It still weirds me out thinking how mega fauna existed much more recently then we think. Like we could be chilling sloths, or, you know, running in fear, but now the largest animal I encounter on a regular basis is my neighbors fat cat.

Let’s bring C into this discussion if we want to talk about overused languages which aren’t fit for purpose. 😂

The ergonomics of Rust are better than C and C++, and programmer productivity is the metric which really matters.

Rust is compiled, and compiled languages are easier to deploy. Especially statically compiled languages like Rust.

Ada might better, but it needs to be updated.

Ada compiler development is also tied to a company which is moving to Rust, and the gnat toolchain developed by Adacore is “Open Source”, eventually, maybe.

I don’t have a reason to move away from the Fedora defaults except for monospaced fonts.

Terminal wise, terminus is my default. It’s so clean, and it looks good without anti-aliasing.

Roboto Mono is my current preference for monospaced fonts.

Adobe Source Code Pro and JetBrains Mono are good alternatives as well.

Mineral and Rainer Maria. Pretty solid.

Another reason to get out of this state.

Gui to manage firewall. which one? did you try firewalld or opensnitch?

Which which one?

I use firewalld regularly. Firewalld isn’t a GUI, and it’s a wrapper around Nftables and/or iptables depending on the distribution.

I haven’t tried opensnitch.

Desktop icons. you mean the specific icons of an other OS, or something else?

Not having to use a Gnome extension to get desktop icons. 🙂 Although, other DEs aren’t much better.

Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade. manually, or even automatically? if it's the first, check out DKMS

DKMS is setup, and I still have to plan my kernel upgrades due to the compilation time.

That would be Windows.

For server config management there are lots of tools. FreeIPA and Ansible will do quite a bit, but when getting into stuff to manage Linux desktops fleets there isn’t a lot of endpoint management out there.

Fleet Commander is the main effort out there, and then Red Canary.

There really isn’t.

It’s only every so often with extensions, and every release reduces the number of extensions I use.

I forgot about easy integration with iPhones. Tethering requires extra steps and I haven’t tried pulling files off.

Support for auto cloud sync from vendors, or just auto cloud sync of setting between devices.

DE stability. I keep a Mac around for times when Gnome is kind of broken.

cmd shortcuts which don’t interfere with app shortcuts.

Powerful desktop Arm chips.

Gui to manage services.

Gui to manage firewall.

Easy fleet management tools.

A real terminal services and Remote Desktop solution.

Desktop icons.

Tighter userland security.

Tighter OS security. Mostly dm-verify and fs-verify.

Tiling support. (There are extensions, but I need to experiment.)

Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade.

Base and extras being cleanly separated.

When it was more about the cars, I liked it. I’m never going to get to drive an old Porsche around, so it was interesting seeing someone who wasn’t an auto journalist talk about the car while they drove it.

Then it turned into two guys jacking each other off, and I lost interest.

Like Constellis?

“Unionize, join the party, and eat the rich.”

That tracks. I volunteered with a week long program to teach html and the basics of building a website, and I went back to work after day one because all the students picked social media marketing. 😆

It’s startup math.

Aren’t setters and getters discouraged in Python?

I remember reading something like, “This isn’t C++ , and Python doesn’t have private vars. Just set the var directly.”

Evangelicals have always been garbage people, and Trump is the latest god of their bullshit.

The article supposes they were good people at one time. No they weren’t.

Yeah, Alex is going to make some cash and have an art career. Unlike his teacher.

(Teachers are great and put up with all the dumb shit kids create, so not knocking teachers. Just dunking on this joke.)

Debian in WSL is my single favorite thing about Windows work laptop. Real tools! 😃

I’m back on windows for work after a decade away, and all the reasons I left are still there. The tools are still lacking, the layout is non-sensical, prototyping requires expensive subscriptions, and it’s not designed to get work done.

*nixes and macOS, to a lesser extent, are much nicer. The *nixes are designed to get work done. I have my gripes, but good lord they’re small comparatively.

Do you have a book? Can people donate brick funds?