May or may not be related, but English used to make use of the thorn character for many instances of “th” in modern times, but it wasn’t available on german printing presses so “y” was often used instead, which i think was a contributing factor to “thou” going out of favor since itd always be “you” when printed.

“Y’all” has become more popular over the last decade in english for sure, somewhat reinstating an informal option for plural. It very much used to be a southern US thing, but its increasingly being adopted as a way to replace gendered english words when addressing a group directly. The article you liked mentions that a bit, tho i don’t know if anyone has done the work to determine how much that adoption has increased.

Sorta https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mobility

Mobile-specific distros like PostmarketOS function much better in general at the moment.

The pittance that most of these companies do contribute is in no way a fair share of the profits they reap from using FOSS.

Valve is an exception to the rule.

You’re arguing that the factory owner giving a few bucks to someone who produced a tool that improved productivity of the factory is somehow a just compensation.

FOSS will always be incompatible with capitalism. There is no incentive for the capitalist class to pay for the open source they consume.

Consider Debian without a GUI (i.e. “headless”) if you are setting up a new device in the future. There’s no reason you can’t run mint or mint DE for a server, and the presence of a GUI on the install is not significant for self hosting unless you are pushing the limits of your hardware. The differences between mint and Debian when it comes to how all the kernel bits and service configurations are set up aren’t going to be significant for most casual self hosting situations.

But for now, just keep doing what you are doing. Make changes when you move hardware, that way you can test some stuff out on the new hardware while keeping your current setup running.

Anthropic may avoid saying the dumb things OpenAI says, but do not mistake that for being a better company/product. Amodei is still out to eliminate all jobs and has a history of being just as self-serving as Altman.

Steam deck hasn’t sold that many devices compared to PlayStation, switch, or xbox. Wildly successful for what it is? Yes. Was it ever going to become a significant % of all gaming consoles? No.

It can handle normal paper sheets too

IRN BRU

For what its worth, many package managers support some method of exporting a list of installed packages to a file (or in a way that can be easily piped to a file), and its not difficult to pipe a file of packages into a shell loop to get the behavior as described.

Native support in the package manager would be nice, sure, but the Unix philosophy of providing tools that can easily augment each other to solve problems means this is generally a trivial thing to implement by anyone in a way that works best for their use case.

Also Zen exists, which is a Firefox fork that implements the concept of Arc

Arizona has several long-standing laws on the books requiring both public government properties and businesses to provide drinking water without cost or other barrier to access. Businesses can’t even charge for the cup.

Common courtesy unfortunately doesn’t go far enough, especially when it matters most, so law is required.

This isn’t exactly the type of work tons of astronomers are doing, nor does it cut into their jobs. Astronomers have already been using ML/algorithms/machine vision/similar stuff like this for this kind of work for years.

Besides, whenever a system identifies objects like this, they still need to be confirmed. This kind of thing just means telescope time is more efficient and it leaves more time for the kinds of projects that normally don’t get much telescope time.

Also, space is big. 150k possible objects is NOTHING.

National debt doesn’t work like consumer debt bud. Learn some economics. Nor is the trump admin actually using it to pay down the debt.

Anyway, defunding the NOAA to pay off the national debt is like skipping a coffee, once, to pay down a mortgage on a house.

Good to know. I only lost about 30 out of 5000 or so going from Spotify to Tidal. Seems like the catalog gaps for both Tidal and Quobuz have become less of an issue over the last few years.

The big annoyances were some playlists with orchestral and jazz albums that I had to find again via slightly different album names, but those are a mess on any platform due to re-releases and compilations being chaotic enough in that space as it is.

I’ve heard (annecdotaly) that Quobuz is much better for orchestral and instrumental music in general. Spotify wasn’t great for it. Tidal is a bit worse, but far superior than Spotify for Jazz at least.

I’d rather have it in my desktop workspace than nested in a web browser, plus it can integrate better with native media API’s for media buttons, notifications, and other items being aware of the audio, which the tidal web app doesn’t do out of the box.

Yep! It’s a good app overall, even has some improvements over what is shipped on macOS.

https://github.com/Nokse22/high-tide is new and promising for a better experience overall. I’d always prefer native over electron.

Absolutely! It works fairy well. A little clunky since the Linux support is bolted on after, but it’s not noticeably worse than the macOS experience. The extra options it offers over what tidal ships to macOS are also nice.

These non-native electron apps are all kinda junky for native music listening anyway. (This is a problem with Spotify’s desktop app as well)

Tbh, podcasts through a “storefront” is a poor way to experience them. It’s meant to be decentralized via RSS feeds. Tho having some cross-device metadata about what you’ve listened to is definitely helpful.

I’ve been using Pocket Casts for a long time for that more refined experience and ease of use between listening devices. Their new owners are ethically complicated nowadays (Automattic), and the cost for their pro features is a bit high unless you are a podcast fiend (I was grandfathered in from their old mid-2010s pricing scheme that was pay once/own forever), but it’s a good app (for now).

This is great to see. I ended up moving to Tidal from Spotify, and even though there are some nice to have features missing from Tidal (an equivilant to spotify’s sync between devices/speakers as well as a better Android Auto experience), it’s a far superior experience.

Quobuz is also on my radar, but they’ve traditionally lacked in the music catalog space. I need to give them a try again now that it’s been a few years.

That said, Tidal barely has Linux clients and I don’t think I’ve seen much movement for Quobuz on Linux, unless I’ve just missed it.