Jon Von Basslake

This is nothing new, just different words being coded.

See, that’s the thing. You’ve also been in the dev role and not just a manager or only mostly a manager. Good manager have background in or at least understanding of the thing they’re managing.

Unless SteamOS is counted separately from every other distro, I’d say it (via steamdeck) accounts for most of the growth.

One would imagine that the DX fanbase would be aware of what a bad idea this is, just think back to HR and the replacement chip thing… Now imagine that without there even being a replacement, that they’d have implemented all that in secret.

I guess Spotify could (and arguably should) add a feature to scan your device for the file, instead of you having to go add it manually. Is that what you meant? Because you comment comes across as you wanting the song to somehow be available on all of your devices despite you having it on only one…

If a raise of one dollar is that big of a deal, you probably couldn’t afford spotify to begin with.

This is a jab at Muskrat and his rebranding of the birdshite, I mean site, to X…

For me the cost isn’t so much the apps that get to know my location (I judge that for every app that asks it), but because having it always on drain battery fast, or at least it did on my previous phone and I have not intention of seeing whether that is any different on my new phone. Unless there is a legitimate reason for the app to know my location, the request is denied, and even for apps that do need it, I will turn it on manually, or if the app automatically turns it on, turn it off manually afterwards.

people even shortened to Insta

Everyone shortens it to insta, Facebook gets shortened to fb or face, youtube to yt or tube. Very few websites don’t get shortened, and those are usually the ones with short names, sometimes even monosyllabic names. Twitch, you can’t shorten that (at least no in any reasonable way), tiktok, and so on.

The rest of your comment stands, I just took umbrage with your implication that Brazil is somehow different in shortening names of apps and platforms. They might do it more often than others, but they’re not unique or special just for doing it.

Or that use old machines because they work and their entire workflow is based on it. Like, I remember someone (might have been LGR… it was some retro computing youtuber at least) mention that they knew a print shop or something that was still using like win98 or 2000 for their entire production (as in, handling the printing, setting the size etc.) and maybe even the sales terminal…

And I’ve read horror stories of places like machining shops running their cnc setup off of a win98 machine because the cnc router or whatever it’s called just won’t work over anything but parallel port, or that the software needed for that specific router doesn’t run on newer machines.

Because back in the olden days you could just hold down the physical power button to force a phone to shut down, same as you can do on computers still. This bypasses the frozen software and forces the phone to shut down so you can reboot it.

The heck? Murphy’s Law is “if something can go wrong, it will go wrong, often in the most catastrophic way possible”.

Porn may have been one factor, but the bad recording times on beta are what really killed it. Here is a series of four videos detailing the differences between beta and VHS. And there was plenty of porn available on the beta.