You code them by hand in the terminal before installing the DE right?

I don’t know what this has to do with folding phones

I guess as an American I just never “got” why it’s used in so much of the world. I did use it for work for awhile (on desktop mainly) and it was “meh.”

Touché. I may have deleted my Facebook account long ago but I admit I still have Messenger just for one group chat.

If any old friends try to hit me up though, I basically just tell them to message me on Signal.

I just don’t understand why anyone uses WhatsApp. Setting the obvious problem with its owner aside, the UI is abhorrent. Signal might not be 100% native but on iOS it almost feels smoother than Apple-made apps.

I’ve seen them out in the wild; sure sometimes they’re cool for 20 seconds but it’s sooooo gimmicky. In fact I’d wager VR becomes mainstream before foldable phones. 🤣

Never in my life did I think “damn, I wish I could fold my phone.” WTF

That’s much easier said than done. Right now I’m dealing with a late payment on a website because first I couldn’t access the website via VPN (blocked by Cloudflare), then even after allowing the IP to bypass the VPN I couldn’t pass the hidden captcha. After completely disabling the VPN + Google blocker my real IP was blacklisted due to forgetting to clear cookies between the two. Now my credit is being impacted.

I use SearXNG. Google’s search results aren’t even good anymore so there’s really no excuse not to switch at this point. For awhile I couldn’t break the habit but recently Google has gotten considerably worse.

Mainly I’m talking about random captchas that break. Everything else I can live with.

I think Lucky framework as well as the other one (can’t think of the name now) are pretty solid. What gets me is the ORM learning curve simply because I don’t have tons of time to dedicate to learning it.

It’s also limiting not having lots of libraries (shards). Basically if you need to do anything outside the framework you’ll have to write it all yourself.

Nice! 😎

The TL;DR is that it’s compiled Ruby.

I am primarily a Ruby on Rails developer using Docker images to deploy. If you know anything about the Ruby on Rails ecosystem for the past few years Webpack, Node and Friends™ were pretty standard.

I’ve managed to rip out the entire JacaScript runtime from production (thank God) but Ruby containers are still pretty sizable on their own.

What I’m excited about with Crystal is that it’s still a high-level language but it brings in static typing, NULL checking at compile-time, etc.

When it comes to Docker I can compile my app in a build step then completely gut out the container and only ship what I need: the binaries and assets.

Memory is another huge advantage since I’m not shipping an entire interpreter.

Everyone keeps complaining about how terrible twitter has become, but they keep fucking using it.

This is what gets to me too: I notice this pattern a lot with all kinds of products and services. I understand wanting a company to improve a product as a customer but when something gets to this point it’s time to hop off the train and go somewhere else.

It’s astounding to me that people expect the companies of everything they use to have an exact customized version just for them. It’s just never going to happen.

The slide is what gets me. My client supports swiping for voting so I’m constantly downvoting by accident.

Hardcore Mode on IVPN is insane (it blocks Google). Sadly it’ll break a lot of stuff though, but fuck Google.

Hard agree. I love Apple to death but the whole idea that a company must be more and more profitable every quarter/year needs to go. There are simply too many other important factors that can’t be ignored (climate, quality, human rights, etc).

Personally I think it’s simply market saturation in the smartphone industry. Vision Pro is an innovative new product in a new product segment—and yeah of course it won’t be perfect right out the gate—but at least they’re opening doors for their future.

Crystal. The language is killer but there’s a real lack of libraries for it.

I too wish Esperanto would gain mass adoption but my only qualm with it is the consonant clusters that aren’t friendly for non-European language speakers.