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> However, the reviewers logic is difficult to follow when you compare it across products:

> - Our monitor: Downgraded due to a faulty display (a warranty-covered hardware issue).

> - Another Monitor: Recommended, despite having no display at all.

> - Another Monitor: Also recommended, despite lacking a CO2 sensor—one of the most critical metrics for assessing indoor air quality and ventilation.

Anybody had similarly good experience with Gemini CLI? I'm only a hobbyist coder, so paying for Claude feels silly when Gemini is free (at least for now), but so far I've only used it inside Cline-like extensions

There are two places in the readme where author quotes themselves, my eyes might never roll back

Linux desktop in general suffers from not having good "default" options. I can't really recommend any single distro, can't recommend even a single desktop environment as good for most people. Mint is very good, but it looks painfully dated in many places. Fedora is very good, but Gnome Shell is not for everyone in the slightest and debian base is just too wide-spread to ignore. Ubuntu is very good, but actually it's not that good in 2025 because canonical spent 15 years reinventing the wheel and not finishing any.

This article is just gatekeeping the word "engineer" for no reason. When I was developing an agent recently I picked a model (thus fixing most of the "uncertainties" mentioned) and started to construct the system prompt, from simpler to more complex, sometimes back to simpler, discovering that to this particular model the name choice means a lot, observing how often I was or wasn't getting desired results, etc etc. I think it would be challenging to find a definition of the word "engineer" that wouldn't include this process, even if it, obviously, wasn't as complex as some other engineering projects.

"Old man yells at cloud", but in so-so-so many words

I really wanted to see the example you linked, but the link is broken

Every time I spend significant time on my Mac with the Tahoe beta and then go back to an Android phone (with near Pixel UI) I experience genuine relief. Everything is just a simple color and a label, and I love that because it's so easy to descern. Tahoe legitimately makes me tired to look at sometimes. I vastly prefer clarity and flatness over decorations.

I feel like I'm becoming a fan of old gray interfaces (win 95, macos 9). They feel like tools to me, like a calculator is just a tool, and it's comforting.

As someone who is starting very low — I very much agree. I'm basically a hobbyist who can navigate around Python code, and LLMs have been a godsend to me, they increased my hobby output tenfold. But as soon as I get into coding something I'm more familiar with, the LLMs usefulness plummets, because it's easier and faster to directly write code than to "translate" from English to code using an LLM (maybe only apart from using basically a smarter one-line tab completion)

Oh it looks absolutely perfect, thank you so much! Must've not been out yet when I was checking out different launchers

What's strangely missing from the list of FOSS android apps is a simple "pixel-like" launcher. I have some old devices that I use for small tasks, and I'd love to install the very basic launcher on them, basically the only thing I need is a paginated grid on the desktop, a scrollable list of apps in the main app menu, and a swipe up gesture to bring this menu. I checked a lot of launchers some time ago, and all of them either go hard into "minimalism/functionalism" and don't even show icons, or go deep into customization and fail to be lightweight.

This is becoming tangential, but to me someone at this point saying "ban AI company from accessing content without explicit agreement" screams virtue signaling to me, because it directly translates to "I refuse to acknowledge the reality of the situation and will just continue saying that we need to do the 'right' thing".