I mean, yeah. You ever ask an average software “engineer” to have a constructive conversation with someone a different department? It’s a nightmare.

I guess I’ll start screening my surgeons, attorneys, and accountants for how well they know how to use Zoom. This seems reasonable.

If Mastodon wanted to be preferred, it should have been better. I moved to Mastodon over a year ago when the Twitter sale first happened. It was not great then and it’s gotten slightly worse since. I created a Bluesky account two fats ago and it already offers exactly the experience I missed from Twitter before Elon.

Would it be better if Mastodon was good and the federated FOSS option was superior? Sure, absolutely. But, that scenario isn’t even close to the case we are presented with.

Arch on my desktop and laptop, Debian stable goes on everything else.

. I’d say this counts for sure.

Fuck, probably Boromir too.

The meme betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how mobile OS work. They’re not “running in the background.” If they haven’t been interacted with recently they have been frozen and moved out of active memory. Tired literally just looking at a picture of an app when you go to the task view.

Corporate support of development, and I’m not just talking about Redhat and SUSE. Hell, Microsoft is a major contributor to the kernel.

It’s not for me either. I really do appreciate what the episode does, mechanically, with its storytelling. It just doesn’t land for me. I’m glad so many people enjoy it.

They’re not public anyone who’s seen it has signed an nda.

SAAS is a scam developed by venture capital to make their otherwise nominally profitable tech gambits able to bilk clients of cash on a scale not even Barnum could fathom.