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Bottom posting confuses the hell out of most people. I gave it a try but people kept complaining so I'm back to top posting even though it makes absolutely no sense.

I'm pretty sure that's intentional. ;)

Completely forgot about the grub issue. At some point I gave systemd-boot a try and never went back.

I use Arch Linux on my personal machines since I left macOS in 2015ish. I briefly tried Ubuntu before but I wanted some newer versions of some software and I thought Arch would be …

If you teach all the concepts of Git (e.g. commits point to parents but not to children or branches are labels that point to a commit) properly it takes some time but then you get …

I really wish people would stop calling cryptocurrencies "crypto". :(

I had different branches for different machines too in the past but it felt very inefficient to me. The configuration was the same for 99% and for the last 1% I had to manually cop…

> To me, I don't really see a difference between GitHub and sr.ht. Companies can start out with these "friendly" attitudes towards FOSS, but when they reel in many paying customers…

I think you would enjoy programming in Ada.

That's very interesting. I honestly didn't think of that, since we often worked asynchronously or at the same machine (which doesn't work at the moment, of course). I can see how O…

right alt+qyps in US right alt+auos in EU (I think)

In my experience, Overleaf is actually awful for collaboration. Maybe my workflow is weird, but I tend to look at the diffs after my colleagues make changes. Also, we mainly use pu…

Just change it to US international or EU layout. It takes a few weeks to adjust, but I'm typing English and German with US international layout and I can use every Umlaut without a…

I just want a linear timeline. :(

> BibTeX is outdated (use biblatex+biber), I hope Tectonic is not hardwired to it. While I prefer biblatex and biber, some journals and conferences require BibTex.

Not all of CS. It really depends on the sub field. But I would say most papers in CS are written in Latex though.

The Golden Sun series had a password system to transfer your progress from Golden Sun 1 to Golden Sun 2. If you wanted to transfer everything it was 260 characters. At least you on…

I bought the ReMarkable 1 because I thought it was just a Linux device. It turned out to be not exactly true. Their whole interface is closed source and they use a (IIRC) closed bu…

In computer science a lot of researcher already publish their code (at least in the domain of software engineering) but my biggest problem is not the absence of tests but the absen…

I just wish there were more 5K displays out there. A few months ago I bought and returned a 4K display because I'm so used to 1440p so that I lost some real estate with 4K at 2x sc…

Not getting payed is not the point of free software.