FWIW Dolphin only does it if the filesystem doesn’t provide a way to add that metadata directly to the directory and you change the view configuration for that directory away from your standard configuration. Which is how the standard describes to do it. (Some file managers incorrectly add those .directory files to every directory you visit.)

A mac will add a .DS_Store file to any directory just by breathing on it.

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Those are two orthogonal things, but they do both point towards Valve being the better choice between the two. But if there were a Valve vs. Microsoft duality where the choice that’s better for anyone that’s not the two of them is to side with Microsoft, I’d be disappointed with Valve, but I’d choose the Microsoft route.

I don’t think that’s likely, as Valve have repeatedly made choices that are better for the consumer even when they’re not better for Valve, but I’m not ruling out the possibility.

In this case, between Valve winning and Microsoft winning, a Valve win is good for consumers.

I don’t know how long it’ll take desktop Linux to reach 10% market share. Could be a couple of years, could be decades, could be never. But once it reaches 10%, I give it 5 years before it’s over 80%.

Sure, but Valve is terrified of the Microsoft store for a subtly, but importantly, different reason than why Microsoft should be terrified of Steam OS.

Microsoft should be terrified that Steam OS will destroy their monopoly by making it so users no longer have to use their product.

Valve is terrified that Microsoft will destroy their monopoly by making it so users no longer can use their product.

There are plenty of smaller devices still running 32-bit ARM processors. Enough of them in fact that Ubuntu 24.04 got entirely recompiled to only use 64-bit timestamps even on 32-bit platforms since by the time it’s out of support 2038 will be less than 5 years away.

This kind of course.

And if Apple is preventing other competing proprietary systems from working on their platform, do you agree that they should allow those systems to work on their platform?

Apple’s versions aren’t really any better than competing systems (some of which are open) in my experience. They’re just better than the other systems they allow to operate on their devices, which is a way of using their large market share to prevent competition. Apple have used “but muh security!” as a response to letting competing services onto iOS, so the EU are giving them the other option - open up your own standard so others can use it.

That’s avoiding the question. It also ignores the fact that there are already multiple competing implementations that are also better than standard Bluetooth file sharing, but that Apple’s walled Garden prevents several of them from being usable on Apple’s devices, so if you’re taking that approach then you’re trading off one method of Apple being anticompetitive for another.

If the fuel for your car were specifically tied to the manufacturer, would that increase or decrease competition?

Here’s one example

Not necessarily.

It could be five days in a column then there are five Mondays in a month (like this month).

That’s the idea of those “which pictures contain bikes?” ones and the ReCaptcha (where you had two words from books). In the book one, one of the words is known and the other is not. They’ll present the same unknown word to people until they get a clear answer from many dozens or hundreds of entries, using the known word as a control. Then that other word goes into the known words category.

I’m mad that Android is developed behind closed doors and then dumped out there for us rather than being developed in the open.

Already ahead of you on that as an active member of my state’s ranked choice voting initiative.

The vote is necessary, but not sufficient. My vote is a short term strategy for harm reduction. Working towards actual electoral reform is my long term strategy for fixing things.

Well thanks for that I guess. Voting Harris and protesting against the genocide still seem like the most effective combination of actions with my very minimal power.

So what do you suggest we do about it?

This is the opposite of the time my friend posted a link to my personal site on Digg. It was running on a Pentium 1 with 128 MiB of RAM on a home internet connection.