The popular vote has some weight. Not enough to award Presidency, but it can be used in arguments for eliminating the electoral college, implement RCV, and other improvements. Narrowing the popular vote gap makes it harder to make these arguments.

Weight loss.

Both pretty names! I’m particularly fond of “Genevieve.”

I suspect there are several names no longer common in the US that are more common in other countries. I think “Genevieve” is still fairly common in France, and it’s making a comeback in the states! You’re doing your part!

Your use case is obviously different, but I’ve gone years between system upgrades. I mostly do OSS coding, or work stuff; not gaming. The only case I can imagine needing to upgrade my little Ryzen with 16 cores - a laptop CPU - is if it becomes absolutely imperative that I run AI models on my desktop. Or if Rust really does become pervasive; compiling Rust programs is almost as bad as compiling Haskell, and will take over my computer for minutes at a time.

When I got this little micro, the first thing I did was upgrade it to 64GB of RAM, because that’s the one thing I think you can never have too much of; especially with the modern web and all the shit that brings with it; Electron apps, and so on, absolutely chew up memory. The one good thing about the Rust trend is better memory use, so the crappy compile times are somewhat forgiveable.

You want Upspin. I want Upspin. But Upspin never went anywhere (it’s at least 7 years old… ever heard of it?), and I personally believe that it was because it’s a royal PITA to set up, and because the tutorial had instructions that expected you to be using GCS. If you wanted to do everything on your LAN, it was even harder.

It’s got all the of the features you mention, and it’s really the only system that does what it does; I really did try in the early days to get it running, and failed. It still has the caveat:

Upspin has rough edges, and is not yet suitable for non-technical users.

and, at 7 years old, if it hasn’t gotten anywhere yet, I think it never will. Commits trickle in, but there’s really no significant progress in usability.

Read the mission statement. It’s glorious. And then wallow in despair that nothing else does this, and it’s a zombie project.

God, this is so painfully true. Microsoft really set the precedent for the industry, often straying over the line into illegality; if Bush hadn’t given directions that resulted in the ruling being overturned, they’d be several smaller companies now, and without their near-monopoly.

Fucking Bush.

Seconded. OP, if you can write Markdown, Hugo will turn it into a website.

That’s probably the only content of value there, anymore.

Yes, if you log in, you can get in. I deleted my account, and every post and comment I’d ever made, when I left, and I’ll be damned before I create another account there.

No. They ban VPNs, so if I happen to follow a link that leads there, I get the “login to see this” page, shrug, and go somewhere else.

It’s easy to circumvent, but rarely worth the effort. The content was getting mostly shit-worthless even before I left. It’s only gotten worse.

There’s not useful, factual information on 4chan, these days.

I think Android updates intentionally made the Pixel C slower. It was a noticeable process, up to the point they stopped supporting it. I’d downgrade to an earlier version, but there’s such poor support in Lineage, I’m barely able to run the version that’s on there now.

Such a shame, because it’s still an amazingly beautiful device.

I’m 100% with you. I want a Light Phone with a changeable battery and the ability to run 4 non-standard phone apps that I need to have mobile: OSMAnd, Home Assistant, Gadget Bridge, and Jami. Assuming it has a phone, calculator, calendar, notes, and address book - the bare-bones phone functions - everything else I use on my phone is literally something I can do probably more easily on my laptop, and is nothing I need to be able to do while out and about. If it did that, I would probably never upgrade; my upgrade cycle is on the order of every 4 years or so as is, but if you took off all of the other crap, I’d use my phone less and upgrade less often.

The main issue with phones like the Light Phone is that there are those apps that need to be mobile, and they often aren’t available there.

since all apps are designed to run well on budget phones from 5 years ago, there’s no reason to upgrade.

5 years, maybe, but any more is stretching it. And not getting system upgrades anymore is problematic. Unless you own a particular model of phone, de-Googled Android can be hard to come by.

For example, I have a 7-year old Pixel C. By the time Google stopped using system updates for it, I wasn’t wanting them as every release made the device slower and more unstable. After some effort, I was finally able to install a version of Lineage, which itself has problems including no updates in years. There’s a lot of software that is incompatible with my device, both from Aurora and FDroid.

Android isn’t Linux; Google doesn’t care about maintaining backward compatability on old devices, much less performance, and there’s no army of engineers making sure it is because there’s a served running in walled-up closet no one can find.

Google deprecates features and ABIs in Android, apps update and suddenly aren’t backwards compatible.

5 years, maybe. The entire industry is addicted to users upgrading their phones, and everyone gets a piece of that pie. There’s no actors, except perhaps app developers, who have any interest in keeping old phones running. Telecoms upgrade their wireless network - the internet connection in my 8 y/o car, and half its navigation features, died the day AT&T decided to stop supporting 3G; Phone makers make no money if you don’t buy new phones; and maintaining backwards compatibility costs Google money which they’d rather siphon off to shareholders.

Plus, I had gotten to a place where my tiling WM, tmux, terminal tabs, and vim tabs were all competing for keyboard shortcuts, and it was driving me crazy.

I admit, this is so bad that occasionally - and especially if I make the mistake of stopping to think about it - my brain freezes and I can’t remember the chord for a few second. What helped immensely was first kmonad, then Kanata, and finally a QMK keyboard. I use exactly the same keys for navigation, create, delete, etc operations, and only vary the layer key - WM under my pinky, tmux under my index finger. Helix has it’s own bindings and ways of managing windows that are different enough as to not really confuse me, and I don’t use terminal tabs at all, so it’s really only WM and tmux. But, yeah: a Helix split window, in a split tmux tab, in a split herbstluftwm window can occasionally get me stuck for a few second as I unbox all the layers.

It’s not a URL without the schema. Your app might choose to turn anything that kinda looks like part or a URL into a link, but that’s unusual behavior.

I use tmux for anything I want to be long-lived. Displays, terminals, and WMs, all crash far more often than tmux. I’ve never once had tmux crash on me; at this point, I’m not sure that it’s possible for it to crash (only half-joking).

This is a lot like what I do. Where possible, my apps are TUIs, so terminals dominate. At any given point I have 4 tmux sessions with around 6 tabs in each. I haven’t refined that, though, because my editor (Helix) also has window support and many editing tasks (yank/paste) are easier with Helix windows that with multiple helix sessions running in different tmux tabs. This works best with full-screen terminals, and I find myself closing tmux panels to open helix windows… I need to refine this.

A few apps are GUI. Browsers, PDF viewers, graphics editors. Those are all full-screen.

How do you use the sliding feature this way, though, and how is it better than just having separate desktops? Do you use multiple displays, or only one?

Why?

I’ve never tried it. “Scrollable” window managers, however, imply certain things, some of which are undesirable. Like, do you have to scroll through half the applications to get from the end to the middle? Or from one end to the other?

It looks as if it can be used like other tiling WMs, with workspaces, except that each workspace can be expanded horizontally. I’m having a hard time imagining why this would be more useful than just adding more workspaces.

Why is Niri great? How does it work on multi-monitor setups? What about it do you like?

If you make that a fully qualified URL, people will be able to click on it.

Thanks for the input

You’re welcome!

I haven’t used assembly in a long while, so I know where to look to understand all the instructions, but I can’t tell right off the bat what a chunk of assembly code does.

Oh, me neither. And that’s not what I think is necessary; what’s important is that you can generally imagine the sorts of operations which are going on under the hood for any given line of code. That there’s no magic “generate a hash for a string” CPU operation, and that, ultimately, something is going to be iterating over a series of memory locations and performing several math operations on each to produce a numeric output. I think this awareness is enormously valuable in developers, and helps them think about the code they’re writing in a certain way, and usually in a way that improves their code.

Algorithms, I am terrible at these because I rarely use them.

You use them all the time! Anything longer than a single operation is an algorithm.

Nobody is going to ask you to write a search function; however, being aware of Big-O notation, and being able to reason about time and space complexity, is important. On the backbend, it’s critical. It’s important if you’re a front end developer - I blame the whole NodeJS library fiasco on not enough awareness of dependency complexity by a majority of JS developers.

I tend to work in finite state machine which is close to algorithms, but it’s not quite it.

I’d absolutely call FSM work “algorithms”, and it sounds as if the projects you’re working on is where these fundamentals are most important. Interfaces between hardware components? It’s the most fraught topic in CIS! So. Many. Pitfalls. Shit, you probably have to worry about clock speeds and communication sheer; there’s absolutely a huge corpus of material about algorithms for handling stuff you’re working with, like vector clocks. That’s a fabulous, interesting field. It’s also super tedious, and requires huge attention to detail which I lack, so in a way I envy you, but an also glad I’m not you.