Excellent to see that Microsoft's product strategy continues to just be a flailing mess.

I think it's just that government bodies like the EU move slow so it'll take a while for them to bonk Apple, not that they're "getting away with it" in anything more than the short term.

I could be wrong though.

Hey, you're not gonna get me to disagree the new app is terrible. Ain't some sort of wild gotcha here.

The fact of the matter is that even with the frog partially boiled it's still better than the alternative.

I am fully aware why people go "Discord bad". But weak arguments like "you miss out on all the contributors that have too bad of a PC to run Discord" do not outweigh the fact that Discord is a million times better for building a community. You're suggesting to make the experience worse for 90% of people interested in a project to appease the <1%.

I wish it didn't have to be this way, but it is.

I've evaluated Matrix multiple times, even tried to set up a homeserver once, and I can confidently say it's an unusable mess compared to Discord.

If I wanted to set up a community like on Discord the experience would be worse than Discord 8-7 years ago. Is there a nice, GUI based system for managing permissions, administration and members in a group across 50 channels yet? No? Alright.

Also every time I try to set up Element on another device it takes like 5 attempts to get it to stop spouting errors about E2E stuff, and then still fails to decrypt messages.

The GPL has an exception for "system libraries" on this regard, but it's as handwavy as the rest of the license.

The GPL isn't meant to be a real license, it's supposed to be a toxic waste bucket that companies don't want to interact with. This it succeeds at.

50 generations of inbreeding later:

IANAL but since they used the word "threatened" instead of "I'm getting sued", no case is being filed.

Pretty sure that if they were actually getting sued they'd already be radio silent.

Windows 11 is fine. It looks less ugly than Windows 10 and has some nice things like a properly organized settings menu (finally).

To be honest, the "configuration is an executed .php file" system does make some amount of sense in the context of PHP. When your app has to re-run everything to serve a web request, having to re-load the config (especially if it's YAML, though JSON is less bad) is expensive. Re-running the PHP code, on the other hand, can be cached way better, in theory.

Of course, this is still all PHP's fault in the end: the core problem here is that you need to re-run everything to serve a web request, without ability to pre-load state like configuration.

Honestly, just contribute to whatever software you're already using! The most obvious example (that somebody else mentioned already) is Lemmy itself, but surely there are many other open source pieces of software that you use on a daily basis. If there's something that annoys you, or think it could be improved... there you go.

At least, that's how I got into programming.

Now require manufacturers to provide like 5 years of OS updates so devices aren't insecure bricks once you get updates.

OR disallow banking apps from blocking custom ROMs/root, so you can just install your own updates ROM without losing updates.