Dating apps are crap. You literally have a higher success rate walking up to a random person at a bar than with a first message on Tinder. They could be a good tool, but we live in capitalism so they are made to extract as much profit as possible, even if that means promoting toxic, mental-health-crushing behaviours.

You forgot cache distance. That would also critically hinder performance

One thing I hate about the Linux desktop is the sheer lack of interest for supporting new hardware until it's too late.

Before you jump at me: I know it's not really anybody's fault. The contributors didn't switch to new hardware yet, and someone has to do the work.

But that does not excuse the passive aggressiveness. GNOME's stance on fractional scaling was, for years, "never happening - fractional pixels don't exist, so we do integer scaling only". A few years later, hidpi displays are becoming the standard and all premium laptops ship with them. Very few of them work fine at 200% scaling. One thing the Framework Laptop 13 reviews mention when testing it on Linux is that there is no optimal screen scaling available, just too small or too big - and that you can enable experimental support for fractional scaling, but it's a buggy mess and it's an option not exposed to the user for very good reason. Only now that it's too late and Linux is already buggy and annoying to use on modern laptops because of this we are beginning to see some interest in actually resolving the problem, including GNOME rushing to work on implementing support for it in GTK and Mutter, after years of bikeshedding. Somehow, things that are impossible and never happening suddenly become possible and happening when the writing that had been on the wall became true, and the hardware that a minority of users had been calling attention to for years is now common place and oups! That gives the Linux desktop some very bad exposure and first impressions.

Touch screens were another problem area. Initially the common stance was that nobody really uses these, convertible laptops suck anyway, etc. fast forward to now, more and more premium laptops offer touch screens, and stuff like 360 degrees hinges and convertibles that are actually decent are starting to surface. And, of course, everyone on Linux desktop wakes up and starts admitting that touch screen support is actually in a problematic state when it's already too late, and (prospective) owners of these devices have to pick between a very buggy experience that feels like Alpha state on Linux, and just using Windows.

It goes on. HDR support? Color correction support? FreeSync support being spotty and completely missing in GNOME Wayland?

I'm a heavy Linux user. I will nuke my dual boot when my next laptop ships so I'm going all-in after all these years. But I also own a 4k FreeSync monitor, a MX Master 3 mouse ane my next laptop (Framework Laptop 16") will require fractional scaling and VRR support to use comfortably. Having tried all these things side by side on my dual boot, I am somewhat jealous of how well Windows seems to handle these things compared to Linux. All this "nice stuff" has either taken a lot of time since my purchase to work nicely, or still doesn't work nicely at all. Ignoring contribution / manpower issues, this constant critical attitude towards new hardware and the unwillingness to try and properly support it is actively keeping us in the "Eternal 90% there" stage. We will not get out of it, because customer tech will keep evolving, and we will keep accepting new trends only when it's too late, and we're 7 years behind Microsoft in implementing support. It's not a secret that where Windows still obliterates Linux is niche use cases like HDR and colour accurate work, and support for new customer hardware, that usually lags 5-7 years behind on Linux.

Stardew Valley and Minecraft modder reporting in with no issues. In general, anything Steam is moddable without issues.

Unity was "cancelled" the very second they introduced this fee. Nobody wants or will ever want to publish their game in Unity anymore. Studios planning to develop a game in Unity have already decided on moving to Unreal as we speak.

Unity is now irrelevant, and a product to recommend against. Unity is legacy software to abandon. If this doesn't mean it's cancelled I don't know what does.

It's pretty heart warming when you see some organization you didn't suspect already adopts FOSS alternatives of things. I think there's value is explicitly popularizing when this happens: they will get more popular through emulation, as humans are social beings. If one piece of software is considered to be some edgy stuff that nobody uses and works poorly then few people will use it. Otherwise, the "if relevant organization / person I follow XYZ used this solution then I should give it a go" thought pattern takes place. Worked with Krita.

I dislike the Apple ecosystem a lot and the laptop I have on order is more expensive than a MacBook Pro 14 with M2 Pro

I've read enough horror stories about this that I have started eating out much less. With friends or partner to have fun sure, I don't want to give up or reduce my social life (even then I try to pick "safe" food, and definitely cooked food), but unless I am like super tired or really didn't have a second to go buy groceries, I will cook my own food and not order take-away any day of the week. At least I trust what I am cooking.

The overnight ones are those that I deem worth it. A night spent in confort and living the day after with some restful sleep behind is totally worth it, if it's an occasional thing.

Exactly. This rule should have made clear from the start (instead of gifting Ukraine access to Starlink at the beginning of the conflict), not taken back later on - and silently, too, with a high cost for the Ukrainian army.

Musk / Starlink is absolutely in the wrong here. But since we're seeing Musk stray further and further from grace, is this surprising?

Here's mine:

• AnkiDroid - mobile version of popular desktop flashcards software Anki
• Bitwarden (don't remember if this needed a repo) - favourite password manager
• Catima - holds loyalty cards
• Fennec F-Droid - Build of Firefox without ads and that supports more extensions
• DiskUsage - see what's taking up your disk
• GadgetBridge - FOSS app for smart watches, Mi bands etc.
• Lawnchair - Home screen replacement that's visually identical to the default one but allows me to double tap to lock
• Material Files - file manager
• Loop - Habit tracker
• p!n - Pin reminders to notifications
• muPDF Reader - fast PDF reader that doesn't crap out when I zoom in and out unlike Google Drive
• Simple Gallery - lightweight gallery app
• NextCloud and NextCloud Notes - Access NextCloud
• Scrambled EXIF - Share pictures without giving away EXIF data
• Tusky - nice Mastodon client
• Shattered Pixel Dungeon - a game way too addictive to be safe to install
• NewPipe - FOSS frontend with AdBlock and downloader for YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp and others
• Librera - read EPUBs
• Lemoroid - Nice libretro client to play video games
• Infinity - Reddit client that still works. I believe they did something hacky with the API key to get around the block.
• Migraine Log - Nice app for migraine sufferers to log their attacks
• Scarlet - Beautiful notes app

Fair point, but it seems absurd to me that a supposedly community-based instance gets harsher on privacy than a corporation that's about to IPO. That seems off to me. Then again: lack of a big legal team. Understandable. Sad, inconvenient, but understandable. I'm not mad, I'm just sad. Mostly because this legal war on piracy is not only on piracy, but on software freedom (DRM, WEI, etc) and privacy (for a lot of media, there is no privacy-respecting way to legally acquire it)

Another thing that seems off is that this announcement has been made on the Discord server. Now, I don't want to come across as that guy. I admit I use Discord regularly, because that's what my friends are on and all efforts to migrate them to something more privacy-respective have been futile, mostly due to the lack of fleshed-out and comparable alternatives for now. But… why should a Fediverse instance have an official server on Discord? I feel like it kinda goes against the whole philosophy of this entire thing. Then again I'm new, so I might be in the wrong here. But wouldn't a Matrix server or something be a better fit for this sort of thing?