- uxcolumboWhy is that? Better service?
- Can you provide more details?
- Wasn’t ‘The Martian’ Andy’s first book?
- That's a shame. I got an email from them suggesting that they had a tough year.
I bought 2 books even though I won't have time to read them anytime soon.
Hopefully they'll find a way to keep going.
- It looked good at the beginning, but then I found out about its creator - DHH. Not someone I want to support. There are better distros out there (Omarchy isn't a distro btw).
Just a few issues highlighted here:
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug...
https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance
https://paulbjensen.co.uk/2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-l...
- It's not just the features, but also the UX itself.
GIMP feels clunky and the UI is not as good. I haven't tried out the Photoshop mod. Apparently it matches all the keyboard shortcuts.
Many who tried to switch are complaining about how unintuitive it is. I know you can just try to get used to the different workflows, but unless the UX issues are addressed you won't see professionals making the switch.
Blender managed to completely overhaul their UI and it's now being used to create Oscar winning animated feature films.
- Which distro do you use with Bitwig?
I read on Reddit that some folks experienced latency issues. But I don't know whether it's to do with Linux in general or just some issues with their config / setup.
- What about people who need to use creative tools? There is Blender and Davinci Resolve, which are great. But GIMP is just not a match for Affinity. And what about apps like Ableton?
I wish I could make the full switch, but it's just not possible at the moment.
- What's the benefit of upgrading from W10 IoT to W11 IoT?
Any specific features?
W10 IoT gets support until 2032 I believe.
- How do you define socialism? I see ppl throw around this term without ever defining it. They probably mean a soviet style central government , which of course is terrible.
Einstein was merely talking about looking after your people. Carl Sagan as well. The government is there to ensure the system is running healthy and enables its citizen to thrive and prosper. But instead we have a system that is extractive and funnels resources and power to the top.
Einstein was basically warning about what is happening now. We are the richest country in the world yet we let ppl die or starve if they don’t have money.
Our system does not follow capitalism the way it was defined. It’s been totally corrupted by the Epstein class and if people don’t push back against this corruption then we are straight to a future as depicted in Elyisium.
- Yes true. It's basically form over function and it's not just limited to Web UIs.
Windows 11, iOS7, iOS26 are just some example of non Web UIs, which focused first on optimizing for sales, i.e. making something look good without thinking about usability implications.
Fortunately usability testing is still pretty much a thing. Good articles here: https://www.nngroup.com/search/?q=usability+testing
- Can you give some examples?
What would have improved UI development instead?
- This is a great break down and thanks for including the type of questions you ask depending what model you use.
What coding tasks do you use Qwen3 Coder 30b model for? Simple function definitions and / or as autocomplete in VSC?
- Don’t quite follow.
So you only use the chat UI and copy and paste from there?
Or do you use CC but don’t let it automatically update files?
- Dieter Rams. Apple copied loads of his designs.
- Anybody have a link to this model?
Can't seem to see it on the arxiv site.
- This is an interesting perspective.
Generating ‘content’ tailored to you and not meant for someone else’s taste.
Human artists need to make money and those who create music for a tiny bubble probably can’t make enough.
So as an artist what do you do? Do you have to create music with mass market appeal from the beginning?
Or do you need to bank on luck that your music for ‘small bubbles’ gets discovered?
Or you have to have clever marketing strategies to get your music in front of more ears to hopefully gain more fans. And create merch, tour etc.
I wonder how all this AI music is going to impact indie artists. Spotify and the likes is just ripping them off and on top of that their music is / has been stolen from these AI data gobblers.
I don’t see how at this stage it can replace human expression though (singing, playing violin, piano, etc) which is very nuanced.
Same with acting… nuanced expressions that matter. I’m not sure AI can replicate the acting skills of Denise Gough (Dedra from Andor) for example… and many others.
But it would be awesome to generate more story lines or episodes from your favourite TV shows, for example shows from over 20 years ago.
Imagine being able to create more episodes of Star Trek TNG or DS9, maintaining the feel of that era without letting someone like Kurtzmann ruin and tell you how new Star Trek should be.
But how do you ensure actors, writers and other creatives from that show will be compensated directly?
Or maybe this will only be possible in a Star Trek like world, where profit uber alles is not the focus anymore.
- Ignore those who judge you.
You’re doing something that will move you closer to getting a job or earning income (ie paying taxes).
What do people do if they don’t have a house? You can’t live on 500 if you also have to pay rent.