Every Linux desktop out there in some way apes the aesthetics of macOS, but not one of them gets the single most critical detail right. The sine qua non of Mac usability is right here in this screenshot: the global menubar. Not just making menus appear across the top of the screen, the menubar is actually shared by all windows in an application -- that is, when you make your app, you give it a single menubar, and you disable whatever isn't relevant. This is an aid to memory. The human interface guidelines specify how the menus are to be arranged, again to help user memory. GNOME is the worst offender -- they abandoned the menubar concept entirely.

It just comes down to I don't trust the contents of an SSD to still be there in 10 years, 20 years, to say nothing of whatever service I downloaded something from. Long-lasting physical media is more trustworthy. Nothing is perfect, stuff breaks, but my CDs are still here, still playing. That said, I still maintain we need a prosumer-level LTO backup tape standard.

In my lifetime. When I was a kid, HIV was beyond "scary". It was the red claw of Death himself. Every queer kid back then knew someone infected or dead from HIV, if they weren't positive themselves. We would have cheerfully committed many crimes to have this back then.

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Capitalism's final form seems to be renting everything, and being constantly monitored to rent you more stuff. I'm fucking over it. If I don't own it, I'm not interested in it. House? Owned. Clothes? Owned. Food? Owned. Entertainment? Owned. Tools? Owned.

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Microsoft could take the kernel from current Windows 11, and slap the UI from Windows 7 on it, and people would be FUCKING HAPPY to pay cash money for it.

Computers were a lot nicer when everything was on its own disk. You'd have a disk to boot up, a disk for your application, a disk for your data, it was fine. Physical storage management is much easier than managing a big tree of files, and making it all cloud based on infinite drives complicates.

While it's obviously very early in the development life cycle, I see Wayback as being on much firmer technical ground than having UI toolkits use Wayland directly. Criticize X11 for being a mess internally, that's fine, and probably accurate. Wayland should have been a layer between a thin maintainable X11 server and the hardware.

Yeah, and I am the "weird" one for preferring a Commodore 64 to the absolute dystopian hellscape of modern computing.

There are vanishingly few programs for computers that can justly be called perfect. WordPerfect for DOS was definitely one of them.