Gotos being bad falls in the it depends category.

Bad:

• When you think you’re going to do something clever (when you should probably be reaching for a different tool that you may or may not know exists)

Good:

• When in the form of a jump that’s was written by a sound compiler
• When learning how assembly works
• When working on codecs and you’re actually going to spend the many hours to get everything right.
• Labelled breaks in nested for loops
• Embedded systems when resources are constrained
• When writing debuggers
• When writing anti-cheat systems
• And finally, when you actually need to because you’re manually managing things (e.g. you’re writing a kernel)

I don’t see any actual temper lost here.

In one case he points out that someone is making commits that have messed up a file’s indentation, and to stop doing that because it’s messing things up (they were).

In the other case he points out that rust’s default format rules are wrong (in the context of version control readability, they are) and asks someone to fix them.

I’m more interested in what the Oil shell has been doing, it has a higher potential roof while keeping backwards compatibility rather than the current standard of affairs 10ish year development cycle of a new shell with slight improvements.

Switching shells can be a massive pain in the ass, so if we’re making a change, it has to be worth it.

Oil looks like it could be worth it and then some.

No, but there’s so many similarities and so much back-and-forth cross-pollination between the two that it’s still worth sharing.

You wouldn’t say: “Don’t post anything about cURL” just because it runs on more than linux.

Most notably it is the first language which understands the code it is compiling

wat

Most new users won’t even know that there is a choice until they’re presented with it, and most will just stick with the default option anyway. (which most distros have/are switching to wayland)

The top comment in the linked article pointed out how that chunk of text was less than truthful:

There’s definitely regressions that need to be fixed, but the way it is presented here is just misinformation, mixing things like project-specific bugs and misunderstandings in as Wayland problems.

*BSD is officially supported by Wayland and by several display servers (a better state than for X11 where the *BSD’s had to patch things quite extensively downstream), the graphics tablet thing is a KDE-specific bug, and global hotkeys is available in some display servers through XDG portals (albeit a bit slowly), and using multiple independent mouse cursors is very specifically a Wayland feature (wayland multi-seat). Restoring window state is also supported, it just works differently than X11, and sway at least supports global fullscreen the same way as i3. […]

The other comments pick out the other issues the top comment didn’t go through.

I was unfamiliar with the decorate flag, but I can’t see any difference after trying.

I will say this is one command I absolutely refuse to create an alias for.

I have force committed to memory the command: git log --graph --remotes --all (and the variation with the --oneline flag appended to the end if needed) so I can use it anywhere.

It’s the one command I can’t live without.

It’s not AI slop, and we shouldn’t need to discuss it.

But unfortunately some users’ behaviour is destructive, so we have to discuss it.

There’s some really good recommendations in here, but we can’t settle on what to recommend for you without a little more info.

• Are you planning to game on it? (as in computer game, not ttrpg)
  • If yes, use Bazzite. (it’s already set up for gaming, and it’s “immutable” which means that it’ll be hard for you to break)
• If not, what experience do you prefer more:
  • Windows 7
    • Use Linux Mint (Cinnamon Edition)
  • Windows 10 (but without all the cortana, and bing stuff)
    • Use PopOS
  • I want something Windows like, but I want more control over how I can customise it
    • Use Kubuntu
  • I want something Windows like, and I want more control to customise it, but I also don’t want it to break if I start doing weird things to it
    • Use Kionite (Will look the same as Kubuntu from the outside, but will lock you out from doing or using certain things)

Which one should you pick?

The answer is No (and also yes).

Huh?!

The real answer is not to pick one, but to pick more than one. You can (one at a time) install each of them onto a USB then change your computer’s settings to boot up from the USB instead of windows. That way you can try each one to see what you like without installing them on your computer first.

For each one you try, you can check:

• Do I like the interface?
• Are there any compatibility issues? (wifi issues, sound issues, graphics issues, etc…)
• Am I happy with how long the battery lasts?
• etc…

Then once you’re ready, you can install the one you want to use onto your laptop.

Debian and KDE would make a solid experience, but that’s not what this user is looking for.

They’re not going to know what Debian or KDE are, and they’re not going to have the requisite knowledge to know that you’re probably recommending Kubuntu.

Kubuntu is a great choice, but since we don’t have all the information on the user’s needs, it might not be the best choice.

I set l to ls -hal

A quick and dirty heuristic to find out is to walk through any central transport station or food court and check:

How many people have customised their phone’s lock screen?

That’s a fairly useless point to make since everyone will always want to look at what configurable options can be adjusted.

No one would buy a car if they couldn’t adjust the seat or mirrors.

It wouldn’t, a simple finite state machine that any intelligent entity could emulate would be enough.

But people have completely deluded themselves into thinking that (what CEOs and marketers call) “AI” is actually intelligent, and this case study shows how preposterous that fantasy actually is.

unrelated, but I love your profile’s display pic haha

The 2/3/4/5-000 series cards use a driver that’s more open than the older cards, so nvidia support tends to be better than it was before.

The more windows falls down the enshittification spiral, the more likely the EU will get pissed at Microsoft and fund Linux environments where it’s needed.

Does everyone who’s following the old account automatically refollow you when you do that?

It doesn’t port over any old comments/posts, but I’m pretty sure that when anyone @'s you, it’s forwarded to the new account.

IMO it’d still be useful to be able to use an identity you control, like a domain name.

Mastodon already does this

It’s worth pointing out that while ActivityPub doesn’t currently support account migration (although there are proposals in the works for how to do this), Mastodon does have a weak form of support right now.

You can create a new account on another mastodon instance, then you’re able to point your old account to your new account.