Stephen Scott

@BrodieOnLinux I would definitely agree on both points. Sadly this is where we are.

@StephenScottB Before any of these bills were ever passed but that's not going to happen

I'll probably talk about this later but the point of this is being added is to be in control of it rather than having the government come along and force a much worse solution, you can give it fake information

@0xglitchbyte Doesn't take much to reveal how little of both we actually have.

Damn, theyre trying to do it to arch too What happened to privacy and freedom?

@IroncladDev I am testing out Artix, so far going ok. A few issues with gpg keys and repos but once those were resolved it was smooth after that.

I'm moving off systemd what are y'all's recommendations for alternatives?

@IroncladDev As long as politicians can use changing it as an election promise during their campaigns, it likely will never change.

I hate daylight savings can't we all just unanimously decide to not switch time next time this happens

@vaxryy I once traveled the DWM suckles road. In part the philosophy is good. As a whole it is impractical because as you said… it sits atop millions of lines of complexity

"simple software" is a fairy tale every engineer likes to tell themselves. In reality, simple software is either dysfunctional, or satisfactory to at most 5 people on the entire planet. You simply cannot make software simple, because software is not a single math equation you apply to everything equally - the range of functionality and usecases of (realistically) any important piece of software is so great the code cannot be "simple". This entire idea on linux stems from dwm, (in my opinion) one of the stupidest marketing tricks that worked on dumb linux users. DWM is a barely functional, glorified lua script for barebones tiling, that only works because it runs on top of a fucking million line of code behemoth that is Xorg which does everything for it. DWM accomplishes nothing of value and that's why it can be 2k LOC. It's even more hilarious once you look at the wayland spiritual successor - dwl. It's purely dysfunctional, even with the 80k-or-so LOC wlroots (plus deps) powering it. Once you go past "I need to open 2 terminals" everything starts falling apart. The idea of "less lines of code = faster and more readable code bro" is something I'd expect a first year CS student to say, not an actual experienced programmer. The linux kernel is 50 million lines or whatnot and I don't see you complaining that AMD just added 10k more lines because a new gpu came out and they need to add driver support for it. No, patching code for functionality is terrible and is a braindead method of adding features that doesn't even work in most cases. No, more features do not make your computer slower. If you don't use it, the code doesn't fuckin run. You will never notice that 4ns branch ran 2x a minute dear linux user. No, more LOC doesn't mean slower. Hell, in some cases, more LOC means faster, because we can do intelligent things and not the fast-and-dirty methods. But that's just an opinion, of course. What do I know.

@vxunderground @TorGuard Count me in on this one. Super cool!

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@SecurityTrybe I don't Recall

@typecraft_dev I believe @dhh said if you get one of these you have to fully switch and never use anything else. At least thats how I heard it. Enjoying your Rails tutorial too by the way.

Should I install this?

@dhh @thdxr Nah, don't wanna.. Hyprland animations are pretty slick. Mac on the other hand.....

@thdxr Meanwhile in Hyprland: animations { enabled = no } You know you want to 😄

it is so hard to disable all animations in macos

@awesomekling Right there with you, life is an incredible journey.

I am grateful to be alive on this planet with you at this incredible time in our history.

@IroncladDev @RossComputerGuy My biggest struggle right now..

@RossComputerGuy have fun facing the borrow checker

I'm learning Rust.

@codegirl007 He is actually a bantam cochin so definitely smaller than a standard rooster but because he is basically a butterball he looks bigger than he is.

@StephenScottB wow big boy. What breed is that one?

First egg out of one of my chickens. I had to bully a rooster to get this egg. Roosters are jerks.

@codegirl007 Under settings/appearance you can turn off a lot of the items. Also on the dashboard page you can click the customize option and turn off a lot of the other things. I literally turn off everything to get a base Brave experience.

I'm trying out Brave and the only thing I don't like about it is the subtle "Brave things" I don't know how to hide.

@RuiCarrilho5 This is definitely a great resource!

Found a very good playlist to learn C! Jacob Sorber's C playlist is very good, he explains every concept thoroughly, in a few minutes each! Have fun!

@muzubinks @LowLevelTweets has a pretty good course on lowlevel.academy that I have enjoyed quite a bit if you don't mind a little $.

@teej_dv Now if Visual Studio, VS Code, and Azure DevOps could take the same path as Visual Studio for Mac and Team Foundation Server...

Ok, I wasn't going to comment on Elon Musk and Ashley St. Clair, but I figured I should. Here are my thoughts on it: Microsoft, the supposed lover of open source and who "changed" continues to put this forward as their image (while VS C*de benefits heavily from the work of OSS contributors and general OSS sentiment), yet continues to go against the spirit of the Language Server Protocol - their own invention. Pylance, with over 128,114,777 installs, has an explicit prohibition of RUNNING the language server outside of Microsoft Products: > INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. a) General. You may install and use any number of copies of the software only with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code, Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server, and successor Microsoft products and services (collectively, the “Visual Studio Products and Services”) to develop and test your applications. So in spite of being the author, one of the primary beneficiaries and "champion" of the open source nature of LSP - Microsoft refuses to allow others to even RUN their LSP outside of their own products, let alone examine the code or use for their own purposes.

@codegirl007 Wasn't a big fan of Rust either. I am liking C so far though. C++... hadn't formed a full opinion on it yet but I do like it better than Rust for some reason. Not a developer, just someone who likes to play with languages.

I think I’m not a Rust person. I gave it a decent attempt and I’m kinda over it now. I’ve been influenced to do C++. I don’t know it. I’ll probably hate it. But I’ll try it.

@raiku_dev @LeeLeepenkman Sad that this far in and Nvidia is still such an issue on Linux. Sure, you can get it to work, but if you want it to work seamlessly and you have a hybrid setup.. not so much.

@LeeLeepenkman Fuck cuda. An NVIDIA card made me quit the Linux experience. Never had any problems with an amd machine.

Fuck arch