I wasn’t trying to give you advice, I was describing the situation in general. 🤷

It’s very hardware dependent with a few problem’s like Nvidia. For Best results go established brands that support Linux like thinkpads.

Along with “it’s sometimes hard to detect your own stink”

I know about window managers and how using them will reduce the memory usage by system a lot because they are less bloated etc.

Ehhhh… I think it’s more “not using a curated general-purpose DE”, rather than “using a WM”. All graphical systems include a WM, and a DE in some senses is more of a concept or category than a concrete thing. The choice is whether it’s one you cobble a DE together yourself, or use a pre-configured, curated one.

Many people use stand-alone WMs and then create their own DE, but quite a few of us put the WM of our choice within existing DE because we want the WM but have no interest in re-inventing all those DE wheels (and/or have >4Gb memory so the “bloat” is not an issue). In my case it’s i3 on Gnome via gnome-flashback.

Curated DEs do tend to use more resources - typically mostly memory - partly because they tend to be comprehensive for diverse users. Rolling your own minimal DE for your personal needs can often be lighter weight. If you have a very constrained system then it can be beneficial, though that circumstance is more and more unusual these days when 8Gb of memory is often considered “minimal”.

The main reasons for making your own DE is to do things exactly the way you want, at the expense of having to do it. Beware though, there will be various helpful features of DEs you may not realize you appreciate until you have realize you don’t have them. E.g. what happens when you plug in a USB drive? Nothing, by default - a DE usually manages that. SSHing into servers a lot - a credentials agent is nice - better add one of those…

A lot of rolling your own DE is months or years of “oh yeah, that is a useful thing to have; I need to find tools and configure them to do that”. Conversely, dropping your WM of choice into another DE is often a case of “huh, that happens automagically; nice!”.

I think that’s a slightly different animal. AFAIK it’s doesn’t switch config depending on the current focused window. E.g. for some programs I don’t want remapping.

I use a key remapper to give me the readline keys everywhere. Though I’ve used XKeysnail and xremap and they’re both a bit flakey, so if anyone has better recommendations that work on X11 and Wayland, I’m all ears.

I have decades as a SWE, including deep (but now out-of-date) C++ experience, a lot more recently in serious Python systems, and a fair amount of web UI dev on the side.

Now I have 1 year with Go. I came to it with an open mind having heard people sing its praises I thought it would be broadening to spend some time with a language new to me.

My advice now is do anything you can to avoid working in golang. Almost daily, I seriously contemplate whether it’d be worth quitting and being unemployed, even in this economy (US). It is a better C, but that’s a low, low bar at least for the project domains I ever work in. Where it’s an even plausible answer, Rust is probably a better one (I think? - haven’t used Rust for anything real).

That seems to be the Go way. Why put it in a library when everyone can just re-implement it themselves (and test and document it too, right? Right?).

E.g. There isn’t even a standard set object, everyone just implements it as a map pointing to empty structs, and you get familiar with that and just accept it and learn to understand what it means when someone added an empty struct to a map. And then people try to paint this as a virtue of the language.

Excellent description of the zeitgeist.

Your portrait of before generative AI is a bit hard to square with the ad driven internet, but fits ever better the further back you go.

Yeah, we’re turning it all to shit in so many ways simultaneously, it’s truly something awful to behold. Maybe there is a singularity coming after all, but it’s not one like the credulous tech worshippers imagined.

Also depends on your variant of English, because North American Biscuits are very different from the rest of the anglophone world’s biscuits. Many of them are unleavened, just as most gods don’t have a strong position on whether you should use leavening at any time of the year, let alone now.

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Windows will never come close to replacing Linux! There’s way more Linux out there than there is Windows.

Presumably you mean on the personal desktop. In which case I still disagree in the very long term. I think at some point Windows will be replaced by *nix based systems in the vein of OSX and Chrome OS.

Wow. .08 is ridiculously lax IMO. I agree punishments should scale by inebriation level but I never expected people to think .08 was too strict.

Coupling is a fucking gem. I’ve still never been able to bring myself to watch the final season that has no Geoff though.

ironically, I think whining about anticipated downvotes for expressing the most mainstream sentiment is worthy of downvotes

Git’s unconventional and decentralized design—nowadays ubiquitous and seemingly obvious—was revolutionary at the time,

Of course, there’s more innovation in git than being DVC but the decentralized nature wasn’t revolutionary.

It was funny when I started using bzr and then git, I kept being told “it’s a DVC, which is a different way to work that takes some getting used to”, and I was puzzled as it felt very familiar to me. Then I looked up DVCs and found out that Sun’s Teamware that I’d used for a decade was also a DVC. It was actually a return to familiar and comfortable workflows after a brief period using abominations like Perforce and Clearcase. I’m so glad they’ve been largely replaced. Git may not be perfect, but it’s better than those in any use cases I have had.

But then you have to eat Tillamook cheese… I has no idea cheese could be so bland before I moved to the NW USA. And orange, for some reason.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by and large

I thought it was stating that something is God’s will for your own purposes. AFAIK it’s not just using terms for God as a curse.

I’ve used ThinkPads for ages and it’s very true they have become more and more ordinary as the years go by, but I recently got given a high spec Dell for a new job and it’s been very disappointing. In particular the keyboard is terrible to the point that on business trips I bring an external keyboard with me. I also sorely miss a trackpoint, but to many people that is not an issue.

I was also surprised that I miss the ThinkPad ability to open up 180°.