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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • Macs are pretty solid for coding. You don’t need to tinker with them, most of the time stuff just works. On the other hand, I spent lots of time to make sure stuff just works well on my Dell or ThinkPad with Ubuntu or pop.

    For software, I’ve found that some software doesn’t give you much help if you get into problems on Linux.

    And there is always something with Linux that doesn’t work for me. Like my Dell laptop with pop!os doesn’t charge over usb-C from Dell monitor (it worked on windows). Touchscreen doesn’t always work after waking up. I had ThinkPad with awful fan control on linux and hibernation issues. I had issues with scaling with external screens.



  • OP wanted a fun child project, but it’s not fun anymore, just responsibilities.

    The problem I see is just a difference between expectations and reality.

    Expectations were: it would be fun to give people something for free, create open source, be part of some community. Maybe even get some recognition, maybe better job offers.

    Reality is: noone cares about your open source project enough to pay for it.

    And such is life. Noone stops you from just stopping working on it, and that’s an adult option. All open source licences have a clause like “I don’t own you nothing”, and maybe that’s the moment to use it.


  • I could get a beefy windows machine for the price of my M2 air. I’m a software dev and I’ve recently switched from Windows 10 box and Linux laptop.

    If you look at the other top stories on Technology, you see:

    • MS mentions pushing AI search to Windows 10
    • MS asks you for reasons to close OneDrive

    For last month, MS was pastering me to create a web account to login to my old win10 machine.

    And essentially, MS got me soo tired with all this bullshit, that I’ve switched to Apple. And the only thing that I have to be aware of, is that it often makes sense to wait before upgrading system version.