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> UI framework balkanization has always been, and remains a hideous mess.

At least things look more or less the same over time. With commercial offerings one day you open your laptop and suddenly everything looks different and all the functions are in a different submenu because some designer thought it was cool or some manager needed a raise.

> It'll probably work fine out of the box, but if it doesn't. Hoo boy.

LLMs are actually very useful for Linux configuration problems. They might even be the reason so many users made the switch recently.

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Pair-programming Nix with Gemini has taught me a lot about the assistive power of LLMs.

They're still slow and annoying at languages I'm good at. But it's really handy to be able to take one I'm not (like Nix or even C++) and say "write me a patch that does …" Applying a lot of the same thinking/structuring skills, but not tripping on the syntax.

They're pretty good for most things, yes... but man was it rough figuring out getting my IP allocation routing right on my Proxmox server. The system is issued a primary IP, and need to route my subnet through that to my VMs... wasn't too bad once I got it working... I'd also wanted a dnat for "internal" services, and that's where it got tricky.

I need to refresh myself as I'm wanting to move from a /29 to a /28 ... mostly been lazy about not getting it done, but actually mqking progress oo some hobby stuff with Claude Code... definitely a force multiplier, but I'm not quite at a "vibe code" level of trust, so it's still a bit of a slog.

You could just let the VMs be normal IPs on the network....

Where would those IPs route to/from if it didn't have a configured default gateway exactly?

The machine got a single IP, I had to route the CIDR block using that IP as the gateway in the host OS. The VMs wouldn't just get assigned additional real IPs.

KDE & Gnome are both guilty of the same.

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