We never figured out good software productivity metrics, and now we’re supposed to come up with AI effectiveness metrics? Good luck with that.

I’m on Bazzite after giving the other ublue flavours a try. It took a couple of weeks to get comfortable with the new philosophy, but now I can’t see myself going back. What felt like limitations at first, now feels like good habits. All my dev work is done in containers, so it just makes sense.

Because you already switched, right? Right!?

Or just the size of the largest input?

This sounds a lot like the Universal Blue distros. They even have homebrew installed by default. If you’re already using Fedora it would be a pretty easy transition.

It’s better than all the years I didn’t have one, no doubt. I just didn’t expect this much maintenance.

I never get much focus on code these days because there’s always something else to fix in the real world. The list of ideas keeps growing, while I work on the garden, repair tools, maintain vehicles,…

Netflix is the only one I have left now, and that’s only because I share the account with multiple people, so it’s more like 1/4 of a subscription. If I cancelled they would end up with more subscribers.

Same, after I tried all the other Fireforks. It was last on the list because of the non-serious name and logo, but damnit it’s the most stable and has sensible defaults that don’t get in my way.

You might want to check out Bazzite. It aims to smooth out the gaming experience significantly.

I don’t even play on Linux these days but I use Bazzite (Developer Experience) because the immutable base gives me peace of mind and all the gaming support helps when I have to use something like bottles.

Depending on what you want to do, it may require you to get comfortable with docker (or podman, but practically the same), but because this is part of the OS’s paradigm they give you all the tools to make it easy.

My work right now is evaluating AI models, but outside work I don’t use them at all. I’m so conditioned to finding flaws that my trust level is rock bottom.

I’m also very aware of how easy it is to mentally disengage. When everything appears correct at a glance, your mind has no reason to question it.

Bluefin or Bazzite are very streamlined and easy to set up, with all the batteries included. The little you need to learn is more than offset by the convenience.

My god, that’s a lot to process. A couple that stand out:

Comments proposing to use github as the database backup. This is Keyword Architecture, and these people deserve everything they get.

The Replit model can also send out communications? It’s just a matter of time before some senior exec dies on the job but nobody notices because their personal LLM keeps emailing reports that nobody reads.

I’m surprised they didn’t sneak in a swipe about open source being a socialist conspiracy to undermine American ingenuity.

I’m on the cusp of X and millennial, so I’ve been around plenty of both.

Some X’s have done well for themselves, but those without a bit of luck and assistance have mostly had to give up on big dreams of housing security and family.

Millennials have had it tougher, but many of them still got there, with a bit more luck and assistance.

It’s been a long decline, with the concentration of capital making it harder for most of us every year. The generational divide is just another distraction from class warfare.

Well shit, I just found an approval email from exactly two years ago… and that’s not even my oldest account.

I haven’t tried Bazzite yet, but I feel the same about the other ublue flavours.

I’m the most productive I’ve ever been. Tweaking everything was fun for a few years, but now I just need a distro I can trust, that comes with the tools to do anything.

I see rebases to Bazzite DX are available now. I might give that a go today.

Yes, and the all new TwinkedIn is already experiencing a surge in active users! Most of them are coming from Grindr for some reason, but it still counts!

At my last job we had a lot of old code, and our supposedly smartest framework people couldn’t be bothered learning front end properly. So there was a mix of methods for passing values to the front end, but nobody seemed to think of just passing JSON and parsing it into a single source of truth. There was so much digging for data in hidden columns of nested HTML tables, and you never knew if booleans would be “true”, “TRUE”, “1”, or “Y” strings.

Never mind having to unformat currency strings to check the value then format them back to strings after updating values.

I fixed this stuff when I could, but it was half baked into the custom framework.

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