That was scary. I had the bad version on my computer for a bit.

I installed Arch for the very first time this past weekend. I am a software engineer with almost 30 years experience and some time less with Linux. I did my research beforehand: I watched a manual installation on YouTube and I went over the wiki.

And the manual installation was hard. I would not recommend it to a beginner.

he is still completely new to this so I want things to work out perfectly for his first experience.

This isn’t Arch, sorry. My own Arch didn’t boot the first time (but yes I was able to fix it quickly).

Debian.

Start with stable. You can migrate a stable installation to testing later if you’re so inclined.

I don’t think the private portions of passkeys are stored on servers

I certainly care about it

Mine doesn’t. I reboot when I get a new kernel.

I would call Visual Studio Code a success story for them

HOLY CRAP

Let’s say I run a command that spews output. Are you saying that with Zsh I can use only the keyboard to navigate the spew, copy a bit of it, and paste it in a new command?

If so I should try it out!

I moved from Debian unstable to NixOS this past Saturday. It’s been…interesting. I’m fighting the urge to run screaming back to Debian.

I tried purging Git from my system last night as an experiment. Try as I might I couldn’t get all references to it to disappear from the Nix store. I disabled it from configuration.nix and Home Manager. Removed all system and Home Manager generations except the current. Still there after various combinations of nix-channel --update, nixos-rebuild switch, and home-manager switch.

I write my code for future maintainers. I optimize for clarity, testability, and readability.

I’ve become a huge fan of dependency injection. That does not mean I like DI frameworks (Guice). I tend to do it manually with regular code.

When I maintain code and I sit there wondering what it actually does, I write a unit test for it right then and there

And so on

I’m a Linux–Android user and Apple Music is the closest I’ve found to Google Play Music’s library management (the best there ever was). So it’s what I use.

And I still don’t know about the quality of its trackpad or speakers.

I have a Framework 13 and I’m pretty thrilled with it. I’m happy with the trackpad and the speakers. It wouldn’t surprise me if a modern MacBook’s are better but I’m satisfied just the same.

I would take a paycut to work remotely

I get the first reminder at 15 minutes IIRC. Does Digital Wellbeing have the permissions it needs?

As a pedestrian I trust waymos more than human drivers

Wow, that’s impressive

That’s easy, it’s Debian

And beer

When l was on it I saw no point in running it outside a browser tab