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JetBrains IDEs. I need to work with three different languages and it is just a blessing that every IDE works exactly the same.
Software is just the smell of other computer users. Some smell nice, most smell terrible, it's nothing special either way. You can rewrite anything in an afternoon if you're in the right mood.
Although copyright and patents may prohibit you from distributing it.
Stuff I'm thankful for, in no particular order. None of these are particularly unique to me, nor are they obscure and hipster, they're just stuff I have found myself really thankful for. powerlevel10k because it makes adding custom sections to my shell prompt really straightforward. https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k terraform because I have a job wrangling it lol asdf because it manages versions of software fo…
Software is just the smell of other computer users. Some smell nice, most smell terrible, it's nothing special either way. You can rewrite anything in an afternoon if you're in the right mood.
Maybe not an afternoon, but any software could be rewritten given enough time and interest. Although copyright and patents may prohibit you from distributing it.
Also everyone way overestimates how hard it is to re implement all this crap.
Let's see.. Software I am thankful for.. there is a fair amount of such. Anki - Software, that helped me build up habit, and made learning language an easier task Emacs - Wonderful text editor, made interacting with system a bliss. Nix/NixOS - Distro, that made updates a painless, and fearless task. I love it. ZFS - Filesystem that I love, for it has many wonderful features, and they all just work. (Also cute compres…
Curious to learn, what are the differentiators of ZFS? File system seems like an invisible layer to me personally which makes me ask this question.
Along with a track record of being generally reliable and stable, under intense commercial workloads.
> WireGuard is a great demonstration of why the total complexity of the implementation ends up affecting the UX of the product. This is absolutely true! Probably everything you could do with WireGuard you could accomplish with OpenSSL/OpenVPN, but the complexity is staggering. This makes it much more difficult to troubleshoot and far more likely that there will be an error in the configuration that could lead to comp…
I wish more developers would work on this, making sure their product works straight out of the box. Lots of software requires setting up additional things like Redis, an SQL server, Docker, a proxy server, etc... All those things are in most cases unnecessary. I understand that for high load scenarios they are needed but for small time setups it's just overkill. Make it run with sane defaults and when the time comes…
Strangely enough: Windows. Yes, I fucking hate Windows 10/11 for several laundry lists' worth of reasons, but you know what? At the end of the day, Windows is the only desktop OS that enables me to use my computer to do the shit I need or want to do. So long as that fundamental principle as a tool is not violated, I will forever be thankful for Windows regardless what criticism I might have for it.
I use Linux as my main OS for some years now, but use Mac and Windows, mostly because I need to test my software on them, but I have to say: I totally agree. Windows is the only practical desktop OS for most people. Mac is not an OS you can use unless you buy the entire package, and then you have to live with many of its limitations. It absolutely sucks at multitasking (not that most average users care about this one…
I agree except that the more naive among them are always one click away from being wide open to downloading and installing malware, you can't lock that stuff down without making the account very inconvenient to use.
Linux, at least it's at least a bit of a pain in the ass to download and install something even if you want to.
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> Linux is absolute freedom, but that comes with the cost of having to do much more than install, plug and play. You need to be a computer geek, or you need someone else to fix things for you. Hard disagree. Linux works extremely well for the person that only does basic computing. My mother, for instance, used Linux for years. Folks that need to do things like recompile a kernel in 2022 are way in the tail end of the…
I feel like linux only works for 2 categories of people: 1. The extreme laymen that do essentially nothing outside of the web browser 2. The tech savant that has the time, energy, and motivation to spend the countless hours required to get Linux to run anything sufficiently complex. Those in-between typically have the desire to do more than they are able to easily do OOTB with Linux, but also lack the technical abili…
yes but you're saying things in a slightly negative way and not mentioning, for the tech savant it's not just good, but better.