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.

Just a word of warning, I don’t know how much it’s actually used today. I think it had some scaling issues in practice.

Are you specifically interested in a distributed P2P social network? Maybe Scuttlebutt?

If you can achieve the desired UX on web, I see few reasons to build a native app. But of course it can be hard to work with web technology sometimes; Javascript and WASM can’t do everything and they aren’t the best developer experience compared to more moderns languages.

Even for offline usage, there is increasing support for progressive web apps. For example, I don’t even need to be connected to the internet to use Exaclidraw after I’ve loaded the app once and installed it as a PWA.

Then there are times when you simply need access to native platform APIs. SQLite is a a very important technology that isn’t easily used from a web app. Most of the powerful APIs you get from an OS like the file system or graphics APIs are extremely watered down for the web.