I have a very handy command in my .vimrc for this -

command! JSON setlocal filetype=json | %!jq .

Anytime I’m in a json file that isn’t formatted it’s as simple as typing :JSON to have it all sorted.

Always keyboard and mouse, never controller.

But yeah I’ve looked into alternative setups but it ultimately always means additional hardware to run the windows games.

My main machine is 95% gaming and 5% hobby work in CAD (also not on Linux) for 3dprinting.

Any coding is already a Linux laptop thing.

Until Destiny 2 gets Linux support I’ll unfortunately always be bound to windows. At least as a dual boot.

But if I’m forced to use windows anyways I feel like I’ll never make the jump to Linux. I’ve got a Linux laptop for the other use cases but gaming remains Windows only for me until the game I play with all my friends is cross platform.

But this man still thinks Linux is difficult and not easy to use

He explicitly said that it was incredibly easy to get set up on old hardware and that everything he did just worked.

All of his reasons why Linux is hard to use he specifically framed in the context of “historically speaking Linux was bad but now Linux is good”

Were you even paying attention?

That said, if you’ve ever tried to pair a controller with Linux that isn’t a PS5 or Xbox controller it will be rough. Had to use the CLI to change Bluetooth configs and install non standard drivers to support it on Mint

There’s a solid reason for goto in C.

Bringing goto into Java was (and is) idiotic.

If you’re trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of your code then you’ll need those optimizations.

But any higher level language than C the entire point is to write easily maintainable and useful code that any idiot can go, read and update. A goto is antithetical to readability.

True it wasn’t mindless - just idiotic

I’m loving my zigbee2mqtt setup. Took a couple tries to get the mosquitto broker working right but worth it in the long run.

Right but instead of a toy language there’s Kotlin which is already multiplatform.

I just struggle to see why another language needed to be invented to do this.

I’m mostly just biased because I do native mobile development but flutter has always seemed like a false economy to me. You’re trying to build cross platform but it’ll take more than 2x as long as building each platform to get the same quality of experience. So either you have a shittier experience or you take even longer than true native dev.

But I’m obviously very biased here.

They’re probably not using python for AI

You shouldn’t have ever been recommending dart or flutter.

Python ain’t going anywhere tho

/shrug

I’d take that bet, but I often am relying on packages that are significantly out of date as a professional Android developer. 2 years is mild.

There’s no obvious rootkit unless the developer put it in and if it works with your version of Pulse then I wouldn’t see what the issue could be. It’s mostly a front end access to your Pulse where you’re making and mixing digital.

Security consciousness is good but I think you can trust this one.

But I’m also just a stranger on the Internet ❤️

All true. It seems obscure and niche enough to not be a scam. There’s only a single contributor and based on his activity elsewhere it seems like it was probably just a passion project.

Fair

But also it shouldn’t need any network access. The code is open source and you can look through it if you’ve got the expertise.

I use Voicemeter Potato to do virtual mixing of inputs. If you’ve got an output you should be able to route it through Voicemeter.

… Assuming that it works on Linux.

It looks like somebody was trying to do a Linux version here: https://github.com/theRealCarneiro/pulsemeeter so I assume Voicemeter doesn’t work on Linux.

There’s probably some way to manipulate PulseAudio to do this as well? But the Pulsemeeter option Is probably your best bet even if the repo hasn’t been touched in 2 years.

Definitely a useful tool and one you should’ve learned in a college algorithms course. Binary search backs a lot of high performance data structures

I generally feel like the opposite is true. I have more stability issues because of the weird half fucked hacks that I’ve installed over 7 different attempts to use the CLI to make my computer hallucinate small rainbow dogs.

Sure but interpretations like pilot wave have more evidence against them than for them and while multiverse is deterministic it’s only technically so. It’s effectively probabilistic in that everything happens and therefore nothing is determined strictly by current state.

Fair - it’s not that we know it’s not: it’s that we don’t know that it is.

Probabilistic is equally likely as deterministic - we’ve found absolutely nothing disproving probabilistic models. We’ve only found reinforcement for those models.

It’s unintuitive to humans so of course we don’t want to believe it. It remains to be seen if it’s true.

Absolutely! It’s a common misconception about neurons that I see in programming circles all the time. Before my pivot into programming I was pre-med and a physiology TA - I’ve always been interested in neurochemistry and how the brain works.

So I try and keep up with the latest about the brain and our understanding of it. It’s fascinating.