CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@bzdev @rbreich

I'd add Valve to the list.

"Make quality products your customers like and protect their best interests, as well as your employees".

Pretty much requires staying private.

@llorenzin

This will self-correct over time, because halting forward progress isn't really an option, and some of us will always want to know how things work and learn. That's not to say it won't be painful and lots of folks will have a really bad time before they learn a lesson. But there's a lot of businesses that are going to make a cautionary tale out of themselves.

@cstross

I recently switched from Firefox to Librewolf because Firefox was having issues not preventing popups, and I was getting worried about Mozilla leadership. Painless - export bookmarks, re-import. Just for your back pocket in case FF follows suit with the AI shenanigans. Congratulations on dumping chrome.

@gamingonlinux

My "good" controller seems to have gone missing in the last month, so it's a well-timed replacement.

In the long run, I expect to have two, as the Steam Machine is also supposed to come with one - which is ok, I like some two-player games. But if I can get one now and they offer the Steam machine without, I'll likely go without.

@javi

I strongly recommend the librewolf fork. I switched a while ago for other pragmatic reasons - some pop-ups on stock firefox went away under librewolf. But it should also be better around the monetization, of which so far as I can tell there is none. And it's otherwise compatible so far less painful than a bigger jump to an entirely different browser.

@sundogplanets

Block early, block often. This is the way.

If you feel the need to explain, send the wondermark sea lion comic, or a link. Then block. It might educate, but it won't make anyone happy.

@georgetakei

Every accusation is a confession with this regime.

Just got a rather upsetting pop-up on my mac.

Seems they're going to discontinue Rosetta support for x86 software. No real reason given, they're just bored I guess?

Rosetta is freaking magic - it lets us run our old x86 software (you know, that we paid for) on our M-series macs.

It's the same software - or the same name, anyway - that *used to* let us play our old 32-bit games, until Apple decided we didn't need to anymore.

You know why I'm still on my m1 mini? Shit like this.

Dear Apple: I can't in good conscience keep buying new hardware if you are going to keep breaking legacy things that I paid for and like and need and use. Killing x86 support is a bridge too far.

I'm not leaving you - you're leaving me behind. Did so a long time ago truth be told.

@mhoye

The idea that China has the potential to become a respected world leader - more-so than it already is - not because of a vast military or because it's an economic powerhouse, but rather out of *simple altruism and kindness* is honestly delightful.

All the superpowers have a lot of ugly secrets in the past - blood on their ledgers, as it were - and seeing modern leadership start to wash it away not be hiding it but simply by *doing good works* is a breath of fresh air.

Decarbonizing third world nations with sustainable infrastructure (and not putting them deeply in debt to do so) is a darn good start.

@darkuncle @ewen

I'd add that never once in my life have I ever felt I bought or had too much ram. Whereas too little? Pretty constant.

I'd get a neo for light use without hesitation. Web browsing and writing and email, maybe some light gaming. Honestly the same use-case for my ipad. But for "real" A/V work, you won't regret more ram.

@darkuncle

24gb is also semi-viable for simple local AI - and the 8gb of a neo is much less so. Can he run both of those apps comfortably in 8 gigs?

(My bias is the air, but it I also ain't paying for it...)

@darkuncle

I have heard rumor that they're doing a Neo2 with more memory because they're running out of the old iphone cpus.