Sure thing. Just remember its better to do things you want to do rather than waiting for things to be perfect. Lord knows its something I need reminded of sometimes

1. No better time than the present
2. Yes there are ways of acquiring the latest packages even on Debian stable. Usually I end up compiling that stuff myself
3. If you’re at all unsure if you want to deal with Debian not pushing the latest and greatest updates you do have options such as running Debian Testing or MX Linux (which itself is based on Debian Testing)

SAFe SCRUM is a fucking scam. Anyone who proposes it as a solution to a problem is out of touch and doesn’t recognize a waterfall when they see one

Yuuup. This blog post is the exact sentiment I see from people with postgraduate degrees in the field of machine learning. The current, public facing, machine learning AI implementations are various forms of theft, grift, and exploitation. They exist as the new testaments to violence of the neocolonial era

Old man yells at exploitative capitalist practices*

Ftfy

Antix! It has a couple of rough patches but overall I really like it. Mainly I like having my RAM back

My thing was I spent just as much time troubleshooting windows as I do Linux. That said I’ve been on Linux for ages so a lot of the issues I ran into on windows were frustrations with knowing how easy it would have been to resolve technical issues in Linux. The right path for you will be unique to you. I’d probably recommend starting out by just having a live media system you use to poke around with as you tinker on a side project. Maybe even grab a raspberry pi to Futz around on

Who from?

Microsoft has some of the best technical support I’ve ever dealt with TBH. Meanwhile with LibreOffice your technical support is mostly forum diving yourself. If you have a big, competent, it department, maybe that’s a feasible thing, but I’ve never worked anywhere with that kind of capacity

Its not great in the United States because our roads frequently wind you up in rural zones that no local maintainers are obsessively maintaining

Not when you’re already on an annual contract with Microsoft and the majority of your company’s employees are nontechnical

Messaging platforms are so hard to replace since there’s a social traction aspect. I can pick out the most secure and private messaging service, and then have no one to message on it

I love logseq conceptually but constantly use org-roam because logseq is prone to performance breakdowns on my hardware

The Lemmy codebase is incredibly idiosyncratic

So! Personally, I would recommend against anything that requires you to use their platformed client like Tutanota and Proton. Don’t get me wrong, they’re both excellent services, but ultimately, they sit antithetical to the point. Making email secure and private and good is hard, bordering on impossible. To accomplish that, you have to jettison core components of email protocols out that stand in the way of making it a secure and private and good messaging service, core components other email vendors will be making heavy use of. This can be fine, as I’m sure you’ve experienced with your tuta account, most of the time, up to the point where you have to do something weird like “email your parents who don’t really understand technology”

Instead, I’d recommend going the complete opposite direction. Find you a vendor like https://mailbox.org or https://posteo.de whose offered services are “We take your money, give you an inbox, and we don’t sell your data because that’s what we take your money for.” After this, there are things you can do to make your email almost secure, almost private, and almost good, but nothing will ever compare to sending messages over a good protocol like Signal Protocol, XMPP, or Matrix (all of which use shared protocols under the hood to ensure secured messaging with forward secrecy).

The bottom line, effectively, for me, is that I want to always be looking for platforms that are making as best use of standards-compliant protocols as possible rather than presenting any form of platform lock-in. It makes it easier to recover from a disaster this way because there will be other platforms with the same protocols available, and interoperability between disparate platforms will be much easier.

I’d say keep using your SSD and add frequent backups to your weekly or even daily schedule.

🤷 people like nodejs and people like type hinting and IDE reflection. Typescript helps a lot with that

It was used pretty frequently for back end APIs too

Have you looked at the license for NeoVim? They make sure to leave the charityware aspects intact, and to encourage people to continue to send money to ICCF, to Bram, and to Vim

100%. Vim has permanently embedded itself into the world. Bram did so much to permanently make this little part of how we interact with computers better