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I'm genuinely wondering why everybody hates modern GNOME. I have long been running Linux on headless systems but Windows on my daily, and only recently switched to dailying a Linux…

Mark Rober has been doing something like that for package thieves, with overengineered glitter and fart spray

To be fair, I recall some ex-Mozilla developer claiming that the Firefox codebase is indeed full of technical debt (over 20 years) and pretty hard to modernize

Imagine the horror of not having to sift through tens of ads just to read a single paragraph of text, and not being constantly nagged by full screen popup video ads...

Some sites block by user agent, you may just need to use an extension to spoof it and the site should work. Some browsers like Vivaldi do that by default. Though, this sucks, but i…

Probably had to stay in the oven a bit longer... Jokes apart, Zig is moving forward a lot which is why it's not 1.0 yet, but it doesn't mean you can't write safe and performant app…

Because Windows does not have a good SSH implementation and PuTTY has always worked extremely well for me as a serial and SSH terminal (also, it starts up instantly and never crash…

Genuine question: what do you consider "trusted" code/apps? What difference is there between compiling from source and using the prebuilt official Docker image?

Please note that Docker and LXC (and LXD by extension) are essentially the same technology packaged differently, with different yet overlapping use cases; in fact, early Docker Eng…

I have yet to find an use case for WSL, when you can't interact with hardware devices and working with the filesystem has its (performance) limitations. Docker in WSL2? Yeah sure, …

I would consider Reddit a bit more than a `tiny internet forum`, even thought many topic-specific subreddits are way less useful than an actual forum would be... The problem with m…

I believe that might happen, but then I also believe it's the ISP's responsibility to ensure that its IP addresses are kept clean

I can totally relate to this, even after working professionally with Angular for 3+ years and generally with JavaScript for way more than that. I recently set up a quick JS project…

Talking about low power, I am currently running a headless HP laptop which I recovered from a friend. This thing sports an i3-5005U CPU (2GHz 2c/4t) and idles at 4W measured at the…