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  • wouldn’t changing it just end up performative

    Exactly. Sidereal time does get rid of time zones and leap years, but it’s still referenced to a single physical object and relies on a arbitrary choice of start point. So it doesn’t create some perfect cosmic time standard.

    The international date line doesn’t help since that’s just 180° offset from Greenwich itself.

    The point of standards is that they can be followed by everyone. The AD/BC epoch is fine. The Greenwich meridian is fine. UTC is fine. Changing them would cause so much disruption that it cannot be worth it.

    Daylight savings can go die in a ditch though.









  • Microsoft PowerToys has a pseudo-tiling wm for Windows. There are loads of new options on Linux so while few people from the total population are using them, I think they’re growing.

    I’m sure you could get by without a terminal on modern desktop oriented distros. Windows has it’s own weirdness, like having to manually edit the registry. Just because there’s a GUI for that doesn’t make it a better user experience. A ton of issues are basically unfixable by users on Windows and Mac. I’m not decompiling their kernel to figure out why sleep is so flakey. Linux is much more reliable.