Sure, if you compare it to a thinkpad for 1k. M1 Macbook pros cost how much when they were released? 2.5k? 3k? Of you’re going to get reduced compilation times. But what exactly is it “paying of”? How is the calculation from time to money done?

“I can store so much stuff in my RAM, it’ll pay back in 6 months”. Such a random metric.

I learned to hate the Mac forced upon me for the time I used it, thank you very much. Fuck everything about those boots from the fruit store. Especially in a multi-architecture team, fuck macs.

That explains it, yeah. Companies of that size often aren’t open for change unless it is top down.

Good luck with the fur trapping. Not sure if there’ll be less bugs though ;)

I was told the same at multiple jobs and just asked kindly that they spend the money on a linux compatible laptop. I had arguments to back my statement up too. It worked out.

YMMV

Good luck (if you want to go down this path and haven’t become a farmer yet).

Rght? "I want something shiny to write my code on because it makes me look cool and costs a lot " is not ether sign of seniority.

Signal, unfortunately, doesn’t have good group support. Herr are only 2 privilege levels: admin and user. It seems like it will take a long time before signal upgrades group chats.

I’m curious, how does briar compare,?

Why do you think it’s AI?

Tainted and unsigned module it says. Have you tried undoing some of your modifications? They might be the root of your problem.

Snaps and DEs are what drove me from Ubuntu. Gnome2 was actually nice to use and unity was too Mac for me. Then came snaps and things kept breaking. The breaking point for me was going “sudo apt chromium” and it installing snap, then chromium through snap.

Oh, and I have never had a stable update experience. Every single update lead to me being dropped into a shell or TTY session without a functioning display manager. I tweak my system in many ways to develop software (many PPAs) and updates always meant going on the hunt for new ones to be able to develop again.

Now I’m at NixOS and although the community forums are a constant slugfest with nonstop drama (so I dont visit them anymore), the system has actually been stable for my entire usage period. A friend audibly gasped when I switched channels and updated. They too had never seen a smoother update experience between multiple different major versions (20.05 - > 24.05).

If all you do is develop in devcontainers, have no PPAs, dont modify your system in major ways and just are stock, yeah, pretty much any distro can be pleasant.

I’ve met Arch users who will confidently tell me untruths about Linux in general and have no idea how to even approach solving problems beyond copypasting instructions from the Arch wiki or forums.

“What happened?” I dunno

“What did you do?” I just ran “echo…” (Or some other meaningless command)

“Do you have logs?” No, what are those?

“Please at least tell me the versions of the things you are running” How do I get that information?

I guess it speaks to the stability of Arch that it can attract users who have no idea what they are doing and still work. But it does also speak volumes about the image it has as an elite distro that makes you look like a Linux expert without actually being one.

@Zoomboingding@lemmy.world, @JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world is right. You stumbled onto an extremely hot topic on the fediverse. Blahaj is extremely sensitive to it, that’s just how the community is.

If they dont want your identity (the current account you are using), just create a new one and use that one to learn their ways and become a good member of their community.

However, and I’m saying this out of completeness not because I actually believe this is what you want, if you just want to debate their points and break their rules knowingly, please don’t. Just accept that they have different preferences than you do. Life is too short to willingly spend time where you aren’t wanted.

If only nixos could be made minimal. The smallest install is hundreds of MB large. How small can gentoo get?

The Twits got their way and now mastodon will be a bonfire.

Good job on the AI prompting. If you aren’t an engineer and it works, that’s nice. But, have you heard of GrayJay?

Can’t say I had the same experience, but staying on an outdated version is going to make you run into problems as the one you just experienced.

21.3? Why not upgrade to the latest?

No way… Are you serious?

That video showed him saying that it’s good for autocomplete. But speaking from experience testing it on Rust, Python, JS, HTML and CSS, it performed the worst on Rust. It wrote tests well, but sucked at features or refactoring. Whether the problem is between the chair and the screen, I don’t know.

Whether AI will be able to write secure code, I dunno, I haven’t tried. It could be put into the rules to consider security and add tests relating to security or add an adversarial agent that tries to find flaws in the code which can be exploited. That could probably do more than a developer who has no time assigned to care about testing, much less security.

What it does to the IT sector in the long run - who knows…

Agreed. Things are moving so quickly, it’s impossible to predict. There are lots of people on LinkedIn screaming about obsoletion of humans or other bold claims, but to me they are like drunk fortune tellers: tell enough fortunes and one is bound to be right.

You won’t get laid more, that’s for sure!

I tried using AI in my rust project and gave up on letting it write code. It does quite alright in python, but rust is still too niche for it. Imagine trying to write zig or Haskell, it would make a terrible mess of it.

Security is an afterthought in 99.99% of code. AI barely has anything to learn from.