The contrast between the Ubuntu and Arch lines slayed me.

I use Arch, btw.

It's tightly interconnected with accessibility because alternative input systems, like eye gaze input, macros to expand text, and other accessibility tools for alternative input hardware all friends in the same types of window-agnostic input interacting. (Similarly for output hardware, I think?)

Like, custom text replacement with XCompose breaks because of how Wayland "silos" programs, which is why ~/.XCompose files only partially work in KDE Plasma. If Wayland/KDE fully implemented accessibility tools, then it would be possible to solve all of these problems.

Or, at least, that's my layman's understanding of the situation.

There was a fantastic blog post about accessibility problems with Wayland, but I think Wayland is upstream of KDE, isn't it?

In other words, do you know if what you're suggesting within scope, or is it upstream? Or maybe it's both, and KDE and Wayland both need changes to enable proper accessibility?

I don't know enough, but I'll see if I can track down that blog post and post about accessibility. Worst case, it lets KDE devs know that accessibility with KDE/Wayland is a major issue for many users.

Edit: I found the post: My Accessibility Stack and the future on Wayland

Not sure what you're getting at, here. Are you expecting Steam to sell these at a loss (or even just break-even) out of the goodness of their hearts or something?

And then have scalpers resell at a tidy profit because they're selling the hardware for less than the current market rates, for that matter...

Yeah, but that's not their fault, it's the capitalist system as it's been twisted by neoliberal economic theory.

What we need are rational marginal tax rates (80%+ on income over $10 MM/year) and no significant capital gains exemptions (say, 50% inclusion on first $10K capital gains, 65% on next $40K, and 100% inclusion advice $50K). Add a 1% wealth tax on all wealth above $10 MM, 2% above $100 MM, and 3% on wealth above $1 B, then billionaires aren't nearly as much of a problem any more.

The US started its death spiral in the 1976 with Buckley v. Valeo. I don't see how they can reverse course, now, but that was the start of the end.

I'm in a similar situation; I built my computer a few years ago, and now, 3+ years later, my machine would cost like ~50% more for similar specs. It's nuts.

Like, I would be the target demographic for this, if hardware prices weren't fucked right now. I fully intend to buy one, but only once the price drops in a couple of years, once the AI bubble bursts and chips get re-prioritized back to consumer hardware again.

If my computer died today, I'd probably try to buy a Gabecube to replace it, and install CachyOS on it to use as a desktop computer and Steam Big Picture mode for gaming with the controller. (Nothing against SteamOS — I love it on my Decks! — but I'd want something more focused on the desktop experience as my main computer.)

I feel like this will massively backfire. You get the best outcomes from your workers when they feel valued, are given agency, and take ownership of the work. If this is perceived as being used to monitor performance, then the damage done to the employer-employee relationship will have much more adverse consequences than the marginal gain they glean from task analysis.

My next personal phone will be a Linux phone. Fuck this noise.

I've pre-ordered the Click Communicator for my next work phone, and I don't plan to use anything on it aside from Microsoft 365's shitty apps that I need for work.

On my personal device, I'm happy to drop all apps on my phone aside from calling, SMS/MMS, and maps/GPS. Everything else I can do with web apps or Linux desktop apps (ebooks with TTS are essential for me), if needed. I'm so tired of Google's (and Microsoft's... and Apple's) bullshit.

I'm glad to hear this won't be deployed globally until 2027; that gives a bit more time for Linux phones to improve. I just need my Pixel 7a to limp along for another ~7 months, then I'm gone forever, I hope!

Fuck what Android has become.

ikr? Just shows how much damage MAGA/Republicans have done to the US.

It will take many, many years for the relationship to improve back to how close it was before, if it ever will. How long ago was the Vietnam War? A half century sounds about right...

Did he, though?

I was lucky enough to live in a riding with strong support for a different party, so I didn't need to vote strategically, but I'm glad Canadians largely did.

PP is almost Trump-level unhinged. As much as I hate the general move to neoliberal economic policy, reduction of regulations and lack of oversight (and Bill C-22), the cluster fuck of the PC party we have in power is still better than the alt-right MAGA-wannabees who would have won otherwise.

I don't think he was hiding his neoliberalism at all but, with the NDP imploding and the swelling support for the hateful bigotry party, the Liberals winning was the best possible outcome. A lot of voters were holding their noses last election.

What we really need in this country is Single Transferable Vote. So long as we use FPTP, we're going to oscillate between frying pan and fire, with regulatory lurch damaging Canada as a safe place for long-term capital investment.

Exactly right, which is why the hot McDonald's coffee lawsuit had such a high penalty. They were knowingly giving near-boiling coffee to their customers to avoid giving free refills, and knew about the dangers and burns caused to their customers for years.

Punitive damages are the capitalist system answer to disregard for damages caused by products and business practices.

Not being American is one of the deepest, most consistently held parts of Canadian identity. It's why we are so insistent on spelling colour correctly.

What a dumbass.

Yeah! Fuck OP for making something useful and taking the time to share it with the community! Their video demo, time writing this up, sharing commented code, distributing in many formats, and testing on two devices are worthless because they used AI to help skip some boring steps! It's completely reasonable to dictate how someone else volunteers their time and effort to help others without any ask for remuneration, and OP is a scab for thinking they can get away with giving away their working code to others for free!

OP is a class traitor because... actually, I'm not sure how to spin up some hyperbole on this one. What does class have to do with anything? Is it because GabeN is a billionaire with a superyacht, so anyone making tools for Steam is a class traitor? Or is it because LLMs burn more in compute than they collect in revenue, so every time one is used a venture capitalist loses some of their invested capital in an endless money pit with no chance of longterm profitability?

I think you should change the class solidarity attack to an attack on OP for environmental reasons, because their marginal use of compute cost about as much as keeping a lightbulb on all day. That's a bright idea.

But did I get the first paragraph right?

Took me a second...

And another reason to support Canada joining the EU.

Economies of scale can make a huge difference in costs, and requiring all cloud services to be entirely domestic would greatly limit options and increase costs. If we can join the EU, then we'll be part of a big enough economic block to get full benefits from economies of scale and still retain data sovereignty within the context of membership.

Fuck US corporations, their lobbyists, the regulatory capture that leads to their anti-consumer laws, and trade agreements exporting their wealth-concentration laws globally. Disney, in particular, can get fucked with their life-of-creator-plus-90-years copyright terms. But I digress.

I hope this doesn't come off as callous:

What an epic mic drop of your father's. That's like something out of a novel/film.

He sounds like a super hoopy frood. Sorry for your loss.

Citation needed.

Seriously, though, that's not what the research is showing. Peter Liljedahl's research, for example, supports that a very effective way to teach mathematics is by having students actually think about math, instead of just passively receiving info dumps (as is common in most traditional math classes). See Building Thinking Classrooms for details but, in short, it's a method of getting students playing with math concepts for almost the entire class time every day.

No "practical applications" needed. Counterintuitive, but it's a highly effective practice.

What's core to practical applications working is student motivation, and practical applications are one way to induce motivation. But it's often not the best option, especially for inherently abstract skills.

Which is WAY more economical.

Rebuilding packages takes a lot of compute. Downloading mostly requires just flashing some very small lights very quickly.

That headline...

The Beaverton is consistently cutting through the bullshit to give us satirical news that's more accurate than "real" news.

Edit: Solid gold!

Ma was asked if he felt that his actions might spark other Conservative MPs to cross the floor. “I know others want to, but they’re either afraid, or not quite committed. I think if the Prime Minister ends federal pharmacare or dental care like he promised he wouldn’t, it would really open the doors.”

The article addresses a lot of the speculation about these numbers:

• This is an internal estimate that was leaked to the gaming press, and so is likely designed to be an underestimate, if anything, since it makes the entire XBox division look bad for cannibalizing their own sales (although most likely this was a best estimate).
• A whopping 82% of full-price sales of BO6 was on PS5, the one platform that does not have GamePass
• Inflated piracy numbers are addressed directly by the writer, although no specifics are given in relation to this number since the modeling was not disclosed

So, I think a lot of other commenters are unreasonably dismissing this number as inflated when it's likely fairly accurate.