I got banned anyway lol. Reddit made it easy.

I’d be shocked if deleted comments weren’t retained by them

Too long, didn’t read, too busy enjoying pirated content streamed from my home server.

To be fair, the survivability of being hit by any big US pickup is pretty small. Perhaps the cybertruck is even worse though.

Pickups are explicitly exempted from a lot of crash/pedestrian safety laws in the US (I think related to them being classed as commercial vehicles), despite every other car on the road there being a pickup.

Very much like how they deliberately fucked up Google search results on Firefox for Android.

It only has E2EE if you use Google’s proprietary implementation. And even then it’s not the best implementation of E2EE.

There has been some chatter of adding it to the RCS spec, though.

Not that it matters that much, on Android you’re still locked to Google’s RCS API and the same will be true to iOS with Apple’s.

Eventually, yeah.

In the past Elon offered it as part of a bundle, with the deal being:

• You get to use the Tesla connector and superchargers

• Tesla still retains all rights and ownership of the standard and can revoke access whenever they wish

• You agree agree not to use Tesla in the event they infringe on your parents

Unsurprisingly, nobody accepted that deal. I wonder what it was that prompted Tesla to have a change of heart? Were they expecting the government to step in and enforce a standard, a la EU, and they wanted to get ahead of it?

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It doesn’t appear to mention men (or women) anywhere in the article.

Are you saying that because the one scan that is depicted displays a man, then the entire article must be male-focused? Because I don’t agree. Scanners work the same way for both sexes.

It even uses gender-neutral language extensively - someone, people, passengers.

I really don’t see where you’re getting this “the article is sexist” angle you seem to be going for from. Is there something I’m missing?

You think that’s bad? I for one am sick of going onto pornhub and my searches being “femboy Mastodon”

Oh man I can’t wait for the rational, level-headed discussions that would come out of this.

But yeah I do think a project like this will be inevitable, it just remains to be seen how palatable people will find it

Did you really just share an article without actually reading it?

so they’re the stubborn ones who keep wanting to make gnome different for difference’s sake?

Firstly, no? What about my comment made you think that? They’re basically the legal and operations portion of the project. They don’t have an input on development, at all.

Secondly, it’s not different for the sake of being different, it’s different because it’s a damn good UX, freed from the shackles of tying yourself to the early 90s WinUX paradigm.

If you like Windows UX, then great. You have plenty of options and Gnome not catering to you doesn’t hurt you.

If so, good riddance.

What do you mean? They’re not going away. They’ll easily be able to get more funding, and it’s extremely unusual for an operation like this to not be running a small deficit. In fact if they’re constantly running a surplus I’d find it questionable.

Maybe gnome can start working on becoming my de of choice again

Gnome is the most popular DE. They don’t need you and won’t be trying to win you over. They have bigger fish to fry than throwing out everything and making another WinUX clone to keep a Lemmy user (who probably still wouldn’t use Gnome anyway) happy.

To be clear: the funding from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund does not go to the Gnome Foundation. It is all earmarked for development work.

The Gnome Foundation is essentially all the non-development Gnome things. So stuff like organising fundraisers, liaising with other projects/companies/governments/charities, hackathons, Guadec, handling legal stuff like IP surrounding their name, logo, and other branding, etc.

I just found that today Gnome is now only about 20% according to Arch packagestats. I can’t find good stats for marketshare between Linux desktops.

You can’t seriously believe Arch is representative of the overall Linux desktop space…

Gnome is great, and I commend the devs for having the bollocks to come out and say “No, we don’t think Microsoft perfected OS UX in the early 90s”, and do something different that works well, despite knowing the amount of hatred and even death threats they’d get for the change. And yeah, they really did receive a bunch of death threats lol

They even gave years of warning about the upcoming Gnome 3 changes to give people time to prepare or jump ship, and they also included a “Gnome classic” option for a while at the login, both of which they had zero obligation to do.

I’m gonna be honest, I’m a person of habit and routine, so I hated my workflow changing at first, and I installed all kinds of extensions to emulate the Windows way of doing things that I was used to, then one day a friend said I should remove those extensions and give the vanilla workflow a real shot. Again, I hated it at first but after a couple of days it “clicked” and now I can’t go back. The workflow is a stroke of genius, despite being fundamentally extremely simple. I’m personally glad KDE is also seeing this and incorporating Gnome-like elements to their DE as well. The activities view is just such a good idea.

I understand that some don’t want to shift workflow and they just want to continue with the tried and tested WinUX paradigm, and that’s fine. They can use one of the other desktop environments that cater to that (KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, XFCE, Budgie, etc), or they can use a Gnome extension like Dash to Panel.

It evidently didn’t hurt the Linux desktop as the Linux desktop is more popular and more problem-free than its ever been. If Gnome was such a nightmarish shit show like people on Reddit and Lemmy purport, it wouldn’t be the default on a load of distros, they’d have jumped ship sometime in the past 13 years.

Just let people use what they wanna use, man.

I remember saying months ago that Qualcomm’s offerings often look excellent in synthetic workloads but fall apart in real-world usecases, and I got downvoted to oblivion and called an x86 shill for it.

I never found it likely that Qualcomm would be able to compete with AMD, Apple, or even Intel in the short term.

I don’t think it is mostly just the same CPU with a slight twist. It’d be mind-blowing tech if you showed it to some electrical engineers from 20, 15, shit even 10 years ago. Chiplets were and are a big deal, and have plenty of advantages beyond yield improvements.

I also disagree with stacking not being a crazy advancement. Stacking is big, especially for memory and cache, which most chip designs are starved of (and will get worse as they don’t shrink as well)

There’s more to new, radical, chip design than switching what material they use. Chiplets were a radical change. I think you’re only not classifying them as an “alien” design as you’re now used to them. If carbon nanotube monolithic CPU designs came out a while ago, I think you’d have similarly gotten used to them and think of them as the new normal and not something entirely different.

Splitting up silicon into individual modules and being able to trivially swap out chiplets seems more alien to me than if they simply moved from silicon transistors to [material] transistors.

We’ve already been doing radically different design concepts, chiplets being a massive one that jumps to mind.

But also things like specialised hardware accelerators, 3D stacking, or the upcoming backside power delivery tech.

Yup. I feel like people saying XP was the peak is mostly nostalgia.

You could make barely any UX changes to Win7 and people would still happily use it today. I don’t think the same is quite true for XP.

To be fair, though, I also have nostalgia for XP. I’ve played a silly amount of Space Cadet Pinball on my steam deck lol

I’m not going to what?

Yeah. You can’t take a joke at all. You’re even complaining about TV characters being immoral. It’s TV ffs. It’s not real.

Mac is not a real person. It is an actor playing a role. He is a work of fiction.