I’m really bad at spending stuff on myself also. I like prioritising paying back loans, buying stock and so on since it pays itself back later on.

The way I look at it is that the less I spend on luxuries the less I have to work (currently and in retirement) so I don’t feel weird about it.

Another rule of thumb is to delay purchases by 3 months and it doesn’t set back your financial goals. If you’ve been wanting this Macbook now for 3 months and you have the money for it and you feel comfortable with your current financial situation I’d tell you to get it. If it’s an expensive car it’s a financial catastrophy usually so don’t get it even if you’ve wanted it for 3 months.

No idea if that helps but don’t feel weird about being frugal. Frugality is incredibly useful and can set you up for an easy life.

No, I wait 3 years usually. All bugs fixed, everything works, mods in great shape and price down 50%. Plenty of games older than 3 years also and much lower hardware requirements.

I made an exception for Elden Ring last time but that’s about it.

Can’t ban chemtrails but you can reduce contrails which play a weirdly large part in warming up the planet irrespective of fuel consumed.

Just putting the word out for an underrated climate thingy.

Coffee and beer, my two favorite drinks

Yeah, I love reading these and I’ve been using Linux for 8 years. I recommend Linux regularly and I want to know enough about new people’s experiences to know what questions to ask.

Do you use Photoshop? Do you have modern hardware or fancy monitor? What GPU?

Good thing we can all boot up TempleOS and find the answers we seek. 🙏

I see, it’s about flying under the radar if you’re up to something illegal. That makes a lot of sense for something like having weed in the car.

I treat a serious prod issue as annoying because it is.

Can someone provide a couple of practical examples?

I figured there has to be someone that likes it.

I think the default styling of browsers is pretty neat in a lot of cases and I hate animations. Layouts, spacing and grouping are the things that actually provide value.

Instead of a fancy popup with a cart contents the button should just say “Adding 1 item…” and “Added” for 2 seconds.

I hate infinite scrolls, especially when there’s stuff like opening hours at the bottom of the page. Just give me a “Show more” button and preload the content.

My dream world would be that styling would only be about layout and the rest is up to the user’s theme.

Systemd is controlled by redhat and is a very large part of the Linux stack. It’s become so universal that a lot random stuff won’t work unless the system has systemd.

Compared to X11 to wayland or pulseaudio to pipewire it’s a lot hard to now replace an init system and with that in the hands of redhat which is for profit is not a nice thought.

But you know, fuck it, having systemd is a massive headache for people making distros that’s just gone. Everyone is using the same thing and things just work so people aren’t really complaining. If redhat tries some shenanigans there’ll always be a fork or a systemd compatible init system or even whatever Alpine is using now that’ll take it’s place.

Each desktop environment needs to implement wayland so it’s best to leave it to the distro you’re using to provide it as an option. For a good wayland experience I’d recommend KDE

Did you mean to add /s?

The best app

Up arrow on top of a cloud, I think that one is standard now

I think the download icons will become synonymous with saving. It’s functionally the same, move thingy to a location on your computer.

It connects it to another computer symbol, the folder which is seen plenty of times as the thing containing files. It’s a solid solution.

I remember reformatting a Windows computer to get a fresh install and I had to find the driver CD and install a driver for audio, internet and other very basic stuff.

The eggs have never been caged since they left the chicken

You make a fair point, programming skill is more important than language but picking a programming language is still important in a lot of cases.

Ecosystem size can reduce “reinvent the wheel” code.

Some languages just have dogshit performance like Ruby, lua is pretty good though and it absolutely matters when you have to crunch a lot of data. Access to developers is big since you ideally want to find someone with experience in the language your project is in.

Some languages like Rust are very good for making safe code but very bad if you want to get out a microservice fast. I could make an equally correct version of some adapter in a fourth of the time in python compared to rust and I know them similarly well.

Then there’s low RAM requirements like embedded devices, it’s best to run something that compiles to machine code and doesn’t need a big runtime. Java and C# become almost useless in very low RAM environments and you’d have to use Zig, C or Rust instead.

So long story short, depending on what you’re writing it can just not matter or matter a lot.