1. Perhaps 2024 will be the year of the girlfriend

2. Making money over the summer and upgrading to a faster motorcycle

Small security updates when necessary would be fine, but all the time I just see software (especially with the web) be like, we’re deprecating these features (that millions of websites use).

When I get a bit more space to myself, I’m thinking of somehow wall mounting a 42"-50" 4K TV and using that as a work monitor. Or maybe I don’t need a wall mount. I’d have what feels like acres of screen real estate.

Stop forcing updates on the lower level stuff that forces people to spend billions on maintaining code. This way, we could return to a world where you can just buy software and use it for years without some update borking it.

Also outlawing financially motivated (i.e. greedy) retroactive ToS changes.

My 2nd monitor. It’s some 24" curved 165Hz 1080p monitor that I bought from a guy at my university for $105. While not the best for gaming (noticable ghosting), it’s been incredibly helpful for work as it gets more complicated in university. The extra screen real estate lets me fit so much more without needing to alt tab or click on another window.

You probably mean the 13700H, but yeah. I wonder if there’s a way to separate the P and E cores in the graph.

The unfortunate consequence of this is that old working apps need compatibility updates.

Interesting. I’m guessing the changes were too big to just be added incrementally in updates to GTK 3?

Thank you for the explanation! What specifically does Qt 6 do that Qt 5 can’t do?

I’m not the most knowledgeable on this subject, but I’m curious to learn more.

Why do various toolkits have major releases that seem to reset the features of the last one?

GTK 3 seems like GTK 2 but slower to me, and before the transition was even complete GTK 4 showed up, which just seems like GTK 3 but a bit different. Qt 5 works really well and is efficient on resources, so why are we switching to Qt 6? It seems like reinventing the desktop over and over again.

I understand updates for the kernel for compatibility, small to medium updates to all software for bug fixes and new features, and major updates to toolkits when there are big problems with the current release (X vs Wayland for example). Or if the current release was unreliable and bloated, which I heard was what happened with Qt 4 and why they switched to 5. But I also heard Qt 3 was really stable and lightweight, so why did they switch away from it?

Almost anything Google. I have an Android because I hate the restrictions of iOS, but forcing me to sell my location to Google if I want to know where I am (even in an open source app because location is a system thing).

I prefer over ear headphones as they tend to sound better, don’t fall off my ears every few minutes, and have better battery life. But that’s just my personal preference.

He said “motorways” which I’m pretty sure is just a British word for “freeways.” He’s not talking about school zones.

Quit work and take lighter loads in school.

Buy a nice house in Maine right on the water.

Buy a supercar, and all the motorcycles I could ever want.

Go on crazy adventures like an Appalachian trail thru-hike.

All this would be less than 10% of my yearly income. The other 90% would go to charity, helping the homeless and bolstering free and open source software.

I’ve heard of it but never actually used it. Is it much faster than Steam?

Oops I should’ve told you that it is the Windows 11 version. That version is like 10-20% of the speed of the Windows 10 version but it has tabs

Discord takes about 6-8 seconds for me, but if you think that’s bad Steam takes 3 times that time for me.

Biggest offenders: MS teams on desktop. And even more so Epic Games store. Just ridiculously slow and laggy even on strong (Ryzen 9 5900HX, 32GB RAM, NVMe gen3 SSD) hardware. They almost take more time to open than Windows 11 (which is also slower thsn it should be). Buggy too.

Software that got much slower with a recent update:

1. Steam. Seriously, it takes almost as much time to open ever since the last UI change as the Epic Games Store. At least it’s smooth once it’s opened, but I seriously want an alternative to launch my steam games.

2. Firefox, specifically to open PDFs. There’s now a 5-second delay when opening any PDF, even a tiny one. It’s really frustrating honestly. It takes 90% of the time to open a 1 page PDF than to open a 10 page PDF.

3. Windows file explorer. On battery on my gaming laptop, there’s a 1-2 second delay when I click anything on this app. Constantly seeing “working on it”. The Windows 10 file explorer was much faster. And the search is atrocious, use Everything by VoidTools instead.

4. Some third party map apps on my Android phone used for public transportation start becoming really unresponsive after 10 seconds. It freezes my entire phone. This did not happen a couple months ago, and it really would’ve made getting around the city much harder if it wasn’t for the motorcycle I recently bought.

I was in college and needed to attend an important virtual meeting about choosing my major. They provided a Zoom link, but when I clicked it, it didn’t put me in a meeting, it said this is unavailable with your free tier. So, knowing this is a stupid idea, I begrudgingly paid this evil company $17 for a month of pro.

And guess what? It still didn’t work. Apparently I needed to sign in with only my school account for it to work. Never utilized the month of pro either. But at the moment, it felt like a gun was being held to my head to pay Zoom $17.

I hate tech sometimes, and despite being a young person I prefer things in person rather than always online at the mercy of these companies.

Lawful neutral for me.