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After reading this, I am reminded of the Buddhist concept of Pratītyasamutpāda [1]. In essence, existence is interwoven in a complex tapestry of interdependence. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratītyasamutpāda
I'm surprised how the asian continent had a pervasive notion of holism. They always look very wide.
This reminds me of Steve Jobs' email to himself. In 2010 he wrote: I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds. I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use. I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate. I am moved by music I…
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I read "Sent from my iPhone" as "I apologize for brevity and typos" and don't get offended.
Well I don't get offended , I just roll my eyes that someone is okay being a walking ad for a company that has plenty of money.
We're surrounded by things that have their company's branding prominently plastered on them. Hell, stuff like luxury bags (eg: Louis Vuitton) exist specifically to flaunt a company's branding.
Of course, it would be nice if we weren't surrounded by marketing and advertising everywhere all the time, but that's beside the point.
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.
Software development is a much better experience on Linux compared to Windows (unless you stay within Visual Studio). If you do tasks that are well supported by your OS, your experience will be mostly good. Don't run servers on MacOS, don't develop on Windows and don't game on Linux. Or do it anyway and deal with the unpolished aspects of it.
WSL2 + Docker gets you really close to the development experience of Linux while maintaining your sanity.
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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…
> 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…
Emacs. TeX/LaTeX. Classic Unix. i3. A bunch of Scheme implementations. Tcl/Tk.
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I highly recommend it to anyone considering it. But, pro-tip, use a machine that has an ssd (or other real) drive. Having your network DNS go down because of a bad or corrupted sd card will drive you bonkers. Sincerely, Bonkers
> use a machine that has an ssd -- a bad or corrupted sd card will drive you bonkers I've seen this said many times, and it matches my experience as well. But why should an SSD be more reliable than an SD card when the underlying technology (flash memory) is identical? Or is it not identical? Or it is due to the more sophisticated controller of an SSD?
OS/2 - was my OS of choice until I switched to Linux full-time around 2000 or so.
Linux
Emacs
Java
Eclipse
KDE
Python
R
Postgresql
Groovy
Grails
Spring
Pidgin
ejabberd
RSSOwl
Git
OpenOffice
All things that have made my life much easier and more productive in more ways that I could probably count.
Oh, and can't forget Firefox, VLC, and XMMS. Those are essential as well.
Might as well add AWS too. For all the (fair) criticisms one could level at Amazon, AWS is an incredibly valuable resource and has been a big part of my world for the last 10 years or so.
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.
Basically you have the big Fortune 500 companies subsidizing pirates who download from TPBay...and of course the pirate CD copies being sold in street markets all over Sub-Saharan Africa.
Microsoft with Windows, Azure, Office, Outlook and PowerPoint is the backbone of the economy. Come noon you have already used half a dozen of different flavors of Microsoft and again if you know where to look you tasted them all for free.
Analyzing things post-facto the bad reputation that Microsoft had was unwarrented given that we ended up under a much tighter stranghold of Apple in the mobile environment. At least the developing world is saving themselves using Android.