I was always proud of the UK government having (a majority of) good online services that are easy to use. And that they were open source.
It’s what governments should do. It is providing for their citizens in 2 different ways: accessible services & open source.
It’s bullshit that they are drawing back from that
I suggest permanent nationalisation
Plasma 7 is being renamed Desktop For Plasma365 2027 edition.
Everything is electron apps. Native apps are ran as web assembly inside an electron app.
There will be no UI, only a shitty AI chatbox that is always suggesting results from askjeeves (and takes 5 seconds before it suggests anything from your local machine).
Oh, and it’s a monthly licence now.
And it’s actually just a laggy local UI of the actual desktop that is ran in the cloud on a container with 512mb ram and 1 CPU.
Oh wait, this isn’t microslop.
Good things on Linux (generally) stay the same or get better, not different so “line goes up”.
I think I’m still getting over the windows PTSD
I read it as “pick up support for the FOSS projects” as opposed to user IT support.
So, contributing to the FOSS.
Even sponsorship would be awesome, in a “we can’t do the tech stuff, but here is 10% of what we saved” kinda way
Probably not even mentioned by reform.
They will be anti-immigrant pro-taxcuts “make everything better (without having to explain how)” kinda deal
You commented on their post?
The person you blocked is the OP of the post you commented on directly. So, it’s kinda expected they would reply to you
Well, no. But then it gets rejected, and further PRs that also fail the check will likely get you banned from contributing.
The human is responsible.
If the code or PR fails, the human has to own that.
If the human fails to own that, the human gets banned
Yeh, AI as an assistant/tool. Not as a replacement
Way back when netflix was new, windows had a Home Theatre edition of windows.
Beautiful 10ft UI, worked with tuners, could record from them, had no issues dealing with auto-ripped DVDs and had a native netflix integration.
Then netflix pulled out, but windows HTPC was still pretty decent.
Nowadays, it’s basically “you have to pay for everything” with a smart TV or a set top android box, maybe lucky enough to have a tuner in it.
Or it’s high seas.
I don’t think there is really a middle ground.
These are my kinda commits!
https://github.com/wslyvh/paperweight/commit/7be2ac0ea204e7631249db7dcc3a149da69d54e7
This looks really useful, and certainly something I’m going to investigate and probably use. Cheers!