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It’s necessary because people develop software with Macs.

macOS just makes you jump through a hoop every time you run an application that’s not notarized. In practice that means cross platform open source projects don’t want to pay money to join apple’s developer program and set up code singing and deal with certificates. So after download an unsigned app, macOS refuses to start it until you go to system settings > security > and allow. You have to do this again after every update. It’s very annoying and does very little for security.

In practice having a game on Steam is even superior to having a DRM free copy. My DRM free copies of games are on some old hard drive in a drawer. My steam library is right there. Removing and installing games is super straightforward.

Sensible regulation would target the network effect. That’s the barrier you identified. For example make it possible to use your Steam friends with GOG. Or have some kind of interoperability or standard.

Install Linux subsystem for Windows and you’re golden.

I exchange ancient vim for fancy neovim and monospaced fonts upgraded to nerd fonts.

It does help weirdly enough. At least I think so.

Are young among people a lot?

There are some open source iOS apps. VLC, Organic Maps, Psychonaut Journal, NetNewsWire, lots of Lemmy clients.

This is written like an AI prompt.

Some artists I know made pretty good money on NFTs for a while.

They have the resonating rhetoric, charisma, personal connections, and delusional enthusiasm necessary to wow investors. Wooing investors is a skill unrelated to technical understanding.

Neovim-HEAD or you’re a boomer.

It has nothing to do with intelligence. vi and emacs are just rote memorization and also endless installation of plugins and configuration. They are slow to pick up, but very powerful and also ergonomic once you know what to do. A modern GUI like CSCode is faster to pickup and immediately very powerful. A good emacs or vim configuration tailored to your needs can stay with you for decades. It’s stable, reliable, and does everything already. vim has released less than one point update per year for more than 2 years. During that time Sublime and VSCode had dozens, if not hundreds. For most people the choice of editor doesn’t make a huge difference. They spend far more time reading than writing code. Nano is the right choice for you.

EMacs is an operating system masquerading as an editor. For OpenWRT Nano is a good choice. Nobody spends hours in a text editor on that system. You can ssh into it and use any fancy editor with a million plugins installed on your own computer.

Nano you can pick up in ten minutes and master in an afternoon. By that time you’re still reading the intro to vim or eMacs.

nano is the perfect editor for people who only use editors in the terminal, once in a while to edit a config file.

The senior dev having a grand vision of the perfect architecture and overengineers three trendy design patterns into an unmaintainable mess. I have seen bad VIPER, two different kinds of promises, a reactive framework in one application that originally had a very sensible object oriented approach. All of this crimes by seniors who think the my are very smart.

I use a dependency manager, so I don’t need to think about “it depends”.