radioactivefunguy

@radioactivefunguy@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, if your talking homebrew on Mac, then your not just doing “basic” things. yes, for power users on Linux, we need to use the CLI. For actual basic things (browsing, word processing, consuming media) you absolutely don’t need to touch it at all on many “noon” distros.

  So claiming that there’s a steep learning curve for basic things is going to turn off new users, who would be perfectly fine never looking at a terminal to do what they need

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what basic task have you run into that requires the command line? have you tried Mint? my 83 year old dad has been on mint for over a year with no complaints, and I don’t think he even knows how to open the terminal …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a single tab

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I highly recommend journalctl-desktop-notification⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i think the idea is install this on your PC, and it displays notifications from your headless servers journals over ssh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  O - oxponent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The direction the black hole "toilet" flushes as it sucks stuff in and smashes it against each other?

  Maybe there's a parallel universe called Astraliastra where the black hole flushes the other direction!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, yesterday I decided it was finally time to write unit/feature tests on a project that had gotten way to far asking with 0 tests. just over an hour of babysitting Codex and now I've got 800 tests covering 16 models and 60+ endpoints (8000 lines of code) in the exact code style I wanted based on my AGENTS. Honestly, reading through the tests, I wouldn't know that I didn't write them!

  Now, trying to use AI to solve a novel problem, or even a not so novel one with any logical complexity, and hours can easily be wasted trying to guide it, correct it's mistakes, and then eventually roll it all back and do it yourself because your smart enough, just being lazy! 😬