kurosawaa

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The Japanese military still flies nearly the same flag.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That chess game even predates OS X, it was a tech demo that came with the NextStep OS and has barely changed since the mid nineties. At this point it would be said to see it go.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Linux has decimated Windows in the server market. It would be unthinkable for a new project to use Windows server, even Azure assumes you want to use Linux.

There are lots of industrial applications where open source has dominated the market. As the end user you might not see it, but almost all software and digital infrastructure you use has open source components.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

IMO if you were American, you would remember it for being traumatizing rather than for disrupting your cartoons. I'm about the same age as you and it had a huge impact on everyone I knew.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

That book was written by a socialist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The new Apple silicon in the Mac lineup is the most exciting thing they have done in the PC space in more than a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mao and most of the other early communist leadership were southerners. Most of the early KMT was made up of southerners too. I think westerners have this misconception that "Mandarin" is a northern language, but the standard Mandarin spoken in China is largely artificial, and has been a separate language for governance and education for centuries. No one in China back in 1949 would have thought of Standard Mandarin as representing "Northern" Chinese culture, even though it is based on an aristocratic dialect of Beijing Mandarin.

Some of the most endangered languages in China are natural forms of Mandarin in northern China, because it so similar to Standard Chinese and the government has no protections or cultural programs for them, unlike the southern languages like Wu, Minnan, and Cantonese.

China is a complicated country and it's sad to see these misconceptions repeated ad nauseum in English media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are way too many answers after you finish this quiz. You should recommend, at most, three options after the quiz. This doesn't help narrow down your options much at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think UX will be that big of a problem, in the past the unofficial reddit apps were all better than the official one. Major companies design by committee and the UX is meant too maximize profit and engagement statistics for advertising, rather than be "good". A lot of open source UIs are better than their paid counterparts. I think PopOS is far nicer than windows 11.