The owner of this website has an AI focussed startup:

https://www.warpnews.org/meet-mathias/

For a lot of people, building a PC is magic. It’s just not something they’re familiar with, even if we consider it easy. I have smart friends who buy the worst off the shelf laptops, but it does what they need and they choose to spend their time on other things. Meanwhile, I check my local PC part shop for sales almost daily. 😄

If this provides a good out of box experience, I can see the appeal.

Also, it’s nice that you could buy a pre-built one or build your own if you want.

I read that as Shynet. 😄

What if this AGI actually inherits all our awkward traits?

Take a look at the Kobo Elipsa. I know someone who has it and they like it a lot. They use it daily at work for taking notes. I think you can export your notes to a computer by connecting it via USB and mounting it as a drive.

Trying to complete a Battletoads bike level is the only game you need. 😆

This is the first I’ve heard of this. Anyone know what’s with all the downvotes?

I tried this one and Wezterm, but I just couldn’t get past how much vram they use, when vram is still at a premium. Konsole works really well for me anyway, so I guess I don’t see the appeal.

Though, I do like Wezterm’s lua config.

And he’ll just come back as a BT to ominously hover over the team.

Magit is incredible! It’s a thin layer over git commands but with a nice discoverable UI. Even if I’m using a different tool to write the code I’ll still use Magit for the repo.

They just keep innovating! Amazing!!!

I want less notifications.

If that’s the case then you probably don’t want to visit the site anyway. What are they doing that makes it so hard for them to not steal your data?

I think ignorance (in the non pejorative sense) plays a big part. I can’t really blame my non technical friends for not fully understanding that ditching Facebook for Instagram doesn’t help. Even if they know it’s the same company, it’s still a totally different product, right? There’s also a certain apathy or need to just get something done.

I’m sure I’ve purchased things at Home Depot that would make a plumber cringe, but I know nothing about that sort of thing and I just need to get my sink working.

Still, I think those of us who do know should continue to lead by example. My friends know my stance on these things and some of them are coming around.

This is cool!

I’ve been using a mostly default config of fish as my main interactive shell on both Linux and Windows at work. It’s really great!

Anyone know how good Hori’s d-pad is?

Same.

I use Bortmatic to manage my repos and I pay a little bit to BorgBase for offsite backup of my important stuff.

Helix also, but aren’t Zed and Helix both modal?

edit: Huh. I just tried out Zed and looks like modal editing is optional.

Looks like jEdit just had a new release! I actually used it as my main editor 15 years ago before I sat down to learn Emacs. I thought it was pretty good back then.

Lapce is a newer one that looks interesting, though I haven’t tried it. The page says modal editing can be toggled.

The software will likely work, but keep in mind that you’ll have to add VM startup time when you want to use the software. I have occasionally seen software behave strangely in a VM as well, so best to just try it.

Can you share the software you went to use? Maybe there’s a good Linux alternative or someone knows how to get it working in wine.

Is this the one using the open source kernel module?