They‘re not supposed to make money. They are a non-profit foundation that takes donations to develop an open source project and I expect them to spend those donations on exactly that project and not much else.

Pretty much the two groups that I had in mind but I wanted to generalize a bit.

And the other 80% only stayed because they were either not confident enough in their technical abilities to switch or had no choice (environment would need to be re-certified, software doesn’t work well with wine, boss said no).

I almost punched a guy on the train this week for something similar. He had some music on speaker for a while, then asked „does anyone think this is too loud?“. I told him that actually yes, I think it is to which he replied „well I don’t care“ and turned it even louder.

Until Discord starts classifying anything and everything as adult content, TikTok style. Can’t curse, can’t talk about any form of violence. Good luck talking about most video games when you can’t say “gun”, “kill” or “die”.

I have exactly one reason why I own an Xbox One S: Gamestop went out of business in Germany at the exact moment I made plans to buy a cheap 4k BluRay player for my bedroom TV and they sold me one (used) for 60€.

Oh yeah, exactly what the PlayStation needs: more soulless shooter sequels from Microsoft. What ever would we have done without Halo? Played CoD?

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, a collaboration between Ensemble Studios and Lucas Arts to reskin Age of Empires 2 for Star Wars. The base game had campaigns for the OT and Phantom Menace and a bit later there was an Attack of the Clones expansion.

I would really love for them to port this to the AoE2 Definitive Edition engine and add more content.

There could be a hidden quadratic cost because the string needs to be reallocated and copied multiple times.

They have gone the safest path for over a decade now, making reskins of the same three games over and over to the point where Assassin’s Creed and FarCry which used to be real innovations in their fields are now just boring copies of copies. They haven’t taken a single risk since AC2.

They got negative feedback to including Yasuke - a real historical figure who did exist in the era the game depicts - and now they’d rather preemptively cancel their own game than tell a story about freedom and rebellion from an unusual perspective.

Cowards.

Cowards.

So in other words, you pay more and unless you’re on the highest tier, they take away the one thing that made Game Pass worth the money: new games available on day one.

I’m not a fan of subscription models overall but getting a ton of new releases for about what two full price titles per year would cost was a great deal. Not anymore.

And there goes another reason to keep a Windows machine around.

I don’t see any AI, just a list that got sorted alphabetically when it shouldn’t have been.

Looking back, I find every single aspect of the 2018 design more accessible than the current one. Releases are above the fold, the list of forks is reachable by clicking the number next to the fork button, the explore link is right there in the top navigation. Sure, having three levels of horizontal navigation doesn’t look very clean but there must be a better solution than hiding everything in hamburger menus and sidebars where you can only find them if you already know they exist.

If I remember correctly, they used to be in a tab in the top navigation, together with “Code”, “Issues”, “Pull requests”, etc. which was a lot easier to find for people who are not familiar with GitHub’s UI. Edit: it was a separate bar right above the file list, together with the number of commits and branches: https://web.archive.org/web/20180610234228/https://github.com/rails/rails

Same problem with forks / network. In earlier revisions of GitHub’s UI, they were relatively easy to find. Now you have to know that you can click the “59.7k forks” sidebar text which is in no way styled like a link or button. You can just infer it from the fact that there are also “Readme” and “View license” in the same list.

Nirav talks about that in the other video they released today. They’re working on it and in the meantime there is a DIY solution.

Definitely not C#. Wrong syntax for main, wrong syntax for foreach (C# has foreach (var i in someCollection) and what even is this method call syntax with =?

Edit: I dug around the website. It’s D. I’m still confused about the method call syntax though. Usually, D uses parentheses like most other C-style languages. Must be some weird syntax where you can call methods like property setters which was useful for this particular code golf challenge.

That’s four screens total. You’re first on the chopping block.

My question was specifically about “the general non-technical population”. Do you expect my mom to even remotely understand what different servers are and why talking to me is securely encrypted but talking to her friends group isn’t? The point about secure software is that it needs to be secure by default or else, entry level users will manage to accidentally send their stuff in plain text and not even notice.

For nerds like us, I agree that Matrix is probably a good choice. For someone who needed to be told that “the internet” isn’t the blue “e” on their desktop… not so much. I’d rather send carrier pigeons than explain Matrix to my family.

What would you recommend as an alternative for the general non-technical population?