'm also a mobile app dev and at my workplace they're having non-mobile devs submit code to my codebases totally vibed with no understanding behind it. It's absolutely causing problems, especially for me, who is one of the only lines of defense keeping stuff even remotely maintainable.

So yes basically you're right. If people only used it to learn and do initial code review passes and other reasonable things we'd be totally fine. But that's unfortunately not the reality 🙈

My software dev colleagues don't do it and they're getting paid. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest to hear that a bunch of students wouldn't, lol

DisplayFusion for monitor backgrounds. Bought a license like 15+ years ago and it's still getting updates 🕺

That's crazy, how is that even legal? You should have to deliver someone's W-2 either to their physical address or provided email address.

I'm not sure about the video game rules but the game state when a team is up by 150+ doesn't make sense either. Because the team down by 150 would be disincentivized to catch the snitch despite that being a main objective, as it would immediately end the game with them losing. The matches need to be on a timer for the rules to make any sense, but I guess that would have been less interesting to write 🤷‍♂️

TIL Firefox has an emoji picker built in now 🕺 I've been using an extension for that for years but it's kinda inconvenient

You don't even need to check in .gradle to a repo, I always have that gitignored. And gradle projects should specify commands to build from CLI rather than having you download an IDE. Android Studio gives you a nice run button but it's just invoking ./gradlew installDebug under the hood

if you have a shih tzu they don't respond to jack shit except what they want