Gnome on the laptop, its keyboard and touch gestures are the best for notebooks. I also like its simple design and reliability.

KDE on desktop, I’d use gnome, but kwin has more gaming relevant features.

Yeah but I imagine porting a JVM and an API using open source code is much easier than reversing the Windows API.

MS is literally back to square one its about damn time.

They’re even worse now and aggressively pressure you to use edge if it’s not the default.

Big if true! Thanks for sharing, I’ll keep an eye out. The closest thing I’ve seen is Halo Infinite making the highres textures a free dlc

Download game, enable offline mode on your steam deck for vacation.

Open game on the plane, in offline mode, get booted from game because you can’t log in.

Megaman battle network got me this way. Switched to emulator and played the same game before it was enshittified.

I honestly don’t understand why games don’t simply use something like Android does.

If I have a 720p monitor, download lower res assets and a smaller game. If I have a 4k monitor, download all the pixels and consume 100gb.

Walmart online is eating Amazon they don’t have a monopoly

We built a Durable task workflow engine to manage infrastructure and we asked a new hire to add a small feature to it.

I checked on them later and they expressed they were stuck on an aspect of the change.

I could tell the code was ChatGPT. I asked “you wrote this with ChatGPT didn’t you?” And they asked how I could tell.

I explained that ChatGPT doesn’t have the full context and will send you on tangents like it has here.

I gave them the docs to the engine and to the integration point and said "try using only these and ask me questions if you’re stuck for more than 40min.

They went on to become a very strong contributor and no longer uses ChatGPT or copilot.

I’ve tried it myself and it gives me the wrong answers 90% of the time. It could be useful though. If they changed ChatGPT to find and link you docs it finds relevant I would love it but it never does even when asked.

iirc CyanogenMod was trademarked so the creator no longer had rights.

Its kind of sad, but I’m sure the author knew what they were getting into

Ahh that explains why Ecosia has remained so pleasant to use. Bing can’t scrape it anymore 😅

Google Pay/Wallet

Right now tap and pay is completely and hopelessly corporate

corejs haha

The airplane captive portals generally don’t work if you use a different DNS.

I’ve always had to defer to “automatic” DNS and let DHCP give me the DNS address in order to access the wifi

But yaml forces the indentation

I don’t have one myself as I don’t like jewelry.

However you can gather a lot based on the release history in the Infinitime wiki

Agreed! However I don’t want to set unrealistic expectations

Spirit is already a non starter for me because my legs don’t fit in the seat haha

I always reject this. The TSA agents are always nice about it.

The last one even explained to my peers why one might want to refuse facial recognition.

This… Doesn’t make me feel any better about flying Southwest

I only know of the Pine Time, however they warn that their watch OS is community driven and under active development.