I’m a simple man. I see Debian, I upvote.

Is that Xfce?

Uh…. Well….

Yes, a lot of programming language package managers do have similar problems as npm.

Yes. It’s “AI can never fail. It can only be failed.”

I’m in the same boat but I work in a Windows shop. Thank goodness for WSL.

I don’t want to lead you wrong, but I believe Kate has been ported to both Mac and Windows.

Use Kate.

This may an overly cynical take, though that seems hard to do these days, but I’ve always believed they are intentionally vague… even to their customers.

So, it looks like Bluefin used to do some PATH gymnastics to keep things working pretty smoothly.

But now, they just make sure that brew is last in the PATH. This prioritizes the CLI commands baked into the image.

Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it!

So far, I will say that I haven’t run into any issues but it’s interesting to learn about some of the pitfalls/limitations too.

It’s all about trade offs, I guess!

I have also been a Bluefin user for a while now…

Could you say more about the PATH issues with brew? Or point me to where I can learn more about them? I was kind of enjoying brew for installing development tools, and was thinking about adopting it on my non-atomic machines too. Should I not do that?

Yeah, that’s also my question. Partially because I am a former-lawyer-turned-software-developer… but, yeah. How are the kernel maintainers supposed to evaluate whether a particular PR contains non-GPL code?

Granted, this was potentially an issue before LLMs too, but nowhere near the scale it will be now.

(In the interests of full disclosure, my legal career had nothing to do with IP law or software licensing - I did public interest law).

You and me both. We will be the next version of the COBOL Cowboys.

As the tech lead at my company, I treat all deadlines as fake until proven otherwise.

Also, when they start pressing me for dates that things can be done, I start multiplying by 4…

Ubuntu Mono for me

I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you.

Ok… I’m not shocked at all.

Yeah… $700 sounds totally reasonable to me. Do I wish it were cheaper? Sure! I would love for it to be accessible to more people.

But $700 seems very reasonable for the hardware being offered.

I…. am not actually sure if you’re joking or not.

I normally use the Scotty method - multiply by four.

Yes.

The purpose of technology is to improve our lives, help us overcome problems or disabilities, and make our world better.

Instead we have allowed a small group of sociopaths to turn that on its head. We now work to produce “content” for LLMs to slurp up for the purpose of creating more bullshit.

Which is why I’m a backend developer/infrastructure engineer for a nonprofit organization in the area of social services.

The pay is not as good but I can look my children in the eye and tell them that I am proud of the work I do.