A completely unanimous decision by a legislature who fought their way into the building and defended themselves with fire extinguishers just so they can vote to stop it. You do NOT see that every day. Damn.
What do we gotta do to light that fire under the ass of some of the rest of the world’s politicians?
Medieval perspective: we trap lightning in magic rocks and make it think for us.
I will never forget getting excited at the old boot screen as a kid back in '96. That was the sound of the future arriving in your living room. A more hopeful time.
Kerbal Space Program. But that’s not “action”, more like simulation, and, the entire game revolves around accurate, realistic physics, since it models actual space travel. So accurate to the point where you can build and test crazy real world concepts like the machine from that company that wants to put stuff into orbit by spinning it and then flinging it up through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
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Are you…not familiar with standard program menu bars? Am I that old?
As a Millennial I make it permanently visible, because that’s how programs worked in my youth and that’s how I use it. I have to actually spend more mental energy using the “hamburger” menu instead of the top one because it’s unintuitive to me.
With the old style, things were always more or less grouped the same way. File IO operations in “file”, manipulation tools in “edit”, help topics in “help”, and so on. If you learned the basic layout, you could easily jump right in to most programs and use them immediately without having to learn a custom UI that is different with every program.
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You didn’t buy an oven. You bought a node for someone else’s botnet.
Good enough for MS-DOS, good enough for me.
Or Inspect->find the stupid <DIV> with the paywall in it->delete it. Works on some sites.
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So the deer blacked out at the party and woke up with a high-vis vest on with no idea why?
That’s what German did. They call it Haifisch.
People use Windows because it’s easier
No. People use it because it’s what came with their computers (look at ChromeOS, that’s Linux), and it’s what they grew up with. If you sat a kid in front of a Linux machine, and that’s all they ever used, they’d be just as comfortable using it as a Windows user on Windows. I still have technical MS-DOS knowledge from when I was 12 years old. Totally useless skills now, but it didn’t stop me from using computers in the late 80s. Computers were orders of magnitude more user-unfriendly then, but we all managed.
Might want to give it another shot these days. Gaming has become exponentially better since then with Steam’s Proton software. Still not perfect, but being able to do 90-95% of them ain’t bad. The last technical hurdle is games with kernel-level anti-cheat.
I found that switching to Linux made me able to understand both OSes better, and computers in general. Half of my computer science knowledge comes from screwing around with Linux.
You can still dual boot to keep self-teaching yourself latest Windows concepts so you don’t fall behind there, while experimenting and learning on Linux in your free time.
I’m not sure why everyone is shocked. This has been the case since the beginning of the public Internet. It’s their servers, their infrastructure, and everyone should have been completely aware that we are giving them content for free. I was never under any other impression, even back when I was using Usenet and IRC. That’s why I don’t post anything on social media I truly care about retaining ownership over.
We aren’t taught or encouraged to explore or experiment by our educational systems. We are taught how to do something, and then don’t question it. There are tons of people that cannot meaningfully play with Lego without assembly instructions. The idea of trying something out of the norm from what they already know never enters into their head.
Like, back in the day, I literally discovered I could drag and drop files directly into the “upload” area on some websites and it would automatically post the file to the site. I didn’t even know it was possible, I just out of the blue wondered if a browser can work like a drag and drop file manager and just went ahead and did it.
I’m getting annoyed that every damn thing is turning into a web app now and JS/Chrome is even infecting desktop programs that traditionally were written in a real systems language like C or C++. The technology world feels janky and bloated now, built like a house of cards where one thing is relying on 20 other things, some of them in the cloud, to work right.
Programming these days seems to be more about glueing various services and APIs together to come up with a solution instead of actually coding it.
You’re gonna get some framerate drops for sure. The Steam Deck internal screen is only 1280 x 800, which is how the games run so well on mobile hardware. That’s as high as a monitor from the late 90s.