In regards to the site, all of them follow almost the same templates.

Once you see a few, it becomes obvious

IMHO people expected a Pi that offered similar performance as a Mac M1 but with Linux as first class citizen

I mean, they're still on some ancient node like 28nm last time I checked.

Still, it's a tool.

Even if your tool learns to talk and to make decisions, it's still a tool, not a person. You're the person and the one responsible for the decisions you make based on your tools.

Going back from the analogy, the problem is that we conflated software <engineers> with "coders". A lot of people thought their job was to create code, we gave them a tool to generate a lot of code fast, and they truly think that "more code" = "more good"

A hammer usually doesn't have the power to persuade people.

> it's still a tool, not a person.

Tell that to the CEO's who have replaced all of their yes-men with yes-chatbots.

I have a hard time finding a good battery.

I bought an internal and external battery and the external one quickly started bloating.

Try Plop Boot Manager: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

It can boot from a floppy or from a CD drive, and it lets you chainload into a live usb even on old computers.

I used it to boot from CD from a floppy in an old Pentium MMX and it worked great (although slow, of course)

It's tacky, but not the end of the world.

It remins me of some gnome themes from 2005-2009.

I'd choose that a thousand times over an ad filled start menu

Fair, but you could have 2025 gnome, or even KDE!

My main problem with liquid glass is it's slow, and the trade off is... a worse user experience in literally every conceivable way? Wow, okay, not a very good deal.

Granted, most downgrades in things like legibility or density are very slight. But they're still downgrades. Downgrading is only worth it if you get something out of it.

The real culprit is the International Division of Labour.

Some countries sell primary goods and other countries manufacture them.

But it turns out it's the manufacturing industry the one that trickles wealth the most, raises salaries and improves education overall.

China knew this. And used all its non-democratic powers to make their country a manufacturing superpower.

A country that only extracts natural resources can't hold a numerous population. And if it does, a big % of them is doomed to a life of misery.

I read an interesting article once that mentioned, the worst thing that can happen to your country is that it sits on a large supply of rare resources.

You'd think it would make you rich; instead it makes you miners, and ripe for invasion.

The Resource Curse. It’s not a given, but it’s a dangerous pitfall that must be avoided. England had coal. Norway has oil. If you don’t have strong institutions, someone will take control of it, like modern Russia for instance.

I have macOS shortcuts hot branded in my brain.

I'd prefer to adopt a few of these programs than having to configure i3 and use ctrl for everything

i3/sway are so much snappier and simpler. I spend basically no time rearranging things with them and I don't have to do awkward drag and drop operations to get things where I want them.

The solution for that is to decide which period do you want to build support for.

Trying to be binary-compatible with Tahoe may not be worth it. But you could make a distro binary-compatible with Snow Leopard.

Or better, make it compatible with Ventura apps without the bloat of MacOS Ventura.

That could give new life to old Macs. It can also give a PC a MacOS-like environment without having to deal with Hackintosh.

This won't work simply because majority of apps follow "the new trend". Take calibre, for example. I found myself having to OCLP my calibre server, simply because the hardware won't "take" the new macOS version required by the app, but the app new features are only available in the new versions.

I interpreted it as: if you include all hobbies and games made by humans in history, I'm pretty sure most of them involve a set of cards made of paper, some others involving wooden figurines (chess, checkers) or even drawing on dirt with a stick.

A computer is many, many orders of magnitude more complex and expensive than that.

This isn't said with the intention to demonize expensive hobbies if no one is harmed because of it.

But I do sometimes wonder if my hobbies are too dependent of a power plug. Even reading, which I do with a e-reader.