I have been using X11 since 1996, and I never felt that it was very good. Sure, at the start it was better the then state-of-the-art desktop (Windows 95), mostly thanks to Linux, but that advantage went away in 2001 when OS/X was released. And even Windows went past it at some point, perhaps around Windows 7 or 8.
Wayland took a long time to get there, but it definitely is there today.
PHP is Russian. Used to be huge, caused lots of problems, now slowly dwindling away. Its supporters keep saying how it’s still better than the competition.
And I’m thinking “hold on, there aren’t 2.7 trillion people here”
Element X is a completely different beast though. Not only is it a successful Rust rewrite, but they also fixed the system architecture of Matrix to improve speeds. They haven’t matched Telegram’s usability though, but they’re close to Signal’s.
Good ol’ Rust Rewrite fixing everything.
Rather brave to believe that you’ll have a product, an engineering departement, a marketing departement, a support departement or any employees in your startup.
My iPhone is repairable and supported until 2028. And because Apple is refusing to make more mid-size phones, I will be using this one until 2028 at minimum.
You seem to imply that to use a fairphone means using a phone you don’t like
I tried Pop!_OS alpha1 with Cosmic Desktop and I even if the general software quality is still what you might expect from the first alpha release, I was impressed on the high-level design decisions they made with Cosmic. As a sway user who would like a bit more structure and hand-holding in my desktop, I think I’m gonna like Cosmic in a year’s time.
Have kids, kill your kids, check out cutlery, kill yourself, kill others, visit toilet. In this order.
Just keep Pip away from any cellphones. He goes crazy with them.
I’m browsing the internet via a lynx browser that I was able to access inside a BBS. 300 bytes per second for 5 cents / minute.
Fucking magical.
Why is it that we have to talk about these things when there’s an economic downturn? Even Keynes thought that boom is the time to save money, recession the time to spend it.
I don’t remember any government doing cutbacks or delaying spending during an economic boom. It’s always so that when money is flowing in, spending is adjusted up. And then when the inevitable recession comes, suddenly we don’t have any money and are forced into austerity.
Is this entirely a symptom of democracy? Because saving is not a popular thing to do?
You’re welcome, corporal.
Beautiful train/metro stations can be found all over the world. Many of them are in capitalist countries.
I don’t know. Rust seems like a better C++ to me rather than a better C. Plain C is a very simple language.
Yeah, the Rust guys’ proposition is roughly this:
Hey you guys with 20-30 years of experience doing a single thing very well. Let’s nullify most of that skillset and replace it with a thing we’re good at.
Don’t worry, we will teach you.
They’re not technically wrong about Rust being a better choice for a kernel, of course. They’re just incredibly misinformed about the social hurdles they need to climb over for it to happen.
It’s like a good C++ that is actually able to replace it. There are lots of places where a good C++ is useful. Like everything that needs low latency and low resource usage.
But it’s not an easy language, so (I’m guessing) people who see everyone loving it but are unable to learn it start to suffer some sort of cognitive dissonance. If it’s too difficult for me to learn, that must be its fault, not mine.