The Chinese think in terms of 1000-year dynasties, not 6 month short term profits.

USA has no chance of remaining competitive if they keep up their current strategy. Chinese chips are well on their way to surpassing American ones over the next 10-20 years

+10 social credit for you

Nope, there are dozens of us. Dozens!

I’ve been using Fedora for a long time because it’s actually up to date and tends to have the best of what the open source community has to offer, while still having some opinionated defaults to make things run smoothly.

Never had a problem with WIFI drivers. NVIDIA on Wayland however… (not Fedora’s fault the proprietary drivers are garbage, its done what it can by at least making them easy to install)

Don’t forget “author”, as though that’s relevant for anything

Writing code is the reward for doing the thinking. If the LLM does it then software engineering is no fun.

It’s like painting - once you’ve finally finished the prep, which is 90% of the effort, actually getting to paint is the reward

New Zealand copies a lot from USA, we are slowly becoming less civilized

Kali Linux is correctly placed

I was finally at a job where I could use Linux at work. Things were great for about a year and then BOOM we get acquired and the new company forces MacBooks on everyone.

I. Friggin. Hate. MacOS. The biggest pain point is the keyboard shortcuts, 15 years of Linux muscle memory…

My point is I can very much relate to having to use unproductive shit for work and the daily reminder of why it’s not on my personal devices

Oh wow, you’re right.

+1000. one of my coworkers keeps thinking he’s saving time with AI-generated code but what he’s really doing is pushing the thinking downstream when we have to pick apart the absolute garbage that gets generated.

PR feedback gets turned into AI prompts and the cycle continues. It’s exhausting

Yep, I’ve seen MS flight simulator fans basically create entire cockpits in their house with a crap tonne of screens for 180-degree vision and hook up all the 3rd party peripherals.

There’s just no way this will ever work seamlessly on Linux

In my country, Microsoft has inserted itself into the education system. If you want to learn system / network admin so you can run IT at pretty much any local business, it’s all Microsoft.

To be fair, Active Directory does make it easier to manage a bunch of windows boxes with consistent users and permissions. When your users are business people mashing Excel spreadsheets all day, and build their lives and identities around Excel, you pretty much have to give them the environment that Excel runs in, which is Microsoft.

I bet the security “experts” who designed this are busy jerking each other off about how “secure” they’ve made everything

What are you going to do, send them money? That information isn’t private, people have to give it up all the time to receive money…

“Don’t touch working code” stems from “last person who touched it, owns it” and there’s some shit that it’s just not worth your pay grade to own.

Particularly if you’re a contractor employed to work on something specific

The internet memes will have me believe that Germans are super anal about making sure that trash is correctly sorted.

Is there a bin for ewaste next to the glass, cans and plastic bins?

I will forever recognize the Baar Sophia font from the fansubs of Naruto which got me into anime in the first place

Ahh good ol’ Aegisub. I have great memories of subtitling anime in my late teens before I got a girlfriend and the fansub scene died when Crunchyroll took over.

I was also one of the people helping test Aegisub on Linux (2009-ish), I wasn’t a programmer at the time but I remember a dude called ‘verm’ in the IRC channel who did a bunch of work to make Aegisub stable on Linux. He taught me the difference between little endian and big endian, I guess he was bored that day

import tensorflow as tf

Im in the same boat and I regret buying NVIDIA.

I’m not a gamer but NVIDIA issues rear their head on Wayland mostly for things that need 3D rendering like Bambu Studio and even Electron apps like Slack, Spotify and VSCode.

Oh and also trying to get hardware video decoding working on Firefox is a pain. I’m now at the point where full screening a video just causes Firefox to immediately crash.

Definitely getting AMD next time but I’m a long ways off upgrading my NUC, it’s 8 core i7 with 64gb of ram so will serve my dev needs for a long time