Ah yeah. You’re right.

I didn’t say people shouldn’t install Linux. But even if you do, browser share matters and if Microsoft is abusing their customers and tricking them into using edge in mass, then it will affect you as a Linux user too.

Microsoft can modify chromium. They can add proprietary things to it. Yes you could use edge if you have to critical pages that only works right on edge.

Windows is telling people their computer is broken if they don’t use Edge.

Switching to Linux won’t save you if Microsoft Edge takes such a huge market share that a lot of the internet starts to basically require it.

This article is complete trash who’s upvoting this garbage?

In the book, I remember that sookie says that someone “had her engine running like the pace car at the indie 500”or something like it.

That it’s a religion. Except for a few groups, which I find kind of strange, being an atheist is the lack of religion and belief in a god. It’s not a religion or anything like a religion and so often I see atheism discussed by the religious in religious terms l, as a monolith, and other ways that just totally miss the mark.

If you ignore the actual usage of words then you’re speaking your own language and talking only with your own in-group bubble.

This was not a conversation about the political science term “liberal”. It is about lies told to everyone. We’re obviously discussing common usage.

That’s only true if you use the international definition of “liberal”. In America, “liberal” means “left wing”. And we’re talking about American politics.

“Democrats are liberal/progressive”

In reality, they’re pretty conservative.

If you don’t cringe at some of your behaviors 10 years ago, then you’re either a a teenager or somehow stopped maturing.

Is anyone up for starting a non religious Amish society?

This isn’t even a slippery slope towards that though. This is all about consumer choice, privacy, and stopping a few companies from skimming 30% of the top of all digital sales.

PHP has been “not bad” for a decade. The problem is that it isn’t good and I can’t think of a reason to choose it for a new project when there are so many better, established languages.

75 in the summer and 68 in the winter

Essentially popular music is made via assembly lines owned by manufacturers now.

1. People churn out beats.
2. Other people lay down gibberish lyrics to set a melody to the best from step 1.
3. The best from step 2 get, writers, actual lyrics and an artist.
4. Artist records
5. Engineers heavily rework the recorded vocals

The companies that run these assembly lines aren’t going to rock the boat like that. Writers that neither made the music nor will have any part of recording or performing are making a product. It’s not a passion project, so they aren’t going to write protest lyrics either. In the 60s and 70s, there was a lot of popular music that really was made by individual artists and bands.

Today, there is plenty of protest music. It’s just not popular music because it doesn’t have as much industry backing.

Does every religion call it “heaven”?

I always hated that about redditers. They love to pretend they don’t understand people and then feel like they get bonus points if they can intentionally misconstrue your statements to be offensive or wrong.

I know someone who works in IT at a place where they found that keystrokes rose 40% in office and significantly more work was completed as measured by story points. Keystrokes aren’t a great way to measure productivity, but it’s very suspicious that people somehow had to type less when they have to type to talk to anyone and often don’t have to in office.

It’s not perfectly scientific, but businesses pretty much never have scientific data to work with and the evidence they have says people overall are more productive in office.