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KDE and Gnome are the most prominent and they "match" in the sense that they are mature environments that are quite usable. These have been in development for decades. For some rea…

It greeted me with a message: "Oh, I see you disabled JavaScript. Keep up the good work, my fellow cleanweb person!" which is an interesting departure from the usual "this app won'…

I used an Indy with X11 forwarding for a while, I could run a modern Firefox from my Linux machine, which worked nicely. As much as it looked like it was running natively, it reall…

I recently upgraded my gaming PC from Win10 to Bazzite with Wayland, and my use cases are primarily streaming to a laptop and to a quest 3. I don't find these very niche use cases …

I use the Android app from Wireguard: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wireguard.... It's pretty basic, but it lets me scan the generated qr codes, and it has an i…

I've had wireguard in a container for a few years, and it's never failed me. I will say it took me a long time to get the firewall part of the configuration right but the configura…

It's not related to Gnome Boxes. It is an application that makes using Wine easier and more robust. The statement means to say that it allows you to run Windows applications inside…

My favorite feature, especially considering the past of "heavily tied into Visual Studio" is the platform independent nature of (most of) "modern" dotnet. That is to say, I run Fed…

I work at a small web company (.net based, Netherlands) and we're just experimenting with it. We have a paid copilot subscription, but nothing about it is mandatory in any way. But…

In my first job, when .net didn't yet exist, xml + xslt was the templating engine we used for html and (html) e-mail and sometimes csv. I'd write queries in sql server using "for x…

If you type "login" at the ha> prompt, you'll get a root shell. This is something I also had to accept about HA. It runs in a VM in my case so it worked out-of-the-box, but you don…

In case of Earth, Wikipedia describes [1] it as being "[..] generated by electric currents due to the motion of convection currents of a mixture of molten iron and nickel in Earth'…

They had their own startup sounds, too (at least the machines I have). And it wasn't just the machines; peripherals (mouse, keyboard, monitor) had this nice looking texture on them…

.Net has been (_almost_) entirely open source for years now. The whole closed source and Windows-bound .Net Framework is a legacy thing of the past now, since .Net Core (which is n…

I love these work stations. Many (15+) years ago I used an Indy like a sort of dumb terminal, using X forwarding. It was very cool to use an application like a modern Firefox on su…

> The only thing that comes close is .NET, and that's MICROS~1. On the timescales in my business that's not an option, they can't be trusted to not act like Oracle does and they ar…

I've done something similar before, though it was a client's database. They needed an empty copy of their database for a second instance of the software they were running, so I had…

My daily used distros are Fedora on my home laptop (x270) and Pop!_OS on my work laptop (t14). Also a hp microserver and an x230, both with Proxmox (Debian) and one gaming PC with …

They are in my experience, we do this as part of many of the courses and projects: they get an assignment followed by a 15-20 minute assessment of their work. Gives us the chance t…

As a teacher, my job is very satisfying, because it helps people in a useful and direct manner, and I get to contribute to the education developers get before they go out in the fi…

I run it on a real Pi, a very old model B. One cpu core, little memory, yet it runs fast and even the web interface is plenty snappy.

I also have a B+ running PiHole. It's perfectly usable, and even the web interface is genuinely very fast and usable, even on this single core Pi with the limit memory it has. It's…

I love programming languages and software design, but I was burnt out on doing this full-time (or even 4 days a week), after over 15 years of doing mostly legacy projects and web. …

I had planned to install OctoPrint on a Pi4 to leverage my printer as well but I would never have been able to conjure up something this extensive! Thank you for making it and shar…

I'd been programming for about 20 years, but it wasn't fun anymore, and it had become a drag that I wanted to get away from. I recently (end of last year) applied to (and got hired…