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For anyone here, here is a great example of constrained writing in Sanskrit from 7th or 8th century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishupala_Vadha#Linguistic_in...

Just the verbal gymnastics, the wordplay and the ingenuity is mind boggling

Are you me?

I'm 49.... Started at 12... In the same boat

First 286 machine had a CMOS battery that was loose so I had to figure that out to make it boot into ms-dos

This time it does feel different and while I'm using them ai more than ever, it feels soulless and empty even when I 'ship' something

Incremental borg backups uploaded to cloud storage... Have a cron job and get notified about every backup

Was in the market for a Linux laptop for son who's entering college.... Dug through lenovo and saying that it's hard to find decent info on Linux support is an understatement...

Finally got an e14 g6 AMD.... It's not supported by lenovo for Linux but everything got Auto detected and worked except fingerprint

The bummer: suspend to ram is terribly broken and for a laptop that's a deal breaker

Yeah I'm aware of framework and system 76... They aren't here. The pricier lenovo options exist but at that point is just go with a mac

haven't run windows in ages (15yrs). Can't even make sense of windows anymore since at work moved to Mac. Unfortunately, looks like I will need to now since for a laptop (thinkpad - AMD - sleep/suspend might be a dead end)

So what's the 'best' edition of windows ('best' for privacy/least crapware/adware/AI slop)? I can get any version.

Not sure about specific ones here... But I feel financial basics should be a mandatory course before graduation... Maybe it is available as electives in other counties but here in India, fresh graduates are shockingly illiterate financially... Things to cover

1. Compound interest 2. Taxation 3. Insurance... Term/health 4. Asset classes... Equity /debt/real estate/gold/bonds and risk/reward 5. Evaluating investment plans/schemes

Kual+ had an option to stop auto updates... KT4 here

Just today had Gemini write a shell spot for me that had to generate a relative symlink.. Getting it to work xplat on linux & mac took more than ten tries and I stopped reading after the second

At the end, I spent probably more time and learnt nothing.. My initial take was that this is the kind of thing I don't care much for so giving it to a llm is OK... However, by the end of it I ended up more frustrated and lost it in the simulation of working things out aa well

Sort of like once you get used to GPS to get anywhere, you stop developing any further directional sense but even existing capabilities start withering away

Yeah.. I get by with cmd g...

In rooting for Asahi.. Linux on Mac hw would be so nice

Realistically though, in spite of the heroic effort it'll always be crippled in some way OR if they manage to close the gap enough, Apple might still screw them (and end users) over with the next firmware update

Ctrl L works on gnome... Also does auto complete

So this may come off as salty but in just wondering if I'm the only one

After years if Windows (at work) and Linux at home, I'm now using a Mac at work... Boy...it has its share of warts (like the other two)...and, imho, not the apex of design/usability that everyone raves about

1. Can't show address bar in finder... Seriously, go copy windows or any DE explorer 2. System bar (menu bar?)doesn't handle overflow? Where are the pitchforks ? Have to install Ice from github 3. Wanted to launch an app with CLI params and the Automator etc seems clunky... Both Linux and win do this better

I like the hw and battery life and the sw stack (nix) but UX is at par with windows minus sneaky behaviour.. I mostly don't care since primary goal was a nix for development but UX was a let down... I'll take GNOME any day ( is been rock solid and I don't recall the last time it crashed)

Yet, even here on hn I've never come across any griping at Mac os ux niggles ever

Experts to verify but overall the entire system available for inspection to the populace at will (so open source, reproducible builds, verifiability) etc

There will still be questions around compromised keys/secrets

I suppose in this case paper ballots win

Yes lots... Container integration... So certain urls always open in certain container... Snapshots

I moved from tst a few years ago.. Let me get rid of a few more extensions too

Dan Snow's history hit podcast just started a series on him - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ispIHiXbKt6ocJJH4RqN6

I get where they're coming from but I still think Wayland's broken by design. It's been 10+ (maybe even more) and it still feels like someone didn't think things true. If the answer to basic desktop capabilities are that it's not present and that's 'As designed', then the design's broken

I ran Wayland for sometime but went back to x11. Key gripes

1. Screen sharing 2. Automated keystroke entry(keepassxc) 3. Many more niggles

Get x11 out of my cold, dead fingers.

The one in AMO is v4 though... I install the rc from GitHub and it's miles ahead

Lazy.vim. Long time plug user... Recently migrated to lazy and haven't been disappointed. Fixes a number of niggles I had with vim plug

Sorry.. meant to reply to child comment from user baseballphysics

Care to share your settings/tweaks? I was able to get it to run after setting user agent string to edge; 1:1 calls worked but couldn't join meetings

Have tried that - but the patterns there aren't case insensitive (and no way I could find to make them so); the one that I use is a fork of containerise - search for bifulsushi on bitbucket

Is there a good native way now to set up url patterns (domain, sub domain, regex etc) to open in a specified container?

I've been using a non add-on store addon for this.. and no idea why something basic like that would not be in the core or this add-on

Probably off topic

Is there a good recommendation for teens who're just getting the programming bug?

My son's getting hooked but their curriculum is terrible (think Excel or word )...

You aren't wrong... But the base vim keybindings and modal nature make navigation extremely efficient instead of chorded keystrokes. Then, most editors(vscode, jetbrains) have decent vim binding support via plugins. Now, you're 80% efficient since muscle memory kicks in and you can just focus on the code better

For me kde connect is great for this and a lot of similar purposes(clipboard sharing, sms, media controls, notifications)

Not gp but was in the same boat... Only ever used Debian based distros...

1. No upgrade path between lts... You're on your own 2. On 20.04, no working Wayland, Bluetooth issues even with pw, 3. In general, PPAs don't come close to aur in terms of availability of sw

I was going to switch to arch, but after the grub issue noted in other comments here, went with manjaro since this is also my work machine

Manjaro has its own, different set of issues, but I've yet to hit any of them

My ISP hands out ipv6, but with no real support. Prefix delegation does not work and tech support is clueless...

More likely flash degradation than any explicit code to insert delays

Seconded... I was on kde for years and while productive, I couldn't just get the feeling that it got out of the way

Decided to give gnome a try a couple of months ago in a VM and liked it enough that now I have an older version of GNOME on kde neon

With a few shell extensions, GNOME fits my workflow and just gets out of the way that I don't even notice it .... And, to me, is the highest praise that any software can get.

https://gitlab.com/NamingThingsIsHard/firefox/bifulushi

It's a fork of kintesh/containerise which seems unmaintained and had case problems.

It's not on FF addons site - so please satisfy yourself that it isn't doing sinister stuff before installing.