Shareni @ Shareni @programming.dev

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Emacs is older than ed

Sure, and not every arch user ends their comments with btw.

But that was consistent across multiple years, devices, and derivatives. It's usually a 5 min fix/workaround, but it's still annoying.

Inb4 it becomes/is a subsidiary of the NSO group....

Nobody's raving about the install, that's just useful for people who don't know what makes a Linux distro.

It becomes your personality after a few years because every update might break anything, and you need to regularly maintain random shit. Also if you forget to update regularly, the chance of everything crapping out rises exponentially.

I hope you're using something like btrfs, because rollbacks are a must.

Second council of Nicaea?

Does your company have a serious IT department that manage devices?

If yes, then you'll need to do whatever they say, and be ready to be told that's not happening.

If not, I'd suggest a stable distro, encrypt the disk, and use flatpak/nix to install fresh packages. Fedora could work, but I've had bad luck with it, and wouldn't want to risk my device crapping out because of an update.

The rest is really going to depend on your work and your it department.

Separate your system and user lists. Use home-manager for example for your user packages. I think separating those configs is the official recommendation.

As for the rest, I'm using nix on MX because of declarative package management. Screw going back to imperative and having to remember what packages to install. If it's something I use often it goes on a list, if I don't nix shell comes to the rescue.

I'd rather mess around with dev envs for nix than distrobox.

Damn you broke my brain for a second there. I thought you meant that nixos replaced k8s, and was wondering what the hell are you talking about.

Zerowriter Ink should get up to a week of battery life

ESP strikes again...

If you're a developer and you don't know how to deploy to Linux servers you're useless.

Welp, found your red flag

Hell no, Emacs and nvim UX is far superior. I won't ever go back to clicking.

DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that's a superior format.

Both look really cheap, and are badly designed, especially when compared to lotr.

For example look at the angles on the chest.

Boromir's armour is angled to deflect incoming strikes. So if someone tries to stab him in the chest, the strike will slide off. It makes sense, and is the basis of good, functional armour throughout history.

Now look at these other two. You can aim for the heart, miss and hit the ribs, and the tip will still slide and go under the pec. It directs all strikes towards your heart instead of away from it.

That really depends on what you're doing. It's only really useful when you're regularly SSH-ing into other machines for work. Otherwise you're wasting time every day so that you might save a second once every few years.

I was talking about regular fedora. It's not that you have to reboot, but you don't get to use those updates until you do. The most obvious example is updating the kernel and its modules.

Linux almost never needs to reboot after an update

Doesn't it often need a reboot to apply some updates?

I rember reading something along those lines then I was researching why Fedora installs some updates after a reboot. Most

Export to latex (and to pdf)?

Org-mode mostly does this already. Just needs a shortcut to surround the marked area with the correct symbols.

Thanks, had a network error and jerboa said it failed to comment

"even though there is evidence that Chromium is even less secure)"

That's not how double negatives work. The alternative would be:

Even though there's no evidence that chromium is more secure.