uBlock Origin on Firefox works fine.

“But optical discs are an old technology, everyone uses SSDs! Tape drives are even older technology! We need to SSD everything! SSD good! Oh no, why is that external SSD I haven’t powered up for five years and kept important file on it for fast access suddenly died? It was supposed to be the optical CDs that flake off and oxidize in a year or two!”

Meanwhile many open source GUI apps are better or at least on par with their proprietary counterpart, but you can’t flex with them onto noobs.

Can you elaborate on it?

If you like Java’s syntax and you were thinking “what if someone made Java, but actually good”, then try out D!

Positives include being extremely fast compile time, an optional garbage collector, and unlimited metaprogramming power.

Negatives include AI slop seeping into development for “hype” reasons (likely will result in a schism), some devs think the solution for the unpopularity of the language is joining the never-ending tech hype cycle (one of its consequences being an optional borrow checker), and opting out the garbage collection is a bit of a struggle though doable, especially if you can live without D native classes through betterC (C++ classes are still available, though interop with external code is not 100%, as constructor mangling is even weirder than standard C++ symbol mangling) and use the C standard library for basic things (memory-safe strings in D are fat pointers, and C does not like that).

Rust is an “industry plant” language. There’s an active campaign to shield it from criticism, by claiming no part of the language has any drawbacks, and that all haters are Brian Lunduke fans angry about trans people. In reality, it is being pushed onto things where its strengths are more often shortcomings, such as game development, where it’s causing active harm, especially as you’d need something with an actual C++ interop, and not just a trendy language written by someone who got angry for management forcing them to write FactoryFactory classes for stuff that could been a single function. I get that Functional Programming is “mathematically correct”, but it shouldn’t be the only tool, and you just go back being the person who forced you to write the FactoryFactory class, just because they read Uncle Bob.

If “non-slop” AI art is anything to go by, then I don’t have much hope for it. I guess it will be “LGTM and it compiles”.

At least until the AI slop updates don’t reach the kernel (at least they’re banned from some parts of it).

Now what will the corpo democrats do? They can’t pull the usual bullshit of “what if the more corpo candidate is of a more diverse background”.

Because their wealth is tied up in speculation.

So it’s just “AI is making up stuff that is vaguely resembling its training material” yet again…

Someone who’s more versed with techbro and TESCREAL lore: Does the spiral ring anything to you? I suspect some intentional manipulation from the AI vendors.

And to push us regular folks out of computing.

If corporate lets them use Qt instead of Electron, yes. If not, we will continue to see memory usage rises all over the place.

Have seen multiple ones going back to Windows after years of Linux usage, usually those who saw Linux as not a tool, but a “hobby OS” to tinker with. The moment stuff became “way too easy”, they left. (Also they’re usually bigots, and didn’t like the “trans coder” stereotype.)

I’m using Manjaro Linux, I’m going to the mountains instead.

Nah, I was just testing my theory of bigotry magnetism, it still holds true.

Should have been used up against the Kremlin. It is a disaster that it still stands as is.

Can you explain “total death toll of the Holocaust is estimated at 1 500 000”? Is this Nazimaxxing?

There are many reasons, including but not limited to taste, falling for neopuritarian propaganda, getting disgusted by the western loli community (they used to be awful before 2020), etc.