Then the subreddit can codify that by having a policy that ignorance is a bannable offence!

Are you saying we’ll be greeted as liberators?

Well yes. Even Venezuelans celebrated for a little while, until they realized what had actually happened.

This is the case in other areas though. I keep some of my passkeys in BitWarden and that is cross device/platform as well.

I have a Logitech MX Vertical and it works flawlessly.

Here’s a simple decision tree:

Do you run any exotic hardware? Do you run MS Office regularly? Do you run any highly specialized software?

If the answer is no to all those then Linux is worth a shot.

Yes but the headwinds of Linux adoption are (to some extent) that Linux is the best choice for A, but it is not far and away the best choice for B (not saying it’s bad or even worse than Windows, it’s just not CLEARLY better).

But when you approach 99% of the population who, to the extent they’ve even thought about it, will only judge an OS on B, Linux is just one of 3 main choices (sorry BSD folks. Don’t yell at me). Is it the best choice purely on functionality and app ecosystem? Maybe, but also maybe not.

Since the majority of Linux does not come on hardware by default what you’re essentially asking people to do is to buy a car and swap out the motor. We have to convince them why that new motor is better and is worth the effort of doing so. If it’s marginally better or worse, it just won’t be worth the headache to most people.

To be clear Linux (and MacOS) are my preferred OS. I haven’t owned a Windows box in at least 5 years.

I don't think I understand the point of this. I colored in the players for US, Russia, and China (should be that way by default I'd have thought). But I have no idea what to "simulate".

I do see in the site meta that it's purpose may be to just fill in so you can see who would have what population and area if an alliance was formed or area was conquered, but even that doesn't seem to work as selecting the US registers 0 population and 0 area.

thank you for feedbacks, now added battle mode. Real military data is used for power.

I do things for free all the time. I love my kids for free. I serve the less fortunate for free. If I have the time and resources and it makes the world a better place free is my default price.

That being said I also produce software for a living as well and there’s nothing wrong with that either. It’s not either or. It’s yes and.

There are plenty of things that are free and also provided for a fee. You can pay to go to a conference and hear someone talk, or you can just go outside and hear people talk for free, and often times enjoy it more than the conference talk. You can pay for admittance to a dance club or go to another one for free. You can buy bottled water or drink from the public water system for (mostly) free. It's not an either-or situation.

Considering Mozilla’s flagship browser (Firefox desktop) doesn’t even support the feature, I don’t exactly take that as a good sign.

What? Firefox has supported the PWA standards for well over a decade at this point.

One of my old sites installed itself as a persistent PWA that made zero external network requests when relaunched.

Means testing has its own issues. How do you decide what the lines are? How do you design it for people just outside those lines that keeps it fair? Who enforces it? What happens when your means change?

Figuring all this stuff has a cost, both real (now you have to hire people to screen and enforce the means testing) and emotional/political (news story about a single mother who was rejected for making $1 too much).

So when advocating for means testing please keep in mind it’s a lot easier to not have it. Yes some who don’t need it will get it, but that can be better than a ballooned cost and some who do need it being blocked or dissuaded from getting it.

A lot of the interest groups arguing for means testing on public benefits actually don't want those things to exist at all. Adding means tests to them is a way of making them more and more inaccessible while claiming it's simply about fareness. It's a deliberate strategy.

the reality is you can't just give things to everyone. the cost is just not sustainable.

For sure. We could never have universal benefits like roads, childhood education, firefighters, etc. That would never work.