Using AI codegen feels like returning to a beginner all over again. Throwing shit at a wall, begging the AI to cooperate, getting frustrated because nothing works and I can’t do anything to fix it because none of the code is mine.

I swear this was a phase I grew out of after years of dedicated practice. Now I’m forced back into it again.

Which is exactly why you’re free to license your code under GPL. If corpos can use, then so can you.

No way it’s C. The average student will go home and find that they can’t do much of anything they like, with the level of C they know. Even printing a string is famously hard in C, they’ll hate it. Nothing drains their interest in programming faster than segfaults.

The average students wants to build games, websites, discord bots etc. Javascript makes it easy, none are easy in C.

My personal rule of thumb is that if it interacts with the OS or filesystem deeply, native is probably better. E.g. IDEs, cli programs, browsers, Steam etc.

Apps that do a simple things are likely to work perfectly fine on flatpak.

But the problem is that there are outliers in each case. You should pick one and be ready to switch if things don’t work properly.

I seem to remember many random projects joining the foundation. Is this fine? Wouldn’t they dilute their capability to manage a whole bunch of unrelated projects?

Eating your seed corn? One good meal then a permenant famine is enough for CEOs to raise valuations and investors to pump and dump the stock. The famine is someone else’s problem. It’s exactly what the market rewards.

Does that include research time? I sit around pondering solutions, drawing diagrams, planning. When implementing harder solutions, usually 2 hours of actual deep work. But there are days where I wire up the logic and other grunt work, I can do that for 5 to 6 hours.

There’s an app called “Battery Charge Limiter (BCL)” on Github or IzzyOnDroid.

The permission to do admin things is given by the root user, to your account. So you have to verify your identity by entering your password.

Isn’t that how it is? I though that was analogous to how almost everything worked IRL. Whether withdrawing funds from a bank or engaging government services, you prove your identity as a customer/citizen to get the relevant services. At no point do you login to bank or government computers with full privileges.

Me on both desktop and PC, but I don’t think I’ve had 10 windows open at any one time tbh. Or that any particular DE would perform significantly better if you really needed to work with 10 windows simultaneously. That’s a problem I would fix with additional monitors.

I would also have windows snapped to half screens on the workspaces, so I really only need 5 workspaces. Considering I have a 3 monitor setup at home, I don’t think I’ll have too much of a problem since I can have 6 windows up at once. Still, juggling 10 bloody windows is going to be annoying whether it’s GNOME or not.

It’s programming.dev though. Do any Meta platform host a substantial tech community? I honestly have never heard of any, but I might be wrong. Maybe they should be joining us?