Yes!! They already have a CLI tool, which is awesome and actually “just works”, Microsoft seemingly can’t spend enough billions to make their software functional, resulting in the loss of lots of my schoolwork as a kid! But a neat GUI app will make Linux and alternative cloud providers all the more attractive to newbies, which is always good :D

Another nice option for people who want more of a suite of tools is Nextcloud, which there are many public instances available hosted all over the world! You can also self-host it, and it has amazing app support across all devices (esp. their mobile apps, they are SO good + FOSS too)

VSCode is also Microsoft, as you stated, but VSCodium is awesome (particularly for webdev, but it’s great for Python and others too)! I personally use Zed, just because it usually opens faster, but yeah! Python (and many other languages) are plentiful in good code editors / IDEs!

For .NET, I noted Rider as the only “proper” .NET IDE that is cross-platform (since VSCode/Codium by default does not include many of the debugging, testing, etc. features of VS and Rider from my understanding)

It looks like Rider is free for commercial use! Kind of sucks that there aren’t many other good alternatives for .NET IDEs though. The Jetbrains one is also the only proper one that is cross-platform (Visual Studio does not support Mac or Linux)

I don’t program in .NET though, I’m a Python guy, which has lots of nice options for code editors and IDEs :D (many other languages are in a similar boat too!)

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If you use Google, try moving away from that! Half of its results are sponsored and the other half SEO optimised crap nowadays, and there are better search engine alternatives. I would push you towards Qwant and Ecosia, because they are working together to develop a search index independent from Google and Bing (which is being trialled in France and Germany!), and they both have much stronger privacy policies, being hosted in the EU after all. They are both as easy to use as Google, no excuses for something being too “different” (it’s just a search box and your results)

Between Qwant (blue and glowy) and Ecosia (green and flat), the difference is mostly whether you prefer the look of one over the other. Ecosia is also a non-profit that uses some of its revenue to plant trees, which is pretty awesome! If you want to look at their reports, they’re easily accessible on their website. Qwant is still great though, and you will get good results from either!

Avoid Startpage (owned by an advertising company as far as I understand) and Brave (involved in weird crypto stuff, replacing affiliate links, etc.). DuckDuckGo has become a lot closer to Google in terms of the number of sponsored results now, plus they are based in the U.S.

And of course, SearXNG is awesome too, there are lots of public instances (see searx.space for a list), and you can self-host it too. It basically aggregates results from the search engines of your choosing!

There are a few things that don’t work very well, mostly to do with multi window apps and how some older apps need to run through XWayland (which 99% of the time it works brilliantly! There are a couple weird issues, but most of those are easily fixable through some command argument before opening an app)

I an also running EndeavourOS (which is awesome!) with Niri + Noctalia (which also uses Wayland), and I have no issues :D

systray-x works very well as an alternative on Wayland!

Excellent, I just got another uni offer :DD

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But that is simply stupid! Most other 3D printer brands do not needlessly restrict the hardware you purchased. This is the same story as Google restricting third-party app stores because they want a stronger software monopoly on Android! And non-Bambu printers are very good nowadays, exceeding Bambu in value (see Elegoo Centauri Carbon offering an enclosure, CoreXY, etc. for about the same price as the non-enclosed, bedslinger Bambu A1 I am stuck with) and reliability (Prusa is the gold standard obviously, but even other brands have gotten very good!)

Also, Bambu attacking tiny open source devs is simply not cool. I would rather not give my money to a company that does that when there are good alternatives >:/

They are often very fun and you get to see people you normally don’t get to see! It’s nice to catch up with everybody, and gatherings usually come with very good food toom You also have excitement of the celebration of a holiday, being able to share that with your extended family is awesome!

Of course, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows, sometimes one of my older relatives will go on about something (nothing racist or anything, more about manners, etiquette, tradition, etc., but they seem to never stop talking!) and I have just have to respectfully listen. It is definitely outweighed by all the fun stuff though!

Note that the term is most common for people of East Asian backgrounds! And, at least from my experience in HK, the term is also used for Asian people (mixed or otherwise) who grew up in Western culture.

Westernised Asian, mostly used to describe mixed people (East Asian and European), but I have also heard it being used to describe Asians (mixed or otherwise) who grew up in a western culture (at least it’s common in Hong Kong).

It’s sometimes used for people who are proud of their heritage / background, but it is unfortunately also often used in a negative sense by bad people.

I am not too big of a fan of the term, it’s a bit silly and too generalised. Somebody who is part Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc. will all have different cultures, experiences, and traditions! It also doesn’t help that it’s another term that generalises “Asians” as specifically meaning just East Asian people. However, some people are perfectly fine with the term, and that’s ok too!

That’s good to hear! I wish you all the best then :D

Also, why are you (cm0002) cross-posting so much of the content of .ml constantly, good or bad? It’s nice to see more activity on the Fediverse, but mate not all the stuff from .ml should be reshared (one of the reasons why it was defederated was poor moderation!)

Nothing against you in particular, and giving more activity to other communities is important, but maybe don’t reshare what are basically advertisements? It doesn’t help that you aren’t citing where you got the specific post from.

I think your intention is good, and keep doing what you’re doing, but check the quality of the stuff you share maybe?

…why would you want to run an LLM on a USB stick? That seems like a horrible idea!

requires an internet connection and user sign-in

That’s a big nope, especially for something that’s meant to be portable!

ND filters are used to make a scene darker, so it won’t fix underexposed stuff, but it is nice to have e.g. in harsh sunlight, especially if you want to shoot at a longer exposure. I use a VND myself for its versatility, but either are fine. K&F Concept ones are awesome and highly recommended online, I have one of their tripods + some camera batteries that work well :D

I barely use an ND filter though, usually I just set my ISO lower, shutter speed higher, and aperture narrower (most of this done on the fly with one of the semiautomatic modes)

Again, you have dodged all my other points. Plus, using it as a tool (checking for bugs, running tests, that sort of stuff) is very different from telling your staff to only vibe code software!

And it’s still not working, the Linux client for Epic Games failed spectacularly with lots of issues. The recent vibe coded replicas of Photoshop and friends have lots of bugs and crashes too (morally grey area in my book due to Adobe being an awful company, less people paying their exorbitant subscriptions is always better, but undeniably the “clones” are broken)

My personal opinion is that LLMs shouldn’t be used at all except for certain use cases, namely translation and processing large data sets (computers are good at repeating tasks, LLMs are no different). However, of course, some people will be using LLMs for programming. I do not and am against it, but people do what people do, however there is a difference between using it a tool and claiming that it will replace human programming. Neither is particularly amazing in my book, but almost everybody would agree that the latter is much, much worse, for jobs, the maintainability of the codebase, and user experience (broken apps are bad!)

Epic Games are claiming to “vibe code” all their software and repeating the rhetoric of the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. Turns out, everybody does not like it when companies ship broken software that doesn’t work at all, and boasting about it will hurt your image.

that matters very little here

I would imagine most people would prefer supporting someone who doesn’t donate to racists! LLMs, especially corporate ones, are typically associated with the far-right because it’s literally giving a handful of companies supreme power over your information, your code, your independent thinking, and most importantly in this case your creativity (a fascist’s wet dream).

Also, you seem to have ignored my main points about Valve. Their monopoly is bad, we should support other third-party stores like itch.io and GOG more! You have also ignored Valve’s contribution to Linux gaming and their genuine innovation in hardware (see Steam Deck, Frame VR headset, Steam Controller 2, etc.)

Woahhh that’s awesome! Great picture, mate!