Mint on my work PC, because my dear IT colleagues made the effort to provide standardized installations for us that are mostly carefree and can just be used; you can even get them preinstalled on a laptop or VM.

Debian on my work servers, because everyone is using it (we’re a Debian shop mostly) and there’s a standardized self service PXE boot installation for it. Also, Debian is boring, and boring is good. And another thing, Debian is the base image for at least half of the Docker images and alliances (e.g. Proxmox) out there, so common tools. The .deb package format is kinda sane, so it’s easy to provide our own package, and Debian has a huge community, so it’s going nowhere in the near future.

Ubuntu LTS latest on my home servers, because I wanted “Debian but more recent packages”, and it has served me well.

Not yet, but maybe Fedora on my private PC and laptop soon, because I keep hearing good things re hardware support, package recency, gaming and just general suitability for desktop use. There’s still the WAF to overcome, so we’ll see.

Thanks, that’s very interesting!

Snoot Dogg

Like a real programmer would.

I have tried none of those that you mentioned, but over heard good things about SearX. Sorry that I can’t be more helpful.

I’m… not sure, I’d have to look that up. I only know that it was the only browser I found in my Linux distro repos that I was able to run on my Atom 2GB RAM netbook from 15 years ago.

How about Midori?

Also, the correct pronunciation for that Atlassian tool is “Gira”.

PSA: it’s acshully pronounced “Postgre-squirrel”.

Both not blank.

And so will I.

Pffft, your earbuds are gross!

after hours

I’ve configured PAM to not let me login remotely after hours, because I just know that someday I’ll want to fix “just this tiny thing” and I’ll break production because I’m too tired. I clearly need protection from myself, and this is one slice in Dr.Reasons’s Swiss cheese model.

Don’t let the people drag you down, this happens to all of us.

If you mean from an energy/climate/water/resource consumption perspective, then no. But of you’re looking at it from a labor perspective, then also no. From a copyrights perspective? Nope as well. Okay, but surely from a correctness perspective? Very clear no. Okay, but there’s still the aspect of showing recipients respect and not wasting their time by giving them something to read/view/process that you didn’t care to write/think through yourself in the first place? Well, you guessed it, hard no as well.

The things that AI was made for are:

• finding a use for superfluous Blockchain GPUs when that hype began to die (initially), and more importantly…
• replacing human workers who demand nasty things like wages and vacation and sick days and rights, in order to redistribute wealth to the wealthiest.

Come on, he’s clearly a bug.

Yep

I’ve been using Spytify for a long time.

You can give an LLM (or any other ML tech for that matter) any task you’d like, as long as you don’t care that the results are wrong.

RIGHT in the feels -.-

A large banana the size of a small banana. Or roughly 1/27th of an eagle.