tensorpudding

joined 1 year ago
[–] tensorpudding 4 points 8 months ago

Cake is all over, don't forget about this cake either!

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[–] tensorpudding 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now I'm picturing a comedy spinoff set at a 24th century Waffle House run by Klingons. Do not bring dishonor to the House of Waffles!

[–] tensorpudding 4 points 1 year ago

Like light bulbs, Weyouns come in 4, 8, or 10 packs, save more by buying in bulk and store the rest in your utility closet until needed.

[–] tensorpudding 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that so much highly rated Trek is out now is vaguely enticing but overwhelming for someone not familiar when anything in the current generation. How is the new stuff supposed to be attacked? I also was not into the Abrams movies that I saw, I’d always preferred the more mundane and cerebral stuff in TNG and the slow paced world building and character development in DS9.

[–] tensorpudding 24 points 1 year ago

This reported 3% is thanks to uncountable coder-hours devoted by crowds of volunteers, and employees at many companies, notably but not at all limited to Canonical, Red Hat and Collabora, and put into developing massive, explicitly Linux-on-desktop software packages like the KDE and GNOME projects, Wayland, X.org, freedesktop, Cinnamon, Budgie, Xfce, (many more that I can't think of or list here), and the numerous distro developers and maintainers at Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, Arch, etc. who put effort into packaging and keeping fresh these softwares for end-users to download for (mostly) free, competing against for-profit operating system desktops from Microsoft and Apple that have significant advantages in OEM bundling and testing, marketing, system incompatibility both intentional and inadvertent.

That so many people put so much effort over multiple decades into producing a range of products that earn many of them no profit whatsoever and which has barely made a dent in the marketplace it competes, for over two decades, is a testament to optimism about the human spirit, ideology, stubbornness, and the kind of pride and satisfaction of a service rendered for public consumption that is almost alien to modern capitalism.