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Those prices seem extremely reasonable. I will be looking at them for my next tv purchase, even though its probably more than a few years off. I just hope they keep the line

I've seen what large unions can do (just search for some of the largest Mexican unions, like the PEMEX one). Any organization of a certain scale and power gets corrupt, including private companies and unions.

I strongly believe in unions, but I agree with OP that keeping them small and focused is better for both the interests of the company and the employees. Extreme power imbalances are seldom (and I'd dare say never) good. I've seen unions effectively bankrupt business during tough times. I've also seen what unchecked corporate power can do. The right mixture of regulation and collective bargaining is a good thing, but like always, too much of a good thing can quickly turn bad. As an example, you can end up overprotecting unproductive or counter productive employees, reducing bonuses and pay for the other hard working employees because of reduced profitability.

Personally, that's a feature.

I'm into drugs as much as the next guy. Ayahuasca, peyote, and similar things are just hallucigenics. It's all BS from people who don't know what it feels like and link it to spiritualism. Religion might be dead in the 21st century, but spiritualism is definitely taking its place.

I've had light issues on every new PC I've had in the past 5 years. Be it the sound card, or the WiFi, or the NIC, or suspend / sleep. I will state all the issues were usually fixed in 6 months to a year as new kernels with improved drivers were released. So Linux on bleeding edge hardware is usually so so. (My TR workstation wouldn't even boot Linux without a specially compiled kernel and some boot parameters when it came out).

But if your hardware is over a year old, the Linux experience tends to be rock solid.

I guess I'm the second magical user.

I've been running Linux ever since Windows 11 was announced, even though I was relatively happy with W10 + WSL. I had tried it quite a few times over the years but had never stuck with it until now, because it all just works... All my games have worked mostly flawlessly. I'm a developer, so all my tools were already available. I'm in love with KDE's design and customizability and relatively happy with its performance. The AUR is a godsend.

I actually have to use office quite a bit and settled on freeoffice (which is freeware and not open source). It works perfectly for my needs. The Teams client is crap but I've always dodged it.

Evolution suits my needs (O365 connectivity + a host of other personal email accounts). We still need a better Linux email client, I'm seriously considering it making it my lifetime hobby project (I'm imagining a server + client implementation to make it easier to decouple the UI as I'd really like both a TUI and GUI).

The only thing for which I spin up a VM every now and then is for graphics editing (I use the affinity suite which is amazing for its price but just doesn't work with Wine).

Really the only people who can't use reliably use Linux are those who use proprietary apps that don't work on Wine (which there aren't that many) and designers. If you're a power user I'd definitely recommend you give a spin. You might like what you find.

Governments need to start treating open source in a similar manner to academia and research. A grant based system for open source projects of measurable impact. We need to fund those developers so they can continue working on their projects without economic constraints. I concur it would contribute to significant economic growth.

Bash scripts most likely

WSL2 is virtualized and no longer a traditional windows subsystem (and it never really was traditional from what I gather, compared to the OS/2 and Win32 subsystems)

Quite interesting article on the dynamics of launching social networks.

They basically try to have every user from a specific community start using the service at the same time, creating strong community wide network effects from launch instead of a fragmented user base with the traditional approach where users install at different times from their social peers as they learn about the app through marketing or word of mouth. Making so new users rarely have contacts on new apps whenever they try them out.

It seems the only reason this was targeted at high schoolers is because they focused their community boundaries on each high school, but this approach seems promising for any new social network targettig any community of any age

It makes sense if you look at AMD's reasoning. They state it's intended to be the "World’s Fastest Gaming Processor", so a single chiplet CPU makes sense. It seems this is a bit of a market tester, as they also state that productivity workloads will be either impacted negatively or not at all because of the slightly lower clock speed. I hope if this product does well we'll get the other models with the same cache configuration.

If you're ever interested in trying it out again, the MATE desktop environment is an up to date fork of Gnome 2. Most distros should have a version available with it. I believe ubuntu has one.

Those days never left. There's been a ton of TBS games released throughout the years, some of them very very good. It's my most played genre by far.

Endless legend, XCom 2, Fallen Enchantress, Age of Wonders 3, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, battletech, some tbs rpgs like divinity original sin 2, the total war series is a hybrid RTS/TBS genre, card games, tower defense games, and auto battlers.

VLC can be installed on most smart tvs and has excellent DLNA support. I still use plex but have DLNA as a backup when the internet goes out (better local network connectivity)

It's invite only, in case anybody was up to give it a spin (like me).

I live in Mexico where houses are made out of concrete. A house fire is even worse, because you end up with a structurally unsound concrete shell that has to be demolished (and is quite expensive to do so). On a wooden home you simply rebuild on top of the ashes.

Though in this case it is quite obvious that there are some parties making an obscene amount amount of money in healthcare, there are businesses where employees feel underpaid, owners lose money / break even, and customers believe they are overpaying, so no one is happy. Childcare is first example I can think of.

Have you tried Rider? I ditched VS as soon as I found it, but I already used intellij idea for java projects. It works perfectly on Linux.

They have limited international penetration and their platform

Most cheap smart tvs come with roku OS. I wouldn't call that limited penetration.

just as going from 98% effectiveness to 99% effectiveness halves your risk (you go from 2% chance of falling ill to 1%)

its a common concept in games in which armor follows a linear formula (each point of armor is more effective than the last when calculating effective health)

Have you used dotnet core lately? From 3.1 and onwards? The ecosystem (both tools and libraries) is quite nice, and C# is great and getting better (can't wait until built in sum types)

It's honestly one of the most enjoyable developer experiences out there. Almost everything seems well designed and cohesive

I've lately become convinced of the same thing. An idea i've had is instituting some sort of digital marketing tax (which doesn't reach consumers directly) and using the money raised to directly fund open source projects (especially desktop OSS projects which have much less resources than server oriented ones). I'm thinking straight up paying for developers salaries directly as long as you can prove you are working full time on a OSS project that has a minimum user base, as long as the project is completely non-commercial.

Obviously each country would only hire their citizens / permanent residents, so it can also be considered a jobs programs of sorts. 200 billion dollars were spent on advertising last year. A 1% tax would net 2 billion a year, assuming your average OSS developer will work for 150,000, that's 13,000 developers you could fund with that tax. This also avoids Mozilla type situations who need 300 million a year to develop a browser by directly paying for developers instead of funding companies which spend on marketing, executives, and god knows what else.

While WSL2 makes it no longer necessary to switch to Linux, I've seen a ton of people making the switch due to Windows 11. Most things just work, better than on Windows.

I just switched a few months ago (after having tried it n times over 20 years), and this is the first time I'm sticking with it. Gaming works (I haven't found any games in my steam library that don't run OOB with proton), all developer productivity tools work, office productivity is solved with the rise of O365/GDocs, as hated as electron is every (or almost every) electron app out there is cross platform.

The only things that I haven't found suitable replacements for is graphics editing (I use the affinity suite on a VM), and probably CAD products and the like. But for 95% of users, desktop linux works better than Windows atm, everything works perfectly after installation.

Regarding the printer, in Windows I have to go to brother's site and download a driver, I've never had windows auto detect and properly configure a printer + scanner (just the printer, if your lucky). On Linux I just click add printer, it auto detects it and installs it, including the scanner.

I'm extremely happy with mxroute, pricing is great and support is quick. I even host the email of two small companies there.

That's exactly my fear with these types of regulations. They severely limit innovation. I'd much prefer the manufacturers themselves to decide on the standard, force them to if you have to (likewise banning non compliant devices), otherwise you get something like what happened in Korea in the early 00s, when they regulated active x for online payments. That didn't age well and took a long time to change.

When .net core came out and we decided to move to Linux, we asked our devs if they were familiar with a specific distro. All of the ones who had used Linux were familiar with Ubuntu, less than 10% had tried fedora. We made the decision then and there, and we're happily surprised when we compared the support packages. Not that Ubuntu is perfect (they love strong arming their house I'm house tech like cloud init, snaps) but they're better than red hat and have full commercial support.

Unpopular opinion but... most of them are more than good enough. .net with C#, java (though I'd probably use kotlin), typescript, and go are the most popular ones and they will all do whatever you need with pretty great performance if written correctly.

I'd do a simple CRUD app in all 4 of them and see which one I liked best from tooling to language design.

Except for Wayland, and KDE stuttering. I have an AMD and an Nvidia PC, both running Manjaro. AMD is really much less problematic than Nvidia for Linux.

You can absolutely install updates. It's what I run as a second OS for very very few games and graphics editing (unregistered with watermark)