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by tombert 2mo ago
I didn't have a Mac in that era, but I did have a Macbook Air from 2014 and I ran Ubuntu and NixOS on it just fine, even at the time. I had to use rEFInd but it wasn't terribly hard. On modern Macs, it's pretty easy to instal
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by tombert 2mo ago
I have thought about buying one of the Pinephone things, because I want to actually own the computer in my pocket, but I have always hesitated because the hardware is always kind of ancient for these things. The Pinephone doesn’t even have
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by tombert 2mo ago
macOS isn't perfect but it is decidedly less shitty than Windows. Linux has its issues but it's still less terrible than Windows.
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by tombert 2mo ago
That might have been true in 2004. It's 22 years later now.
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by tombert 2mo ago
It decidedly does not “update itself reliably”. Windows Update is still broken garbage that will break your computer.
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by tombert 2mo ago
I am skeptical of the “backwards compatibility” claims. Often playing older Windows games is easier and more reliable on Linux with Wine/Proton than on Windows 11.
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by tombert 2mo ago
I feel like what Microsoft is best at is making something and convincing everyone to use it before anyone has been able to thoroughly check how terrible it is, and by the time people have pointed it out, it’s too late and people act like it
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by tombert 2mo ago
> It isn't just other CS majors any more. Hey, that's not fair! It also had nine year olds who bought a book about HTML and made shitty sites on Geocities!
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by tombert 2mo ago
I've used it on every blog I've ever built ( https://blog.tombert.com/index.xml ) because it's super easy to set up, but I really don't know anyone who uses RSS in any serious capacity. That said, stuff li
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by tombert 2mo ago
Yeah. There honestly was a purity to the disconnected nature of shitty Geocities and Angelfires pages, where filled with amateurs writing shitty HTML just because they thought it would be cool to have their own web site. That's not a
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by tombert 2mo ago
I have one of those free Oracle cloud instances with 24 gigs of RAM; I've considered hosting there, but for now I just use Sourcehut. There definitely is value in "it's hosted somewhere that's not my house" though.
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by tombert 2mo ago
Agreed; I occasionally have to awkwardly work around the lack of support for large files by hard-coding S3 links and the like. That kind of sucks. Honestly I mostly just kind of wish that Git had proper support for binary files. I really
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by tombert 2mo ago
The article in which you are replying to is specifically about different git-compatible forges, not just Github. If you use "Git", people are going to (correctly) think you're referring to the version control software, not G
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by tombert 2mo ago
Sure, but GitHub sort of runs contrary to what Git's philosophy, which is why I'm arguing that "Git" is an irrelevant variable with regards to the problems with Github. Git, as a software version control platform, is
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by tombert 2mo ago
Well, it certainly wouldn't be called Github, but I'm sure there would be some equivalent "MercurialHub" or "MonotoneHub" had Git not been created. Even before Git, there was Bitkeeper (which in some ways was
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by tombert 2mo ago
But Git isn't the platform. It's still just a version control. The article itself is explaining other platforms that work with Git, of which there are dozens. The `git` program itself isn't even developed on Github; it&#x2
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by tombert 2mo ago
I don't know why you censored "underage". People are weird. Anyway, the only source I've really heard trying to make Devault a sex-pest comes from Bryan Lunduke, who's an idiot that isn't opposed to embellishi
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by tombert 2mo ago
Genuine question: Have you considered moving to your own server? I ran Forejo for a bit, but I made the mistake of trying to use Jenkins for CI, which is very annoying for someone who really doesn't doesn't enjoy devops work.
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by tombert 2mo ago
I hadn't ever used the email-based pull request until I started using Sourcehut, but ever since I did I've honestly grown to prefer it. People shouldn't require an account at a for-profit company to make contributions to FOS
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by tombert 2mo ago
How would subversion fix this problem exactly? It would still be a centralized forge that Microsoft could still control/ruin. In fact, more centralized than Git, which itself was designed to be decentralized (though admittedly mos
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by tombert 2mo ago
I think there's a fear from the employers that the terminated employees will do something to fuck over the company because they're bitter, either by copying and distributing proprietary stuff, or even just posting a message shit-t
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by tombert 2mo ago
That turned out to be my case. I had at the time undiagnosed sleep apnea, and I think I was using caffeine as a crutch instead of treating the problem.
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by tombert 2mo ago
I tried the three big ones: regular Adderall, Adderall extended release, and Vyvance. None of them really helped my focus and all three really screwed with my sleep. Kind of ironically, it turned out that a lot of my focus issues were due t
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by tombert 2mo ago
I agree it's not good for my heart. I keep my caffeine intake considerably lower now, always less than the 400mg max that the FDA recommends, usually less than that. I'm not sure that adderrall is significantly healthier for the
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by tombert 2mo ago
I mean I was already working remote since they were based in a different state.
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by tombert 2mo ago
When I've been laid off, I generally don't hold any grudges at the business people. These things happen, and I know business decisions aren't always easy or going to make everyone happy. That said, I already didn't like
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by tombert 2mo ago
In this particular case I actually did have confirmation that this was the CTO's decision. I hardly think that making a single passive aggressive dig is "being unable to control my emotions" though. It's a smartass c
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by tombert 2mo ago
One time when I was in one of these calls. It was pretty obvious it was coming, the company wasn't doing great and there were plenty of whispers. Still, I was pretty upset I was laid off, because it's just not a fun feeling. Afte
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by tombert 2mo ago
Sure, I guess I've just worked at enough startups that advertise "keeping the fridge full of Red Bull" as some kind of perk, when in reality it kind of ends up being a code for "you'd better enjoy working long, long
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by tombert 2mo ago
You pay a significant markup getting it at gas stations, but looking at a Monster on Walmart.com, it's still like $2.68. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Monster-Energy-Zero-Ultra-Energy-... I guess it's cheaper in

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