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>> Linux users are willing to put up with any amount of work - i.e. bullshit - to make their installations work just to get a UX that's almost as good as Windows from 20 years ago …

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I've played a little bit of it so far, and really enjoyed it.

>>>At some point, execution speed starts to matter more than the elegance of the code. Execution speed only matters to investors and the stock market. Your users don't give a shit.…

I mean all 3 of those also support LSP plugins, so would also spawn "multi GB nodeJS processes" with your tiny golang projects if you enable them.

So I'm not so sure how you arrived at your conclusion of Zed having higher memory use than VSCODE but in testing just now that's not at all close to true. Zed for me on my Linux ma…

and limited to one type of device that not everyone can get or wants.

Which when I last used it they forced you to do. I'm assuming this has changed in the several years since?

Well no actually I do not think either of my granmothers could have done that, nor would they have even known (or cared) what a Bitlocker even was.

Yes use Bitlocker, the thing that uploads the encryption key to OneDrive "for convenience" thereby negating the whole point of FDE in the first place

In my opinion if you learned something from it, it was useful. Bonus points if others learn from it as well, but if not then as long as you did then it doesn’t matter. AI age or no…

The letter of the law says you are correct. Reality however disagrees. People who are most definitely US citizens have in fact been put in jail for the simple not-crime of refusing…

The US has been doing that for years already. There's plenty of stories of people (US citizens included) being detained by border agents in US airports for refusal to provide said …

So if a company uses as part of its marketing for a product the phrase "advanced security, privacy, and connectivity for homes of every shape and size" and then is later found to h…

If that is truly what you think, then you clearly haven't used a Linux desktop distro since then because that absolutely incorrect.

OS makers should not be in the business of enforcing censorship. If you want to shield your children from the "horrors" of the internet either use proper parental control software,…

Google did it with the Tensor-powered Pixels a while back, from w/e they shipped with to 6.1

You can with Dev Drives now apparently, which don't use NTFS and disable ALL the filter drivers (including the Defender one) I stopped using Windows just as these were added so now…

I'd wager that's more likely due to Windows than the hardware. Like sure the hardware does play a part in that but its not the whole story or even most of it. My C++ projects have …

Doesn't need to be in the cloud for it work everywhere.

>>he thought his job would be in jeopardy if he didn't publish Where'd you get this from? The author's response on Bluesky doesn't imply this at all.

Here’s the PR explaining why they disabled this function https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/pull/18336 Seems like it caused tons of problems due to the variability of TPM quali…

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