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Databases and Software Freedom
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Databases
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Chris Penner ☛ You should add debug views to your DB
You can craft one of these debug tables for whatever your needs are for each and every table you work with, and since it's just a view, it's trivial to update or delete, and doesn't take any space in the DB itself.
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Software Freedom
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Matt Birchler ☛ Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?
The third thing is gamers. Gamers use Windows largely because they have to, not because they are passionate about it. Maybe they were passionate about it in the 90s, but any passion has gone away. Now it is just the operating system they use to launch Steam. In early 2026, Valve is going to release the Steam Machine after a few years of success with the Steam Deck. We will see how they do there, but what they are doing is releasing a machine that runs Windows games on Linux. And it runs them really well. The Steam Deck has proven that over the last few years. If someone can package up a version of Linux that is optimized for gamers, then I think there is a meaningful number of PC gamers who would happily run that on their computer instead.
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