Cris_Citrus

Really excellent article that gave me a lot of perspective, thank you for posting this. Highly reccomend the read, its worth your time

But as Lorella Praeli, a president of Community Change, a nonprofit that works on building working-class and multiracial political coalitions, told me, “Democrats should be careful not to confuse Trump’s failures with their own success.”

God I fuckin hope they learn even a tiny bit for literally anything, but I’m sure as fuck not holding my breath

Do these execs really not grasp how many sales they slowly bleed by making modern triple A games unbearable…? Like they don’t actually have a captive audience, people can and do just play indie and old games instead.

Making games genuinely unbearable and pissing everyone off seems like such an obviously bad business decision, but being a VP requires being dumb as a brick I guess

Can you elaborate on what comparing PH1 and PH0 means?

The geometry of the area the bit slots into is different

I believe the difference is that the Philips bit is kind of a star shape, where the blades and the slots that fit together are widest at the middle where they converge, and narrow towards the outside, creating a wedge that ramps the bit out of the fastner. And with JIS they don’t narrow, creating a simpler plus shape that functions like two flatheads intersecting with eachother, but with a pointed tip so its self centering

The dot is there to communicate which kind it is since they look a lot like Philips. I believe thats also why posidrive has the little lines- so you can tell the difference. No idea what posidrive is about, maybe its similar 🤷🏻‍♂️

Edit, I was able to find some diagrams attempting to show the geometry differences (sorry, the side depicting each geometry swaps between the two pictures)

Edit someone linked this post from tool manufacturer tekton saying much of what I described may be popular misunderstanding, it may be worth taking this info with serval grains of salt https://www.tekton.com/blog/jis-vs-phillips-screwdriver-tip-geometry-and-fastener-compatibility?slug=jis-vs-phillips-screwdriver-tip-geometry-and-fastener-compatibility

If you like Philips aside from that feature (being self-centering is nice sometimes), JIS the Japanese industrial standard is basically the same design but its not intended to cam out, stripping the fastner

To my understanding you can safely use a JIS bit with a Philips fastner to reduce likelihood you strip it. But you ideally shouldn’t use a Philips bit to turn a JIS screw. You can identify a JIS fastner by a little dimple in the corner by the plus shaped indentation

As a long time less-technical linux user I don’t really wanna be that person but I do think its important to point out that generally the issues they were frustrated with are things that would be invisible to average users, and would irk the hell out of technically competent people and power users pretty much exclusively

I adore linux and have used it exclusively for like 10+ years, but it has a fair bit of jank that is most noticable to normal folks, and is frankly invisible to technical folks because it just doesnt pose a meaningful obstacle or speedbump to them. So yes, talking about the ways in which its way better is fantastic, but much of this is not a useful comparison for anyone except the people who already use linux and have happily done so for ages

There’s kinda this disconnect where technical folks will tell you linux is light years ahead and so much better than dreadful proprietary options, and as a less technical art and design nerd, I can tell you it still really needs UX polish and attention to usability (like more graphical ways of doing things), and those are things that impact the kinds of folks who don’t use linux and have been standard on windows and Mac for a long time.

It’s both, but I do wish technical folks could see the things that less technical new users get hung up on, because that stuff is REALLY important for linux to keep improving if we want more and more adoption

Thats one of the reasons I’m so excited for it to be gaining steam (hah, Valve pun) with gamers, since volume of users that aren’t sysadmins or pen testers is really important to those issues becoming visible to folks building linux and talking about where it needs to improve.

Always cool when someone with material knowledge can chime in, thanks for explaining! ☺️❤️

Thats so cool, thanks for explaining!

Thank you, the meaning of the headline in the post is kinda incomprehensible