HOT TAKE
FRONT END DEVELOPERS SHOULD BE BANNED FROM USING THEIR HARDWARE FOR A MONTH EACH YEAR AND INSTEAD GIVEN A LOW END 10 YEARS OLD NETBOOK
?) @wyatt8740Why stop at 10?
Make them all use a powerbook G4 (jeez, 20 this year) so they finally learn about making endian-independent code and Firefox finally gets fixed after 60 major version numbers of being broken.
I run debian on mine and it's appalling how much breaks just because no one has a big endian CPU to test stuff on.
@wyatt8740 @astrid @halva the amount of software that exists today that is built entirely around false assumptions about endianness and even cpu architecture (load-bearing x86 assembly that nobody knows how to replace) is frightening. the latter is being solved with a greater push to arm on the desktop but the former will remain unsolved