aleq @ aleq @lemmy.world

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Given your background it should come to no surprise that it doesn't really matter much.

That said, I recommend Arch with some caveats, mainly with regards to the "very little effort to start using" requirement. If you know how to follow instructions, it should only be about 30-45 minutes to install it. It will on the other hand fit your other requirements of good defaults and not shipping with loads of applications. When you install an app you will get that app and nothing else, and the defaults will either be exactly what the upstream defaults would be if you built it yourself or something very close to that. You also have everything available through the AUR, and after using it for years I've yet to run into an update not going smoothly.

This is probably the first time I've seen anyone argue that paying Google is the more ethical choice. Fuck that company with all of my heart, I literally pay for both email and search just to use their services as little as possible, and will be caught dead before I start paying for YouTube.

This is what happens when you think you have a story, but it turns out you don't. Image editing apps exist and are getting easier to use, big whoop?

I for sure thought this was gonna be about "AI cameras". Seems all phones nowadays have some kind of software to make the camera seem less shitty, but nope, it's about people making a choice to edit their photos.

I thought France only allowed violent protests to begin with. :)

Not by a long shot [...]

Right, I concede. The neighboring countries did accept way more. Germany is still accepted significantly more than the vast majority of countries (though it bears mention that Germany is also quite a massive country, for example Sweden's number of refugees seem small in comparison but is fairly close in refugees per capita).

Doesn't Germany have the strongest anti-racism laws in the world since the end of Nazi Germany? And also the country accepting the most immigrants during the refugee crisis (and among the top counting per capita I think)?

Yes, but at the end there should be a single all lowercase "i love gradle"

I'm well familiar with EEE, I've used Linux off and on for something like 20 years, back when Microsoft really was the boogeyman. I don't think VS code qualifies for this category since it was originally (ish, has roots in Atom I think) open source and Microsoft. It was never embraced/extended, and extinguishing their own product makes no sense. (btw I don't even use VS Code, shit vim plugins in my experience, jetbrains all the way)

WSL IMO is a concession on Microsoft's part, because most dev tools nowadays are being made primarily with Linux in mind. It's what makes Windows at all usable as a development platform in many situations. And pretty much nothing developed specifically for WSL. All WSL has on a normal Linux distro is integration with the host system AFAIK.

I hate Windows and dislike a lot of Microsoft products, but I think we're way past Microsoft being the bad guy. They kinda like Linux now, and probably do more good than bad for it. There are much worse companies in tech, I think Microsoft's worst crimes as of late is creating Teams and being boring.

How is it a pain? You just change the origin on your existing project, and new projects you just use the new one to start with.

Gradle is fantastic, but there is this mantra you have to chant while tinkering with it:

I hate Gradle, I hate Gradle, I hate Gradle, I hate Gradle, I hate Gradle

But once you get it to do whatever you want it's way more powerful than Maven, since it's actual code. Also you will never get me to voluntarily define my project structure in XML.

That's gonna work splendidly since underage people would never dare to smoke!

If a directory has multiple words in it I usually do kebab case: i-like-mine-in-a-way-i-can-read-them-properly. Both easier to read and type than pascal case.

For more complex filenames I use a combination of kebab-case and snake_case, where the underscore separates portions of the file name and kebab-case the parts of those portions. E.g. movie-title_release-date-or-year_technical-specifications.mp4

I don't think most people use oh-my-zsh. It's very popular, and a lot of people use it, but I think most is a stretch.

Either way, it's just a set of plugins and configs so of course you can get it to work on any setup. Just saying that it's not inherent to zsh, and you can probably get similar behavior in most shells with a similar config.

I remember having that when I used OhMyZsh, but after going back to a more bespoke config it doesn't work anymore. Also tried using zsh as a different user to ignore my own configs, that doesn't work either.

tldr, it's not default zsh behavior.

Reasonable and sane behavior of cd. Just get into the habit of always using lower case names for files and directories, that's how our forefathers did it.

I think we'd all be quite shocked if Steve Jobs did that. But Apple might.

Prompt better. I use it extensively and the code I get is usually a good start. But it can't do anything.