If the content is still good, and it allows hiring more people and produce more of the good content, then what’s the problem with the channel being bought? Sure, it may enshittify in the future, but let’s not judge them for things that haven’t happened.

As someone who doesn’t use the voice chat feature of Discord, I am always confused when people suggest things like Mumble as an alternative.

They won’t let you send messages without finishing verification

I get what you are saying but I’m seeing this from a different perspective.

The first statement is saying “there is nothing you can do”. You shouldn’t care about your privacy, you shouldn’t try to be careful, you shouldn’t fight for yourself. The government is all powerful and you should accept your fate. That’s why I don’t like these sweeping absolute statements. They promote giving up.

The other is “this is hard, but it’s possible to win”. And sure, you probably won’t win if the government is specifically targeting you and sending agents with rubber hoses against you. But in all likelihood they aren’t. And there are many things you can do to prevent actual passive surveillance affecting you.

So “any phone” turned into “virtually any phone”, and the owner needs to be alive and apprehended, and then they “most likely” can, maybe.

See, I mostly agree with what you said. But you can see how we have moved the goalpost away from “there is no phone the government cannot get into”, to “the government can get into most phones”, which is quite a different statement.

Is this an advertisement? Sure, yes. The government can get into any phone? No.

Scott Manley has a video on this company and flew it himself, he was quite impressed.

A high quality VR store where I can actually physically browse the isles would be superior to trying to browse a 2D website. And being able to pick up a product, with a realistic 3D model, look at it from any angle and visually compare packaging sizes across brands - like I can in a real store but can’t on a website - would be nice.

I can’t tell you how many times I accidentally ordered a too small or too big version of something, because product photos on websites are always the same size (just fill the frame).

Of course, this will never happen. If a store had a budget to make this, they could use that budget to make their online shopping website 10x better instead.

Yeah, it doesn’t look like they are lying to me, the official Bazzite version is official as in, it’s made by GPD for their own device, it’s an OS you get from the manufacturer of the device.

They didn’t claim the Bazzite team is involved in any way.

No, on popular distros they are preinstalled, or only require you to check a checkbox in system settings.

I moved from Fusion360 to FreeCAD. It definitely has a learning curve. But I took a few weeks to properly learn it, and I can now do all I did in Fusion. It’s not as polished (although getting there with recent versions) and not as powerful for some applications. But it’s free, open source, and I can laugh at Autodesk and their subscription fees.

Due to the nature of git, all developers already have a complete backup of the project and the entire history without a separate remote.

More backups are always good of course.

Except the difficulty in migrating from GitHub is not moving the source code, that’s the trivial part.

It’s moving the discussions, issues, releases, free CI on GitHub Actions, free hosting on GitHub Pages, stars, visibility, existing community around the project on GitHub, losing contributors. These are the problems, not configuring git for another remote.

People assumed X, but in one experiment the result was Y.

And in his many experiments the result was in fact X, if it was just 1 on which it was Y?

I don’t actually disagree with the article, I’m just pointing out the title is meaningless.

That’s not what they said at all

No, that’s not why Google Glass failed. It would have failed even with a perfect display.

You do have to accept the gift though. You can’t just force a game onto someone.

You never used cheat codes in GTA San Andreas and the like? It’s a lot of fun

The data shows everyone uses their Windows 11 taskbar at the bottom of the screen. You can’t argue with that.

They were not only not allowing it, they immediately blocked the user’s attempt to put it on their servers and banned the user for even trying. That’s as far from allowing it as possible.