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  • I am, only reason I'm dealing with Powershell is work.

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  • vi is the way it is for very good reasons, I don't really see that with VS Code. Even gVim has menus. You can have both accessibility and flexibility/speed.

    I would still try to adapt to it, but the PowerShell experience I had a couple months ago put me off it (and VSCodium) for good. Install IDE, install plug-in, hangs forever until you figure out that the useless error message means you need to install some additional .msi from Microsoft. Blergh.

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  • I agree, thought Atom was kind of a fun text editor but silly for being an entire Chrome browser, then it mutated into this intentionally held back IDE where not even developing PowerShell or C# can be done without mucking about first.

    There is barely any functionality without add-ins but not because they want to keep the base program light. And it siphons all the data it can get, of course.

    It's pretty clear to me that they don't want it to be better than Visual Studio proper, so you don't get a sane menu structure or out of the box functionality. Microsoft made an editor that is somehow more opaque and unintuitive than vi, not because of necessity or for practicality reasons but because it has to be different from the flagship product.

    I'd much rather work with Spyder, Netbeans or Eclipse. Or some Jetbrains product. Or Notepad3 + Terminal and a browser.

  • He’s not saying “I wish someone would go out and kill Trump”, it’s “if a bullet was already flying towards Trump I wish it had hit him, especially instead of a random crowd member behind him”.

    He said "don’t miss Trump next time".

  • Brother, you get a bunch of nerds into any subculture and it’ll turn sexual fast. I’m sure there were plenty of spock eared sex parties.

    Case in point:

    It is commonly believed that slash fan fiction originated during the late 1960s, within the Star Trek: The Original Series fan fiction fandom, starting with "Kirk/Spock" stories generally authored by female fans of the series and distributed privately among friends. The name arises from the use of the slash symbol (/) in mentions in the late '70s of K/S (meaning stories where Kirk and Spock had a romantic [and often sexual] relationship)

  • For real though, containerization isn't the only way to separate applications from each other but totally fine, it's the "It works on my machine, so here's my machine" mentality that doesn't fill me with confidence. I've seen too much barely-working jank in containers that probably only get updated when a new version of the containerized application itself is released.

  • So it's like RMS and PMP for speakers. 600 W¹

    ¹ Briefly, before it blows up

  • It's never too late, especially if you can combine the two!

  • please don’t let them fuck this up.

    Totally unrelated question: Which chaos god feeds on disappointment? Tzeentch? Malice?

  • Not quite, but in "Author, Author" a bunch of repurposed EMH Mark 1 are seen mining dilithium back home while obviously not being very happy about it.

  • Android slaves in Picard conflicts with TNG canon.

    I blame Voyager.

  • Don't forget to add a little bit of post-atomic horror!

  • Is it fair to say that any game that runs on the Steam runs on Steam Linux?

    No, it's not that far along. A lot works, but if there's invasive DRM or anticheat then it probably won't. If you have specific games you want to play in mind check out https://www.protondb.com/

    I know the variations have gotten better over the years but haven’t done too much research into it.

    If you're curious you can just create a live USB stick to test drive it. Won't work well for gaming though.

  • I could see them not letting you directly search anymore, only through the LLM bot. Because that's been how things have been going anyway, Google seems to fully ignore literal searches with quote marks now, presumably because it doesn't fit their vision of using natural (imprecise) language. So why not make the LLM write the search query for you in a completely opaque way?

  • You are correct!

  • It is telling you to eat that deadly mushroom though.

  • I had a Jolla smart phone, it was pretty great but it also quickly became apparent that the company had no real intention to make Sailfish the Android-compatible, open and privacy-friendly OS I was hoping it'd be. Selling licenses to customers to put the OS on third party hardware really killed it for me.

    Kinda surprised they are still around, but I guess knowing the right magical words to whisper to investors is a good enough business strategy. They've done it with blockchain, now it's AI.