Famously optimistic!

One of these days I should really look at the specific differences that means Linux packages rarely experience this while npm it happens seemingly once a month.

Or modern vendor-locked in devices

Genuinely worried about that when Gabe passes the torch. I'm glad most of their Linux work is going back to the commons and to open source tools so even if they do become shit we'll still have decent compatibility.

Yeah that's the (public) policy, but there's nothing stopping them from saying "we're Google, we have a literal army of lawyers at our disposal, and you can't prove shit. Even if you could prove shit, we would find a way to keep doing what we're doing through some loophole that you can't afford to fight us on"

I wouldn't go as far as giving it a rave review but it works for me. I don't need constant connection, just enough to fetch the activity recordings. You can take the activities and load them into something like Open Tracks.

Be aware you're in for a rough around the edges experience. Garmin etc make their devices for their software only so you won't get all the features. Without the Garmin app for example I can't change the watch face or load workouts to the watch, so I have to have my phone on me during runs, which isn't ideal.

Why would the turnout cause an earlier election? Starmer is the only one with the power to do it and he has over 4 years before he's required to call it. People made the same comments about every one of BoJo's scandals and there still wasn't a general election until long after he'd gone.

I would be curious how this actually works in practice. What counts as "in progress"? Encounters? Plot points? Knowledge that a goblin has? If all of those things are "in progress" and you can only have so many things in the "in progress" column, I feel like you'd very quickly have to break that rule and then everything becomes "in progress".

Kind of surprised this is getting so much criticism. It's a thought experiment, not a call for a fundamental change to all PC UX. My only real argument against the idea is that it's framed as being "for efficiency". If you want efficiency above all else you would just go full command line.

I said in another comment but basically the left have a tougher message to sell than the right. The right says that the system works but it's the foreigners/benefit thieves/refugees stealing your money/house/jobs. That is inherently quite easy to understand without much thought or critical thinking. The left on the other hand have to tell you all about Thatcher, Reagan and neoliberalism before we even get to the point of solutions which are usually incredibly radical like changing the fundamental economic model we've all been operating under since the 80s. Inherent in that is a fear that the left's solutions will take assets and wealth away from people. While the right promises that your assets, wealth and property rights are sacred and that it's the "other" that will have their assets, wealth and rights taken away. Again, very easy-to-understand messaging for the right versus the left.

I totally agree that neoliberal economics are essentially what we understand to be economics now. To be clear, I'm not blaming the left, I think it's a case of they have a more difficult message to convey. To explain the problems that neoliberal economics has and to propose a solution to them is a really hard task compared with "it's the foreigners at fault". It's a much clearer, more concise and seemingly solvable problem compared with "we need to overhaul the global economy".

My specific point here was about how this friend doesn't trust the results AND still goes to Google/others to verify, so he's effectively doubled his workload for every search.