Yup. Most of my career has been working on embedded realtime software, so interpreted languages are right out and really only C and a subset of C++ are available. I’ve now been using Rust in that way for about nine months now and while the syntax is sometimes silly feeling, being able to not worry about some many other issues has made development much better.
That headline is a hell of a cherry pick of his full email, which itself is in a very specific context.
If you decide to give i3 a try, I recommend this repo as a sane starting config: https://github.com/shreyas-a-s/debian-i3
I use two tools for this:
Now, my use case is less “constant fresh install” and more “keep my environment the same across various devices”, as I mostly run Debian Stable and don’t feel the need to constantly tweak things.
oh god, same here. I have Pi-Hole set up with a two layer system so it blocks less for my partner’s phone and laptop and more for everything else.
I mean, there are reasonably effective adblocks for iOS available.
I had this experience at work last year. I shared some article that was relevant to work and half the people complained that it had a full page ad they couldn’t dismiss. The other half of us used Adblock, apparently.
Hey! My beard isn’t that… oh, fuck, I guess it is. Where does the time go?
I’ve generally found that while there is almost always package equality between deb and rpm distros, when there isn’t I’m more likely to find a deb. I’d recommend Mint for you, followed by Debian Stable.
Holy shit yes. That moment when they just let you leave and you suddenly realize that you are responsible for a baby but that you aren’t suddenly imbued with knowing All The Parent Things is humbling and terrifying.
Yeah, I make jams most years, pickles regularly, and at my old house we had an extremely productive orange tree, so I made a lot of marmalade. My current house has a lemon tree, but it needs to be seen by an arborist. Then I’ll probably get into making lemon curd.
Just plain Debian, with either xfce or i3. I have a rediculusly old laptop that runs them both fine. I generally prefer i3 on it because the touchpad is pretty terrible, but xfce works well with a real mouse.
Yeah, back then Google did a lot of things to just make the web a better place, such as their Unicode font repository. The idea was that if the web was better, more people would use it and so more people would use Google Search.
I use PorkBun. I didn’t have to upload any id, but I pay with a credit card so they do have my name and whatnot. They have a pretty decent API to manage whatever you need.
This is it exactly. For a typical new user the things that make them bounce are, in order:
The whole discussion of things like immutable, deb, rpm, systemd, Wayland vs x11, etc are somewhere between meaningless and a scary sounding distraction for normal people who are fed up with MS/Apple and thinkng about trying something else.
Ah, I see. That makes sense. I don’t actually know that much about them, other than that the Commodore phone uses Sailfish.
What’s wrong with Jolla?
In the old days, lots, mostly around hardware support and until very recently the ability to run most games.
Nowadays, I’m mostly disappointed with the desktop environments lacking features that BeOS had in 1997. This is honestly a kernel and filesystem issue since most of those features require that the kernel/filesystem fully support indexed, extensible attribute queries. xattrs aren’t nearly sufficient. The remainder are framework/UI threading model limitations, which aren’t really kernel related.
And also he’s not advocating for everyone to start using it, rather saying that as the primary kernel maintainer, he’s finding it useful to help do a first pass triage on the flood of PRs.