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It's not really a demerit of FreeBSD given their lesser resources (and even less vender support) than Linux. Most of the major ethernet chipsets for networking you'd expect to find…

There's also BlueBuild [1] which abstracts the process of building your own images away further into yaml configurations. It takes away a tad bit of the direct control of the proce…

Always a possibility with any distro, but the tooling around it is flexible and repeatable. If another group of people wanted to continue off where they left off it would be far mo…

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: OK Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Java, Golang, RESTful APIs, Astro, React, Typescript, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), Linux, Bash, Git, Contai…

Well actually... https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

From a marketing perspective perhaps, but it's still a supported LTS release of Ubuntu at heart and having two different version numbers would create ambiguity. Things that should …

Debian repo proper worked fine, but I hit a problem with an application that wasn't playing nice (Zed would just stop accepting text input...) with X11/Gnome and Wayland is a bad t…

I consider myself pretty technically literate, and not the worst at programming (though certainly far from the very best). Even so I can spend plenty of time arguing with LLMs whic…

Just never managed to load the Nvidia module properly and fell back to the open drivers which don't work on my system. Didn't really feel like investigating further because the who…

The Nvidia CUDA repos are still on Debian 12 as well which was a blocker for me. (Some claim it works fine anyways, but not in my experience.) It's not like the Debian release sche…

The server browser is deliberately hidden, neglected, and full of spam on the modern versions of CS. It's no longer the "default" way to play, and only a select amount of people ge…

They're prioritizing correctness to the spec over speed and are still 'officially' in pre-alpha. It's still to be determined how well they can bridge the gap there. For casual web …

I'm sure in larger codebases it can get unwieldy with tons of TODOs from a lot of different people, but for personal projects I've always found them a good compromise. For me it's …

I do love the joke, but it is worth remembering as well that all of those S were to a certain extent afterthoughts to fix otherwise insecure protocols. Given how old FTP and HTTP a…

There's a pretty big gap between "make it work" and "make it good". I've found with LLMs I can usually convince them to get me at least something that mostly works, but each step c…

It's greatly improved with Flathub's "Verified apps" [1] implementation, but you can make similar arguments about downstream packaging (e.g. from distros) not being clear about bei…

Seems the only impossible problems that can't be solved by AI are things that make metrics falsely look good to investors

I'd probably flip the order, but to a certain extent I don't disagree. In theory, if there's a truely competitive market (has such a thijg evwr actually existed for anything?) it s…

I feel like (with no research) these interfaces were designed by programmers first and foremost and have a tight coupling to the actual underlying code. A "well designed" interface…

Properly levereged GUI editors have the potential to use the extra refresh rate for smother animations/smooth scrolling, though that's pretty far away from Emacs territory.

Perhaps when increasing efforts in implementing spyware directly into your OS it would be good to dilute the namespace as to not find relevant information. Either that or someone's…

Fwiw (antidotal) I have 8 shucked WD drives in my my nas approaching 5/6 years worth of power-on hours. Moderate to medium read-mostly use case. No data integrity issues (according…

>Matrix is the modern IRC alternative, not discord. But simultaneously Matrix is not a good enough Discord alternative. Too much friction, too many issues, and still difficult for …