Japan’s copyright law is very similar to the US, so I’m not sure what you’re referring to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

Pff OK if that’s the argument you want to go with, I don’t think we need to continue.

Sorry but in the case of Japan, it’s definitely not logical. At best, they have an argument against over-tourism. But the Sanseito party acts like foreigners moving to Japan are creating a spike in crime. They literally have young women weeping through a megaphone on the street, crying that foreigners are rapists. But that’s simply not backed up by statistics. Crime per capita has not increased, and the demographic committing the most serious crimes in Japan is predominantly native Japanese.

Which country are you thinking of moving to?

Is your issue that it’s hard to move files around without breaking seeding, or something else?

Pretty sure my journey looked something like:

1. Ubuntu for a while
2. A furious bout of hopping experiments: Debian, ElementaryOS, Crunchbang, MX Linux, Fedora
3. Arch for a bit, but it was too much struggle
4. Ubuntu for a while, embracing the “vanilla” lifestyle
5. Manjaro for a while. It seemed to solve my previous issues with vanilla Arch.
6. EndeavourOS, basically a better Manjaro.
7. NixOS, which had a significant learning curve but ultimately gives me the most control and repeatability for all of my machine configs. Still daily driving this on my desktop, router, and some web servers.
8. Tried out Fedora Atomic on my old laptop out of curiosity. Installing packages was ultra slow. Workflows were too annoying.

So I think the graph is actually pretty reflective of my own experience, aside from some of the specific distro choices during my peak ignorance phase, and obviously I ended up at NixOS which isn’t even on here.

I currently have more audio issues on my MacBook Pro than my Linux desktop. The Mac will sometimes just fail to recognize headphones plugged into the 3.5mm TRS port. NixOS desktop w/ pipewire has no audio problems whatsoever.

An issue which I aim to resolve using a self-hosted VPN.

Pretty sure my eyes max out at 4K. I can barely tell the difference between 4K and 1080P from my couch.

Pretty much everyone I’ve talked to about this says the same thing. LLMs are useful for one-off scripts or quickly generating boilerplate. It just turns out that those tasks don’t make up the majority of programming work unless you are in a bullshit job anyway.

We aren’t yet great at knowing when LLM will save time and when it will inflate time.

I use dufs. Copyparty seems good too.

Probably referring to expat remote workers creating more competition in lower-income countries?

Why would IO speed be a factor in whether a user’s data is corrupted? That just sounds like a race condition.

Qobuz catalog is extremely lacking IME.

There are CI tools like Prow and Tide which make it possible to use squash by default while still giving control to developers who want to use a different merge strategy.

-1 is common. I’ve at least seen it from python.

often ‘0’ is also used as the last element

Where? I’ve literally never heard of this convention.

Start with a language that is popular in your domain of interest. If that’s systems, learn C. If it’s data science, learn Python or Julia. If it’s web, learn Javascript.

Why not use zipapp?

https://docs.python.org/3.13/library/zipapp.html

Killer Mike is a pretty hardcore capitalist though. Not sure how he’s going to vibe with a socialist.