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@jamesthomson This is why I have used a lot of private browsing to read articles on completely legit sites. I simply click on Accept all, read what I need and close it, hoping the browser won’t leave any trail behind on my device. The only downside is that the tracking will be 100 % enabled on their side, in the logs and maybe some database or they will sell my data to third-parties. So … no, it’s not ideal. I just find it practical if I absolutely want to visit the website.

@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social It’s definitely ridiculous! I get North Korea vibes from this.

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social All OSes? So, a fridge running Android will require age verification in the US?

@morrick@appdot.net I have had the same cell carrier since 2004. They had amazing deals during their startup-rebel era (an actual cell carrier — not MVNO pseudo carrier). Eventually they stabilized and the investors wanted profits after several years of customer acquisitions from the established competitors. They lost the underdog feeling I loved. However, I still *like* (not celebrating) them and they did eventually give me a special-deal cell-service contract. Super cheap.

@ahltorp @Chancerubbage @gadgetgav @jacob Yes exactly. This kept being a thing for both the original iPhone, iPhone 3G and the early iPod Touch models (1st gen and 2nd gen). I still have the iPhone 3G and 2nd-gen iPod Touch and they both can’t run iOS versions newer than iOS 4.2.1. Neither handles real multitasking: force-quit with UserDefaults save and restore code is a must. Done properly, the user will *think* it’s multitasking.

@morrick How tedious! Here’s hoping you recover soon from the cold 🤞. Wish I could say the same sbout the allergies, but that’s much trickier.

@kim Dunn, Roger! Over! *kssh!*

@jamesthomson You don’t need any gravity. What you really need is for Scorpion to say: ”Get over here!!” 😉 (I’m looking at your choice of font for the ”Critical hit” text in red)

@unknownuniverse @thelinuxEXP It makes sense. It’s one of very few downsides of having an open-source kernel. Maybe even the only real downside. Well, ultimately it’s up to those big commercial entities to change their minds.

@tek@freeradical.zone The problem is that UTF-8 wasn’t universally used until the advent of smartphones.

@tylercheung@mastodon.social @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social I don’t use gaming PCs and feel kinda lost in the gaming GPU world of things. I only know about the budget vs mid-range vs premium setup, from my ownership of GeForce 2 GTS way back in the yesteryears of using a PC with Linux for many years. The only non-retro PC I have at home these days is my WFH laptop, aka my employer’s HP Elitebook with Windows 11 Pro. That one is ”beefy for M365”, but not much else.

@Migueldeicaza Really cool web design, too!

@chirpbirb So, kale is a product of KDE 😉

@morrick I think his strategy is “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”. In terms of ethics and the image of Apple, it’s backfired considerably. It’s terrible! But, regardless, I think that’s the strategy he’s using.

@stefano @openmeteo @grunfink @FediFollows Thank you for providing the service! It’s a great initiative and I think this brings value to the Fediverse in such a way that new potential users will make the leap to create an account on Mastodon or any of the others like Pixelfed, etc.

@dimillian Perfect! That one is the most critical of all things for me in the app. Highly appreciated time spent on fixing it! 🎉

@anderseknert@swecyb.com It’s obvious we’re not in a situation where John Connor needs to save us from SkyNet. (TLDR; Sällan jag ser andra svenskar på Mastodon 👋🙂)

@jef @cstross @kottke Don’t forget Contiki OS: https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/commodore-64-web-server-brings-8-bit-into-the-future/

@_inside Two weeks ago, I went into the $HOME folder’s Library/ and deleted old simulator runtimes worth 200 GB (two hundred gigabytes) of data, totalling more than 3,5 million files. Here is one of the Empty Bin dialogs I managed to capture. EDIT: There was more than just runtimes: cache and just leftovers all the way back to Big Sur, as its the M1 Mac Mini. I cleaned up 1/5 of internal storage (1 TB flash).

@johnsundell Underbart att höra! Det bästa jag hört denna fredag hittills! 🙂. I learned a lot from hearing your thoughts on Swift dev and you guys brought me a deeper insight into what it’s like creating apps professionally (I’ve been a hobby Swift dev since 2016, rookie-grade Obj-C hobby dev since Xcode 3.x). The tone of the podcast always felt humble, nice and enthusiastic, so I always enjoyed listening to the conversations. Looking forward to tuning in again soon!

@morrick@appdot.net Agreed. It’s been several years now since I switched.

@unknownuniverse @thelinuxEXP I have used Linux since 1998. Gaming never took off until Proton came along, so there is no other way to solve this. The sheer amount of gamers means that hardware manufacturers and exhibits will all start focusing on Linux gaming. Microsoft technologies will transition to being an Enterprise-only OS. But, does it need 70, 80, 90 % market share before Linux-native games become first-class choices? I don’t know. Sales profits will decide.

@Migueldeicaza I have wondered this myself! Would it decrease the chances of memory leaks, perhaps?

@v@merveilles.town @NoFood4u@wetdry.world Good one! 🫢😌

@morrick Aah, I see. Thanks for the explanation.

@markusms@mastodon.cloud Is Apple thinking that people will be paying money for this Studio bundle? I can see what a premium experience it is.

@morrick There are alternatives: to write once and still look great on multiple platforms, natively compiled and the UI adapts to each platform. Looks, responds and behaves properly. I just fail to see why big corporations like Adobe become so lazy all of a sudden with the UI development. I don’t think the users (designers) have become so stupid that they get visually lost when switching between Adobe products on Mac vs WinUI. Maybe it locks the user into an Adobe-specific workflow.

@morrick@appdot.net Yes, TextEdit has an RTF mode and can even handle ODF (OpenOffice/LibreOffice documents). Meanwhile, Notepad has gained … dark mode. I think there’s some other new thing in there, too. Maybe Markdown support, possibly?

@morrick@appdot.net I think the 914 shown in the video thumbnail looks hideous, to be honest. It’s interesting, because not every premium car model looks stunning. This includes me not admiring the design of exactly every Lamborghini ever produced (although I like the vast majority of them!). Note: I wish I could search Mastodon to find my previous replies to you, regarding car discussions. Sorry if I end up repeating myself. UPDATE: Mastodon on the web only found an unrelated Porsche mention.

@ccgus I’m all about building natively, but if I discover that a desktop application was made using web technologies, I much prefer seeing that it was made using this higher-performing framework than the RAM-wasting Electron.

@tylercheung@mastodon.social @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social However, I am impressed with Tim Cook’s logistics guru skills.

@natpanferova Getting to understand what SwiftUI expects from the developer is extremely valuable. I think that’s the right approach to take in learning how to make apps. Advice that help developers avoid spending half of their day fixing layout errors or debugging unexpected behavior from something like NavigationSplitView.

@unknownuniverse @thelinuxEXP I’m not a game dev in Unity, nor Unreal engine, but games are usually made in C++ and C#. Just think how many game platforms game devs need to support: PS5, XBOX, Win 11 and sometimes Android + iOS. They can do it because the code compiles on multiple OSes without rewriting the whole game. Native Linux support isn’t rocket science, but their boardroom investors demand market share. I’m confident your F1 one day will be on Linux natively.

@tylercheung@mastodon.social @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social No, I’m an M1 Mac Mini owner (and 2012 i7 Mac Mini before that). What if they always end up being sold out at times when consumers are interested to buy one? 😅.

@drwx @morrick Market-leader arrogance, is what I would call it (Hej, förresten)

@simonbs@mastodon.social How about he instead signs up for an ice-bucket challenge?

@unknownuniverse @thelinuxEXP Doesn’t matter that it’s Proton, because it drives market share. Once you hit 30, 40, 50, 60 … maybe even 70 % market share in the future, no one will bother with Proton. Most people are using Linux for gaming at that point, so they better make native games to satisfy the *main* audience.

@morrick@appdot.net For most of my life I have had a special eye for Porsche and Lamborghini, since getting posters I put up in my room as a little kid, starting in roughly 1990 or thereabouts. One of the posters depicted a Porsche 911 and the other being the Lamborghini Countach. Both were red. I think Boxsters are pretty cool as well. Maybe I’ve told you already: there’s a game I had for my PlayStation (1st gen), Porsche Challenge, which is where I discovered that the Boxster model existed.

@morrick I can’t even make sense of how to read it, even if I read it as “chill morning deep house”. That’s not a sentence I understand! Reminds me of “Good tea. Nice house” from Star Trek: Next Generation, though!

@unknownuniverse @thelinuxEXP I honestly forgot about anti-cheat, but it will be interesting to follow progress on, if there is anyone trying? There’s gotta be a way to solve this.

@AshtonDev @CodingItWrong @marcoarment I don’t mind paying for major OS upgrades if they go back to a proper macOS-centric UI and fix any usability issues and do other big improvements. But, if it became a subscription it would be really dangerous: I would never subscribe to an OS.