I’m glad I’m not the only one - the article is disinformation, “fake news” in the purest sense.

Hell yes - as long as it still fits in my pocket. That was a prolem with some of the later Blackberry models.

I’m surprised you didn’t hear about that, because it was a huge controversy. it was limited to a few countries though (or maybe only the UK?)

The equation they are thinking of, though, is “will the cost of those who actually quit using Windows outweigh the cost of building and maintaining this feature.” Funnily enough the inability to move the taskbar is what finally pushed me to Linux full-time, but the overwhelming majority will complain and stick to Windows.

https://store.kde.org/p/2144146/

Krohnkite? It unfortunately doesn’t have anywhere near the polish and ease of use as the PopOS implementation, for example its easy toggling between tiling and stacking. Nobody comes close to the way PopOS has done it.

Awesome, congrats to the team. I don’t use it anymore but I’ll always have a soft spot for PopOS as being the distro that finally made me a Linux fulltimer. I really wish KDE would implement their tiling system.

Default subs were already heavily astroturfed garbage. Smaller subs still generally fly under the radar, for now at least.

It’s worth it for the Elon burn alone.

I like that phrasing.

That’s true, but to reuse my comparison to Romans, we call Augustus “emperor” too despite the term “imperator” being co-opted from an earlier, different meaning. I can see both points of view here, I just don’t feel strongly enough to see it as a red flag. God knows there are lots of other, actual red flags.

I know, but convention is to use a person’s final and highest title. Nobody refers to Julius Caesar as “quaestor”.

I don’t think the Merkel comparison is accurate - no one called her Leader, we called her the Chancellor (Kanzler), because that’s the job title. “Chancellor” is a pretty specific word in English with a narrower meaning and clearer connotation than “leader”, which can be used in a huge variety of contexts. The problem is that English doesn’t have a 1:1 translation of Fuehrer as we do with Kanzler, and “leader” is too generic versus Chancellor, Prime Minister, President, etc. Maybe “Supreme Leader” would work, but I haven’t seen that used often enough for it to stick.

We also use “Dalai Lama”, for example. Changing it to “leader” would lose a lot in translation. There’s a very long list of more problematic things with Musk and this ego project than this particular wording choice.

Could be, but Rust has been around long enough that we’d see this already, no?

I feel like I’ve seen an insane number of error messages in various apps and websites around the unwrap method.

I suspect this is related to LLM usage somehow. We’ll probably see a lot more of this type of problem (sudden flareups of a particular bad code implementation)

It’s OK, you’re on Lemmy, we all use Linux here so you’re among friends (or bitter enemies if your distro of choice is Ubuntu)

You may be right, but I hope you aren’t.

The dotcom crash was no joke. Most people here weren’t around for it (as adults at least) so they brush it off. I’m not saying this next crash won’t be bad, I’m saying it won’t have the knock-on liquidity effects of 2008.

I believe the reliance on index type funds has increased at a drastic rate.

Very good point, although this will disproportionately harm regular folks like us, and the people in charge don’t really care about that so it won’t be as disruptive as somebody important (like a bank or a hedge fund, neither of which rely on index funds) getting into financial trouble.