Let's give it a shot. I live in the suburbs of Lincoln, Nebraska, which is an average-sized college town in the US (about 300k residents):

• Nearest convenience store: 1.1 miles/1.7km (we often do walk there, takes about 20 minutes)
• Nearest chain supermarket/big supermarket (they are often one in the same here): Target @ 1.5 miles/2.4km
• Bus stop: 1.3 miles/2.1km
• Nearest park: 0.6 miles/965m
• Nearest public library: 3.5 miles/5.6km
• Nearest train station: 9.1 miles/14.6km (we don't really use trains much at all in the US, though)

Any examples of the claim that he's embraced FP more?

Last I saw, he was making wild, baseless assertions about FP concepts like monoids and monads on Twitter.

After working at a company that had Crowdstrike installed on all machines, it is most certainly malware.

https://www.reuters.com/world/no-direct-evidence-covid-19-pandemic-started-wuhan-lab-us-intelligence-report-2023-06-24/

Or, you know, on your own feature branch to clean up your own commits. It's much, much better than constantly littering your branch's history with useless merge commits from upstream, and it lets you craft a high-quality, logical commit history.

Nope, you just need to do it once: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere.

I definitely associate "ninja" with wannabe JavaScript developers.

Pureblood is pretty funny, though of course we actually use Haskellers. Honorable mention goes to "Haskellnaut" to (playfully) describe taking the language as far as it can go.

Corporate IT never goes for it, unfortunately.

My experience thus far is that the intersection of IT professionals and people who know how to administrate Linux systems well is a really small set of people. Not enough sysadmins these days.

Chromecast. That's what I do. TV with no wifi, Chromecast for content.

What the fuck are you talking about? No one downloads software from GitHub on Linux unless they're doing some really fringe, custom shit. Linux users detest randomly downloaded software from the internet (which is effectively the ONLY way of getting software on Windows, btw). We want all software to be managed by our package managers.

Also, lol on "software purchase". What software are you buying on Linux?

I mean I've yet to come across a game that is unsupported on my Steam Deck. For all intents and purposes, gaming on Linux is the real deal.

Sure, I guess the presumption is that you're working someplace where you can have good work-life balance. If you don't, then you're probably gonna be pretty miserable no matter what, WFH or not.