100% agree. Desktop should always be a strong priority for the cpu.

Not sure why it wouldn’t be good. Is it related to mint specifically? I’m using plasma constantly on my machine, including work all day. It’s a very nice system. But I’m not on mint, that’s why I’m asking.

All that text and not even one mention of what you don’t like with Gnome.

It’s not garbage and if anything, it makes plasma better by being a bit of competition and offering simplicity.

I think it’s more similar to the mac idea of simplicity, but there isn’t much new features.

C++ is… I got nothing.

Sure, if we didn’t have the need to procreate or the need for a life companion, the computer would be the perfect partner.

But since we are not machines quite yet…

I can recommend arch for programming once you get tired of the Ubuntu outdated thing. Having the latest packages is awesome.

People said it back then too. The ad and tracking industry will always invade more and more of our privacy. When will there be enough tracking to make them stop and be happy? Never. Never is the only answer.

You haven’t met most people. :)

Must be fun to be done porting it to qt5 and realize qt6 is now the default. :)

Another one sees the light. :)

I saw that there was a new learning site for Rust that got a lot of attention on hacker news:

https://rust-exercises.com/

I plan to give it a shot in a few weeks. It’s similar to rustlings.

But I haven’t worked on anything this week so slightly off topic. Just wanted to share.

I agree with you, and that is a hellish environment to work in.

There must be a better middle ground for all of this.

Yeah I’ve seen it before. It’s a very good reminder for everyone to keep in mind isn’t it. :)

Yeah it’s insane. But of course if scaling different parts of the application, I guess micro services are the way to do it. But otherwise one could scale the entire app by just putting more of the entire app on servers. No need for micro services. It just needs to be written to be able to listen to message queues and you can have any number of app instances.

It’s absolutely slower. There is no way to make a network request faster than a function call. It’s slower by probably thousands of times.

Thank you, good explanation. I can see why people get confused since the outcome depends on the subscription length then.

Because they give them nice titles, and young devs want the status of the title. :)

I tried being a manager but I hated everything about it. The dishonesty, the politics, the useless meetings.

I’m back in a development role now and I’m super happy and excited to start the day. Almost no meetings!

This is me right now, constantly thinking about how to implement a thing I’m working on. Even in bed I wake up and think about it. Lols.

I thought they let you use the version you used when you started subscribing, not then you ended the subscription? This was something a lot of people were upset about. That if you subscribe for a year and stop, you end up with a year old version.