The percentage of users complaining is the same thing. If your software has 100 users that means 1 complaint, if your software has 1,000,000 users that means 10,000 complaints, for the exact same software.

Fair point, I would argue that it's not e entirely fair to compare a mobile OS that basically eschews backwards compatibility, for a desktop OS that can still run 30 year old applications, but it's not entirely unfair either, they're still both OSes and lots of the complaints have nothing to do with the burden of legacy support.

I didn't mean like people's choice popular, I just meant most used. The more something is used the more memes you'll see about it's issues.

Oh I don't think it remotely is. I just find it irritating that someone sees lots of complaints about the most used thing and takes that as an indication that it's bad, and ignores the indication that it's not (it being the most used thing).

Lots of complaints about something popular literally means nothing on its own. The content of those complaints have validity, but there's nothing to learn from their metadata.

React Native's new architecture is not that bad.

You basically just got a single lightweight JavaScript thread that runs your update loop around which components should be rendered and updated, but then all the components are bound directly to underlying C++ native components.

I would still expect the start menu to be aiming for zero dependencies and as fast a start as humanly possible, but it's not that crazy compared to something like Electron (which itself is not as inherently bad as most people make it out to be).

The real problem with slow web apps has less to do with the architecture of the apps, and more to do with them letting developers build apps really quickly and easily, meaning that you often have apps built by developers who don't entirely know what they're doing, and they introduce tons of inefficiencies like double rendering etc.

Like, my blunt uncle might make a joke about a boyfriend being ugly and cracking a mirror or something, but he would never, ever, say something like 'you can do better' or 'ew'.

There's a line between being open and honest about someone's attractiveness, and being cruel and a bad judge of character.

Yeah, those sound like crappy people that you're talking to.

I mean, did they talk about how he wasnt conventionally attractive or did they care about it?

Are they saying, "old ugly bob is coming by for dinner tonight, make sure to put out an extra setting", or are they saying "don't date bob because he's old and ugly"?

Or you use pumped hydro, or compressed air, or gravity batteries, or any of the other energy storage technologies that aren't chemical batteries.

What is this publication and who finances it because this section is incredibly sus:

Copper use is not carved in stone. Hybrid cars, which pair small batteries with gasoline engines, need far less of the metal than fully electric vehicles.

Power grids that mix nuclear, wind, solar, and a pinch of natural-gas backup can slice the copper bill dramatically compared with battery-heavy systems.

“First of all, users can fact-check the study, but also they can change the study parameters and evaluate how much copper is required if we have an electric grid that is 20% nuclear, 40% methane, 20% wind, and 20% hydroelectric, for example,” Simon said. “They can make those changes and see what the copper demand will be.”

Like you think we can transition to an increasingly electrified world, where all power comes from electric utility lines, and you think our copper usage will be ... just in renewable power plants?

This reads like straight fossil fuel propaganda. In an electrified future the majority of copper use comes from distribution lines and products that use electricity not the type of power plants generating electricity.