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You mean you DON'T want to see every utility installed via snap listed as a mount point? /s

There is a Jackbox game called "Talking Points" that's like this: the players come up with random ideas for presentations, your "assistant" (one of the other players) picks what's on each slide while you present: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKnprQpQONw


You only need $25-30. It'll be locked to a carrier, but that doesn't matter and is perhaps preferable (no monthly fee for a subsidized device) if you are able to use wifi. There's an ETA prime video which explores using a 2025 Moto 5G as handheld game console: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ad5BrcfHkY

tl;dw it's quite capable for the money and would could easily get on social media apps/sites.


You can have a multiuser system but that doesn't solve this particular issue. If they log in to what you claim to be your primary account and see browser history that shows you went to msn.com 3 months ago, they aren't going to believe it's the primary account.


My browser history is cleared every time I close it.

It's actually annoying because every site wants to "remember" the browser information, and so I end up with hundreds of browsers "logged in". Or maybe my account was hacked and that's why there's hundreds of browsers logged in.


Miguel de Icaza is kind of a legend, I know him most from his work on Mono and Gnome. Whatever he works on today will likely be part of a stack you work on in a few years (at least that's my experience).


Also, let's not forget he's the one who brought Swift to the Godot engine https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot

Related, for everyone interested into Godot + Swift, check out https://github.com/johnsusek/SwiftGodotBuilder I think Swift might soon be a crazy ergonomic language to make Godot games.


respect to icaza for his contributions (tho I was on the KDE side of the gnome/kde desktop "wars"), but has the "Whatever he works on today will likely be part of a stack you work on in a few years" been true for a long time?

i'm rather unfamiliar with his work post-mono.


After successfully getting Xamarin acquired by Microsoft, apparently he got disappointed how everything turned out, especially the decisions that lead to the Xamarin.Forms to MAUI rewrite, MonoDevelop being killed, or what is left of Mono/Xamarin.

Nowadays he is full into Apple and Swift ecosystem, doing apps, and contributing to Godot on Apple, making it Swift first with goodies for doing iPadOS based game development.


Development focused on iPadOS as an export platform, or using an iPad as the actual dev environment?


Actual dev environment, they've ported the Godot editor to SwiftUI and touch controls.

https://xogot.com/


Oh, very cool. Just watched the YouTube on some of the porting challenges. Love the idea of a full fledged game dev environment the kids can graduate to from scratch Jr. and the like.

Combine this with an Apple Pencil, Pixelmator pro and Blender and you’ve got yourself a great little hyper portable game kit. Don’t think I’d do too much hardcore coding in this form factor, but if I had an existing prototype that I just wanted to tweak a bit and play around with, it seems legit.


Everybody could see how the whole Microsoft thing was going to go except Miguel, apparently. Worse he was very smug and self-righteous about selling out.


He also wrote (or at least started) midnight commander!


Thank you. I've used mc since my slackware days and still use it. I never new Miguel wrote it


He was also a shill for Microsoft back when they were trying to destroy Linux.


The way he was handled was another loss for the Year of Desktop Linux, but who cares, lets use Proton and call it "Linux" gaming.

"What Killed the Linux Desktop"

https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html

"How I ended up with Mac"

https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Mar-05.html


If I don’t use Mono or Gnome, what else from him is part of my stack today?


Unity engine , the most popular game engine based on mono. Also gnome software like glib , cairo , harfbuzz prolly used as foundation by all OSes, gui toolkit, programming language or browser on the market.


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What are you trying to gain by this line of debate? That you don't use software made by Miguel?

Okay cool, congrats.


Look at his comments in this thread. He's being a troll.


Following this thread to this comment has been one of the biggest disappointments of my week. Your paranoid pedantry is not helpful.


It's likely you do use Mono or a successor. The modern dotnet framework is a descendent of Mono and is used in a variety of websites, games, and other applications.


Only in spirit, other than trimming, Mono AOT for Xamarin and Blazor, there is hardly much left, and very few use Xamarin.Android/iOS.


IIRC, Mono's base class library was also used to fill the cross-platform gaps in .NET Core 2-3 back when they ported the Framework APIs they had removed for Core 1. I don't know how much of that remains though.


Thankfully I don't use Mono or anything related to dotnet framework.


I end up using a combination of scp, LocalSend, magic wormhole and sharedrop.io. Occasionally `python -m http.server` in a pinch for local downloads. It's unfortunate that this xkcd comic is still as relevant as it was in 2011: https://xkcd.com/949/


The user can change anything they want, but a process launched by your user doesn't inherit every user access by default. You (the user) can give a process full disk access, or just access to your documents, or just access to your contacts, etc. It's maximizing user control, not minimizing it.


I am talking about removing the ability to install kernel extensions.

As for full disk access, go try and remove Photo Booth from you Mac.


Not specifically related to your point, but government provided weather APIs might not be a thing in the US in the future: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/noaa-pro...


It's funny when you look at this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_artificial_intelli...

The original bump-and-turn Roomba is listed for 2002.


It's also how Google generally brands consumer-facing products, which is just Google + Noun. Most of their non-enterprise products tend to have unambiguous names (Google Search, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Translate).


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