Same, I’ve done C and C++ for several decades and I’ve spent too much time of that hunting obscure memory issus triggered by rare race conditions. No matter how hard we try to use safe patterns we are all too human. The most experienced C++ devs I know are the first to admit this.

In Rust once it compiles much less time is spent debugging and a whole big category of bugs are gone from the production code.

And C++ aient pretty but maybe that’s subjective.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83.

Yay! Something that isn’t proprietary and resembles Obsidian!

I’ve been using Joplin for many years, it looks like this, works on most platforms and has [optionally encrypted] cloud support.

For a while for me it took over from drawing rectangles on the desktop.

Yeah Denmark is very relaxed about bodies and public nudity in general. Denmark was the world’s first country (in the modern world) to legalize porn. However, consent matters and consenting to one type of exposure doesn’t mean consenting to everything.

Yeah, I’ve done C++ for a couple of decades. So much less time is spent debugging with Rust, I love it. We have powerful processors and compilers, they’re meant to do tedious work for us, might as well let them do more to ensure “correctness” for us.

Besides I love the simple things like Option and Result.

They also have port forwarding without static IP, but you have to renew the port every 7 days. Which is what I use, I don’t mind changing port once a week.

Was a student, couldn’t afford CDs.

Nowadays I

1. don’t want to subscribe to too many streaming services, each just having a few things I want to watch. Also I broke my neck and I’m now on disability, there’s no budget to waste, at all.
2. Like to watch old shows and “rare” movies that aren’t available anywhere.

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I’ve been using Haruna for a while instead of VLC because it works with Wayland. Menus can be hidden, lots of options: configurable hotkeys, VAAPI enabled, allow multiple instances, etc. It remembers position in last video when reopened, overall it’s very nice.

reinstall

Recommendation is simply to create a new user account.

Wait I though it was Windows that had a KDEy feel? Anyway it shouldn’t matter whether UI’s have some common features if they’re good, only whether we like one regardless. You enjoy GNOME, great, that’s a very slick desktop too.

Plasma has a lot of things that puts it above Windows in my book.

I did a hobby project, a cross platform app controlling WeMo smart switches. Due to using FLTK_rs it works on Windows, Linux and macOS. Was amazed how quickly the code works after compiling. A lot of time is saved in development due to less debugging.

And I frequently find that items with Prime shipping cost a bit more. At least on the amazon.ca site I use.

I never look at the local feed, only my subscribed. But what you subscribe is very human, we tend to gravitate towards a tribe.

Same, it’s basically installing Arch while I make a coffee and then I come back to a nice desktop with sane defaults. And I don’t have to mess around afterwards installing NV driver or codecs, it’s all done.

Same, I heard about Digg but never went there. Usenet->Slashdot->Reddit.

I still have a low 4-digit Slashdot account I never use. I felt sad when it got sour. In the the beginning when people announced passion projects on Slashdot the comments were “That’s so cool, it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out. Not something I’ll be needing but I wish them the best of luck.”. In late stage Slashdot it would be “Why! What a waste of time. They should all focus on what I use”. Unfortunately that self centered type of negativity is everywhere these days.

It was not a joke, I’ve worked on Windows and Linux for decades and I’ve worked on Symbian OS and Android as an OS engineer. With the right hardware and stable drivers neither crash. Anecdotally (which admittedly proves nothing) my gaming PC’s only ever crashed because I had bad RAM, which i diagnosed with memtest86.

It’s not the operating system. This is the weakness of Windows/Linux - the many many vendors of PC components and badly written drivers. It’s not the operating system’s fault as such, unless you count the OS’ fault for not running a microkernel with drivers in a less privileged ring like Symbian OS did.

Now, the UI freezing and having weird random slowdown that’s another thing and one of the reasons I prefer Linux. I’m very grateful for Valve/Proton that I have been able to ditch Windows completely now.

It needs a bit of periodic maintenance, the btrfs-assistant and btrfsmaintenance packages will set it up and from then on it’s automatic.

I use it too, it’s great. I’ve been using Linux for decades and I know it intimately but why waste time fiddling with installing when Endeavour OS can do it with sane defaults while I brew a coffee ‽ I recently got a new laptop and I was ready to play Baldur’s Gate 3 from the old SSD in 20 min.

I did spend a minute installing btrfs-assistant and btrfsmaintenance though, it’s nice being able to boot a snapshot from grub just in case. I could probably have grabbed Garuda Linux instead but I’m happy with Endeavour.