I don’t know anyone who works in tech (not IT) that is allowed to use Wangblows for development. If you’re a programmer/software developer, you’ll 1000% have to use Linux, either directly or indirectly. From small hardware devices, to automous cars, to simple web sites, all of that uses Linux. Lots of places give you a Linux laptop or at the very least give you Mac—because they consider Mac close enough to Linux. I’ve never needed to use Macroshit Office Suite for anything related to work. Zoom and Slack are the standard in Silicon Valley and both work fine on Linux.

Here’s my PR:

-A small and tidy task organiser 
+A small and giddy task organiser 

Uff. That sounds like a nightmare. I’m glad my job doesn’t force us to us AI. It’s encouraged, but also my managers say “Use whatever makes you the most productive.” AI makes me slower because I’m experienced and already know what I want and how I want it. So instead of fighting with the AI or fact checking it, I can just do shit right the first time.

For tasks that I don’t have experience in, a web search is just as fast. Search, click first link. OR. Sure, I’ll click and read a few pages, but that’s not wasted time. That’s called learning.

I have a friend who works at a company where they have AI usage quotas that affect their performance review. I would fucking quit that job immediately. Not all jobs are this crazy.

AI tends to generate tech debt. I have some coworkers that generate nasty, tech debt, AI slop merge requests for review. My policy is: if you’re not gonna take the time to use your brain and write something, then I’m not gonna waste my time reviewing your slop. In those cases, I use AI to “review” the code and decide to approve or not. IDGAF.

Have they tried coding a UI in a native library instead of the holy HTML CSS JS trifecta? It’s usually fairly miserable and usually extremely non-customizable by comparison.

🙋‍♂️ I have. Exactly because Electron = bloat. Granted it was just a small side project that I spent like a month or so building. I wanted to learn GTK4, Adwaita, GNOME Blueprints, and Vala.

I personally didn’t think it was too miserable (again small project, not a ton of specialized needs). However, I 10000% completely agree with the “extremely non-customizable by comparison”. I can totally see why companies don’t want to look like a generic OS app. Getting the Bitwarden app to look like Bitwarden on Linux seems like it would be waaay harder and more time consuming than just reusing their existing HTML, CSS, and JS codebase. At least in my month of messing with GTK, it seems like desktop UIs have wwwwaaaaayyyyyyy less control over the UI than webapps do, at least by default. I’m guessing you can write more Vala to get a more custom UI in GTK, but again seems like waaaaayy more work for something highly custom.

By the end, I thought: Electron = bloat, but also Electron = apps existing at all.

People: don’t bother to check if hardware is supported by Linux

Linux: 🤷 Aaah… yeah, I don’t support that… Sorrie? 🤷

People: leenuts suxxx!!!

Ah, fuck.

Hardware

• AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X
• GIGABYTE TRX50 AERO D Motherboard
• Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
• 64GB ECC RAM
• Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 Cooler
• Intel Arc B580 GPU
• Fractal Design Torrent E-ATX Case
• Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 1600W 80+ Titanium PSU

OS

• Fedora

I just started donating to GNOME, Guix, and LogSeq. I wish more people used OpenCollective. Sometimes I see orgs there, but I’m not sure if they actually use that account…

What’s IPTV and is it related to this?

For cases where it sounds like another letter, why not just use that one?

In Spanish, words that use k instead of c tend to come from “other” languages, like Greek, Arabic, Japanese, or Russian.

https://www.rae.es/dpd/k

Aparece en palabras procedentes de otras lenguas en las que se ha buscado respetar la ortografía originaria, o en voces transcritas de lenguas que emplean alfabetos o sistemas de escritura distintos del nuestro, como el griego, el árabe, el japonés o el ruso

Whoa, surprised this is coming from The Verge. Is it really the year of the Linux desktop now??

Ufff. Yeah, I also hit a slop mountain of videos when searching for Seafile comparisons…

Also like Ente uses: https://github.com/ente-io/ente/pull/7945#issuecomment-3538457041

You can’t always use the dev tools. Sometimes the sites have JavaScript that detects when you open the dev tools and then lock stuff up more.

Relevant thread: https://lemmy.today/post/32621021

tl;dr https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hls-stream-detector/ + yt-dlp

Link? I went to https://lemmy.today/post/18243468 , but didn’t see anything relevant. (I’m sure there probably is something relevant in there, but it’s a huge area to sift through.)

i knew what i did and why i did it, two years ago, after which i never had to touch it again until now

Hahaha, true. This is why I try to keep as many notes as possible, leave lots of comments, add READMEs, links, and otherwise document what I did and why.

It’s not perfect, it’s often tedious, and I don’t always do it, but when I come back 2 years later wondering why I set some random option, it’s pretty nice having at least some hint.

you understand it more when you build something by yourself, so it’s easier for you to fix it when it’s broken.

For me, this is a big selling point. Instead of trying to figure out why someone did something or wrestling with their decisions, I know what I did, why I did it, and if necessary, and I can change it.

Every time I hear him speak, I am reminded of just how stupid he is.

I know this is common knowledge on Lemmy, but damn it’s still nice to read. When I talk to folks around town, they all think he’s a genius… it’s really jarring.

I’ve noticed the more subscriptions I add, the slower my feed loads. All does seem to load faster for me as well.