The Document Foundation doesn’t actually employ developers. They just oversee and manage the development and direction of LibreOffice.

Problem is that if you have a critical application (like banking) that relies on Google services you’re SOL.

It’s Apple or Google at that point.

Apple has been seriously underperforming on their AI strategy.

Really makes it easy to keep using their devices.

• Davinci? Yup
• Adobe? Not even remotely.
• Unreal…yes? I’m pretty sure th development tools still run on Linux at least.
• Crossplatform work? As long as it’s in the same format from the same application, you should be fine. Just format the drive in something Windows can understand.
• Steam? Works flawlessly as do most games now. You will need to change one option in settings, because Steam will by default only show games that are verified by valve to work (most games do though). Your biggest hurdle will be the developers that specifically block Linux.
• Non-Steam games? You’ll need to do some work, but you can get them running just as well as steam games
• Xbox App/Xbox GamePass? Nope.

I do try.

Every single former co-worker has ghosted me at this point and even my friends have basically taken a “Hahaha, for sure mate, for sure, hey have you guys ever changed the conversation?” attitude when I bring up connecting me with people.

People suck lol.

Cool. I mean I haven’t been able to get past a single 10-minute “I just want to go over the job with you and collect some basic information” phone interview in 6-months.

But ya know. Another 6,000 people on the market is cool too.

They also don’t have to sign it.

Maybe I’ve just used MacOS so long that I’m out of touch, but installing unsigned applications is effectively a mild annoyance.

I ran Arch for years, but I eventually realized I only really enjoyed Arch from a conceptual point of view.

The big plus for me is stability. I had a few major problems pop up after an update, and while I was able to fix them easily enough, It was still annoying that I had to do it. Fedora is nice and stable while not being too far behind.

The loss of the AUR wasn’t that annoying because Fedora has the advantage of being one of the main OS’s. A lot of developers treat it as a default

I gotcha fam

It’s about reducing variable costs.

You build phones, watches, tvs, washers, dryers, fridges? Why use separate hardware and software? That’s just expensive. Just build a common platform that can be easily modified for everything and take advantage of production scale to reduce costs everywhere.

Slap in all those smart phone features too because why the fuck not. It’s cheap, someone might be convinced to buy it because of it, and few people will avoid it because you can use your phone. Bonus points! We can collect use information.

Everyone wins! Except the customer. Because fuck them.

As long as you’re cool being a bit more restricted in multiplayer games (a lot work great! But some developers are blocking linux), and you’re okay with AMD (nvidia is improving though), gaming is basically on par with Windows at this point.

In some cases it’s even better. I have a few games that require weird tricks to get it to work under Windows, but work fine in proton. Even Elden Ring at launch ran better on linux because it didn’t have the micro-stutter issue.

Oh Rust is great, and it’s on my learning to do list…but its evangelists are annoying as shit.

But dude, bro, we could put the entire system on the blockchain man, and make it super efficient with an AI backend that will remove all errors bro.

Dude it’s not even written in Rust bro. WTF is this dinosaur shit?

The “Story Points = Hours” hits so goddamn hard. Like, tell me you don’t fucking understand scrum without telling me you don’t understand scrum.

We had a nice, effective production process on my team until a middle manager assigned to communicate with us started in with the whole “We can’t spare this many points” bullshit.

My criticism is that it largely ignores the primary advantage of Fediverse services (Decentralizing services that are designed to operate Centrally), while mostly explaining what I’ve always considered to be the most pointless feature (Cross Service posting).

It’s a mildly neat feature if you want to centralize your entire social profile under one account (which is my security nightmare but you do you), but its not really fundamental to using federated services and its implementation can be inconsistent and confusing.

Maybe have a bunch of “Lemmy” (or whatever) nodes arranged in a circle, the same color, with the same icon, and connected to each other through the middle of the circle (not connecting to the “fediverse”, although I guess you could have a transparent “Lemmy” super imposed over it) Then have the users connected to each node. Or something…I’m on a bench and just broadly visualizing it.

The next trick is explaining the fault of centralized services in a graph.

Requiring someone to have an account on a federated instance would mitigate a fair amount of spam and ease moderation.

What would that solve that mandating accounts for a standard wiki wouldn’t?

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Can you elaborate on “discoverability”? Finding individual subject wikis has never been a particular problem for me. Even ones that don’t use Fandom, provided they are at least active. Just googling “<insert subject> wikia” (I know. I can’t let it go) always gets me what I need.

Can’t say I see an advantage to universal accounts (I see more disadvantages), but if that’s the big selling point and people really want it. I’m not opposed to having it, i’ve just always treated it as a mild novelty I never use.

As for decentralization, it has already been solved by MediaWiki. Which is GPL and (can be) self-hosted.

What benefit would federating it bring?

The ability to self-host your own FOSS wiki already exists and has for over two decades. It’s called MediaWiki.

You could have federated accounts I guess but do editors on the Doctor Who wiki really need the ability to see posts on Mastadon or edit pages on the That 70’s Wiki?

I feel like in the future we’re gonna start seeing fediverse servers differentiate on feature sets.

Like one requires a subscription fee but pays for yearly audits by a respected auditor, or another offers spam-filtering, etc.