Good points. I’ll have to try it.

Why do you prefer it?

My preference is Nikola.

Exactly. Promote it as community outreach, it’s more useful than feel-good Pictures at dog shelters.

Well, when I’m not wanted I tend to burn bridges.

So you advocate for the abolition of money also?

Like banks and insurance companies?

I think all the Rust devs should remove their code and leave. And when in the future the Linux devs change their tune and ask for their help, they should refuse.

I love that Theora is called that after the controller in Max Headroom played by Amanda Pays.

how does BunsenLabs compare to CB++? I know they both came out of Crunchbang but I went with BL when that died.

Also interested. Same scenario.

(i come from a completely different culture, where sexual assaults are extremely uncommon)

What culture is that? I wasn’t aware such a thing existed.

I loved it but now I’ve mostly replaced it with AIMP.

Specially when it’s hijacked to run other things instead (cough cough snaps).

I am a touch typist and laptop keyboards are fine.

Were in violent disagreement, then.

repairability […] it’s not really something you can’t do without

Being able to disregard e-waste and discarding a whole machine when something fails is a privilege that not everyone has. If you leave in a wasteful country whose society benefits from the wealth produced by destroying other countries, I can understand the mental blindness.

is the price to pay for mobility (which is something that could be considered essential)

For whom? For me it’s certainly not.

If you use a laptop with full peripherals, it can act as a desktop when there is no space

A laptop with many peripherals tends to occupy nor horizontal space, not less. And the fragile hubs needed for expansion are a frequent point of breakage.

You obviously are not a touch typist. I am.

Laptop keyboards are, as someone said, like running barefoot on cement: you can do it for short periods, but if you do it for a long time you start feeling the effects. I need to use a full width keyboard to be confortable programming. And not any full width keyboard; I need the ones where the keys are sculpted and their curvature varies (like the inside of a sphere) depending of the position of the keyboard. That way I can have a good feedback of the position of my fingers, again, without needing to watch the keyboard. If I’m going to connect a full keyboard to a laptop, I may well get a full desktop computer.

Why a desktop:

• if something craps out, is easier to change individual components in a desktop.
• my current desk is overcrowded and also is not designed to house a laptop and an additional monitor
• I despise using laptops for gaming and for anything that doesn’t require mobility. My serious computing is static, not mobile. My work provides me a laptop, but I can easily work from home, and also they don’t provide desktops. For my own machine, my choice is desktop, period.

I work in IT and I enjoy programming. No way I can live without a computer (a desktop computer, in particular).

Moving on doesn’t make sense to me. Just use both.

I use names of known computers or androids in fiction. My main computer is always Ralf (the computer built by Richie Adler in Whiz Kids), and my main phone is Lal (Data’s daughter). My girlfriend uses other franchises (GLaDOS, Wheatley, Marvin).

I’m partial to AIMP

in PHP

😥