1. timw4mail Nov 28, 2025 parent

   To fab the CPUs...seems more plausible than anything else with Intel.
2. timw4mail Oct 29, 2025 parent

   I seem to remember 68k software working (on PowerPC Macs) until Classic was killed off in Leopard? I'm likely misremembering the length of time, but it seems like that was the longest backwards-compatibility streak Apple had.
3. timw4mail Oct 16, 2025 parent

   I must just be weird. I prefer light themes.

   I want all the colors, including "semantic highlighting", that is, each variable scope getting its own color.

   I think the difference between highlighted colors, rather than the specific colors themselves, is what helps me parse code.

4. timw4mail Sep 30, 2025 parent

   The majority of degree requirements are lazy gatekeeping.
5. timw4mail Sep 23, 2025 parent

   Assuming you can get software support for more than one version of 'blessed' distro.
6. timw4mail Sep 19, 2025 parent

   In many ways I'd argue that a popular project is worse, as you end up dealing with a bunch of social factors that take time away from actually making or improving things.
7. timw4mail Sep 18, 2025 parent

   KDE has been my preferred desktop environment since I started playing with linux sometime in the KDE 3 days.

   I'm glad the wobbly windows desktop effect has stuck around too: absolutely unnecessary, but it's silly and fun.

   My biggest complaint has nothing to do with KDE itself, but the fact that GTK apps are so ugly by default. QT apps look fine in GTK desktop environments though. (At least KDE has easy built-in settings for handling GTK theming these days...I remember it being more of an issue a while back)

8. timw4mail Sep 17, 2025 parent

   Of these options, I'd recommend the SV08, provided you are okay with some mods essentially being required for consistent, reliable use.

   These being:

   - Eddy sensor (for faster bed meshing, eddy-ng addon for Klipper adds auto z-offset)

   - Mainline Klipper/Kalico (required for eddy functionality)

   - Some motherboard fan replacement mod (the default is tiny, noisy, and always-on)

   Of the others listed:

   - Bambu printers and the Elegoo Centauri Carbon have locked-down firmware (possibly with hidden license violations).

   - I think the only Prusa machine with that build volume is the XL, which is out of the price range

   - The Creality Ender 3 V3 KE is okay, but the build volume is 220x220x240mm

9. timw4mail Sep 11, 2025 parent

   Automation, and ease of skimming articles for one.
10. timw4mail Sep 10, 2025 parent

    PHP package management actually works, for one thing :P
11. timw4mail Sep 9, 2025 parent

    Ugghh, gas stations. I remember being able to use a pump without ads :(
12. timw4mail Sep 4, 2025 parent

    Maybe they can finally make Jira responsive /s
13. timw4mail Aug 13, 2025 parent

    Yes, that is correct.
14. timw4mail Aug 12, 2025 parent

    Jira is a horrible tool I only use because I am forced to.
15. timw4mail Aug 12, 2025 parent

    And those native web widgets generally match the OS theme
16. timw4mail Aug 12, 2025 parent

    And yet 90+% of those SPA-apps have worse performance.
17. timw4mail Aug 12, 2025 parent

    It's all the buzzwords to justify the overcomplexity of web frontends.
18. timw4mail Aug 6, 2025 parent

    I dislike Python for that reason. I don't love the offside-rule syntax, but compared to how often I have an issue with software written in Python due to some old/deprecated/broken packaging issue...

    I've lately been pretty deep into 3d printing, and basically all the software has Python...and breaks quite easily. Whether because of a new version of Pip with some new packaging rule, forced venvs...I really don't like dealing with Python software.

19. timw4mail Aug 5, 2025 parent

    You can? I haven't seen them.
20. timw4mail Aug 4, 2025 parent

    A John Deere tractor used by mega farms.
21. timw4mail Jul 28, 2025 parent

    They moved my cheese, they removed my cheese, they replaced my cheese with worse cheese.
22. timw4mail Jul 28, 2025 parent

    Mumbles about annoyances at hanging commas

    I bet JSON would allow hanging commas if not for Jscript.

23. timw4mail Jul 16, 2025 parent

    It's like the (usually) interpreted equivalent to C/C++. There are lots of 'standard' package management choices.

    And it seems like the package resolution is finally local by default, although that requires a 'virtualenv', which seems to be a legacy of the global packaging system.

24. timw4mail Jul 14, 2025 parent

    Mostly. But multi-scanning to different resolutions is something I'll miss.
25. timw4mail Jul 14, 2025 parent

    It doesn't help that OS support is time-bombed either.
26. timw4mail Jul 3, 2025 parent

    I disagree. I would say most of the migration from PHP was due to the appeal of one language for frontend and backend, and fashion/hype. PHP is still very usable for server-side rendering and APIs. You say "very simple" as if you can't have complex systems with PHP.

    I see the current state of web development as a spiral of complexity with a lot of performance pitfalls. Over-engineering seems to be the default.

27. timw4mail Jun 2, 2025 parent

    There's a generation of developers who have never used bare-metal hardware, and have never built a simple server-generated website.
28. timw4mail Jun 2, 2025 parent

    Ewwww...
29. timw4mail May 29, 2025 parent

    Did you always play with a light? 4-6 hours is closer to GameGear territory.

    The Gameboy Pocket certainly had the shortest battery life of the GB/Pocket/Color trio due to using 2 AAA batteries. My experience with the original is that the batteries last a long time.

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