They also introduced a critical security vulnerability into notepad where they just had the markdown links shell execute open link which allowed just installing arbitrary software as long as the link was valid instead of just opening a browser.

If you managed to get the file onto a person’s you could execute it by having the person click on the link.

I came to the same conclusion, Nobara for would have been best.

Steam UI uses chromium embedded framework which saves 50% of the ram and startup time.

Webapps are in general badly written and inefficient.

Good for stability, bad for flexibility for when the homelab grows more complex.

At the start I just wanted a desktop machine that runs Steam through sunshine/moonlight so hardware support and gaming stuff such was very important.

My homelab used to run on my laptop when it could all fit within a couple 100s of GB and I was the only user but moving it was tricky. Since I’m a programmer I’m not afraid of this stuff so I just spent the hours to figure out one problem at a time.

I ended up figuring out adding HDD whitelist in SELinux, make it accessible in podman, manually edit fstab because tools didn’t work, systemd service for startup, logging in automatically where I already forgot everything and would have not had to do any of this on a bog standard Ubuntu server.

I set my homelab up on Bazzite immutable with podman and SELinux. It took a while to work everything out and have it boot up into a valid state hahaha

I have a child monitor that only charges if I blow in it before plugging it. It’s legit

I like drum and bass so it’d have to be bass but subbass under 200Hz plays a very important supporting role.

We’re using LLMs at the company I work at and it seems very useful in many cases but sometimes it still doesn’t work. I’m a bit worried about the aspect of the code rotting by LLMs generating stuff based on existing code.

My mindset has shifted a bit, now I’m more focused on making stuff easy to find and easy to figure out patterns to use so that the codebase becomes easier to work with. There’s some horrible code in the project and the LLM absolutely sucks balls at it but if it’s a clean routine job such as making a table with update dialogs and actions to manipulate the data the success rate is >95%.

So yeah, don’t trust it, treat it like a junior dev that got straight As in school and has never considered security. Code reviews are now where it’s at.

My coworker added issuer and validate issuer in the same PR

I like the one about eggs and milk.

My wife says “Bring liters of milk, if they have eggs, bring 12” and gets upset when I bring her the 12 liters.

I got another bad one I just made.

A programmer of a fishing app had a rough break-up but all is well because there are plenty of fish in the C.

Java is for kids and C# is for adults because you don’t want the kids to C# edges.

print("I got a funny joke for you, just give me a couple of tries.") 
chars = string.ascii_lowercase + " " 
while true:
    l = random.randint(20, 50)
    print("".join(random.choice(chars) for _ in range(l)))
    print("Ok, the last one maybe wasn't funny but give me one more try")

They drill down to the root of the problem.

He probably assumed it’s an OS based on react js

Depends on how long you’ve been working. After some amount of time like a year or two you can drop it into a conversation when helping a person “oh, I actually use libre office so I’m not sure where MS put that, let me check” and if they want more info they’ll ask. Sometimes they might be surprised that you can actually do this stuff on Linux.

In software as long as its not rushed you can quote something, fix it in 10 minutes and deliver it the next day and people will be amazed you finished it in under a day.

First pick a desktop environment, currently KDE, Gnome and Cinnamon are the best.

• Gnome: Opinionated design like apple
• KDE: tons of options.
• Cinnamon: A bit fewer options than KDE but still a lot.

All of them are very robust and have a massive user base.

Then pick a base to operate on. Fedora, Ubuntu and Mint are all good options.

• Fedora and Ubuntu are good for newer hardware and 99% of the time just works.
• Mint just works all the except for newer hardware.

Nvidia GPUs are not a big issue but you have to install the proprietary driver yourself for best performance and fewest bugs.

My pick for you is something your friend uses if you have a friend on Linux otherwise Fedora KDE or Kubuntu.

It’s not about knowing what stuff to touch, it’s about knowing what not to touch. -Buddha Linux

Or like having to login to a microslop account to use offline tools

Iceland mentioned 🇮🇸