No less than The Economist uses the BMI (“Big Mac Index”) to compare economies.

Cellebrite isn’t American.

Representives Omar and Tlaib would disprove that point.

We used to have progressive income taxes that did this.

Reagan, Thatcher and their ilk pulled them because “trickle down, a rising tide lifts all boats, thousand points of light, blah blah blah”

Alabama Burning

Yup, am a Canadian, can confirm.

We stopped building public housing in the 1990s, because we were all told that “the market” would provide. Well, the market provided. For real estate developers and house-traders.

Maybe, oh, just build public housing at scale instead of relying on a patchwork of underfunded and undergoverned agencies and P3 initiatives?

It sadly doesn’t quite work right on KDE. You can get close: you can show an application launcher, or a exposé-like window overview, or a pager, but you can’t show all of them at once in a way that’s easy to work with between like Gnome does.

Heck, even Gnome regressed Gnome 40, as you don’t get the vertical desktop overview any more. At least there’s shell extensions that let me get Gnome 3’s behaviour back.

It’s a real pity, because I like KDE, and definitely the KDE apps, more, but the Super-key overview is no hard to quit.

Aren’t these things trackable? Don’t phones have an IMEI and can’t they be remote-bricked if stolen?

I mean, police don’t care, but Apple could render these useless if they wanted to.

The only reason I don’t use KDE is because it doesn’t do the super-key expose/dash/overview like Gnome.

If you thought Viagra and Ozempic had a market, just wait…

This will be huge amongst the wealthy.

Jesus Christ, if that’s real, the WaPo editorial board needs a slap upside the head.

Stop. Rationalizing. Trump.

What I am really unsure about is if there’s even a market for Halo anymore.

I’d like to think that a plot-heavy, dialogue-heavy game has a place in the modern era, at least after God of War and Ragnarök, but I don’t know if that’s what the kids want, and I really don’t think the industry wants it because it’s expensive and the ROI is low compared to PvP extraction shooters, which are cheaper to make an easier to monetize.

I want to play a story through, and I want to care about the story and the characters and the dialogue. I cut my FPS teeth playing Marathon (Bungie’s predecessaor to Halo) and never got into the shallow-plotted shooters that id Software was pushing at the time, but I think the market has largely passed me by.

This focus on the engine and the focus on company structure does not give me hope.

Filesystem snapshots are the best thing since sliced bread.

Oh, if only that were true.

But what about that one guy who writes absolutely brilliant VB?

If someone could port AUX’s UI, that would be perfect.

And as a fellow System 6/7 fan, it’s love, not masochistim. Long live the spatial Finder!

Regime change coming up for the sake of “freedom”.

Anyone who reads the National Review likely doesn’t care, but I’m glad to see calls for “decorum” levelled against the right for a change.

Well, ackshually, Linux is just a kernel… /s