Haven't you been here long enough to know that there's gonna be some posts about changes in Linus' habits?

My wife also complains about my keyswitches, but of course she could just not sit on the guest bed behind me or literally on my lap.

She has of course been complaining about my clicky keyboards since 2000.

Kailh White Owl Box or Kailh Box Jades are much better than MX Blues. (White Owl Boxes require slightly less force and Box Jades require slightly more.)

They are much smoother out of box while Kailh just makes better keyswitches than MX at this point.

There's also the Kailh Box Thick Clicky Navy - these are quite a bit harder to press but the sounds and feedback are huge. They are tiring and feel like something is stuck in the switch to me, but they have their favorites.

A VERY small number of customers have true perpetual license agreements.

Broadcom came to my employer with the SAME letter, which was definitely a shakedown and 100% illegal in Japan. We have actually been moving away from them, so it was kind of funny.

This particular lawsuit has almost nothing to do with CrowdStrike.

I still wonder how Europe is going to handle all the people that drive vehicles (out of necessity) and likely don't have any way to charge. That's a big problem here (JP) where many, many people have small services (40A) and no external power access at all.

We do have registered parking spots for each vehicle, and that might very well be how it's accomplished, require every parking place to have a BEV charging spot, but Europe doesn't seem to have any of that.

The worst Digital Markets app situation is literally Spotify, an EU-based app that absolutely is being ignored by the commission.

They have absolutely and clearly targets American companies and while I was born in America, I left 25 years ago and have only worked for highly APAC-centric companies that in general don't do business with the EU, because we don't think there's enough profit to the amount of trouble.

Tobi is 100% a developer FYI of all the crazy things - core RoR programmer and all that as well.

Buying from Amazon is easy, buying from SOME Shopify sites is a nightmare.

> 3) Apple computer hardware is fragile and has been for years. Their phones are less so, but still compromised in order to get that last millimeter of fake thin-ness (fake since the camera bulges out.) Their current performance is impressive among low-end devices, but they're still not building with quality first in mind like they did back in the 68k days.

Who in your mind is building better hardware? (The only people who actually track this stuff all says Apple is #1 and at least in my own org, Apple fails WAY less often than anything else, though Panasonic laptops are a standout over other brands for us.)

The person who wrote the original pieces is delusional AF.

I use Linux heavily daily for work, 100% of my work code runs on Linux. I've been using Linux since HJ Lu's book disk.

There's no Linux desktop that's even close to replacing Windows and MacOS and the situation has somehow only gotten worse with time. My wife is a "normal" MacOS user, she seems to have no complaints. I'm a developer user of MacOS, I have no real complaints.

Hate to tell you, but whatever company you work for, the "real" corporate ledger is probably in Excel.

Whole lot of ERP consulting later, you find out this sort of "master" data source is VERY common. Maybe its not always Excel, but often there's some weird master data that someone in Finance and maybe someone in Operations has to manually fuck with to make things make sense.

What's cool is when it's something else really wild like Lotus 123 (but the DOS version), SuperCalc, Multiplan, some random shit someone came up with in a dBase-like software written in ALGOL-60 that runs on PDP-15 and is in fact the reason that they still have a fucking PDP-15 and it actually just write the data to a TSV which is thing transferred over a serial port through a pearl and then to their ancient Sony NEWS system and then gets imported into SAP. You try to take the TSV file make it into a CSV and import it into SAP, but then nothing works and eventually 113 million dollars later, you just leave the PDP-15 and Sony NEWS in place but buy 4 spares from Yahoo! Auctions JP. (I wish this last part was actually a joke, but sadly it is not.)

There's all sorts of issues with ReactOS, but I never imagine a world in which it would be called "bloated". It's tiny AF, like 64bit version is only like 180MB in total.

This thing is basically Win NT 3.1 which in total used about 70MB or so of disk space (but around 100MB on MIPS ... which I know because we still have NEC RISCstations in production manufacturing. Fucking manufacturing.)

You cannot really "accidently" submit to the survey, it brings up an entire dialog box to do it.

What's this Chinese thing you are on about?

The Russian devs were kicked out because they were associated with sanctioned entities and the entire rest of the world outside of the SinoRusso sphere has sanctioned them. There was no "racist rant", there was an entirely polite reply when everyone was well aware of why, but then chose to make a bunch of rants.

This is in fact a huge Rust bullshit rant. We're unfortunately having to look for another language ourself for embedded development because ultimately the Rust Community has an ACTUAL five alarm fire going on all the time doing stuff like this with Social Media brigading.