Or, and hear me out, what if they actually have good engineers and know how to sanitise their analytics? And at the risk of sounding crazy, what if the reason that the Linux share is rising is because it’s genuinely becoming more popular?

Crazy talk, right?

That’s beautiful. Thank you!

This is amazing. I love discovering new/interesting developer blogs like this one, which is a challenge considering they’re all buried by SEO bullshit.

Then you forgot the /s

So, what other fix is there to avoid this besides removing windows?

Editing the registry, using a debloater, I can think of a few things. Even downgrading/reinstalling Windows could be an option.

Your blanket “remove windows” solution is just trolling at this point

I’ve been a Linux enthusiast since 2010, I went all the way and started to daily drive it since 2013 after I got pissed at windows for destroying my dual booting setup for the umpteenth time, but it wasn’t a simple decision by any means.

I adore Linux and I love promoting it to people; but unlike you, I don’t try to force it down their throat with asinine comments like these. Give pertinent advice or GTFO. Do you expect people to uproot their OS/environment and everything they’re used to based on your casual comment or what?

Stop making people oppose Linux on principle and stop making more Linux haters with obnoxious comments like these.

The fact that it’s opt-out and not opt-in says a lot about windows.

I guess it’s more popular to hate than to learn things…

Sure is, look at all that hate this little guy 🐧 gets for example

No clue haha but that is a neat idea. Also my explanation probably wouldn’t really explain centrifugal force to offset the hubble tension.

I think Hubble tension could fit into this if the sphere/balloon is also expanding/growing/stretching away from the centre. In this case it would be the fabric of space being stretched though. So not sure how that’d fit into this model exactly.

There was also a scishow or spacetime video about how gravity can be seen as an emergent property of “time / causality is slower the nearer the gravity well”, and that is how gravity works. To truly understand it you have to understand the math and how to solve it, afaik our explanations are all rather imaginary. So you could probably interpret the math to mean that this “spacetime bulging” is the result of a spinning universe.

Yeah. I think so too.

The bigger question is: Where is the rest of the matter that spins in the other direction? It should have perfectly canceld each other out! (like matter and antimatter also didn’t)

Dunno tbh. Maybe it’s double-sided and it’s on the other side of the balloon/membrane?

(And for some reason my brain associates this spinning sphere analogy with gravastars 🤔)

Ok. So hear me out. What if said 2D universe is spread out on the inside of said balloon and the spinning is happening on two axis? Wouldn’t that make gravity the result of centrifugal force? And what if the balloon is actually flexible, so that the heavier stuff stretches its surface outwards (thus warping time and space around it)?

I’m no scientist but that’s how I’ve often imagined it. Although it’d have to be in an even higher dimension for more degrees of freedom on rotation? No clue there.

Hey, thanks for being frank about it. I completely understand how the words fatwa/jihad/tuqqiya get misinterpreted due to the propaganda demonising Muslims and the Middle East in general. Which Israel and their lobbyist/proponents in the west—I.e the Murdoch dynasty—have a hand in.

I hate wars. Because all wars have collateral damage; especially in this age of bullets, missiles, and high-yield explosives.

Wars are always a terrible solution, but that said, sometimes the only solutions left are the ugly ones. Israel made its choice, and no matter what anyone says, I can’t really sympathise with an entire nation of sociopathic genocidal assholes because they could have a few good apples mixed in. I don’t think the allies did that in WWII Germany and nor do I condone/condemn it. (Except the use of nuclear weapons in Japan to make a point but that’s the classical US hubris for ya)

So yeah, Israel are now the genocidal assholes and if they get treated like nazi germany then that’s on them.

All genocide is bad. A declaration of war is not.

My principled stance is genocide is bad regardless of who is perputrating or even saying it SHOULD BE perpetrated (basically what this Fatwa is saying no?)

No. There is nothing in it about killing unarmed civilians or eliminating all Jewish people. It’s a call for all Arab/Muslim nations to form a united front and declare war, which, like all wars (sans Israel’s concept of war?) has rules of engagement.

Your assumption that the word “jihad” means genocide is the problem with this conversation. “Jihad” literally means “to struggle/strive”. It’s used in several contexts and there are types of Jihad. (See the Wikipedia article on it for more)

• There is “jihad Al nafs” for example, which translates to “to struggle against one’s self”, and an obvious example of it is to quit smoking, or stop overeating, etc.
• There is “jihad Al mal” which means “struggle with money” and an example would be donating to a rightful cause
• There is “jihad Al tarbiyah” which means becoming an educator/a teacher of good morals and Islamic/scientific principles

You think I’m advocating genocide. I am not. I, however, am supportive of a war against a genocidal rogue state.

Source (in Arabic): https://www.uae71.com/posts/117288

Direct translation for the lazy bums who won’t bother:

The International Union of Muslim Scholars, through its Ijtihad and Fatwa Committee, issued a fatwa regarding the continued Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the violation of the truce. The fatwa called for jihad and urgent, widespread action by Muslim states and peoples, including military action.

The fatwa, shared by Ali Qaradaghi, Secretary-General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, via his X account, affirmed “the obligation of armed jihad against the Israeli occupation for every capable Muslim,” emphasizing that “this duty extends throughout the Islamic world.”

The committee also called for “immediate military intervention” by Arab and Islamic countries to halt the aggression on Gaza and impose a comprehensive blockade on the occupying entity by land, sea, and air, including closing its waterways, straits, and airspace.

The fatwa emphasized the necessity of supporting the Palestinian resistance militarily, financially, politically, and legally, deeming it a “religious duty.” It also called for the formation of an Islamic military alliance to defend the nation and deter any aggression, asserting that the establishment of such an alliance is an urgent necessity.

In the same context, the fatwa prohibited any form of normalization with the Israeli occupation, prohibited the supply of oil and gas to it, and called for a review of the peace treaties signed with the occupier.

The committee stressed the need for financial support for the people of Gaza and the importance of urgently opening the crossings to provide humanitarian aid.

In concluding the fatwa, the committee called on Muslim communities in the United States to pressure the US administration to implement its election promises to halt the aggression and work to bring peace to the region.

Last Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz announced the expansion of his military operations in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 50,523 martyrs and 114,776 wounded since October 7, 202

Edit 2: more sources for your perusal:

• Aljazeera
• Rasd Network
• Arabi 21

I’m not a genocide supporter. I was pointing out an obvious contradiction in your statement.

And if you think Israelis are against collective punishment then how would you describe what’s been happening to Palestinians all those decades?

Are innocent Israelis more deserving of mercy than innocent Palestinians?

Here is your lever and some complementary trolleys 🎚️🛤️ 🚃, please submit your answers before all Palestinians are ethnically cleansed

because a minority of Americans voted for him?

That’s not how representative democracy works

Britannica

Ah, the most neutral of sources.

Here’s a better source, and I’m not just going to copy and paste this because it would strip citation links:
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/israeli-palestinian-conflict

Your comment is the biggest lump of misleading reductionism I’ve ever read

I just use window["…"] to hold my variables.

The pain is real. Now I wanna design/implement a programming language in the Egyptian dialect (j/k. fuck no)

I miss the FacePunch forums.

A PWA running in a browser engine that they can’t control can have access to features that they can’t vet and restrict. If PWAs aren’t restricted to 50MB of storage and have near feature-parity with native apps then they’ll eventually lose the ability to enforce their revenue cut on In-App Purchases.

Not sure how it works on android, but on iOS I’m pretty sure this means that mobile game devs will start shipping games as WebGL/WASM with asset streaming and implement their own payment channels for micro-transactions.

Apple can’t risk it and I believe they will fight it tooth and nail to the bitter end.

The right person to follow during a zombie apocalypse.

And they can just hike their prices like everyone else is doing. So why invest time and resources into lowering them back down if it doesn’t affect them?

China is mostly self-sufficient, most of the world is not.