Linux is a global project, and open source more broadly is also of course global.

Linux Mint (the distro I use) was started and is led by French developer Clement Lefebvre.

QEMU and FFmpeg are among the notable projects started by French developer Fabrice Bellard.

VLC was started by students of École Centrale Paris.

These are just the things that I know about as an American, so I'm sure there are more.

Driver support seems to me like it could be an advantage over Linux.

Does anyone here know the current state of installing a browser on ReactOS?

I think it has WINEs browser which is webkit based

Wine's recreation of MSHTML is based on Gecko from Firefox

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Gecko

Original title: "FACT SHEET: FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models"

It kind of makes sense for it to be a partnership with Back Market, which also sells used hardware.

That way, the ChromeOS USB key can be an add on to the purchase of some old laptop that can barely run Windows anymore.

> Unless you're paranoid about an OEM backdoor

Lenovo does have a history with installing a very obvious spyware rootkit on their consumer PCs[0].

[0]https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/ps500035-s...

> people who have never used the product and don't think like or accurately represent our users

I agree completely that these are the important qualifications to be setting direction for a product.

> Find your most socially competent engineer, and have them talk to users a couple times a month.

This doesn't necessarily follow from the above, but in Anthropic's case specifically, where the users are software engineers, it probably would have worked better than whatever they have going on now.

In general, it's probably better to have domain experts doing product management, as opposed to someone who is trained in product management.

I think a URL and screenshot would be way more useful than a bunch of text for that use case.

But maybe the button only appears on that URL if you've first pressed something else, or if you're logged in/out, or maybe that URL has a different token each day that makes it seem like a completely different URL, or...

If you are looking for another self-hostable alternative to Slack, Rocket chat[0] is also worth looking at.

I wasn't involved in any of the Dev Ops aspect when my former employer used them, but the search function actually worked which is better than I can say for Slack.

[0]https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/blob/develop/LICEN...

Curious if anyone has worked on just expanding IRC into an internal product? That’s more or less how slack started.

Really? I have yet to use a single Slack-alike with search that actually works - including Slack, Teams and Mattermost. I mean they "work" in that the search results happen to include your terms too, but they give you the actual relevant message only about 10% of the time.

Rocket Chat does look nice! I quite liked Mattermost except for the mobile app being trash. How is the Rocket Chat mobile app?

> How is the Rocket Chat mobile app?

I thought it was fine, but I can't compare to the Mattermost app since I've never tried to use that.

This exists, it is called the NexDock[0]. I have never tried it.

[0]https://nexdock.com/explore-nexdock/

I like the retro theme.

Could you expand on why you describe Hyprland and XFCE4 as "a cursed combination"? Might provide some insight as to why the official XFCE project decided to create their own compositor.