Natanael

Prediction: some collector of old gadgets will set up a computer room with dystopian vibes (old broken CRT screens, various anachronistic electronics, etc), then have their VR/AR glasses repaint the room as some futuristic base, and pretend they’re living in some cyberpunk world

Tldr escaping reality, but pretending you’re escaping another reality

Solvable by moving the locking mechanism out of the port and making one that you can retrofit to any cable

They really just need to demand that open formats are implemented in parallel with any proprietary ones, with no artificial feature/performance disparity allowed.

That kills any incentive to keep the proprietary ones locked down because eventually the open formats will be available throughout the ecosystem and users will have devices with support in the entire pipeline. Then users will simply no longer want to deal with the locked down formats for long and nobody will want to sell them.

You can solve that with state compacts which go into force when you hit a threshold where that’s not a risk

It’s not network effects (but slightly related), it’s opportunity cost.

Getting your app into yet another app store isn’t hard, but takes time, so you need to make sure it doesn’t cost devs more to add support for you than it earns them. The slightest fuzz and they’ll drop you if you’re small.

But stores like Gog are able to exist just fine. They’re big enough that many devs think it’s worth it to support them. If you want more devs to do so, tell them that’s what you want and show it will be worth it. And if you want to open another store, copy Gog & co

Federal law in USA is supposed to cover mostly commerce and interstate matters (and enforcement of constitutional rights) and what the states allow the federal government to manage. The federal gov is created as a contract between the states and a delegation of power from them.

So no. It’s kinda unusual in that way too, compared to other countries formed from multiple states.

Make sure to hit the Ballmer’s peak

https://blog.tangled.sh/intro

See also: https://fossil-scm.org/

Android too runs on Linux

Same. While I don’t necessarily do anything to actively avoid branding, I won’t wear anything where it’s prominent.

Bonus point if you bring stuff mainly from bankrupt companies

A split would create North Korea 2.0

Sprinklers and all kinds of stuff are more efficient with sensors and electronic regulators

The API has the wrong abstraction and the type definitions fail to capture necessary information (such as in which year you were of the given age) and thus conversions can not be guaranteed to be correct

How to we know what to test? Maybe with some kind of specification?

Bridgy started without that requirement and it pissed off too many Mastodonians so they reworked it

Have you heard of bridgy?