That doesn’t apply as a solution here. After all Jia Tan did make pull requests, the pressure came later.

Yes, if I recall correctly the Darwin kernel does implement the POSIX standard.

Agreed, and since we’re at it, same for compilers honestly.

Yeah if we narrow the question down to specifically consumer level OSes, then the best chance would be if some really big conglomerate decided they needed their own independent thing. Like Google did with Fuchsia, next time Samsung or the Chinese State perhaps. But even then a scenario like Android or Tizen would be the more likely outcome, a different userland implemented on Linux.

The Systems group at ETH Zürich where I studied had their own operating system, called Barrelfish because apparently making an OS is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel to these crazy people (this is meant positively, I hold them in high esteem). Side note they also made their own computer called Enzian. The combination of both is intended to allow them to do research off the beaten path with some different core design choices.

And we built our own student versions of barrelfish-like OSes during a course, if I recall correctly we only used their boot code to get the ARM cores on the Pandaboards up and running, then everything else was individual per group of four. We all had a lot of fun with our very individual memory management bugs, filesystem bugs, shell bugs, capability bugs and so on :-)

PS: There is also Redox OS where some people wrote an OS completely in Rust.

And why isn’t “a male” just as bad?

It is.

And what’s intrinsically wrong about those two as a noun?

Because you’re reducing people to their characteristics of identity.

Why is it ok to call someone “a fire fighter“, “a journalist”, and not “a female”?

Because those are characteristics of their chosen functions.

It seems pretty easy to me, and I’m not even a native speaker.

My wife tells me that using as an adjective is just as bad and that I should always say “woman”, e.g. a woman politician and never a female politician.

Using a noun as an adjective is just weird, honestly.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Premium product experience

The hardware is pretty premium, but the software is such a pain. As a result the overall experience is just “okay”.

In the 15 years I’ve had a mobile phone I have changed around 5 times. But the last one was just an upgrade that added 40 GB of data while roaming in the EU, US and Canada to my previous unlimited plan for Switzerland only. That increased the cost from 20 to 25 Swiss Franks per month.

You want that thread, not this one

No, I haven’t.

macOS… I have to use it at work unfortunately. It’s truly the worst interface. Plasma is the best, then Windows, then Cinnamon, then Gnome.

Empire Earth! I don’t think it was lacking for its time, but a remaster akin to Age of Empires Definitive Edition would still help a lot.

I don’t know that just sounds like a fake concept. I have no idea what an inner child is supposed to be. Sometimes I’m more serious sometimes more playful but that’s just mood.

I mean I’m emailing you twice a week at your work email address for 6 weeks about a product

What the fuck that’s so often!

I happen to know one hardware project coming out of CERN that is under an open license, specifically their own CERN OHL.

That’s a pretty interesting example I think.

It does seem to work to a certain degree. We know of four suppliers who build switches according to that projects spec, although there is at least one trying to add proprietary bits in a second product line they push harder.

Because it’s good

During the period of writing my master’s thesis, about three years ago. I felt like a lazy piece of shit one morning because I wasn’t far enough along and had procrastinated too much. So I ended up crying in the shower.

Maybe car theft would make sense. The reward isnt too low and the risk isn’t too high. Although I wouldn’t know how to sell it. Might have to drive each car over the boarder or something. That increases risk but should still be feasible here in Europe.

Otherwise maybe setting up a crypto scam would be feasible for me. I never used Etherum but I know the technical basics of blockchains, they were part of my distributed systems class.