Classic Chesterton’s fence principle.

Reddit is already blocking some Proton VPN IPs…

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This is actually not a good advice, from my experience. If we don’t monitor, refactor, or improve the code, the software will rot, sooner or later. “Don’t touch” doesn’t mean we don’t ever think about the code, but we make the conscious choice not to modify it.

Also excited for this. I tried KDE before but I didn’t find it easy to configure (too manually for a declarative guy like me). I like more the simplicity of Gnome.

Second. Up-to-date packages and stable at the same time.

my nerdy friend that went on that journey with me is a musician and fashion model lol.

Maybe his/her experience in keeping the system simple and beautiful helped him/her recognise the passion in art.

Haha your post made me reflect my journey. I had fun in college tinkering Arch Linux with i3. Now I’m an Infra Engineer (or DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE, whatver) and still do the same job—keeping the system “reliable”.

That’s why I like it. No BS, no ads, no commercials, no show-offs, etc. Just some people with a bit of free time share their knowledge and stories.

I do wish we have more vibrant non-tech communities, though.

Then you have Clojure - a machine gun that shoots shivs.

Emacs will be there for you, once vscode Windows gets abandoned.

FTFY.

Just the matter of taste. For some users who want to get to code quickly, they use VSCode without the hassle. For some power users who want to have extreme extensibility, they use Emacs/Vim.

I hate Google but they gave us Go, Kubernetes. I hate Amazon but they gave us AWS. I plainly hate those companies, but adore the brilliant engineers that work there.

Code aesthetic: If your code looks like a triangle, you’re seriously doing something wrong.

Nowaday I have ChatGPT spew me command. I usually do a quick validation before running. Nevertheless, most of simple operations are correct so I don’t need to.

I then note the command to my persional gist cheatsheet. Next time, since the command is “cached”, I’ll be able to be productive quicker.

So much better than googling.

This. I’m tired of all short responses that don’t want to discuss the problem or steer the topics to a direction.

Well, people tend to pick the easiest way to achieve an objective, even though the solution is not simple nor optimised.

The ability to rollback is indeed awesome. And it’s built-in. I think you can do it in Arch-based distros but requires additional config.

Arch, with a lightweight desktop environment. If you have time and dedication, obviously.

insert Thanos stone meme.

We self host an instance to share knowledge about self-hosting that instance.