markstos @ markstos @lemmy.world

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Now I can sleep.

Are you forced to eat only asparagus as your last meal before going in?

On the other hand, a Garmin Fenix can be easily opened with an inexpensive tool and replacement parts are easily found online.

What’s not ready for you on Wayland yet?

The average American gets only about half the recommended amount of fiber.

Vegans. Plants = Fiber.

Animal products have no fiber.

I’ve been at this for 25 years and a restriction on variable name length hasn’t been a problem since then.

A good senior dev shouldn’t just be older, they should have continued to learn and evolve.

I do remember texting abbreviations because we texted on a number pad with no autocomplete.

Everyone I know was happy to switch to better keyboards and autocomplete as soon as they were available.

Ugh.

Solution: Code Style Guidelines doc that the team agrees on. A checkbox in the PR template that affirms that code is compliant with the guidelines.

This way it’s not personal, it’s a rule that everyone should follow as a shared standard.

The beauty of your homelab is that you can try and break things, learn something from it and try something else.

Nothing some ice cubes can’t solve.

I did this years ago with directional cantennas. The distance was about 350 feet or 106 meters. It worked OK but seemed easy to break.

I remember once being confused why the printer wasn’t working only to realize I had selected a printer a block away at someone else’s house…

I agree. Unless there’s a definite need, the most tangible difference may be in the electric bill.

Dynamic DNS and Duck DNS don’t update your IP address, rather they give you a stable DNS name that’s updated automatically when the IP address changes.

Some ISPs do issue static IPs. Some always do, so might if you ask or pay or fee. If you don’t know otherwise, assume your home IP will change

The Anker 575 can drive dual 4K monitors at 60 Hz and is supported by Linux, although I’ve best luck driving one monitor with a dedicated laptop USB C port. It currently retails above $200 though.

I initially missed SSH support from Rofi, but just changed my workflow to open a terminal and then use Fish with the history autocomplete history to quickly select a host to SSH to.

And dmenu-wayland.

You don’t define bitrot. If you leave software alone with no updates for long enough, yes, there will be problems.

There will eventually be a security issue with no fix, or a new OS or hardware it doesn’t work on.

Backups can also fail over time if restores are not tested periodically.

This recently happened to me. A server wouldn’t boot anymore, so we restored from backup, but it still wouldn’t boot. The issue was that we’d introduced change that caused a boot failure. To fix that by restoring from a backup, we’d need a backup from before that change. It turns out we had one, but didn’t realize what the issue was.

The other moral is to reboot frequently if only to confirm the system can still boot.

If companies follow the license it’s legal.

Yes, it would be good if the companies shared some of the wealth they generate back to the free projects that power the company.

If your concern is about the comfort using the Control key frequently, another option is to solve this at the keyboard hardware or firmware level.

For example, I use a Corne keyboard with a control key on a convenient thumb key. I also don’t have to hold it. I can tap it and tap the next key.

Also, by holding down another thumb key on the other hand, arrow keys are available for the home row. With this, using arrow keys and modifier keys via comfortable across all apps.

https://mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layout/