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If we go full on aykchyually on this, technically no, sure. I however assume most English speakers would be familiar with the idiom lol

Do I need to hold the opinion that water is wet for it to be factual?

To answer your question, if by climate change you refer to the dramatic post-industrialisation acceleration of warming and climate disturbances, the correct answer is "the overwhelming majority of existing evidence points to yes".

Interesting, I've always had the opposite impression - CUPS has always made it quite easier for me to use whatever printer I had at hand instead of having to hunt down drivers off the manufacturer's website, only to find out they stopped supporting it back in the Vista days.

For sim, its mostly the modding and third-party utilities that I can't be bothered to make work hehe. Maybe I just didn't spend enough time searching for alternatives, or maybe they just didn't exist, but I couldn't be bothered to spend the time to make them work last time I tried.

At this point its not even about practical and financial "disadvantages" for me but literal affordability. I'd gladly go to the office every day, if they weren't all hell bent on setting up downtown while having to live >1h15 out of town on a good day to be able to think about affording anything.

I just haven't found anything on the amp sim side that remotely approaches what NeuralDSP gives me. Similar to drums, haven't found any libraries that sound remotely as good as something like GGD. I've replaced most of my "simple" effects plugins with free stuff, sure, but VSTi/libraries have been more of a miss than a hit for me. I started around the same time you did. Back then it barely was thinkable to even consider Linux as a main OS for music production. Whatever works for what you do with it, and I can definitely see some workflows work with what it offers today, just not mine.

I'd be perfectly okay with that.

Agreed, anti-cheat and DRM are the last things truly preventing Linux to be a true one to one replacement for gaming in most people's cases.

I feel sorry every time I'm stuck going back to Windows. And admittedly, the situation is not even comparable to how it was ~25 years ago when I first started playing around with Linux, most things I want to do with a computer just work on Linux nowadays. There are still such things that just are not there yet - but for most of them, it's not necessarily Linux's fault.

If we limit the conversation to gaming specifically, one area where I don't see Linux taking over any time soon is competitive/esports oriented titles and their invasive ~rootkits~ anti-cheats. Another place I kind of have to live with Windows is simulation (in my case Elite: Dangerous and iRacing/Le Mans Ultimate) - the overlays and other third-party utilities either don't exist on Linux, or I couldn't get them to work and kind of abandoned the idea.

Audio production is also kind of a no-go. The DAWs and hardware support are absolutely getting there - Bitwig studio is apparently very good for something Ableton-like, and my DAW of choice, Reaper, has native Linux support. But the plugins and virtual instruments for the most part just don't exist. Some work through a Wine bridge, if you're lucky.

However, if you're not too deep in a niche with very specific pieces of software, or don't care about esports offerings, there isn't much tying one to Windows nowadays.

Incomplete prior knowledge doesn't mean it's simpler, just that it's inaccurate. Would the phenomenon you're describing really accurately be explained by something _simpler_?

Telling your employee to hire a Filipino nanny cause they (meaning Filipinos) are service-oriented, and liking Japanese cars is the same? Really? Come the F on, Jesus.

Are you thinking of any specific examples? I don't disagree that complex things generally end up having complex explanations, but I'm admittedly drawing a blank trying to come up with things where the most complex explanation ended up being the correct one.

Are you pretending like you just unpack non-stop for days whenever you move?

It is BOTH bad AND par for the course.

Most of the world's developers, even in not-poor regions, make significantly less than what your colleagues charge.

The constitution limits a lot of things that this administration has done regardless.

Calling what LLMs do just "reading" is, at best, naïve anthropomorphization.

Dark skin typically provides a protection equivalent to a ~10 SPF. Meaning some protection, but tons of the actual damaging UVB still going through.

I think part of the answer is how much American culture permeates a lot of the online discourse - including their ultra-partisan politics.

There isn't a single party that represents what I believe in - some are just overall clos0er to than others.

Took me a while admittedly (probably a "me problem") but it's a word play of "Uyghur".

> the sentiment of nuclear depends purely on which party you vote for

Unless you personally agree with whatever your preferred party's line is on everything and generalize that sentiment, I'm not sure how to get to that conclusion.

Could have all the best reasons in the world,

Which startups specifically are spending billions to build fab chips?

Almost anything can be made "about the kids" with the right framing.

Meh. Just this week, I've had two Sonnet 4.8 agents generate, in parallel, a 2000 line wall of brittle bullshit, and a well architected solution with 20% of the amount of code, to the same problem, from the exact same initial context, and very similar prompts. Come on, they can do poor quality work too.

You're right that it's as dangerous as it's executing random third-party code on your machine, but the method also has propagated far beyond PoCs and such at this point. All of these projects and many others push that install method: Bun, Deno, rustup, k3s, Docker (if using their helper script), Homebrew, Tailscale...

Growth only lessens their power if it benefits those without, which, even by the most optimistic takes, hasn't really happened since at least the 80s.

That works, until that inevitable one merge that's harder to fix and takes longer, which in my experience then tends to snowball until it's basically the very merge hell you were trying to avoid. Can't say I've ever had a great experience with long lived feature branches. I can't imagine what it would even look like trying to do this on such a massive project and such an overarching feature.

Funny, I've been emulating games for literal decades at this point, but remapping buttons is one of the first things I did in every one of them, so I never knew the defaults hehe

Money pays the bills, not ambition and competition. Every freaking thing out there uses money to keep score. There's no reason we should not use money to keep score of the people hoarding more and more of the money bags, and actively using their money towards leaving the rest fighting over am ever shrinking pot.