theevilsharpie

> And luckily, according to the article, Valve has no immediate intention of getting the Steam Deck to meet those requirements.

I'm not sure how you get that from the article (maybe it was pointed to a different article earlier?).

I don't have a Steam Deck, but as I understand it, it does not support Secure Boot out-of-the-box. Also, SteamOS is Arch-based, and it doesn't look like Arch is listed among the "well-known" signing keys that EACv2 lists as trusted.

But not supporting the EACv2's requirements today, doesn't mean that Valve is inherently opposed to doing so. If you have a statement from Valve claiming that, please share it.

I have tried to use Pinta at several independent points in time over the past 10+ years, and every time I have tried it, it has been so buggy as to be practically unusable.

It's a shame. It would be the perfect application for my basic image editing needs, if only I could actually rely on it to work.

These days, I just use Krita. It's on the heavier side, but functionally, it does what I need.

> Stand-alone bottom-up observations (even if valid) obscure the fundamental problem that AI (or "AI" if you like) is inducing systemic change across human civilization.

Students have been cheating and taking shortcuts on their work long before the current generation of AI tools existed (and probably for as long as graded exams have existed).

Somehow, civilization has managed to survive.

There was nothing unofficial about it -- Windows 2000 had full, official DirectX support parity with Win9x.

Windows XP is where Microsoft themselves pushed the consumer market onto the NT line, but Windows 2000 was fully functional as a consumer desktop.

> You can't build most web apps' unique visual style in any other platform.

Every native UI framework I've ever used allows drawing directly to a canvas, and can have literally any visual style that can be created with pixels.

> I really miss netbooks. They were an amazing moment for Linux. No surprise Microsoft killed them.

As far as cheap, low-spec, disposable laptops go, Chromebooks are the spiritual successor to netbooks.

I have user account on my personal Google Workspace domain that is used purely for superuser access (my day-to-day account doesn't have special access).

I recently had to log into it for the first time in a few years to make a config change to the domain, and it wouldn't let me in because the 2FA code wasn't working, and a recovery code wasn't sufficient to enable privileged access. I had to reach out to Google Workspace support to regain admin access to my domain.

Thankfully, they were able to do so (although it took a few days and I had prove ownership of it).

So there's an example of a situation where an account that's not logged into for a long time doesn't mean that it's forgotten or unused.

I can't speak for Firefox, but Google Chrome (and presumably anything Chromium-based) has working hardware-accelerated video on AMD and Intel GPUs.

It does admittedly take some effort to set up; I assume Google is hesitant to enable it by default because of issues with Nvidia GPUs. But when configured, it works and has for years.

From the article:

> I work at Red Hat. Mostly on AArch64 support in several projects.

So an ARM developer, working for a major Linux distro vendor and trying to dogfood their work, used the closest thing to an ARM workstation that Linux can run on.

What other alternatives would you suggest? The various Apple Silicon or Snapdragon laptops that have their own well-documented problems running Linux? A smartphone running as a desktop?

There aren't very many ARM-based options that are even feasible for use as a developer desktop, even if the software did work correctly.

> We used to do that too from the late 1930's to the late 1970's, which is why we were the dominant industrial power in the world at that time as well.

I think there's another world event that happened in that time span that might better explain America's world-wide industrial dominance.

> Canonical announced that they are no longer using Debian as a base, but the unvetted packages compiled and uploaded by random people on Snap.

Citation very much needed for this claim.

A lot of professions have terms of art that can be interpreted incorrectly or be viewed as odd by laymen. "Individual contributor" is no different.

Maybe it sounds weird to you, but it's a well-understood term in the management profession.

This is a pretty odd take, from my perspective.

If one of my direct reports came to me and said they were interested in working on, say... AI observability (replace with whatever interests you), and that was something I had any influence over (even if only indirectly), I'd be finding whatever way I could to connect my report with that kind of work.

It's all well and good to say that you're in control of your own career advancement, but that's not in conflict with working with your manager on supporting your career development. Even if they don't have anything to teach you, they will necessarily have some influence of your scope/area of work, so it only makes sense to work them on aligning your work with your interests.