danmur

I think that's very much personal preference. I tried KDE a few months ago and I couldn't stick with it; it is slower than Gnome in a lot of ways, it's (to my eyes) much more cluttered, and has lags at annoying places. For example, I tend to hit the windows key and start typing to launch things, but under KDE there's enough lag before the menu opens that it doesn't catch my first few keypresses.

Yep. All my deployments I set up so they can be run from anywhere (with the right deps and auth), even though I rarely need to use it. Makes it easier to test deployment processes too.

I haven't used it seriously for that purpose so I can't comment :). Just my home setup. Their other products have their rough edges though so I can understand.

Vault is ridiculously easy to use for this.

Some of those messages looked like they were from co-workers :P

This is amazing. I don't own a Mac, and I don't get those kinds of messages, yet I still want to buy it.

Pretty plausible. It would be hard to put off that cash infusion.

I like parceljs too. I haven't used it on big projects (plus I'm not a web dev currently) but I found it to be more "config when you need to change the defaults" than "no config". But that's great. It works out of the box for a lot of stuff and you add some dotfiles when you want to customise.

I do want to try snowpack too though.

"Unikernels are fast, secure, increase server density and eliminate devops."

bold statement, by whatever definition of devops you use

I have a system too. Every time I want to record something I simply have an anxiety attack.

Same reason poetry has slow (but accurate) dependency resolution. It would be nice to have as part of the repo API.

Not really related but I got a surface pro to replace an Android tablet and even though I'm a native Linux user I find myself doing some light dev work on it. It's quite pleasant even with only 8gb of RAM. It only cost $700 though. If it was more expensive if be pretty unhappy about all the many, many deficiencies.

My partner has a new MacBook, a lot more expensive, and the performance is atrocious.

I had no idea he wrote Star Wars novels but this thread reminded me of him so I bought a few others to reread :). Hope he can get what he's entitled to.

It's attempting to shift blame around in exactly the same way as shifting half a contract. The profits but not the consequences.

I'll have to try KDE again, I always found it really messy and disorganised (but that was many years ago).

It's really hard not to have some bias, but I used OSX for work for about five years, currently been using Windows at work for about two years, and I still find Gnome to be the most usable and aesthetically pleasing desktop by far.

Unbiased was probably a poor choice of words, there's always biases of some sort. As you said motivations, financial in particular, are the main problem.

I guess there's also an onus on us readers to do some of our own fact checking. I'm busy though!

I had such high hopes for that wikinews thing. I'd gladly pay for unbiased reporting. Maybe all the recent political fiascos (in many nations) will start making people more receptive to the idea.

Elzar: You gotta try the pasta, it's got a real nice profit margin. Bam!

This could be describing plenty of enterprise software too. Boxticking crapware.

There's also the issue of having your music collection tied to a cloud provider. I've been using Play Music for years, happily, but I don't much like the replacement (YouTube/YouTube Music/whatever). And I don't trust Google to have a stable product lineup either.

I haven't compared ram usage but vscode feels (subjectively obviously) very slow by comparison to me. Intellij is a beast of an application in terms of features also.

I only know about him from the king of Kong (like many people probably) and I'm always wary of how those things can create a bias in editing, but man does he come across as a world class jerk in that.

My recollection (which could be completely wrong) was that they had a branch with it, but it really needed hardware transactional memory to memory to have decent speed for most applications.

No way to win :)

Still not as bad as spatial reference systems

I think that's it. No argument that it's improved, so much, but if you're not already using it then it's hard to pick it over other options. Good luck to the fans though, you can do anything you need with it and if you enjoy it all the better.

It's not a fortune but ignoring the actual money: * It's publicity for peertube, here and other places * It could get a good chunk of useful development done if used correctly * It's an endorsement from a trusted body that might help build awareness and momentum

I realised at the last second my last comment was about peertube too :). I have no stake but I'd love YouTube alternatives.

That's 100% true, still a bad look when building a user base though

That's excellent!

Agree. Nothing wrong with doing what works for most things, but with backups it's easier to use an appropriate process from the start. It's easy enough and saves you grief later.