I’m also annoyed by PWM artifacts on taillights.

Fuck commission based sales.

But then you’re buying the phone from google, which is not great if you’re trying to boycott google.

OOP smells like a pro-putin propaganda account. Someone else doing something bad doesn’t make your own acts of murder any more justifiable, especially when you’re murdering someone completely different than the wrongdoer.

You can scan a document to PDF, sometimes the default orientation isn’t correct.

You mean you don’t open the terminal and use mkdir?

I mean, so do I, but it’s not something I ever needed to do on a phone.

Oh, you mean characters that are actually on the keyboard. I thought you meant stuff like ‘Δ’ or ‘°’

Do you know how to create a directory on your phone? Lots of kids have never used a desktop/laptop, just phones and tablets.

That’s not one helpdesk needs to know, unless you’re in a specific niche where it’s relevant to how your normal users interact with your product. (For example, some backend service, where your users are web devs)

Yes, helpdesk should know the basic steps that happen when you power on a computer.

Can someone distill the good faith argument against rust? Is there one?

https://xkcd.com/927/

The problem is that even if it’s objectively better, you can’t magically convert everything instantaneously, and it’s a lot more work maintaining rust and C versions of the same code until everything is re-implemented in rust.

What they need to do is throw some spaghetti at the wall, see what’s fun, then throw their hundreds of millions of dollars behind THAT.

The problem with a benevolent dictator is that they die eventually, and are replaced by a non-benevolent dictator, or a civil war, or both. Unfortunately it looks like the US democracy might have the same outcome.

The threat of violence is the fundamental basis of all political power. Politicians act in self-interest, and will be exactly as corrupt as the people allow them to be.