@C0D4 For Honor was already free once.

But probably Ubisoft was paid for it handsomely. They're not known for leaving money on the table (or properly handling sexual misconduct).

But sometimes game prices are just insane, especially on consoles. The Xbox version of Dark Souls 3 still costs 70 Euros (~$82). No, not the one including the DLCs. The base version. No, not an updated one for higher FPS on the newer hardware. There is no updated version. I paid about half that price for the game + DLCs on PC years ago. Those guys are fucking insane. /rant

@rittmann When you have to train your replacement but the replacement is you.

The tiled homescreen of Windows Phone 8 is literally one of the cleanest UI designs I've ever seen. Microsoft wasted so much potential with their shitty implementation on the desktop systems, now everyone hates tiles because of it.

With the later versions you could set a wallpaper for the tiles, meaning the gaps were still white(or black) but the tiles collectively had your wallpaper as background instead of a flat color. It looked so amazing and much more consistent than the typical app icons and crappy widgets.

@Fast-Nop Who cares about what some dumb elitists hate.

They're just pissed they have to manually etch a couple more bytes into the harddrive to recompile their browser on Gentoo.

Imagine taking the Arch btw meme so seriously.

The UI is butt ugly, it's not as polished as it tries to be and this insistence on Snap apps with forced updates is a dealbreaker for me either way.

If I want a good experience out of the box I just go for something like Mint. Or I install something Arch-based (like Antergos back then) because that package management and official Wiki are just really fucking hard to compete with.

I don't hate Ubuntu, I just don't wanna use it because dozens of other distros do it better.

And in Win11 you have to get an online account no matter what from what I've heard.

Who would have guessed, a company that shits on users and forces updates is shitty.

Another pro tip feat. idiotic politicians: When you give incriminating HDDs to a company using a pseudonym to shred the evidence, don't also give them your real phone number and then forget to pay.

@MadMadMadMrMim "wash away centuries of corruption"

Too bad corruption isn't an economic system problem. It's a human problem. Trying to fix corruption with different rules is like trying to get rid of crime by making it illegal.

In weakly typed languages like JS I switch to TypeScript instead. And if that's not possible then, well, hope the change isn't too comprehensive and then run a lot of tests hoping you don't get "can't access xyz of undefined" or something like that.

Maybe I'm overlooking something but I don't get it either. Good typing is just such a big help.

Trying to spread the Free Software philosophy by saying GNU/Linux is a bit optimistic to put it mildly. The GNU project is soon 40 years old. If it hasn't worked so far it might be a good idea to reconsider the approach.

Most people haven't even seen a screenshot of Linux let alone used it, and you want to explain that difference to them? Good luck.

Meanwhile I'm still saying just Linux, because everyone who cares about the difference knows what I mean.

Yeah don't buy an Ergodox, they're overpriced and - what most probably know with a bit of experience - overkill. Most of the keys just aren't placed in useful ways.

If you don't mind a more DIY approach you could go for a kit. Of course everyone got different preferences, but I'd say the Kyria has one of the most ergonomic layouts. I have a very similar one and it just fits like a glove.

But beware, this is a rabbit hole with the deepest caverns and a few wormholes sprinkled in.

That's a shit quote. You can say a lot of smart stuff about simplicity without confusing "simple" and "easy".

100% agreed. Functional programming really incentivices cleaner code and you can apply those habits everywhere else. OOP is fine with anything as long as it's in some GetterFactory.

@Lucky-Loek TreeStyleTabs is one good way to organize it. That way tabs are a bit like bookmarks but better, because it's all in one unified structure.

Also Firefox can just handle it so it just grows and grows and every few months or so I go back and close the stuff I'm now sure I don't need anymore.

*laughs in 1800 tabs*

Then use a search engine not financed by the ads it shoves in your face.

@MadMadMadMrMim I've seen it in some library code examples. It's bad, as it blows up a half-page code snippet to a scrollable multi-page mess that makes you mentally collect the few actual lines of code to make sense of what it's doing.

Nothing against explanations, but it destroys readability when a single continuous code block is mixed with dozens of comment lines.

"Closed. Fixed inconsistencies in requirements."

Motherfuckers should just open a new ticket if they can't be bothered to do their job in time.

Ease of use and quality are two different things.

I'm not gonna use a shitty tool over a good one every single day just because I can't be bothered to spend a few hours with decreased productivity. But that's just me, I don't care what bloated Electron flavored app of the week people use as long as I don't have to.

@iiii At least you don't have to spell out your first and last name to everyone who asks, only for them to still get it wrong. Sometimes to a point I don't even recognise it as my name.

Though I'm still lucky it only contains common letters and no hyphen or other symbol. Many online services still run under the assumption every name can be correctly spelled using letters in 7bit ASCII. In that sense Musk's kid will be in a world of pain.

It may be obvious to some but yeah, parents, don't be creative with names. Especially nowadays where having a unique name only means you're easier to identify by every tracker and data collector.

This is like naming your kid xXx_edgel0rd_xXx but even nerdier. Don't punish them for your mistakes and fuck off.

You can see how old this joke is by the GoT score

Yes

We once literally had to install an older JDK to learn working with features that got deprecated years ago, don't exist anymore in current versions and are documented like ass.

@muamanulla If the free stuff was as useful as the paid stuff nobody would pay for udemy courses.

See, that kinda shit is why I like to use Vim instead of an IDE or a bloated editor trying to be an IDE.

Software trying to be smart to "help" the user inevitably leads to situations where you have to use 4D chess hacks to trick it into doing what you want. And once your toolchain is complex enough this leads to shit like scientists renaming hundreds of genes so Excel stops corrupting their data with its garbage auto-formatting.

The cake is a lie. There is no smart software except Skynet.

Honestly I don't like that kinda syntax...ending every scope with "end". It's longer and less readable than parentheses, and while editors can trivially highlight matching brackets and auto-close scopes it's not really a thing when it's just keywords.

Also, whoever makes Vim's Elixir plugin: fuck you and your brain aneurysm that made you override user settings for no reason.

Also they managed to have 2 data leaks in two weeks or so where you could access all test results with attached, names, home address and other shit.

@heyheni I mean you can browser the web with just the keyboard in any Chromium-based browser, in Firefox and others. You just gotta install the right plugin.

And for tabs I just use TreeStyleTabs. Close enough to what Vivaldi does but faster. As soon as the Vivaldi devs implemented support for Philips fucking Hue lights but no mention of fixing UI performance I got out of there.