cflewis

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[–] cflewis@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

When I oopsie in server-side software, I roll it back, hopefully users never see it. When you oopsie client-side software it’s far more likely that users see it and resolution takes order days, not order minutes.

As I am a coward, I only work server-side 🙃

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Once I got the hang of connecting Distrobox containers to VS Code, I was really very pleased by the whole setup.

I also thought it pretty incredible that running “ujust update” actually went into my Debian container for Haskell development and it ran “apt update” for me. I couldn’t believe it the first time.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 5 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I guess one would have to define "nice", usually it's power:price:weight pick 2. I am assuming that weight is important, otherwise it's just a portable desktop.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 14 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Exactly. What's the point? Steam Deck exists and is a more reasonable option for gaming than laptops. Get a Chromebook or MacBook Air and a Deck and save yourself a bunch of cash.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Would love to know how you're dealing with Gnome and HiDPI. I found it really wacky, massive title bars and such. Went to KDE Plasma 6 and it all looks right, but agree it seems a little wonky sometimes. I'm hoping the bugs get ironed out.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You sound like the target audience for Bluefin. I'm running it and it's excellent.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the name of this feature for GrapheneOS? I'm not finding it.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I played some last night going in completely blind. I enjoyed it, but there isn't really a tutorial, just tooltips that come up periodically. Unfortunately my town died after a few hours because I didn't understand I was supposed to be preparing food for as soon as possible (crops grow on a year cycle, so you need the seeds in ASAP). Makes logical sense, but the game doesn't tell you and then I was stuffed.

I think it's totally fun as a sandbox/run-based game, but if you're looking for something more you'll need to wait.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

My guess is it’s much simpler: some genius at Fujitsu thought it would be helpful if they could remotely log in to machines for support reasons. They (unreasonably) didn’t want to send people onsite and they (reasonably) didn’t think Post Office workers would be able to resolve issues over the phone.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

People literally committed suicide over the hounding by the Post Office. People have gone to jail for encouraging suicide. People go to jail for false statements to the police and the court.

Executives get golden parachutes and incompetent contractors keep getting contracts.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Id like to move to Proton, but goodness are there no good usernames left. I'd have to go the custom domain route which isn't awful but it's just more effort

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