I can only speculate, but people can feel resentful toward a technology while still using it. "I need this shitty tool for work but I'm increasingly uncomfortable with its social/environmental/economic/etc. implications."
I think that most of the people who react negatively to AI (myself included) aren't claiming that it's simply a useless slop machine that can't accomplish anything, but rather that its "success" in certain problem spaces is going to create problems for our society
Big vibe shift against AI right now among all the non-tech people I know (and some of the tech people). Ignoring this reaction and saying "it's inevitable/you're luddites" (as I'm seeing in this thread) is not going to help the PR situation
Gonna try to be charitable, but this really feels like gaslighting. There's a lot more to the story of how much someone is thriving than "Nice place to live. More than enough stuff. Family and friends who love you." I'm burnt out because my fancy job requires me to live in an area with a cost of living so high that it's a genuine family crisis when the washing machine breaks because we don't have enough disposable income to replace it. It's not just a meaning problem out there.
I realize this question goes against the point of the article, but: What specialized tools/languages are people currently using in this space? Every time I go down this rabbit hole, I wind up hesitating forever between Csound, Supercollider, etc.
I'd argue it'd be psychologically healthier to roleplay in a chatroom with people who are human on the other end (if that could be guaranteed, which it no longer can).
I made the move two years ago and it's going great. Currently running Debian 13. Gaming was the last thing for me but in my case, that's no longer an issue thanks to the Steam Deck.
I didn't know about these Sonic games, but as a Doom fan, I have to say that the use of the Doom engine for Sonic makes good sense. The way it feels to move around in "3D" space in Doom is one of the best parts of the game, IMO; there's a weight and sense of momentum to the player that I found lacking in full 3D games like Quake. I could see this working very well in a platforming/kart racing context.
I have not implemented a solution to this, but it's been on my radar for a while. The two best options of which I'm aware are:
1. Export a .ics file based on your agenda (support for this is built-in) to a shared folder to which your spouse has access (syncthing/dropbox/whatever). Your spouse would then use their calendar app to subscribe to the ics file. When you push changes to the ics file, they would automatically propagate on the calendar.
2. Use built-in org html export features to generate a simple page showing your schedule and either host it on your local network or put it in a shared directory as described above.
edit: sibling comment has a better suggestion (org-caldav)
Slight off-topic, but getting organized was a lifelong struggle for me (I was the person who had a five-foot high stack of unorganized papers and crap in their locker in middle and high school), and org-mode is the only system that broke me out of that cycle. It has genuinely changed my life. It's not for everyone, but if you've been unsatisfied with everything else and keep jumping from system to system, it's worth a try. (Especially now that you can get Claude to just explain the basics of Emacs configuration to you, which wasn't the case when I started.)
Whether this is true or not, it's an emotional reality for the Millennial generation. The Boomer/Millennial rift is fundamental, and only getting worse. Everyone I know (barely an exaggeration) is financially struggling, but has Boomer parents who are wealthy. They don't help out dealing with debts or starting a family, even though they are easily able to do so from a financial perspective, and constantly imply that it's their children's fault that they're in the situations they're in.
Pumped for this. I was (and am) massively impressed with Debian 12. I've been an on-again off-again Linux user since around 2003, but this release was the one that finally got me to switch completely. The jank factor actually seems to be less than that of Windows and macOS at this point, which I never thought I'd say.
Cynic in me says: "wait as long as possible and hope that the next administration doesn't care." I think there was a similar event recently with Apple vowing to make a big investment in US factory infrastructure or something, but the projected date was 2028.
I'm not a Christian, but one of the main questions I have, reading this, is whether Francis would have had the same reaction if Catholics had been the ones doing the massacring after their faith was insulted. Something tells me that he wouldn't, and I think that's the most troubling part.
It's been a while since I've seen it, but isn't it just that he has been swallowed up by the house and now he's "at" the eternal party where he saw all the ghosts during that one scene?
I can't believe I'm saying it, but I agree with you about GNOME being my forever desktop. I used to really make fun of GNOME during the 2->3 transition, which seemed so profoundly misguided, but now I love it. I don't know if they've massively improved it or if my perspective has just changed with time.
I know it's a bit silly to criticize something offered for free -- I'm glad it's there for those who want it! -- but I really feel like something of the original aesthetic has been lost in translation here. The before-and-afters aren't always flattering to the new version; everything is glowing orange. Darker atmospheres have become brighter.
Just stopping in to give a shout-out to Brother. The black and white laser printer I bought a few years ago (HL-2390DW) is the first reliable printer I have owned in my life.
While acknowledging that I don't know whether I can tell the difference in every case or not, I would summarize my own preference for lossless audio in the following terms. Choosing lossy audio, my best case scenario is that I save space or bandwidth because I can't tell the difference; my worst case scenario is that I'm missing some element of the music, whether it is consciously noticeable, something I'm unaware of entirely, or perhaps something that I may only be experiencing on a somatic level that doesn't reach the level of conscious thought (I know that the possibility of this last option will be contested by some, and that's fair enough). Choosing lossless audio, my best case scenario is that I'm hearing the music in a higher fidelity, and increasing the amount I'm capable of appreciating; my worst case scenario is that I'm wasting some space or bandwidth for the reassurance. Basically, Pascal's Wager, but for audio.
I think that this is 10+ years of resentment on the part of Reddit's users against Reddit itself coming home to roost. The perception of Reddit's attitude to users for a long time now has been "well, we're making all these user-hostile changes, and we don't care what you think about it, peasant. You can just shut up and keep using old.reddit.com as long as we feel like giving you permission to do so, but one day that'll end too." I think for a lot of people this latest drama is just the last straw.
I've often wished for this (a system where some users pay to circumvent tracking/ads, others get the "general experience"). One theory I've heard as to why companies don't go for this idea is that the paying users are the ones that that are valuable to advertisers, because they are actually willing to pay money, vs. the free users who would be endlessly mined for little gain.
Emacs comes to mind: it has a codebase stretching back to the 1970s and is still actively developed, with a dedicated following of users (myself included).
For anyone interested in understanding more about the context behind this, I recommend checking out this presentation [0] and HN discussion [1] from a little while back.
Xtal is one of the very few songs that I could not possibly imagine getting sick of, no matter how many times I hear it. It always seems to sound new, letting you notice different dimensions of it every time.
I mentioned it in another comment in this thread, but I LOVE writing on this thing as a lefty. It reduces my wrist strain massively by freeing me from having to "push" writing instruments against the page from left to right (I know this isn't something every lefty struggles with, but I have a wrist injury that's made writing on paper a worse experience in general).