How is that not an anti-trust issue?

Because we live in the bad place. Conservatives are unlikely to pursue anti-trust unless they're using it as a tool to hurt out-group (eg: they might try to break up an organization they perceive as being too queer).

We don't have a strong left in the US. You get glimmers every so often - Lina Khan was trying to do anti-trust work, but then trump returned and that's all moot.

A lot of problems would go away or be less bad if we stopped letting power consolidate. Unfortunately, this is the bad place.

I remember back in 2015-ish a guy I knew at work claimed he couldn't get traction on dates because he didn't have social media. I was like, I'm confident that is not the primary problem here.

But yeah, today there's a bigger backlash against big social media. There's more than just weirdos who don't have Facebook et el

I have read about people trying to use LinkedIn for dating, and I feel like that's a red flag. Those men should probably be quarantined.

That could be a factor. My perspective is limited to one of a man who doesn't date men. I had some nice (and one memorably, laughably bad*) dates with queer people on hinge, but it wasn't my primary experience.

While I've certainly been guilty of going on long shot dates, I feel like your process should filter out most people with that level of incompatibility.

I'm sure a lot of people picked up on my nerdery from my profile or initial messages and passed, and that's probably the right choice.

Though I do remember one bad date, we were talking about rom-coms and I mentioned dragon age inquisition and how I liked some of the romance plots in kt. She said something like she "thinks I live too much in those games". Disaster averted, and now I have a fun story.

Does it really matter in a development enviroment?

Yes 100%. There's a good chance whatever you're working on with be on Linux, so being on windows locally is just an extra layer for problems to manifest. Plus windows is just weird compared to everything else.

I don't want to fuss with the OS. I just want the basics like ~, cat, grep, curl, etc to work. I don't want OneDrive. You can go get tooling to make windows more linux-like but, like, why half ass it.

With containers I guess it matters less. You could have a Windows host and Linux container, and probably not cause any problems with case folding or line feeds, but again: why half ass it.

Do you do software development work?

I mean.. most people are kind of boring. It's not surprising that most profiles will thus be kind of boring.

The biggest factors I think are

• You live someplace shitty.
• Your photos are bad. This is different from you are bad.
• Your profile has red flags.
• You're writing unimpressive messages.

The apps suck and are a capitalist nightmare, but there's stuff you can do to improve the odds as a free user.

I just remembered some guy on lemmy that was like "i can't get any dates on these things!" and when pressed, he revealed that he'd talk to women on there for a couple weeks, and then was surprised when nothing happened. No shit. You gotta ask people out.

I'm not that kind of computer person so I can't speak confidently on the specifics. I imagine it might be a factor that windows is just more familiar to many people, lots of enterprise software was already written for this task, and common problems were solved.

A user in linux without admin rights is pretty limited in what they can do.

Windows isn't really fit for development (outside of windows-specific targets), so. And it kind of sucks for just day to day usage. And most IT departments aren't great, so linux is out.

I suppose. But I remember old games came on multiple disks.

I also think that chasing every higher graphics has reached diminishing returns. Style counts for more than fidelity, I think.

When I tried Percy it was really bad. I think it wasn't even doing real screenshots, but some horrible serialization of the dom nonsense. Some of what came out of their tests just wasn't accurate at all.

Every time I've tried to implement visual tests it's a bad time.

A good unit test encodes intent. This kind of test, and snapshot tests, tends to be too broad. Something changed but was it on purpose? I dunno maybe just accept it. People don't look at it closely. It's numbing.

As others have said, you probably want to stop having shit randomly shared in multiple places. If you change something used in more than one place, probably manually check.

No.

• most people don't know about it
• many actual children won't care
• many "gamers" are little better than children