I don’t know if I agree that Linus’ decision making can be attributed to role playing as an “average user” so much as it being a case of too much experience hindering him. He’s someone who has been interacting with tech for his entire life and has become very proficient at it within his domain of knowledge. He is definitely someone who is used to tossing the user manual aside when he gets a new device and stumbling his way through until he groks it, and he is using that same approach with Linux. This ends up meaning that he just does stuff that should work the way that he’s used to (i.e. follows the Windows paradigm) and then runs into problems because of it. I think that a lot of his issues basically stem from his ego not permitting him to take a step back to re-learn some of the fundamentals, or least map them onto his Windows-focused mental model.

All that said, Linux distros have varying levels of issues and quirks that have to be learned/dealt with, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with pointing those pain points out. Linus just needs to take a step back and realise that he’s going to have to actually learn something if he wants to be successful.

How is this news? Kid got pwned; it’s a learning experience to lose your account because you clicked on an untrusted link. Discord sucks, and their support sucks, but I don’t think they did anything wrong here beyond that.

None of the other explanations have actually given you the real contraction that the above user is employing phonetically: “I’d’ve” -> “I would have”

I’m imagining our intrepid hero coming off a bender and to the conclusion that they’re in a different dimension. In their efforts to educate themselves about their new world they unwittingly fall fully for conspiracy YouTube videos; what a magical and strange world they’ve found themselves in.

FWIW it doesn’t seem like Valve is really looking to make Steam OS a general-purpose operating system. They are developing it to work on their hardware offerings and may or may not add support to other hardware. This means that they may not work on supporting Nvidia cards well unless they start shipping gabe cubes or decks with Nvidia hardware.

Just because a corporation is backing the OS doesn’t mean that they are doing so for anything beyond their own products.

Does anyone know if the code that Voyager 1 (or similar era tech) is running is available anywhere for inspection? I would love to poke around in such a historical code base.

Even if they’re offered their jobs back, it could be that by now they’ve made other commitments.

Or just don’t want to contribute to an organization that tried to fuck them over in the past. I’d be much more inclined to get a payout and move on with my life. What’s the point of returning to a job and making more money for the people who just tried to get rid of you to save a buck?

Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/yIkXA