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There was an old YouTube video of a young guy standing around somewhere in East Asia, placards in hand, recording himself showing messages on those placards about why you should qu…

I'm in Europe, with a bunch of non-geeky friends, coming from all walks of life who have Signal installed. As a sibling comment to yours stated, the hardest decision was deciding t…

Now adjust it for inflation.

I think the point is rather what percentage of people will continue to need to have a phone that is Apple or Google, due to death by a million decisions like these.

You might be being a tad uncharitable to the GP. Competition isn't an inherently bad thing. Many engineering endeavours (and engineers) have been made better by the crucible of com…

Easy answer to your last point: Work machine and Non-work machine. If I'm working for a company and the company needs MS Office, they will give me a machine with MS Office. I will …

I've recently had to migrate over to Python from Matlab. Pandas has been doing my head in. The syntax is so unintuitive. In Matlab, everything begins with a `for` loop. Inelegant a…

I don't care, simple as that. I'm also in an adversarial relationship with LTT, and with Google. I realised over the last years that my weariness with the internet was born mostly …

There are children and there are adults. Children have more free time. Children watch more YouTube than adults. So LTT's audience is probably more children too. Children are attrac…

I switched myself to Arch about 4 years ago now, with Sway. So fucking amazing. Everything is at my fingertips. Config files are easy to understand. AUR is a massive productivity b…

You'd be surprised. I have to run RHEL at work, with Gnome. No Albert, no Wofi, no Rofi. Fuck all in the repositories. For months I missed typing Alt + Space, typing filename, hitt…

Whoa. This looks very interesting. Does it support maths? Are the images stored locally? Can fonts and typography be changed? How does it differ from your open-source version which…

Yes. I'm over the hatred for Electron too. Programmers have few options if they want cross-platform compatibility without Electron. What else are they going to use? QT? Please, giv…

Highly recommended. What you will find is that the title does the book justice. The top executives at Facebook aren't so much cartoonishly evil but rather hopelessly inept for the …

Thank you ever so much for this recommendation. I'm already through half of his upskilling document. It is as if he wrote the book exactly for me. I've been studying first thing in…

This article is visibly, annoyingly, distractingly in threes. > It promises clarity. Control. Mental leverage. > but to keep it alive, replayed, and reworked. > A dusty collection …

I mean, I'm in Switzerland and I recently deleted my Whatsapp after reading Careless People. Too few people in our modern world have the courage to let the leaves fall where they m…

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. Frost is incomparable.

Seems a touch uncouth to say it, but 'Dating Without Kundera' has been the little voice in my head that catches me any time I start spouting pseudo-intellectual pop philosophy, in …

https://isolatedsystem.com CERN engineer writing about cooling systems and simulations.

Pipewire also worked out of the box for me, and abstracts away ALSA and PulseAudio. It can even handle JACK. It's very nice.