I used the Mcdonalds app a few times and the drivethru was always faster, lmao.

They require location services and don’t start cooking until you’re inside their geofence, but IME they seem to still prioritize drivethru customers.

It’s just that they have no idea how to answer the question

The road standards are designed to protect the occupants, not the other users on the road.

This is a critical flaw with current safety and CAFE standards.

You say that like a specific technology is inevitable, but it never is. The general march of tech will continue on, but no one thing is ever guaranteed.

e.g. 20 years ago everyone needed custom browser toolbars and now it’s not even possible to add one on major browsers. We eliminated the need for browser features by cramming 99% of what we need into a handful of websites that are constantly refreshed.

e.g. 10 years ago blockchain was surging and today it still doesn’t have a usable application. Turns out spreadsheets don’t really need to be distributed.

Machine learning is just an algorithm nobody understands. If I needed something to give me wrong answers to questions I’ll ask my dog.

On the other hand, discord is a great way to help organize a community wiki.

When you are trying to build a community

…Don’t use community software, got it.

Non-FOSS operating systems treat me like a product.

That’s not good enough.

It’s still popular because it was popular.

Also, it was simple and modular.

It was largely succeeded by monolithic and enshittified versions of iTunes, which have zero appeal these days. So it’s still remembered fondly for not enshittifying and not trying to build a walled garden.

Well, it is on Android…

But the main app is tightly integrated into the win32 api–moving it to linux would basically require a complete rewrite. DEADBEEF is an example of something like this. Parallel values and ideals, but open source.

There are wine-bottled versions out there. Of course, whether or not output is bit perfect would depend on the wine settings. Bottling it, of course, defeats the point of the program being highly modular/extensible.

Also, you have to remember that a lot of proprietary formats have proprietary encoders/decoders that are incompatible with the GPL.

Shipping Windows binaries are much less of a hassle for the dev than than trying to reverse-engineer everything they need or figuring out how to manage dependencies with different licenses across different package managers and distros with different goals.

tl;dl foobar2000 is an excellent sum of its parts; like Winamp was back-in-the-day. You start changing parts and you get a different sum.

So fewer guns to steal = few crimes?

Sounds like extra taxes are a good idea.

How many mac applications are coded using win32 api?

Put a couple 18650 cells under the hingle like it’s 2008

They’re still rich tho.

That’s where their arrogance comes from.

Self-sufficiency for thee.

Gov’t monies for me.

This is regulation that’s been bought and paid for.

We live in an unprecedented time of compromising pluralistic societies and international cooperation.

This guy: “lets go back to tribalism”

But Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014

When people say Vista was bad, they’re not talking about the operating system itself. They’re talking about the user experiance and context at the time:

• Most people forget we were all on the cusp of switching from x86 hardware to AMD64. It was a relatively easy transition, but it was a jump that provided some hard hurdles (drivers) everyone had to jump together. Some things were not automatically compatible. You would likely have to throw away some piece of otherwise perfectly functional hardware to upgrade. People didn’t like that.

• Also, we were also switching from single core to multiple-core computing. Software had to be written to specifically take advantage of this and often it wasn’t. So even if you had the latest and greatest hardware, the performance gains were often disappointing.

• The driver models had to change because Win XP was a security nightmare for most people. Browser security had completely been neglected by Microsoft in favor of pushing their ActiveX controls in IE6 and IE7. The entire security model had to change, but the UAC prompts were absolutely out of control. Still, it really was better than getting wrecked by malware.

• microsoft pushed new file formats with Office 2007 for absolutely hostile reasons and also transitioned to the ribbon interface. These might have been technical improvements, but they were more compatibility hoops people had to jump through that they were frustrated by.

• Apple was thriving. iPods were in everybody’s pockets and the first iPhone had launched at exactly the same time and was changing how people thought about computers. Vista was “more of the same” in all the wrong ways. Where was the innovation? Gmail launched in 2004, why couldn’t Microsoft make a competing offer?

• Finally all the cool, futuristic features that had been hinted at with Windows Longhorn were cut from Vista. If you were someone who followed those things, Microsoft over-promised and under-delivered.

Ballmer-led Microsoft had mismanaged their core products for years and it all came to a head with Vista. The consumer frustration was palpable and coincided with several architecture and forced UI changes that really made it hard for people to fall in love with Vista. Individually each problem wouldn’t have been a deal breaker but swallowing all the required pills at once left a sour taste in people’s mouths and had them looking at alternatives. It’s no coincidence that macbook and netbook sales rose sharply over the next few years.

You meant to reply to me?

People are ignorant by default.

You have to educate them along and let them choose their own path. Sometimes they wonder off the path of ideal development. It’s basic statistics.

We should demand that people contend with reality on a factual basis

You can stand at an open door and beg them to walk through it but you can’t shove them.

We shouldn’t be coddling people who profess beliefs that are demonstrably false, simply because their feelings might get hurt.

Meritocracy is dangerous. You cannot punish people for stunted development, it does no good. You can really only reward them for developing and contributing to the well being of society.

This is psychology 101 level stuff. If you want a society based on science, then use the we science have.