From what I call, the advocates kept saying:

• OnLive was just too soon, the internet needed to be better
• Google had just so much more resources at their disposal they could make it happen

Of course, no one ever explained why I would want to pay full price for a game and also have to pay a monthly fee to access it once purchased, which was the most mind boggling facet of Google’s concept to me, even more boggling than trying to make games render server side when the cheapest end user device can just locally render PS3, maybe PS4 level graphics nowadays.

I remember some people very vehemently telling me that I was dumb to be skeptical of Stadia, that it really was going to just take over the industry…

Switching to Dvorak caused the gratifying result of people that would just start trying to use your keyboard without being absolutely befuddled.

The key map tends to apply to all keyboards.

The computing equivalent of a stick shift.

More like the AI rationalized collapse of the industry.

The cuts largely have nothing at all to do with AI, but it makes for a very good narrative to spin at investors.

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Sure, though at least it doesn’t take too many words to clarify…

windows app on the other hand…

Do you mean teams for work or school or teams for personal?

That compatibility matrix, the windows app does not support connecting to Windows from Windows… That’s some amazing product planning there from Microsoft…

I will second the suggestion at something like “expanded support for more image formats”. One of my responsibilities is rolling the development log into customer release notes and I agree with the “changes that highlight a previous shortcoming can look bad”, and make accommodations for that all the time. I also try to make sure every developer that contributed can recognize their work in the release notes.

“Expanded image format support” seems like something that if a customer hasn’t noticed, they would assume “oh they must have some customer with a weird proprietary format that they added but have to be vague about”. If it were related to customer requests, I would email the specific customers highlighting their need for webp is addressed after pushing the release notes

The only way it could really do it would be for the Windows shell to get out of the way, which it won’t.

You can with effort have some sort of abomination where you get inflicted with both UI designs at the same time…

The thing is that the shell provides so little innate functionality and delegates anything more to an ecosystem of random quality, and then subjects those authors to a pretty capricious interface that breaks random extensions every six months generally driving a lot of the authors to throw up their hands and give up.

So the native functionality is solid, though even lower features than Microsoft windows window management, and then have to apply dodgy extensions to get features that other solutions just have as a matter of course.

If I didn’t know any better, I would have assumed that gnome shell was some small demonstrator project to serve as a reference implementation (e.g Weston) rather than intended for serious use. I came over from gnome 2 thinking things went pretty far backwards, but the extensions are going to be stop gaps while they build back up to a balance desktop. But they never seemed to do that.

Ultimately, I landed on Plasma and that’s been pretty good. Have some embedded/kiosk stuff using sway thanks to the very nice scriptable facilities there, but still sticking with kwin as a daily driver for now.

SMS 2FA is notoriously compromised by various means.