Espi

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Is RCS encrypted? I still prefer signal above everything else. Whatsapp seems to be passable privacy wise, but it’s Facebook so I don’t trust it one bit.

One way or another, Whatsapp is the standard around the world and it for sure beats SMS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
You can get used to any scale
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
If farenheit represents how humans feel then 50 is the most comfortable temperature right?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’m personally waiting for utf-64 and for unicode to go back to fixed encoding and forgetting about merging code points into complex characters. Just keep a zeptillion code points for absolutely everything.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
No joke that would be great for privacy and putting users first. Users would go the product to the customers and the platform would actually need to cater to them.

The same would happen with Twitter.

Now, social media depends on its massive size, so even if makes the platform more user-centric, it would reduce the amount of users and reduce its value.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PI is what⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
At that point just make pi 1 for even easier calculation
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPDATE YOUR BROWSERS IMMEDIATELY. RCE VULNERABILITY DISCOVERED⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
AVIF is supported everywhere and it’s fantastic
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
They just want money
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Linux is better for (most) developers!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
NTFS is by far the worse filesystem commonly used nowadays. Even Apple has a better filesystem.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Linux is better for (most) developers!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Windows had a fantastic UI but I despise the changes they have made to it.

A bottom bar showing all your windows? fantastic! windows are such a core component of the OS that it sure looks like the OS was named after them right? So why in the world would closed programs, with no windows appear there? why would multiple windows fuse into a single icon???

I was fine with just not pinning programs and setting the task bar to “never combine”, but they literally removed the option with Windows 11. I really don’t understand why Microsoft is de-emphasizing the ‘windows’ part of Windows. Apparently ‘never combine’ is coming back at some point to 11, so that’s good.

Now, I’m not going to compare the Windows UI to Linux DE’s since there are many alternatives that may or may not fit someone better.

As for hardware compatibility, I would say its a mixed bag on both directions. I moved my laptop from Windows to Linux when it started bluescreening when waking up from sleep. It works fine on Linux.

Sure, you have some WiFi cards that don’t work out of the box on Linux. But they don’t work out of the box on Windows either, you need to install the drivers on both OSs manually so its not any better.

Then you have some computers where Linux works like ass and can’t sleep, and you got some computers where Windows works like ass and can’t sleep.

The only solid arguments against Linux nowadays is
1. Programs don’t run.
2. The Windows display stack is vastly superior, VRR, HDR and fractional scaling all working fine for a long time already where Linux is barely beginning to figure them out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Linux is better for (most) developers!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Well so can you install Linux on Windows, Windows on macOS, Windows on Linux, macOS on Windows and macOS on Linux.

From that point of view, all OSs are identical (and to be fair, they pretty much are, nearly everything runs on a VM called ‘web browser’ already).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Linux is better for (most) developers!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Nowadays with WSL Windows is pretty good. Pretty much anything you can do on Linux you can do on Windows.

Now, not being worse is not really a point towards Windows. For developers its absolutely not worth it tanking the horrible storage performance, preinstalled ads and handing your soul to Microsoft for the privilege of not being worse than native Linux.