You overestimate the level of investment the average person can and will make for these freedoms. People buy Kindles because they work (and are heavily marketed), they buy Apple because they simply work, and will keep preferring windows to Linux until Linux offer a easier barrier to entry.

Microsoft will (almost already has) loose its advantage to Apple before it loses to Linux.

May be in the US (as Apple products are cheaper and people are dependent on iMessge)

Rest will remain on pirated windows or linu.many often don't even use computer.

Which distro and shell you've tried? I believe this makes a lot of difference, and there are distros that are catering for average users, but I have no ideia if it works.

Ubuntu, Mint, Debian lately. Tons of others before. bash shell

At some point Ubuntu had Gnome2 and only apt for packages, that made more sense than now

I love this article. It sums up everything I think it's wrong in our line of work.

Things have become very... Amateurish. Think of the way these apps got to where they are-who decided to put all those icons? Probably someone who hasn't a good understanding of usability but maybe - like someone with not enough domain knowledge - looked at other apps and thought that the icons look pretty, while having a small amount of understanding of their purpose.

Why is that happening? I have theories... Hypothesis. Maybe too many managerial types are calling the shots. Maybe we needed more workers than we where able to educate and the average skill dropped (a lot). Maybe companies realized that poor quality doesn't matter, because either customers don't have other choices or the choices that there are are as bad.

Good times. Although, I have to say, I was getting sick of SO before the LLM age. Modding felt a bit tyrannical, with a fourth of all my questions getting closed as off topic, and a lot of aggressive comments all around the site (do your homework, show proof, etc.)

Back when I was an active member (10k reputation), we had to rush to give answers to people, instead of angrily down voting questions and making snark comments.

Intervening in another nation, for whatever purposes, requires much more discussion and negotiations than there was here.

Why not: this looks terrible in my browser.

Also, many such games are on gog DRM free, and certainly pirates don't care where they get their games.

Yes they do. When I used to pirate a lot of games because I was broke I was gleefully happy to see a GOG release.

The scene exists for a reason, it is a very trust based ecosystem.

Yeah I usually trust anything a girl who is particularly fit repacks

I also like an empress although part of the fun comes from her rantings.

she really cracks me up with her rantings

good luck sourcing the (supposedly) malware-free release

the source is almost always the same forum, what's your point?

is such a forum always well-ranked on search engines? the point is to evade malware, obviously

This is wrong on so many levels it hurts.

Today I'm trying my best no to scream at someone because we have a logging function (yep, a custom log function) that is writing to a file. The logging function open and closes the file on each call.

I hope that's a leftover of a hastly debugging session udner pressure of time.

Software "engineering" :)