Your comment got me curious enough to check if dogs can get autism (I know you weren’t serious) - apparently there is “canine dysfunctional behavior” (CDB) which has similar symptoms.

I thought that’s where we were! Did we lose it in the lemm.ee shutdown?

Niri does have named workspaces so you can absolutely switch to fixed workspaces like you describe.

I have fixed workspaces but then temporarily add extra workspaces for side tasks - these are relative to the named ones but don’t stop you jumping to your named workspaces (assuming you’ve got your shortcut keys set up to match).

I think that the little extra work to have separate services is a small price to pay to have the kind of top notch user experience that you can only get with a dedicated tool.

Besides, it’s cool to have a load of different services. Most self-hosters seem to be constantly on the lookout for the next thing to install.

I think we’ll see a bump in users centred around October, since that is when MS had announced support for Windows 10 ended. They have recently announced that you can (maybe) get into the Extended Security Updates program for a year for free, but that’s perhaps too little too late.

My hardware’s new enough that my WiFi card doesn’t work on Windows 10 (and won’t, only Win11), but it works on recent-ish Linux kernels. Not contradicting you, but it was interesting to see.

I’m currently configuring my new linux dev/gaming machine. Thanks for giving me the push I needed, Microsoft!

I think you have me confused with a different poster. (I just checked and I’ve seen him in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Gladiator II and Mandalorian)

A decade is 10 years, he only really arrived on the scene 5 years ago, where’s the other 15 years coming from?

Your maths is as bad as mine - a decade and a half is 15 years, so I added 10 not 15.

Oops, no idea where that came from, unless the 1500 films bit confused my subconscious.

Huh, when you put it that way it sounds like a lot - three films a year for a decade and a half, plus the Mandalorian, etc.

As with almost everything, I reckon the truth is in the middle - that there’s a tribal backlash by those that consider “woke” a slur, and it’s being amplified by those who are genuinely overexposed to him.

extraSpecialArgs has real_escape_string energy

It’s not e-ink though, which was one of the defining features of a Pebble (and why the battery life was so good). Also, the Pebble guy is back with some new Pebbles: https://repebble.com/

I self-host open source software, pay for services that I don’t want to host (email, etc) and I prefer buying things to subscribing/renting things. I experience far less enshittification than most as a result.

Recently, someone asked about advice on a PC build, collected a lot of useful feedback then deleted their post once they had what they needed. Now all that work other users put in is inaccessible, and all that valuable knowledge can’t help anyone else. I think that’s a problem.

I think that PSU is larger than necessary for running a PC with a single graphics card - I haven’t done the maths but it’s probably comfortably under 850W (a common PSU size).

The memory is huge but fractionally “slow” at CL32 - I’d say 32GB of CAS latency 30 memory would make more sense (or even CL28). With such premium kit, you might even be able to use DDR5-6400 (running at 1:1 mode).

It’s a huge price though - a really good PC should cost about a half of that (or even a third depending on your local prices), those components are in the “money’s no object” end of the range. It does match what you asked for, so if you don’t mind the price it’s a solid build using all of the latest and greatest speeds and versions.

I think that credit cards are unambiguously tied to you, whereas a photo could be a bunch of people. I appreciate that having someone take a photo of you before you go to a porn site isn’t exactly anyone’s idea of a utopia.

The techies implementing it probably knew this, but hoped that people would just quietly do it and not blast the news all over the internet. Nope!

I guess soon there will be only the more intrusive/trackable options like credit card or bank details.

When I say accept, I don’t mean live in denial, I mean acquiesce. I resist it, whether that be by avoiding services/products, paying for premium, installing ad blockers or modding things to remove telemetry.

I am aware that my phone company knows where I am and I’m on cameras, but I’m not going to make it easy for the next Cambridge Analytica.

I can’t believe these bigots are so casually using the c-word