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@birnim@fosstodon.org @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Think of it as of a way to spur up discussion.
And the whole "If I ignore it it will go away" approach doesn't always work that well 😅

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org The idea that GNU/Linux could be more successful if some thing get standardized is not new. But since it was new popular distros gave us nice "standardized" things like systemd for example! Or pulseaudio!
So bringing this idea up now looks out of place and just stupid!

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org At least you can have the feeling it's the end of the week and not feel guilty because it is really Thursday, not Monday 😂

@hj @lebronjames75 You don't think so?
You don't think SO, right?!!!

@Hawk1291 @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Actually it did! A lot of game developers were reluctant to develop games for Windows because most gamers were still using DOS. Microsoft had to jump through hoops to change that. Gabe Newell was at the helm of porting Doom to Windows. So you can also thank MS for Valve.

s/bluetooth/bluetooth headphones/

@cy@mstdn.io @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I know, pulseaudio can actually be useful if you want advanced audio routing or have bluetooth, but I don't and I don't want pulseaudio. I really hate it! 😡

@cy@mstdn.io @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org And pulseaudio!
A lot of us hate systemd and that is not unreasonable, but it least it's easy not to use it, there are a lot of distros that don't have it.
It's not that easy with pulseaudio because Mozilla thinks you should have it to use Firefox. Well, output kinda works with alsa only, but input is completely broken. I have to use apulse that emulates pulse API. It introduces lag, but it's still better than using the real thing.

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org @Suiseiseki "Barbarians led by Bill Gates" is a great book about early days of MS. Days teeming with predatory and immoral stuff. The way they've marketed Windows is particularly disgusting!

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org They have something called Community Edition which is free. As in free beer, not as in freedom. But I think you can't distribute software built with it, you can just use it to play around.
They also have VScode. But it's Electron-based 🤢

@cy@mstdn.io @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Wow! I didn't know cygwin existed back in 1995.It did, I just didn't know that.
I remember building something (quakeforge maybe?) with it or msys in early 2000, but not before that.

@RL_Dane @mike Weren't IBM's mainframes also subscription-based in a way?
I think you didn't actually buy them, more like rented them. Then, if you needed more e.g. computing power you could start paying more and they unlocked more CPUs without actually doing something with it hardware-wise.

@nosleep Bill Hicks was a visionary! He used the expression "burn CDs" in a sense that modern people are more comfortable with.

@sai I ALWAYS do this. If you can't set year earlier than 1900 I go to web inspector and add an entry. You can also add non-existent countries and other stuff. AWESOME!!! 🤪

@r000t @graf @nosleep Bandcamp?
I still prefer CDs though. Of course listening to one using a computer is some kind of perversion, but if you have a hardware player it's really nice!

@helene Thanks!
Yes, there are issues like this here and there, but the protocol is in constant development, so there is hope 😅
Federated rooms are really complex after all. XMPP doesn't have them so it doesn't have issues like this one.
I still think we should give Matrix a chance, after all it does get better with time. And I'll choose it over Telegram and Signal any day — using phone number is just cursed! And I don't trust Telegram at all 😋

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org True.
But it seems to me Satyu Nadella loves cloud stuff only and doesn't care enough about the rest. They've given up on Windows 10 Mobile and on idea of having their own browser engine. Xbox is sort of in decline too. If they stop pushing Windows aggressively in the consumer market (I'm okay with enterprise) they won't even be that evil.

@helene I know that both reference server implementations are extremely heavy on resources, but what's wrong with the protocol itself?

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org But that is Microsoft we are talking about here, right? It's destined to wither and die sooner or later so this kind of thing is imminent.
Let's just hope they get generous severance paychecks and find new jobs soon.

@hacknorris Good for you!
TBH you have better chances finding something worthwhile among indie games. They are either broken beyond repair or shining masterpieces. AAA-games a most often just bland.