Thank you Google, these tiny improvements will sure come handy when you - one API change at a time - kill uBlock and forever US to watch CPU hungry ads again...
Before pi & co, cross compiling was a black art. You often needed to build your own toolchain and the target environment were often not standardized either so you would need different compilers for each target.
Fast forward to today, you can apt-get cross-compilers and build tools.
While strongarm and others have been around longer, none had any real mass market hold. With Pi & co, you can build a (slow) server with $35. You can build a k8 cluster with $150. That's why we have cross platform packages for almost anything server related.
News like this is why I always try to find an alternate shop when ordering online (failed only twice in last five years).
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of a mega store where everything is available at great prices. But at this point the company is run by drones without any human emotions.
If I support them now, maybe my kids will have to work there because by then no other businesses are remaining.
You are ignoring that we often use software created by other people.
Raise your hand if you have ever spend an afternoon trying to get someone else's build scripts working. Wondering why make, cmake, scones and ninja are used in the same project...
Come on people, it's not like gnome devs are masters of collaboration themselves.
Gnome designers can come up with a new direction that 99% of their users hate and they wouldn't even care.
Most recent releases have basically been "let's remove something everyone love and use every day, because we can". For example, they removed desktop icons and redesigned the dash to be big and ugly and always autohide and made display overview horizontal with no way to change back.
Ubuntu is using old gnome releases because if they upgraded to the last release half their paying customers would leave in anger.
The article goes to great length to avoid the issue at hand. At the same time it brings up unrelated issues H&M and Nike (??) and others supposedly have.
Easily the best thing with their phones.