It’s a possibility with chromebooks because of the google ad network, but I can’t see why consoles, linux, mac, even windows tbh, has any incentive to support this. At best, they might make it an option, but there’s nothing in it for them. It actively makes their content look worse, while an ad supported OS like windows already has capability to place ads anyway.

Of course this is just a theoretical exercise. Technically, there’s nothing in a QR code’s algorithm or the mathematics that prevents it from scaling infinitely. The error correction algorithm even allows up to 30% of the code to be damaged and still retrieve the data.

Practically though… Well, given the QR code is smaller than bacteria, paper looks more like a tangled forrest of plant fibers at that scale. Paper just doesn’t support that kind of resolution.

However, I’m inclined to believe humanity can print that QR code on silicon wafers like we do with chips.

I assume you could deactivate an account without pruning if the account is legitimately human, just a very obnoxious one?

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No way it’s C. The average student will go home and find that they can’t do much of anything they like, with the level of C they know. Even printing a string is famously hard in C, they’ll hate it. Nothing drains their interest in programming faster than segfaults.

The average students wants to build games, websites, discord bots etc. Javascript makes it easy, none are easy in C.

My personal rule of thumb is that if it interacts with the OS or filesystem deeply, native is probably better. E.g. IDEs, cli programs, browsers, Steam etc.

Apps that do a simple things are likely to work perfectly fine on flatpak.

But the problem is that there are outliers in each case. You should pick one and be ready to switch if things don’t work properly.

Bet there are children that need protecting!

I seem to remember many random projects joining the foundation. Is this fine? Wouldn’t they dilute their capability to manage a whole bunch of unrelated projects?

Eating your seed corn? One good meal then a permenant famine is enough for CEOs to raise valuations and investors to pump and dump the stock. The famine is someone else’s problem. It’s exactly what the market rewards.

If you want to get a programming job, you want a good looking CV. By contributing to prominent open source projects on github, github’s popularity and fancy profile system makes it look real good on a CV.

Github is a magnet for lazy vibe coders spamming their shit everywhere to farm their CVs. On other git hosts without such a fancy profile systems, there’s less on an incentive to do so. Slop to good code ratio should be lower and more managable.

Does that include research time? I sit around pondering solutions, drawing diagrams, planning. When implementing harder solutions, usually 2 hours of actual deep work. But there are days where I wire up the logic and other grunt work, I can do that for 5 to 6 hours.

Aren’t professional tools using node-based compositing, which ends up being just as complicated as code in big projects? They’ll do anything to hide the code, because code is scary, even if it’s the same.

That’s fine. Unfortunately people are using it to coordinate open source software development. I don’t know how people do it. You have to use the search box and scroll through hundreds of chat messages to find some code you need. It doesn’t show up on google. It’s just horrible.

The trick is convincing people that a literal body function is shameful and some kind of sin.

Dude, OP is looking for a distro to CONTRIBUTE to because he wants to make year of linux desktop a reality. I think he can use CLI just fine. Looking at how stupid people are these days, his prediction is likely also correct.

That’s what I thought too. The crazy AI agentic coding craze on HN seems fake and manufactured sometimes. Whenever the topic is about AI coding, there will be huge spike in comments.

Lot’s of personal testimonies trying to sell the agentic coding dream. Some are bordering on insanity, like some guy claiming to be a single father raising his kids at home, who vibe coded some complex program for his business on Android termux. Like nah, that’s 100% pure AI generated nonsense.

Someone really really really wants the developers there to fear missing out. Like Satya Nadella of Micro$lop said, they reaaaaaally need people to get on asap. What better place to start than HN.

Sure. I booted ventoy to test distros, but when it came time to install the final distro, I wiped ventoy and reflashed it.

I think, therefore I am. If they don’t think, I’m not so sure.

AI gets increasingly easy and more capable, so there’s really no reason to adopt AI early in case you miss out. AI never allows anyone to miss out, the end goal is quite literally to be used by babies and animals. Any preparation you do today, is preparation you don’t need to do in the near future as AI strives to take over everything.

Feel free to set AI aside and work on yourself. You won’t miss out. AI won’t let you miss out.

Have you used a different machine? None of your issues are what I experience(on both x11 and waland). My issues on x11 are to do with general lags and unreliable sleep/wake. It’s weird how there’s no consistency, everyone seems to have a different set of issues. If even the issues are different, I wonder how the devs can even fix it.

What exactly isn’t ready? All I know is the lack of trackpad gestures and fractional scaling(even though I don’t use it) in x11. X11 is the one that feels more janky while wayland has been smooth sailing.

I’m even developing a gtk4 program, I assume if there were problems with wayland I’ve would’ve noticed it by now. On the other hand, testing my program on debian 13 with x11 did make the experience a little jankier.

Given such huge differences in reported experiences, I can only assume it’s a difference in hardware compatibility? Are some machines just better in x11 and others in wayland? Is that why everyone has such different experiences?