Why do I feel like narrowing down the options would not be that bad?

Perhaps because you miss Microsoft or Apple? In a rather misdirected way?

Half the point is there are multiple ways to do things - and mind, Windows is like that too (you can get to some settings though the new Control Panel, the old Control Panel, the Regedit, the Powershell…). Just about the only thing in Windows you are forced only one vision of is the desktop itself, but as soon as you double-click an icon, all bets are off.

Also if what you want is getting behind “tried and tested, universally accepted technologies”… that’s what sysvinit, ALSA, X11 and automake / build-essentials; no need for systemd, Pulseaudio, Wayland and Snaps. Pulseaudio was basically a stillborn deformed baby whereas I’ve never seen ALSA fail since 2002 (to the point even today I have to “fix” Flatpak not having audio on Pipewire unless Pulseaudio sits behind it by just seating both of them behind ALSA). I don’t even have to begin on Wayland, it started as just vaporware; Systemd is largely an attempt to microsoft-ize Linux system management; and Snaps make me want to snap.

As for newbies… others have addressed the point but honestly, if someone gets scared and whiny at the “choose your starter” screen of the game, they’re not gonna last any in a Pokémon game nor would I want them around whining about things they couldn’t even be bothered to be here for.

off YT

so… physicists and fanfic writers, yeah :p

Gotta be physicists or fanfic writers. I can not imagine other better options.

Is that why I can no longer go from a web search (eg.: DDG, Ecosia) or forum link to StackOverflow without going through three CF captchas? If AI had not killed SO for me before, this does.

So it’s “You get off Google but not me! And keep subsidizing me!”?

It’s about 15% more understandable, but still, the same crap I expect by default from that kind of person.

Trusting humans (to any extent) is quite vastly different than trusting corporations, to be honest. But if that’s your jingle, you can always do the work with a bulk tagger / gallery assembler. No AI, nor environment killing, needed.

Organic died shortly ago (they’d been enshittifying for a while). We go with CoMaps nowadays.

The Proton CEO praised Trump and his control and choices regarding IT and antitrust some months ago. People said it was a “one-off” but then the Proton board backed up the CEO. Writing’s been on the wall for a while.

But not Youtube. Which is Google.

Curious.

I’m done with Google! Watch me rant on Google’s Youtube! Earns me money!

So… yeah.

Why are we giving neonazis attention, again?

Have you tried hiring a couple humans? They’re much better than AI. And you help your local (physical or virtual) economy!

Plex has paywalled my server!

Skill issue tbh.

Shittiest post of the week in the Fedivere, up there ↑.

If you are going to be this shitty, dismissive and misinformative, you can head back to Twitter.

a decent chunk of coding is stupid boilerplate/minutia that varies

…according to a logic, which means LLMs are bad at it.

Well, the first and obvious thing to do to show that AI is bad is to show that AI is bad. If it provides that much of a low-hanging fruit for the demonstration… that just further emphasizes the point.

The only task of a DNS server is (or should be) to tell you how to get to a resource you’re looking for by name. So, the only thing that is going to be reallistically affected is your (initial) connection times. And – since this is c/selfhosted – if you are setting a decent DNS cache in your local network, that should be even less of an issue.

The only borderline scenario that I could see feasible, since this is c/selfhosted , is that some software you are setting up that requires nanosecond DNS resolution or somesuch sillyness is going to fail or report false errors. But why would you even do that?

Fortunately someone else at work already set up a redmine one (they did it by mistake, actually, long story; but at least we already know it works). So I’m taking a look at this (slash or OpenProject) in conjunction with kanboard first to see what sticks.

Took a look at this and might not end up using it for this, but might use it for a different non-work related project instead that’s far more focused on time and task management.

Looks good at a first glance and is among the first I’ll try.

Lol. I download a library or program to do a task because I would not be able to code it myself (to that kind of production level, at least). Of course I’m not gonna be able to audit it! You need twice the IQ to debug a software compared to the one needed to even write it in the first place.