Same for almost every book you've ever read, every CD you've ever listened to, and every movie you've ever watched. You owned the leaves of paper the book was printed on, or the plastic disc the music or movie was stamped into, but never the words, the songs, or the movie itself.
We've only ever had licenses to consume.
We tried and tried in big and bigger Collider to find any trace of dark matter. I think scientist begin to find anything else that could explain the cosmos (even if it is flawed), because dark matter seems more and more unlikely, after all those year looking for it
We've spent years and years eliminating the low hanging fruit -- as one should do first -- but that doesn't resolve the dark matter problem at all. The more exotic types are really, really hard to detect in particle colliders the scale of which we can readily build.
It would be nice to say "we looked for it, but it doesn't seem to exist", but we can't say that. We're nowhere close to saying that. Detecting particles that are hypothesized to only interact via gravity is insanely difficult.
When turnover is high enough that most of your colleagues were hired after you, and therefore thimk of you like a fixture.
Not just a working test, nodeBB 4 is in beta now. We're on the threshold
Usenet's mostly pirated stuff now.
IRC is a shadow of its former self, but if you're into FOSS it's still good.
I feel this. My group is 3 players, and 2 are 11. There may as well be 30 of them
coding is as fundamental as literacy with all the semiconductor devices that surround us
This is like saying being an amateur auto-mechanic is as fundamental as literacy with all of the cars that surround us. Most people who push this narrative, though, cannot do an engine tear down. I'd be shocked if they can replace their breaks.
Hell, in my personal experience, they often don't even drive, instead relying on taxis, Ubers, or public transit.
We pay professionals to do all that shit. And we do the same with software, when we're not programming hobbyists.
I've been trying to consciously move more towards FOSS solutions, but the truth is I don't have a gripe with proprietary software, generally. In fact, commercial software often has people putting thought into, like, user experience and stuff like that, which FOSS software does not.
I'm not a software developer. I do not think like a software developer. I, generally, have a shit time using software that has a UX designed by software developers. Especially those that are doing is as an untrained hobby.
But I do have issues with monopolists, which puts me in direct conflict with the popular commercial software solutions. And I doubly have issues with monopolists that think they own my computer, and my usage data.
So I've been trying. It's been helped by the fact that the monopolists collecting my usage data seem to believe they have to make their software worse in order to achieve their goals. I'm more than old enough to remember when the software released by these companies was truly useful and functional for the things I wanted to do, and didn't carve the programs up into choice cuts for different subscription tiers. But I have not found all of the FOSS alternatives to be enjoyable.
Too many of them are still built by and for developers. And many of those developers don't seem to understand that that's what they're doing.
Definitely a consideration here, yeah. It's not at all clear how many people work as Ossian. They only spotlight their leads.
I'm hopeful, at least, because it seems like the engine is there, and the leads all have deep experience working in RPGs. But I'm not expecting it to be a quick turnaround on development.
Still, I'm really rather taken in by the TTRPG minis aesthetic, so I have my fingers crossed!
And computers have always allowed for you to write your own software. If you don't know how to do that, though, it may as well not be an option.
This is is making those alternative stores accessible to the average user:
Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores within Google Play
Technology chauvinism is unbecoming, and unhelpful, both to others, and to your own understanding of the world around you.
Why advocate for trying to stop climate disaster when you can choose to believe that you can both profit off of it and be the hero that saves humanity from it, both at the same time?
Missed opportunity to show the progression from 8.5" floppies down.