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by akho 5y ago
I do not understand what you are talking about. This started as a proposition that “normal users do not use Linux”. They obviously do. You are sore that corporations use BSD licensed code without letting us see or modify their forks. So am
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by akho 5y ago
Abundance of existing tooling is part of quality, yes. Practical absence of non-free choices is also a sign that free software does things right in this domain. I do not understand the argument. Linux won. It won because it — for a variety
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by akho 5y ago
Zephyr is Apache licensed, FreeRTOS MIT, Fuchsia BSD/MIT/Apache, NuttX Apache. ThreadX is the only one on your list that's not free software, and the success it achieved over its 24 years of existence is not anything to write
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by akho 5y ago
The quality is being solid, easy to develop for, and, yes, free. I think you overestimate the ability of appliance companies to develop proprietary OS kernels. MIT/BSD licensed stuff is still free software.
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by akho 5y ago
It's really strange how different people's approach to technology can be. I find that free software is generally better, more solid, more stable, and more useful on its own merits than commercial alternatives. There is a clear poi
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by akho 5y ago
I have a home NAS, accessible through a Wireguard network set up on the router. Am I self-hosting Synology's things (for photos / music / video / downloads)? Synology also supports Docker, so I have - Gitea - V
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by akho 5y ago
Is this for personal use, or to supplement other activities? Probably to use with something else — I really don't see why you'd want analytics stuff for just yourself.
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by akho 5y ago
Average users use Linux all the time, it’s in everything. You’d need to ask the developers writing all these router OSes, smart televisions, Android phones, … whether they chose Linux because of its high quality or, I guess, randomly?.. Try
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by akho 5y ago
Huh. I'm not sure I want to know the logic here. Thanks.
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by akho 5y ago
No, it wouldn’t. Case in point: Excel has ability to spread a calculation over multiple lines, but the bugs are not down. In fact, people who are aware of Alt-enter produce buggier code: they end up writing longer formulas, with fewer inter
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by akho 5y ago
That's a bit of a misconception. Modern chess is European. Shatranj was a much less dynamic and interesting game.
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by akho 5y ago
Shell. You can approach Perl viewing it as an alternative to Python / Ruby / JavaScript, but that’s not the only way to look at it. Another is to look at it as a sh / sed / awk upgrade, and it absolutely excels in that.
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by akho 5y ago
Does not show thumbnails to me. I'm aware of ctrl-[shift]-tab. It is too slow if you have more than a few.
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by akho 5y ago
I use tridactyl’s `:b` often. No previews, no fullscreen, no fuzzy matching, but at least full titles and word search.
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by akho 5y ago
The tab bar is functionally useless if you have > 10 tabs open, so I don't even know why I'd notice. Aesthetically, it's fine for me. Option to hide it completely (replacing with a mobile-style full-screen modal view with
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by akho 5y ago
I think it’s space (the receiver is bulky and difficult to place), and looks — it’s common for one member of a household to be enthusiastic about sound and messing with wires, and for another to be enthusiastic about interior design. I hope
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by akho 5y ago
But it is somewhat broke. If receivers were smaller and prettier, soundbars would not be a thing, and we’d all be better off.
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by akho 5y ago
Emacs is a GUI.
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by akho 5y ago
Any OSes where Docker runs that I have not covered?
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by akho 5y ago
I had unpleasant issues with homebrew upgrades back when I used it. It’s not exactly state of the art. (Nix works the same everywhere, though — but there are some hoops you need to jump through on macs)
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by akho 5y ago
The distro you run in wsl certainly does.
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by akho 5y ago
I’m more surprised than you are. Nix is rarely mentioned at all, despite being better in most ways.
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by akho 5y ago
Powerful command-line environments are offered everywhere (wsl, Linux container on Chrome, Linux on Linux). MacOS is actually quite lacking in comparison (being limited wrt licenses and lacking a package manager). So it’s just a GUI questio
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by akho 5y ago
RodgerTheGreat explained everything very well. One extra note: LOGO does not have closures (closures require lexical scope). Dynamic scope gives the possibility to, e.g., define new control flow without quoting, but lexical closures are not
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by akho 5y ago
Not really, no. You might not be able or willing (pedagogically) to get kids to the interesting bits, but traditional LOGOs (being ~ pre-Scheme LISPs) are dynamically scoped and have tail call optimization, neither of which would work in Py
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by akho 6y ago
In my experience, most books on speed reading are such that you can just skip the entire book without losing anything important.
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by akho 6y ago
Vultr seems entirely unnecessary in this picture (but the referral dollars probably help). They are just hosting stuff for themselves, right? The Synology can do all that (through VPN for the on-the-go devices). Separate VPSes for things li
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by akho 6y ago
I suspect Emacs’s eshell sees more use than many of those that made this list. Doesn’t run without Emacs, though, which maybe disqualifies it? Cool list though.
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by akho 6y ago
Any kind of source that requires rendering is inherently fragile. We’ve all seen old posts messed up by a template change. There is no reason to think that GitHub will live (and continue to render markdown) much longer than, say, GeoCities.
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by akho 6y ago
What would ‘decent’ mean?

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