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andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Virgin Framework vs Chad ThinkPadEnglish
1·6 months agoHey, thank you so much for helping me! Now I have a better idea of my options and what wants are viable and which are not.
andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Virgin Framework vs Chad ThinkPadEnglish
8·6 months ago- https://gardinerbryant.com/the-omarchy-framework-thing/
- https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/
- https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/2
TL;DR: Framework is sponsoring Omarchy and Hyprland. Omarchy, at least, is really linked to far-righter DHH; cannot find nearly as much about Hyprland on a quick search besides “toxic”.
andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Virgin Framework vs Chad ThinkPadEnglish
8·6 months agoGoing to be an interesting thread to follow as someone who wants a Framework for the repairability. And friends recommending it; and honestly in a world where social media is probably flooded with astroturfed comments instead of real experience, and review sites are ones I highly doubt actually touched or bothered with the products, I am gonna trust word of mouth. But I can be convinced into reconsidering (price, performance I can get out of a laptop, and the Hyperland/Omarchy thing).
my general consideration points for purchasing
General points
- Typing this from a MacBook as someone who likes the look and thinness of it a lot, and appreciates the “boring gray color scheme” because neutrals will always go with my outfit.
- I see the interchangeable ports as a bonus.
- Any of them, including the weakest possible take-home configuration for the 12, would be a performance upgrade over my current Linux laptop (HP laptop I got for around $249ish).
- I particularly like the upgradeable storage.
- Would be buying DIY and loading some Linux distro on it.
Model-specific
- 12 inch would be great for me if it were not for the color accuracy and me wanting to use it to do a bit of digital art that involves color. And Linux not supporting the sheet music reader I like. Or having any sheet music reader at all as far as I am aware—dedicated sheet music readers as opposed to just PDF readers tend to have nice features like letting you jump back to a specific page without needing to go in and edit the whole PDF file, and setting up setlists of sheet music you can quickly and easily flick through. But being able to totally replace my iPad and my current Linux laptop would be so nice. Putting one foot out of the Apple ecosystem for principles and “what if they start making more changes I don’t like and I’m stuck,” and consolidating two devices into one.
- 13 inch is better on accuracy but loses the stylus support, so no more art, and having a stylus is really helpful on sheet music annotation for me. Would handle my games better too. Although I don’t really play things requiring great performance, never play multiplayer requiring high ping or kernel-level anticheat, and I have pretty good tolerance for low frames per second, I do have a feeling 12 inch would fail to handle anything but the most super lightweight games.
- 16 inch is a total nonstarter. Too big. I like portability.
i have been summoned
also a JetBrains enjoyer :( one day I’ll teach myself to like VSCode as much as I like JetBrains
OOP boilerplater except for the Windows bit; trying to slowly move off proprietary software and choose open source when I can
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andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Was not able to find programming_horrorEnglish
2·7 months agoHey, I missed that caveat, thank you for pointing it out!
andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Was not able to find programming_horrorEnglish
2·7 months agoOh yeah, you are absolutely right, that is another thing that bothers me. (Obviously I still believe listening to minority voices is important.) Me bringing that up is specifically directed at the type of person who might dismiss opinions from people because they are white males, especially if the opinion is about not liking the way majority demographics sometimes get spoken about. It is me saying to that type of person that they cannot dismiss my position of disliking punching up at demographics by going “of course you’d say that, you are the demographic being punched up at!” I am from the non-male, non-white demographics that they are trying to empower with this “lol white man bad” stuff.
And yes, fully aware speaking ≠ the many harms that went way past speaking done to minorities in the past. But also this kind of stuff is what I think contributes to some more people being funneled towards alt right perspectives. “Yes, white men bad is a hypocritical stance” video -> more “silly stupid liberals” videos (whether they do actually point out legit problems with social justice or not) down into “The world is actually completely stacked against white men, who are just better than the other demographics which is why women are only good for breeding and men of color are too stupid for anything besides manual labor. Structural/systemic oppression, biases, and other genders don’t exist, that’s woke DEI nonsense. Also, the stupid liberals telling you otherwise are also telling you lies that vaccines work and climate change is happening.”
andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Was not able to find programming_horrorEnglish
3·7 months agoI’d rather focus more on the people pushing AI or consuming it uncritically (which does include Baby Boomers, yes, but also people all over the age spectrum), and less on age groups we are unable to get out of.
me being upset about generation warring
a bit disheartening that people are doing the generation wars, most of the Baby Boomers I talk to give a shit about the looming climate apocalypse and are concerned about AI; god I hope that if people in my generation do bad things people aren’t inclined to dismiss me on sight as “stupid [andioop’s generational cohort]” especially since there is nothing I can do to change when I was born and thus what generational group I’m placed in. Wasn’t there a whole thing about not making assumptions of people based on demographics we cannot choose? Blame people for choosing the Nazi party, but not for their skin color or gender or sexuality. Why doesn’t that extend to age? Why are all elderly people lumped in with the bad ones at the top? Or is it just “a demographic you choose is okay to bash if positions of power are primarily composed of its members, no matter how many decent people who do not have that level of power share that demographic”? I think a lot of people are doing that and it rubs me super wrong, as a person whose demographics are not traditionally empowered so my perspective cannot just be dismissed as “fragile white male tears” because I am not a white male
andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Was not able to find programming_horrorEnglish
30·7 months ago!programming_horror@programming.dev and !software_gore@programming.dev if you were not being facetious
one heartbroken anti-AI human who loves em dashes replying ☹️ we’re split into two classes: the type who abandons our typing habits to avoid being told our human efforts are definitely AI, and the type who stubbornly carries on using em dashes
In real life I either say “Ess-cue-ehl” (spelling it out), or I say “sqwool,” “sq” as in squirrel and “wool” like sheep wool
SQL -> Structured Query Language ❌
SQL -> SQuirreL ✅
andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•This is why we can't have nice things.English
3·8 months agowas the comma a typo of a period, or did you have more to say here? if you have more to say i’m eager to listen
andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•This is why we can't have nice things.English
3·8 months agoHey thanks! I was wondering what my alternatives were. Bought RPis, having remembered that name from a decade ago, and then read the posts here about how those are getting worse. Glad to see something that could take their place for my next project :) This is the kind of stuff I come to programming.dev for.
andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Zero Trust ArchitectureEnglish
3·8 months agoI did just remember more from English class: Verbal irony, a type of irony, fits the colloquial definition of sarcasm (“oh, just great” when something upsetting happens). (According to https://literarydevices.net/verbal-irony/ sarcasm is verbal irony used to mock or insult. Don’t 100% remember what they said about sarcasm vs verbal irony in English class.) The irony being talked about here is situational irony. It seems people colloquially use “irony” for “situational irony” and get upset when it gets used to refer to the sarcastic type of “verbal irony”
andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Zero Trust ArchitectureEnglish
2·8 months agoHi, American checking in. I was taught in English class in high school that irony is an ambulance running people over, not just sarcasm. I do agree that colloquially (and I am probably guilty of it too) we Americans use the word “irony” to talk about things being presented in a non-genuine and earnest manner, to talk about sarcasm and snark and parody.
andioop@programming.devto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Engineer who can't function without AIEnglish
1·8 months agoI half worry for society and half feel that as much as I feel bad about my coding abilities, I’m better than people who never actually bother learning the concepts themselves and fully outsource their homework to AI and that population is growing. It’s a low bar but more people are failing to clear it every day!

My first instinct was to say “cursed,” my second is to think “huh… kind of cute actually”