> Now the uninformed gambling on futuristic sounding hokum? THAT is easy to understand.

Yes... During a hype rush, sell memes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion...

> ChromeOS is close but still so far in many ways.

I continue to be impressed by ChromeOS. With the Linux development environment (Debian VM), it is a brilliant work environment.

Add Android apps as well and ChromeOS is an awesome convergence platform. There are Chromebooks that are high enough quality that I don't miss anything about Apple OS or Microsoft Windows.

> And for audio production

For specialty use-cases, driver support will favour Windows and Apple OS.

And gaming is still Windows-first, although Linux is improving.

Yep, Chromebook are basically a sufficient information appliance for most people. I think this is why Apple is going to try a cheaper MacBook.

The MacBook Air is nice but it still too expensive for most people that only want to browser the web, use social media and edit a few documents once in a while. Their advantage in chip power and efficiency is not enough because people buying this won't make use of the power anyway and will rarely use it long enough at once for battery life to matter that much.

It's not driver support for audio stuff. Drivers are great; haven't had any issues at all. The UI for the software, especially DAWs, is just plain garbage. It shouldn't be this bad; I'm halfway tempted to start my own project to put together a fork of one of these DAWs with a UX that doesn't suck.

Technically a lot of stuff for linux audio is amazing; it just lacks the level of polish to enable someone to actually just use it out of the box.

The first "dark pattern" was exaggerating the features and value of the technology.

> Is this not rational behavior?

Yes, and it is also demonstrated by the Flynn Effect. [1]

About "A Case Against Education": Caplan draws on the latest social science to show how the labor market values grades over knowledge, and why the more education your rivals have, the more you need to impress employers. He explains why graduation is our society’s top conformity signal, and why even the most useless degrees can certify employability.

[1] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

The mid-term elections will put said moral fortitude to a final test.

US exceptionalism and supposed moral superiority are now laid bare for everyone and all of history to see.

Not sure what to see in mid term. American people chose Trump, knowing he’s corrupted. They will do so again and again.

The only thing may led to their hesitation is trump and allies are so incompetent that they can’t even pretend the economy is ok, for which I think we are not there yet.

> I did not rise above my spouse being swapped for an adult with profound psych issues.

This is much more common than people in their conditioned romanticism will ever acknowledge.

In the economy of the past 15 years, marriage is a much worse risk than an expensive education.

> Nothing has happened to change anyone's mind.

If "We the People" means anything anymore, the blatant, pervasive criminality, incompetence, and corruption of this ghoulish administration will be judged harshly in the midterm elections.

But it would take significant change in the US to regain the international trust that the country formerly enjoyed among allies.

It is hard to see the latter happening.

This too, shall pass, but we need to make it happen. I am looking forward to the day when we spit on their remains, destroy their ballroom, torch his painting and turn this administration into a footnote in history that future historians will hold up as an object lesson. Let's hope it happens without too much bloodshed, but we fought too hard and for too long to watch this happen to this once great republic.

> This was the one to finally stop getting me to distro hop.

For me it was Debian 12 with Sway (Wayland) followed by Debian 13 with labwc and Sway.

Now I can switch from a tiling window manager (WM) to a floating WM depending on the work task.

I had not heard of labwc before, super cool that it's compatible with openbox themes! Openbox was one of the first "cool wm" I think I used back in the day, probably like 15 years ago now when it supplanted Fluxbox as the dominant *box.

> labwc and Sway

Is there an option to stay permanently in floating mode, and allow manual placement? I'm stuck on AwesomeWM using just floating windows with easy keybindings for moving them around/resizing, etc. and am looking to jump from X11 to Wayland

Why use Awesome with floating windows?

Because it makes no sense to do tiling on a 12" screen, especially when you have keyboard shortcuts to activate/start applications

I prefer it still because it makes sense for every window to be maximized at startup. Also one layout that still makes sense is 1 window taking up 100% of the horizontal space and 95% of the vertical save for a small strip for a terminal.

I have - Meta + Z: Activate/iterate through terminal windows - Meta + W: Activate/iterate through browser windows

And when on a laptop I maybe do a split view 2-3 times a day for a short term. 95% of the time it's full sized windows which I switch between using keyboard shortcuts.

Same, same, and same.

I also just like the predictability of placing a window in a location and then the next time it spawns in the exact same place I last left it

nixos for me. broke it once 9 years ago, but I never figured out how.

Be like clippy, a smiling, damned corporate villain who will sell data about anyone including his own grandmother to make a buck.

AI research is interesting, but AI Slop is the monetising factor.

It's inevitable that faces will be devoured by AI Leopards.