No mention of the Kinesis Advantage 360? I was lucky and scored two of them for free, one from the ergo center at my employer, and one from a generous coworker who didn't vibe with his.
There are a lot of keyboards I'd like to try, but I'm pretty happy with these.
8 years ago or so I had a job that necessitated doing a bunch of LDAP integrations and I tried FreeIPA, openLDAP and others. It was such a pain. OpenLDAP (slapd) was actually configured using... LDAP. Yes, you configured an LDAP server using it's own protocol. It was not good. My fading impression of FreeIPA is that it had some nice things going for it, but it wasn't nearly as lightweight or friendly towards automation, it felt more like setting up a windows domain controller and clicking through a webUI to set things up.
My thoughts exactly. I'm not 100% ideologically against piracy or training LLMs on copyrighted datasets necessarily, but it is definitely not their data..
I have used Linux on and off since 1997. A few weeks ago I decided to try Linux on a laptop for the first time in a very long time, having only used Linux for cloud servers for many years. I may have picked a bad device for it, a Surface Studio laptop. Initially, I was surprised how much stuff just worked, the high-res display, the wifi, etc. The touchpad didn't work. I mucked around for a few hours and got it to work "OK". The computer would go to sleep, and I couldn't wake it up without hard-booting it. I downloaded a new kernel (linux-surface), which partially, but not entirely fixed the problem. When I plug in a totally normal USB mouse, the cursor moves in a way that is more erratic than either my macOS or windows machines. I haven't figured out a solution.
It doesn't feel like the year of the Linux desktop for me unfortunately. You can get an M1 macbook air for like $400 right now. It's a pretty hard sell.
Working at Microsoft, I've just now hooked up to Claude Code (my department was not permitted to use it previously), through something called "Agent Maestro", a vscode extension which I guess pipes claude code API requets to our internally hosted Claude models, including Opus 4.6.
I do wonder if there is going to be much of a difference between using Claude Code vs. Copilot CLI when using the same models.
Crowding around our first ever computer, a 120mhz pentium with 16mb of RAM and a 1.6gb hard disk, watching that Weezer video on the CRT monitor with my whole family is a cherished memory.
This does make a quite a bit of sense. When I was a teenager in the 90s/early aughts, it was all IRC, script kiddie stuff. Reckless abandon. What worries me is that it seems like full-grown adults are happy to accelerate the dead internet and put security at risk. I assume it's not just teenagers running these stupid LLM bots.
I don't think "we" would have been impacted since this specifically targets the updates, but recently Microsoft pulled Notepad++ from the list of apps we can use on our production management laptops. Some people were annoyed and whining about this. That predated this announcement by a few weeks. Probably the right move by the security folks.
Ardour is the OG for sure! I'm a huge Reaper guy though been using it since 2009. One of the few pieces of software that I truly enjoy using, and the community is great
That's awesome. I have ADAT converters as well, but the Apollo itself does not operate as standalone, and unfortunately has very proprietary Thunderbolt drivers. I'm pretty sure we will never see Linux support for Apollo thunderbolt interfaces. I would definitely go RME for Linux.
Sure, but at some point in the past, "Amazon India" was not a thing. Nor was "Microsoft India" and so forth. Surely you can understand what it feels like to be an American tech worker in a super high cost of living area, looking at reduction in headcount and continual offshoring of jobs as time goes by. I live in Seattle area, work at one of these big companies, I work with people in India almost every day and have been to India three times on business. When parts of my department's work was allocated to a new team in India, of course I was nervous about that.
I've always wanted to do music recording on Linux (literally since the 90s). The fact that my preferred DAW (Reaper) has long been native to Linux has tempted me. But I have Universal Audio "Apollo" interface and have bought into their whole ecosystem which is very good and runs really great on my mac.
If I made the plunge I would get an RME USB audio interface and use Reaper, maybe play around with Bitwig which is also native on Linux. I don't think I would mess with WINE, regardless of other's success stories with it.
I'm glad to see where things have gone in recent years though
Sadly this didn't work. I have no idea why. Others have reported the same. Maybe because I'm using regular bluetooth and not an Apple branded product? I have a Tesla.
I feel like the only solution to the problem is democratized RLHF, where whenever we get a bad answer from an LLM, we can immediately tell it what was wrong and it can learn from that.
yet there is no way to get my iPhone to stop auto-switching bluetooth audio between my devices. Any time I get in my car, my headphones connect to the car and I have to switch it back. So annoying
My daughter is “on the spectrum” and dealing with these therapy places was just a huge waste of time and money. I don’t know if the places we went to were owned by private equity or what but the quality was really bad and this is in a major metropolitan area that is also affluent. The therapist seemed like good hearted people, but they were paid so miserably that there was constant turnover. The billing practices were always shady and complicated and frustrating. Not to mention most of these places have 6 to 12 months waiting list to see anybody in the first place.