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Deus Ex or Half-Life, probably. The first Halo, too.

Why does the world need this?

I agree with you, and I don't want anything related to the current AI craze in my life, at all. But when I come on HN and see people posting about AI IDEs and vibe coding and every…

Buy yachts

This might be a less popular opinion on a site like HN, but I'm of the opinion that CEO's don't do a whole lot. Maybe at small startups they are more involved, but the larger the c…

I can't answer OP as I only write Python for personal use, not for a "big company". That said, Neovim + basedpyright + pipenv works well for me. A lot of people here are using uv a…

While I somewhat agree, I can't help but read the replies here as accounts created by OP to respond to themselves.

Thank you, I did miss this.

This is better than most phones on the market, but I can't help but be turned off when I scroll down and start seeing the Google Play logo and mentions about AI and Google Gemini. …

I've never worked in a place where this sort of thing would have been tolerated. In high school, sure. But not the workplace. Sorry past me - I'm boring now.

Where is your source for 80-90% using X11? My assumption would be that by now, it would be 80+% on Wayland.

Still using my Librem 5 (2 years in). Still works. Still like it.

Yes, DDG for 95% of issues. Using an AI to search seems really, really, really dumb to me.

Absolutely not. I enjoy my craft, why let something do it for me, and do it worse?

It's on me.

If I get a car with an advanced computer, I expect to be able to install and run whatever software I want on it. Just like any other computer. If I can't, then I don't own the devi…

You could maybe argue that it's a spiritual successor, but tech-stack wise, Firefox and Netscape are in their own family, and Brave is in the Chromium-based browser family.

Wow I disagree so much. Use XDG dirs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#User_dir...

> because everybody is using VSCode now Are they though? I don't have numbers right now to back this up but last I remember, people were leaving VS Code, not moving to it.

If I spend a couple hours or more doing "deep work" writing code, I often find I need an hour or two of cool-down time before I can really have much in the way of emotions again.

These are truly sad days.

For work? Maybe 1 hour, maybe 2, if I am really lucky. For pleasure? If I can do it, 2-3 hours in the evening. This is semi-rare too though.

Odd, the fact that I couldn't have separate "panels" in Windows seemed like the bug/missing feature to me :).

> on the other hand Librem5 is $1000+ $800 now: https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ But yes the "nice" one aka Liberty Phone is still $2000, unfortunately.

Google Chrome is malware.