The battery life is a non issue for me so far.

It’s much lighter both in my pocket and my hands. It feels much less obtrusive in a pocket overall despite the bump, which when holding it one-handed can sometimes even be an affordance that keeps it from slipping.

I actually really liked it when I tried, so I got one. I realized that I do want a phone that makes its presence more lightly known.

I don’t know, but I do know that many games perform even better on Linux these days.

As a software engineer, I will tell you that to put game-specific optimizations in drivers seems like a horrifying practice that should never have become commonplace, and probably leads to piles of hacks and unmanageable complexity. I have doubts as to whether Mesa and/or the Linux kernel would accept such a thing in open-source drivers.

In the long run, we’re probably better off with clean, maintainable code. I’d rather have that than a few extra FPS any day.

I’ll continue to buy AMD because of their excellent open source drivers on Linux.

But also, talking down to Windows users is not a good way to invite them to join us.

Intermediate Linux user + 6 months of Gentoo = advanced Linux user.

I’m not kidding. You can do this with other distros, but it will get you used to parts of the software engineering process you might not otherwise be exposed to. That was my experience at least.

The red flag I see is the word “Caucasian” in his username.

Apple IIGS ☠️

I’m aware of GrapheneOS, but I don’t know how their tracking works, so I also don’t know if GrapheneOS can offer enough protection.

I hope there’s some technological way we can use to foil these attempts to violate citizens’ privacy en masse.

It was not just MS. There were those who followed that lead and announced that it was an industry thing.

Anyone else remember a few years ago when companies got rid of all their QA people because something something functional testing? Yeah.

The uncontrolled growth in abstractions is also very real and very damaging, and now that companies are addicted to the pace of feature delivery this whole slipshod situation has made normal they can’t give it up.

This is actually really thoughtful.

First two are right on, but I haven’t been charged for an actual software update on the Mac in 30 years.

I did Gentoo in my 20s when all I could afford was garbage computers. I enjoyed the experience — whether it did or not, it made me feel like I was getting the most out of whatever I had, and I learned SO much about Linux.

DO NOT fire at those vintage Macs. They are not responsible for this.

Thanks very much! Curious what the specs are at this point, if you’re willing to share!

They probably mean “we use cheap shocks.”

How do you keep all your virtual machines up-to-date? Or are those containers?

I’m a software engineer, not a hardware engineer, but let me guess anyway: the article will imply that they’ve found some magical way to be more “efficient”, but it’s actually that they treat their people like shit and also sacrifice quality. Am I right?