Many smaller projects not explicitly supported by the vendor only make new releases and don’t also maintain a stable version.

The motivational component hits first. Developers lose the ability to push through tasks.

Eh… they lose the motivation to fix issues for free that don’t affect them. Crazy, I know.

More software I wanted was packaged for Arch than Ubuntu.

Say you rented a server at Amazon and ran your own VPN server software on it. Not that hard. The server could expose an HTTPS endpoint.

VPN software on your laptop connects to that.

From the network level, it appears you spend a lot of time connected to the same random website, hosted on some IP not owned by a VPN company.

Yes. I used CVS when it was the best option. If I recall, CVS made it easy to check out a different version of only one fail, making it easy to put a system in an inconsistent state.

For modern VCS that’s pleasant to learn and use but won’t scale to the Linux kernel, I recommend Darcs.

A single binary, interactive commands and online help.

CVS does not even support atomic commits across four files.

You used CVS and it wasn’t a drugstore.

7” is a tablet.

The post suggests that Cloudflare is donating $100k to Omarchy, but no figure is given by Cloudflare. Cloudflare’s press release reads more services in kind for an open source project— something many tech firms already offer without a check on the politics of the maintainers first.

Ubuntu has a diversity policy to explicitly welcome and encourage participation, mentioning that they explicitly honor diversity in sexual orientation among other things. It does not explicitly mention queerness.

A moderator made a bad a call. It sounds like there may have been some confusion about the word queer used as a slur vs a self-identification.

Ducks? That’s quackery.

Microsoft is recognizing that their biggest threat to MS Word is Google Docs, a product they underestimated in the beginning as being a serious choice for word processing.

Saving in the cloud means automatic backups and access from all your devices. Increasingly, people are willing to choose that over the real privacy benefits of local storage.

Upfront they describe two monocultures and then a thriving diverse ecosystem and then conclude that the thriving diverse ecosystem is the unsustainable option.

Yeah, Linux as a software ecosystem is complex and messy like a forest or the animal kingdom. It’s a feature.

Heroin is made from opium poppy seeds, so, yeah, a residual small dose of heroin in your blood looks like the same opium from a serving of poppy seed muffins.

I also had a roommate fail to get a job over a poppyseed muffin.

Gimp already runs OK on ChromeOS, so I would expect the same on Android soon.

Because Linux runs in VM on ChromeOS, there were some annoyances and there will likely be some on Android.

Maybe they fixed it, but for a long time Linux on ChromeOS couldn’t access Yubikeys because Google choose not to expose those devices to the container.

And some keyboard shortcuts and mappings couldn’t work because again Google limited what the container was allowed to see and control.

And if certain kinds of problems happened, you ended losing both the apps and your data inside the Linux container.

Yeah, it will be cool to run desktop Linux from your phone. But if doing Real Linux Work on Chromebook doesn’t appeal to you, don’t expect it to be better on Android.

YADM is essentially git so about the only thing you need to remember is to use yadm instead of git when managing your dotfiles.

I use YADM to manage my dotfiles. I like and recommend it.

I don’t share them, though.

I work in a security-related position. My dotfiles expose more about tools I use, how I have them configured and if those configurations are secure.

I still like sharing and if there’s some snippet I think is particularly useful, I may share directly or post it somewhere. But I don’t share them all by default.

Downside: it requires knowing a new coding language, Nix, to maintain your laptop.

If you don’t understand it, it’s going to be painful to fix anything that doesn’t work.

I have had more problems with two different Frameworks than most Thinkpads. Battery died, boot/power problems on both the 13 and 16, touchpad problem on the 13.

I prefer the concept of the Frameworks but can’t say they have worked better in practice.