All of those were invented pre-1980. To misquote Thiel, if you remove TVs/phones from a house, you would think we're living in the 1970s

There was a Paint.net fork (called Paint mono), but it is not Pinta. Pinta is a clone. From the original Pinta author: https://jpobst.blogspot.com/2010/02/over-holiday-break-i-stu...

"Pinta is a clone of Paint.NET."

The majority of people can, and should try and embrace good habits. Some structure, sleep, sunshine, exercise, community, etc.

>Everything stems from this.

No, not it doesn't. If you think that wealth distribution is the cause of all of today's problems, you need to do more exploration.

Yes you are, see:

>they are just progressively making things worse

That's things going "shit". That's been around for as long as software has been around (e.g. Borland). Enshitification is a very specific thing: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

To quote it:

I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

>shift the Overton window

You're all over the place. This has nothing to do with enshitification.

This is the 2nd time this word has been used to describe the Linux desktop in this thread, and it's disingenuous. FOSS doesn't do any of the things described with enshitification article: it doesn't sit between buyers and sellers and screw each of them in turn. That's not what's been happening. Maybe the software goes shit, but it is not "enshitification". At every turn there's been alternatives (GNOME3 -> Unity/Xfce, KDE4 -> Trinity, Pulseaudio -> Pulsewire, systemd -> upstart, Debian -> Devuian, etc)

Stop misusing the word, you're discrediting the good work of FOSS.

This is a feature in my opinion. Mass adoption has ruined so many sites (including reddit). It's taboo, but gatekeeping communities is absolutely required to stop mass adoption and the downward spiral. Reddit was better in 2010 than in 2020.

Sure thing buddy. One of the ways the "little guy" can push back against big banks and big government needs to have its plug pulled because of some imaginary 2 degrees panic. What the hell happened to "Hacker" in "Hacker News", this place is a cesspool of the mainstream rhetoric. Note: I have $0 invested in crypto, but I don't deny its usefulness in "keeping the bastards honest".

I can't tell if this is a disingenuous question. Your $2200 is a very, very small amount of the total pie. Have a look at how the money supply changed during the pandemic. At the very start of the pandemic, when money was being printed there were experts saying "we will see inflation in the next 2 years", that's what we're seeing now.

Here's a Deloitte paper published in 2020 (see page 9: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/6...)

>According to Friedman’s view, the United States will experience very significant inflation in 2022

It absolutely does. If people have "extra" money (e.g. COVID payments), they can bid higher on limited resources (i.e. inflation). If there's more employed (i.e. government jobs), that's again, more people with more money, for limited resources (i.e. inflation).

While I'm sure companies are taking advantage of the fact, they must also realise that there's more demand for their limited resources, which causes them to raise prices.

These companies are making "record profits", but you also need to consider that the purchasing power of your dollar is being debased, and these companies are (at least partially) trying to keep up with inflation.

Box office response is hardly a barometer for anything. It can be a proxy for good, it can also be a proxy for marketing budgets (just look at how "successful" Marvel movies are, and they are the absolute worst types of movies).

>I'm also generally not a fan of religious films

Filtered. Absolutely plebeian take. I know it's uncool to be religious in tech circles/SV, but it shouldn't stop you from enjoying great cinema.

You didn't like Silence (2016)?

>not necessarily nefarious

It might not be nefarious, but if companies are putting out "feelers", and I'm investing ~30 hours per company, and half the companies I'm applying to are like this, then there's a huge waste of time (mine and theirs). I've started calling out this bullshit: "is there a job here, or is this a position to gauge the market?"

>10 hours of interviewing is barely more than a single workday.

It's never 10 hours. It's 5+ interviews, plus a take-home test (that can take ~10-20 hours), plus scheduling, prep, etc. It's never 10 hours. Stop validating shitty behaviour.

>I don’t think it’s unreasonable for a company to expect candidates to invest some time into going through an interview process.

I wouldn't mind, if there was a job on the other end. I can't even list the number of times I've gone through the whole interview process (at big companies!) and have been ghosted at the very end. I wish they'd stop wasting my time.

>The phenomenon of hiring people into high paying jobs after a couple hours of casual interviews was largely an artifact of the recent tech bubble.

That's how it's been most of history. 10-30 hours of interviews for a single job is a relatively new phenomenon.

>It’s also part of the reason we’re seeing mass layoffs

This is so false. We're in layoffs because we overhired, not because the interview process is too easy.

Intelligent or simply well educated?

Hyperbole much? The Earth used to be a molten rock and from it life sprung forth. Do you honestly believe that we can put it into a worse position?

Humans might go extinct, but I'm certain that life will go on.