Pornhub's audience is 75% male, and Linux users are almost all male too (and ... no offence guys but probably more likely to rely on porn), so I wouldn't take that as a representative global figure.

Statcounter gives 1.4% which is much more likely to be unbiased (and sounds way more plausible based on my experience of real life).

Buying several OEM keys is still going to be cheaper than a retail one though.

It's pretty easy to not notice what community you're in. I'm subscribed to this because I use Linux and am interested in it, but like JokeDeity I am not under the illusion that many people here are that it is really a viable alternative to Windows for anyone but a small minority for whom fixing bugs is a hobby.

I want my audio to work and my laptop to get more than 2 hours battery life and not hard reboot when it runs out of RAM.

On that last point my most recent attempt to work around the issue was by massively increasing swap. I am a professional programmer with 30 years experience. I've been using Linux for 25 years. Increasing swap space was difficult for me.

On Windows it's a slider in a GUI. Just... stop pretending that Linux is on the same level, please.

I am a professional programmer and a user of AI.

With current AI, it's going to have absolutely no effect on "creativity of new programmers". I would say it would even help with that since it greatly lowers the barrier to entry for programming. One of the things it is actually quite good at is explaining basic concepts, which can often be hard to google.

The thing it isn't good at - yet - is writing complete programs. Especially if they aren't very common domains like CRUD or parsers. So you still need to know how to program.

At the moment it's kind of like you've got a friend who has read a ton of stuff but isn't very clever or reliable. Amazing for finding things, looking things up, doing grunt auto-complete work, etc. But you can't ask them to write an SPI driver for a radio module or whatever.

Maybe in future they'll get to the point where they can reliably do the kinds of complex tasks that most professional programmers do, but I think that will take a while (and probably be close to AGI by that point).

There's zero chance they will get rid of .io.

Yes! On a tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard. Should I not want to for some reason?

Those sensors are pure trash. Use SHT-75 or SHT-85 if you actually care about getting a real value. More expensive though.

no need for flatpack/appimage/snap ect

No matter how large their repo is you're always going to find some software they haven't packaged. Trying to convince the entire world to use your repo isn't scalable.

That's not at all the conclusion you should draw. xz was linked into systemd but that was just a convenient target. Once xz was compromised it could have targeted literally anything that loaded it. Your only real defence would have been not to install it at all.

There's two things:

Deno: this is a replacement for Node and NPM and prettier and some other tools. So one aspect is that it's a more modern Node, using standard web APIs instead of Node specific stuff. And the other aspect is it is more streamlined modern tooling - no node_modules, no complicated build steps, built in Typescript support, etc. In fact you can use a single file as a script, similar to Python.. but unlike Python you can use third party dependencies, which makes it fantastic for stuff like CI scripts, etc. where you might have suffered with Bash or Python before.

Fresh: this is just a web framework targeting Deno. Honestly I haven't used it much but I really like what I've seen so far. I always found React to be confusing and overkill for most sites, which should really be rendered server side, but also I really like the way you can compose components with JSX/TSX in a real language with full type checking. Fresh gives you both!

Thanks, I'll watch some.

Yes I understood that. My point is how often do you know you need to move a line exactly 17 lines? Do you count them? Clearly much slower than doing it interactively by holding down ctrl-shift-down for a bit.