Ah. Yeah, I don’t know of a way to get ACC on Linux.

Regarding Linux, what commercial software are you dependent on? More and more, it’s all online, even Office.

Sysadmin? You haven’t needed to be a sysadmin to run Linux for years.

Just in case people don’t know… Yes, that’s the actual headline. Pretty sure Vox is actively trying to get our attention.

I don’t like this. I really, really don’t like this. On, like, a visceral level.

It’s incredibly short-sighted of them. Windows is the gateway to easy integration, especially with 365. Drive people away from Windows, it could ultimately start driving people away from Microsoft services.

If Microsoft would just recognize that at this point, operating systems are a commodity and loss-leader, it might inspire them to de-enshittify Windows and focus exactly on the services you mentioned.

When was the last time you used it? These days, VS Code is on par with any high-quality IDE. And it works well on Linux, which is a bit of a surprise.

Microsoft has become such a bizarre company. On the one hand, it’s trying to be super developer-friendly, with tools like Typescript, VS Code, and DotNet Core being easy to use and multi-platform. On the other hand, they seem hell-bent on making Windows itself - their bread-and-butter offering - as hard to use and annoying as possible.

It just doesn’t make any sense.

That’s a good point. I gotta be honest, I’d forgotten that Adobe bought Photoshop.

But what if they want to notify you about great deals and coupons? DON’T YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT GREAT DEALS AND COUPONS?!?

I remember when Adobe was a cool company that built art tools. Now it seems like the art tools are an afterthought, tacked onto a money-siphoning scheme.

If it’s personal behavior, there is no line.

Seriously, we need to internalize this: If you support Donald Trump in 2024 at this point, there is no goddamn line. There is nothing too atrocious or puerile or insulting to his own base that he could do or say to lose them at this point. He owns them.

I used to joke that he could literally eat a baby live on stage at one of his rallies and not lose supporters, because he’d insist it was fake news even as the blood dripped down his chin.

It’s not a joke anymore. He really could do it, and far too many of his supporters would believe him over their own lying eyes.

Trump support, at this point, is a mental health crisis in this country.

Jeez, he’s lucky to be alive at all.

“Why do you hate freedom? And America? And puppies? And apple pie?” -Republicans, probably

This isn’t a case of No True Scotsman. There really is a right way and a whole lot of wrong ways to do Agile development. Any team that calls itself an Agile team that doesn’t actually follow the processes properly is doing it wrong and will fail.

That doesn’t mean any team that’s doing it right will succeed, but it’s like riding a horse: If you only climb halfway up the horse and try to hold on while at a 90-degree angle, it’s not going to work, and it would be stupid to declare that the concept of horse-riding is broken. No, it’s not broken, you’re just an idiot who thought you could ride a horse while only halfway up, clinging desperately to its side.

Yeah, Agile isn’t really at fault here. If done right - if you’ve got a scrum master, a proper product owner, proper planning and backlog grooming, etc. - it works really well. The problem is some companies think Agile is just “give the devs some pie-in-the-sky hopes and dreams, let 'em loose, and if they don’t give half a dozen execs exactly what they want (despite their massively conflicting ideas on what they want), cancel the project.”

Sounds like some deeply, deeply internalized self-hatred going on there.

Wow. This is… wow. OK, look… I like the sentiment, the idea that healthy relationships in general should be depicted more often, but can you name the last ten shows or movies you watched that feature healthy depictions of LGBTQ+ relationships? I can, because those depictions are so rare they stand out. I can’t name the last ten shows or movies I watched with straight relationships in them, because that’s literally all of them. Yes, including the ones that also depicted LGBTQ+ relationships.

There needs to be more healthy representation of relationships. But specifically straight ones? Nah… We’re saturated with those enough already.

Holy shit, he actually said that.

This, right here, is a prime example of a political headline that looks like it comes from The Onion.

New motto:

Linux: Still An Operating System, Not An Ad Platform