KDE and Gnome are the most prominent and they "match" in the sense that they are mature environments that are quite usable. These have been in development for decades. For some reason, in the case of Windows, that…
I used an Indy with X11 forwarding for a while, I could run a modern Firefox from my Linux machine, which worked nicely. As much as it looked like it was running natively, it really wasn't, so downloads would end up on…
I recently upgraded my gaming PC from Win10 to Bazzite with Wayland, and my use cases are primarily streaming to a laptop and to a quest 3. I don't find these very niche use cases tbh. The challenge was, unfortunately,…
I use the Android app from Wireguard: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wireguard.... It's pretty basic, but it lets me scan the generated qr codes, and it has an icon in the drawer which makes it easy…
I've had wireguard in a container for a few years, and it's never failed me. I will say it took me a long time to get the firewall part of the configuration right but the configuration is otherwise simple. When I'm on…
My favorite feature, especially considering the past of "heavily tied into Visual Studio" is the platform independent nature of (most of) "modern" dotnet. That is to say, I run Fedora on my laptop, and I do not want…
In my first job, when .net didn't yet exist, xml + xslt was the templating engine we used for html and (html) e-mail and sometimes csv. I'd write queries in sql server using "for xml" and it would output all data needed…
If you type "login" at the ha> prompt, you'll get a root shell. This is something I also had to accept about HA. It runs in a VM in my case so it worked out-of-the-box, but you don't just ssh to it after installing it,…
In case of Earth, Wikipedia describes [1] it as being "[..] generated by electric currents due to the motion of convection currents of a mixture of molten iron and nickel in Earth's outer core". This makes Earth a…
They had their own startup sounds, too (at least the machines I have). And it wasn't just the machines; peripherals (mouse, keyboard, monitor) had this nice looking texture on them as well. They were definitely cool…
.Net has been (_almost_) entirely open source for years now. The whole closed source and Windows-bound .Net Framework is a legacy thing of the past now, since .Net Core (which is now named .Net) everything but the…
I love these work stations. Many (15+) years ago I used an Indy like a sort of dumb terminal, using X forwarding. It was very cool to use an application like a modern Firefox on such an old Unix installation even if it…
> The only thing that comes close is .NET, and that's MICROS~1. On the timescales in my business that's not an option, they can't be trusted to not act like Oracle does and they are deeply ingrained into important…
I've done something similar before, though it was a client's database. They needed an empty copy of their database for a second instance of the software they were running, so I had the tool I was using create a massive…
My daily used distros are Fedora on my home laptop (x270) and Pop!_OS on my work laptop (t14). Also a hp microserver and an x230, both with Proxmox (Debian) and one gaming PC with Windows (I would love to migrate this…
They are in my experience, we do this as part of many of the courses and projects: they get an assignment followed by a 15-20 minute assessment of their work. Gives us the chance to measure their understanding of the…
As a teacher, my job is very satisfying, because it helps people in a useful and direct manner, and I get to contribute to the education developers get before they go out in the field. I learn much more now than I did…
I run it on a real Pi, a very old model B. One cpu core, little memory, yet it runs fast and even the web interface is plenty snappy.
I also have a B+ running PiHole. It's perfectly usable, and even the web interface is genuinely very fast and usable, even on this single core Pi with the limit memory it has. It's very impressive. The only thing that…
I love programming languages and software design, but I was burnt out on doing this full-time (or even 4 days a week), after over 15 years of doing mostly legacy projects and web. It only scratched a certain itch. At…
I had planned to install OctoPrint on a Pi4 to leverage my printer as well but I would never have been able to conjure up something this extensive! Thank you for making it and sharing it!
I'd been programming for about 20 years, but it wasn't fun anymore, and it had become a drag that I wanted to get away from. I recently (end of last year) applied to (and got hired at) a teaching position at the school…
In practice, it is largely like other similar distributions. I've been running Slackware for many years, but the wait for 15 was too long for me so I installed Arch Linux out of curiousity, and found there's a lot of…
I can sympathize with that, but at the same time: the idea that the language and its OOP implementation is a tool rather than the goal, and the idea of improving said tool are not mutually exclusive. :) In my…
I read this comment, thought after having recently installed Debian replacing Slackware I'd wipe it again because that's unacceptable. So I ssh'd into the machine, started a screen session, detached it, killed ssh…
KDE and Gnome are the most prominent and they "match" in the sense that they are mature environments that are quite usable. These have been in development for decades. For some reason, in the case of Windows, that…
I used an Indy with X11 forwarding for a while, I could run a modern Firefox from my Linux machine, which worked nicely. As much as it looked like it was running natively, it really wasn't, so downloads would end up on…
I recently upgraded my gaming PC from Win10 to Bazzite with Wayland, and my use cases are primarily streaming to a laptop and to a quest 3. I don't find these very niche use cases tbh. The challenge was, unfortunately,…
I use the Android app from Wireguard: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wireguard.... It's pretty basic, but it lets me scan the generated qr codes, and it has an icon in the drawer which makes it easy…
I've had wireguard in a container for a few years, and it's never failed me. I will say it took me a long time to get the firewall part of the configuration right but the configuration is otherwise simple. When I'm on…
My favorite feature, especially considering the past of "heavily tied into Visual Studio" is the platform independent nature of (most of) "modern" dotnet. That is to say, I run Fedora on my laptop, and I do not want…
In my first job, when .net didn't yet exist, xml + xslt was the templating engine we used for html and (html) e-mail and sometimes csv. I'd write queries in sql server using "for xml" and it would output all data needed…
If you type "login" at the ha> prompt, you'll get a root shell. This is something I also had to accept about HA. It runs in a VM in my case so it worked out-of-the-box, but you don't just ssh to it after installing it,…
In case of Earth, Wikipedia describes [1] it as being "[..] generated by electric currents due to the motion of convection currents of a mixture of molten iron and nickel in Earth's outer core". This makes Earth a…
They had their own startup sounds, too (at least the machines I have). And it wasn't just the machines; peripherals (mouse, keyboard, monitor) had this nice looking texture on them as well. They were definitely cool…
.Net has been (_almost_) entirely open source for years now. The whole closed source and Windows-bound .Net Framework is a legacy thing of the past now, since .Net Core (which is now named .Net) everything but the…
I love these work stations. Many (15+) years ago I used an Indy like a sort of dumb terminal, using X forwarding. It was very cool to use an application like a modern Firefox on such an old Unix installation even if it…
> The only thing that comes close is .NET, and that's MICROS~1. On the timescales in my business that's not an option, they can't be trusted to not act like Oracle does and they are deeply ingrained into important…
I've done something similar before, though it was a client's database. They needed an empty copy of their database for a second instance of the software they were running, so I had the tool I was using create a massive…
My daily used distros are Fedora on my home laptop (x270) and Pop!_OS on my work laptop (t14). Also a hp microserver and an x230, both with Proxmox (Debian) and one gaming PC with Windows (I would love to migrate this…
They are in my experience, we do this as part of many of the courses and projects: they get an assignment followed by a 15-20 minute assessment of their work. Gives us the chance to measure their understanding of the…
As a teacher, my job is very satisfying, because it helps people in a useful and direct manner, and I get to contribute to the education developers get before they go out in the field. I learn much more now than I did…
I run it on a real Pi, a very old model B. One cpu core, little memory, yet it runs fast and even the web interface is plenty snappy.
I also have a B+ running PiHole. It's perfectly usable, and even the web interface is genuinely very fast and usable, even on this single core Pi with the limit memory it has. It's very impressive. The only thing that…
I love programming languages and software design, but I was burnt out on doing this full-time (or even 4 days a week), after over 15 years of doing mostly legacy projects and web. It only scratched a certain itch. At…
I had planned to install OctoPrint on a Pi4 to leverage my printer as well but I would never have been able to conjure up something this extensive! Thank you for making it and sharing it!
I'd been programming for about 20 years, but it wasn't fun anymore, and it had become a drag that I wanted to get away from. I recently (end of last year) applied to (and got hired at) a teaching position at the school…
In practice, it is largely like other similar distributions. I've been running Slackware for many years, but the wait for 15 was too long for me so I installed Arch Linux out of curiousity, and found there's a lot of…
I can sympathize with that, but at the same time: the idea that the language and its OOP implementation is a tool rather than the goal, and the idea of improving said tool are not mutually exclusive. :) In my…
I read this comment, thought after having recently installed Debian replacing Slackware I'd wipe it again because that's unacceptable. So I ssh'd into the machine, started a screen session, detached it, killed ssh…