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W4RH4WK55··on Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury (2022)
For what it's worth, I am a big fan of ergonomic keyboards and quite recently a company released my dream keyboard. It may certainly not be the right choice for everyone, but I highly recommend giving it a try.

https://eu.perixx.com/products/perixx-ergo-mechanical-keyboa...

W4RH4WK55··on Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard
A bit of a loaded question, but how do you feel about xbox f-in up major titles like Halo Infinite and Phil Spencer just saying "yep, we are sorry, that's on me". When a) there doesn't seem to be any change in quality assurance (see Redfall) and b) the devs still take the hit (see 343).

To me it's incomprehensible how they managed to f-up Halo Infinite, then just stand there in silence and then say, yeah we are sorry for not having a lot of interesting titles on Xbox, but here's what's coming next year.

If I were a game dev at Microsoft, I'd be furious!

W4RH4WK55··on Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry
Do we have any indication that telemetry leads to an actually improvent of the software's overall quality at this point?

It seems to me that even with excessive levels of telemetry, software remains buggy and sluggish most of the time.

W4RH4WK55··on GCC 14 Adds Initial “-std=C++26” Plumbing
I wonder when support for modules lands so we can see that the design doesn't work out and deprecate them.

Sorry if I am too salty here, but really, it's more of a joke at this point, isn't it?

W4RH4WK55··on A thread on the deterioration of accessibility in GTK4 and Wayland
Gnome/GTK accessibility has been deteriorating for years. Unrelated to Wayland.

Hamburger menus that cannot be navigated with Alt+_ shortcuts (and sometimes not even with cursor keys) are the prime example.

W4RH4WK55··on Mullvad VPN Now Unavailable from the Google Play Store in North America
While it may not be as convenient, note that you can use plain wireguard with Mullvad.
W4RH4WK55··on How to lose your work using Undo Copy in Windows
Windows should just prompt for confirmation if the file differs. A reg key should allow a user to disable the confirmation.
W4RH4WK55··on Visual Studio UI Refresh
Please! Give me the option to keep the tight spacing and small controls we currently have in VS.

Personally, I really prefer the compactness!

W4RH4WK55··on Why People Shit on JavaScript?
Well, my take is that the language isn't that great, but I really really dislike the ecosystem.

The sheer amount of code you get, even when using seemingly lightweight dependencies is just such a dumpsterfire.

I once ran cloc on a react getting started example. The example, including its dependencies, contained more than 3 times the lines of code than a 3D game engine (targetting PS4/5) + game logic + dependencies for a (non-indie) title I was porting around that time.

W4RH4WK55··on Krita: A professional free and open source painting program
What place are you working at where that is considered NSFW?!
W4RH4WK55··on iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
Yes, about how to move it to another phone, especially when my current phone just died. Maybe I dropped it and now the display no longer works.
W4RH4WK55··on iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
That I can just take the SIM out and put it in a different phone?

what's the migration process for eSIMs?

W4RH4WK55··on Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads
We recently had blog post closely related to the topic: https://ph3at.github.io/posts/Asset-Compression/