European Commision’s laptops run on Windows 11 and then they need to pay for AWS to do any kind of meanigful work… And then some devs still pick Windows to run on AWS anyway!

IT people hate computers.

This. Sometimes it’s enough for one person to be OoO and suddenly you can code in silence, work is being done, standups go from 1 hour to 10 minutes. No extra stupid tasks randomly handed out.

I wish that person at my project had at least 3x more paid vacations.

Rarely, but it happens.

But I can’t shake off the feeling that in most cases recruiters completely misunderstood or misrepresented requirements for the position to get me to the technical interview stage. Like scheduling me for an interview with a team heavy with functional, big data processing while I barely have any purely functional experience.

Non-technical people doing recruitment work is a scam.

My project is doing 12 of those. Guess who has another job interview round next Friday?

For best out of the box experience you may want to try Bazzite (https://bazzite.gg/), it will have pretty much everything included for gaming, except Microsoft Store as noted above. This system is harder to break by doing something stupid and has good documentation on their website.

Alternatively you may try a more traditional “batteries included” distribution like Ultramarine Linux or Linux Mint.

Portability, isolation, the ability to run pretty much anything inside. They do consume more resources, but if they’re that much slower then there’s probably something wrong in your setup.

I’ve tried it a few times, never stuck. I guess it’s just convenience, it is a well integrated piece of software, especially if you use both LXC and VMs. Personally I keep using virt-manager and Cockpit.

I’m not sure if any app syncs progress with eReaders, but I haven’t looked into it. Maybe KOreader can? Other than that Audiobookshelf works well with ebooks. I haven’t tested it with graphic novels, but it does handle regular ebooks (PDF and EPUB) just fine.

The Six Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren. I was maybe 9 at the time. I should reread it someday.

Translations can get you results ranging from hilarous to horrible. Especially crowdsourced.

Translation got me. It’s Dashboard in English interface.

Go to Cockpit > Libraries > Manage library, there’s an option to automatically refresh metadata from the Internet every 30-90 days.

I’ve seen codebases that had old testValid2 style of test as well as fully fleshed out conversionReturnsNullOnEmptyString style. Working there made me apreciate proper naming. I know different test frameworks in different languages let you name the test separately, but it’s a bit of an effort duplication.

Thanks. Plain Wireguard is an option I’m considering, but it’s also considerably more hassle to configure and maintain, especially as I connect more family members to my network. Headscale also has an extra layer of security in the form of ACLs, which I plan to use on top of basic firewall configuration. I do connect my personal machines with Wireguard, but I use one family member as a Tailscale/Headscale test subject.

As for SELinux, I’ve gave up on it already. It caused me so much headache over the years I disable it with a kernel parameter by default on all machines.

The same also applies to other things, like tools.

I’m working in Java ecosystem and there’s a noticeable trend to look down on people who don’t use IntelliJ Idea. I’ve recently joined a new project and I was strongly encouraged to use it. Therefore I’m currently 3 weeks into my 4th attempt over past 10 years to switch to this tool and it simply doesn’t work for me. I’ve been using Eclipse since around 2007, know it very well and it gets the job done. I will not claim that it is better than Idea. I just don’t think switching would give me enough return on investment. Especially now, as I’m still learning the new project.

Another reason not to switch is to avoid becoming dependant on an expensive tool. My current team is using Ultimate edition and I’ve noticed that they are really depending on the extra features.