cool joystick

And he invented JavaScript in a cave, with a box of scraps

not counting systems that use the Linux kernel but aren’t considered a traditional GNU+Linux desktop.

Does that mean you don’t count Alpine towards Linux market share? It mostly doesn’t use any GNU stuff.

not OP, but my guess is that he was referring to android

But several people also noted that the games industry goes through cycles of mass layoffs, because simply having a stable business isn’t enough for investors. Revenues must grow by a chunky margin: if they don’t, costs must be cut. Embracer’s mishandling of their business might be grotesque, but it’s business as usual nonetheless. “We make a shitload of money, but it doesn’t go back into the games,” one person commented. “It goes into a lot of now very wealthy peoples’ pockets, and the people who actually make the games kind of scrape by, most of the time.”

late stage capitalism

intereresting read, thank you

enlighten us plebs with your wisdom and tell us which conclusion should be drawn then

Archived version

it’s fun in other languages too

Puta que pariu, quem foi o corno que escreveu essa merda? Vá tomar no cu, esse código não foi escrito, foi cagado. Que caralho de emprego bosta esse meu, ter que mexer com lixo fedorento igual esse. COMPILA, CACETE! Merda, saco, bosta, FDP, corno!!

eXtreme Go Horse (XGH) is a Brazilian meme software development process

it became a meme because it is painfully accurate at times :')

fortune, cowsay

yes, of course, but I was just pointing out that the proposed changes are mainly in kernel space, not in wine itself

Windows NT Sync Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel

I develop software for a living and still this looks like deep, black magic to me

Kernel level anti-cheats are a must nowadays to lift the barrier to entry which excludes quite a bunch of cheaters.

$40 ain’t much of a barrier to entry

xkcd again being spot on

I’m curious about that too

EDIT: nevermind, another post below has the answer: it’s a programmable wheel

used to be a rhythmbox guy but I’ve been using audacious for a few years now

an enormous market of 1.5 billion people and the majority of them are too poor to pay for any specialty OS

piracy is still a thing, though

Layoffs are only a bad sign for workers. For the owners and investors parasites, it’s the standard strategy for growth.

I’m starting to think maybe I’ve just been pushing aside the reality that when the internet was good, it wasn’t as popular

nah you’re just becoming older