Also, as for reasoning for choosing a Pixel, Pixels are not really a product for Google but rather a device for Google employees to test things on but as a consequence can be sold as well. This makes them perfect for hacking

AI is mostly just hype. It’s the new blockchain

There are important AI technologies in the past for things like vision processing and the new generative AI has some uses like as a decent (although often inaccurate) summarizer/search engine. However, it’s also nothing revolutionary.

It’s just a neat peace of tech

But here come MS, Apple, other big companies, and tech bros to push AI hard, and it’s so obv that it’s all just a big scam to get more of your data and to lock down systems further or be the face of get-rich-quick schemes.

I mean the image you posted is a great example. Recall is a useless feature that also happens to store screenshots of everything you’ve been doing. You’re delusional if you think MS is actually going to keep that totally local. Both MS and the US government are going to have your entire history of using the computer, and that doesn’t sit right with FOSS people.

FOSS people tend to be rather technical than the average person, so they don’t fall for tech enthusiast nonsense as much.

Debian

People use IPv6?

I still don’t know anything about it

You’re spot on. Bspwm is just worse.

Dynamic tilers are always worse off in the actual window management department than manual tilers.

It’s why it’s best to use i3-likes and then add a script for autotiling, so you can always break it when you need (or make n-ary trees as you put it).

A window manager should be useful; dynamic tilers are not

Hyprland works great as long as you make sure to get the build with nvidia patches to prevent flickering. It’s very similar to i3, although not 1:1 like sway.

Also fyi there’s trash-cli

I have rm aliased to trash-rm (not in sudo tho, so I can still force true deletion), so that if I remove something in terminal it also goes to trash.

You can empty the trash via trash-empty

It also uses ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/Trash (usually ~/.local/share/Trash)

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Have you tried usbmount?

This automatically mounts usb drives if they’re vfat, ext4, or hfsplus. Options: sync,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime

I believe it puts them in /media/run/DEVICE_NAME or something like that

and thinking “we can downsize”

And then they’ll go out of business

I agree. We’ve let the standards for what is good drop.

I think it’s mainly because the “just works” mentality has become infectious among engineers. It’s one thing when just starting out, but as you learn more and gain experience you should care more.

People do the designing and architecture and programming just because it all pays well, not because they have a love for the craft.

I think the second, slightly less strong reason is because many engineers do not know how to effectively communicate with management when something will result in terribly written software and just do it anyway. Another skill I see less and less amongst my brethren.

This is already how the military works BC they lost the source code for ancient machines. They’ve gotta now hire reverse engineer researchers to help out

Great reason to push more code out of the kernel and into user land

It’s like when I run into some issue with how I’ve set up my system in NixOS and have to explain to a non-Linux user that it isn’t Linux that’s the issue but how I’m using an especially weird Linux lol

a lot of good senior level developers don’t have the specialized knowledge to do shit like build a password validation system that isn’t vulnerable to a timing attack or know what a timing attack is

Please don’t tell me that. It’s terrifying

Yeah. Kinda actually

that shit is hard, I had to be extremely careful to protect against SQL injection

People need to learn to be careful

to learn vulkan every time they want to use a GUI for their job

Not every time, just the first time. But yes. Devs should stop being so lazy

compiler design whenever they wanna use java for their job

Every dev should at least know the basics of language design and compiler design, yes. Again, you also only have to learn it once

Nah you should learn

I agree with the last point tbh

At the bare minimum, if you aren’t capable of contributing to the library you use, then you don’t deserve to use it.