I don’t think it’s wasteful to have both KDE and Gnome. It’s healthy competition and as you say, innovation.

However the job of a distribution is to gather upstream software into a meaningful OS, and rewriting everything that should be an upstream software shared with other distributions is a distraction.

So Unity was unnecessary “not invented here” syndrome. Just like Snap is.

Yeah, 20 years ago. That’s the problem.

They tried Unity and gave up for Gnome 3 - however they ship a heavily customized Gbome 3.

Now they’re trying Snap. How long before they give up and use flatpak like every other distro?

What’s the point of this?

I don’t hate Ubuntu, and it was my distribution from nearly 20 years. Meaning since it was first released until recently. I loved it for a long time because it was based on dpkg which was much better than rpm at the time AND it was way more user friendly than the others. Even as a software developer I like my distribution to move out of the way to let me focus on using it, not babysitting it.

But I moved away because of Snaps. Currently on Fedora and it’s pretty good. I know it’s possible to get rid of Snaps or use a derivative but I prefer to stay close to stock for whatever distribution I use.

If Ubuntu works for you and you don’t mind snaps, then just use that!

So if

The article is very long and going in all directions, can I get a tldr of the point the author is trying to make?

Other countries also have been working for years and are not ready yet. Just like Ukraine is not ready.

There are millions of families in Tokyo (and other cities too) who don’t own a car, and manage to get their groceries without one.

It can be done.

But yeah it usually involves getting groceries more than once a week.

Aerotaxis would still be aircrafts.

I don’t know why people imagine that making an aircraft the shape of a car suddenly landing would be as simple as going to a parking lot.

I’m not sure what the business model is here (I have no interest in iMessage) but unlike the previous ones this solution doesn’t require a Mac mini farm. Messages are sent directly from the Android device.

So it doesn’t require a monthly fee to be profitable.

Most kids are clueless with tech to be honest. Yes they know how to use it, but they have no idea how it works behind the scenes. This has pretty scary consequences on how they are easily manipulated or scammed.

Some of them are very smart, sure, but on average I’d say they are less tech savvy than Gen X and millennials who grew up at a time you couldn’t use computers without some kind of knowledge of how it works (and smartphones didn’t exist).

The name won’t tell you if they were born in France or not.

And you can still be French even if your family hasn’t been living in France for 4 generations.

I guess what you mean to say is “you can’t really be French if you’re not white”?

Dude it was done by a French citizen.

Terrorists who do this kind of thing don’t care about Palestine, and they don’t want to reduce Muslim hate.

On the contrary, they want more conflicts. Just the the far right Nazis that will jump on the occasion to antagonize all Muslims over this event.

It’s hard to find quality games in the sea of single dev weekend projects on itch io…

Yes, especially when you consider that the human brain runs on 15W of power!

Yes, that’s the thing.

The 3DS and before had a smaller screens, but games were designed for that screen size.

The Switch is basically to play games designed to run on a TV so there is a limit how small you can go before it becomes hard to play.

Yes, I thought he was talking about the film industry (“we’re fucked”) and how AI is/would be used in movie. In which case he would be competent to talk about it.

But he’s just confusing science-fiction and reality. Maybe all those ideas he’s got will make good movies, but they’re poor predictions.

Google developers can easily find a job elsewhere. If they stay at Google the chose to.

If he is then I guess nobody ever put Half Life 3 on their Christmas list

France is on the cutting edge of AI indeed, the FAIR (Facebook AI lab) has a big office in Paris and its boss is Yann Le Cun. So there are plenty of researchers getting trained on the state of the art.