Sparrow_1029

I joined a climbing gym after learning how to climb, belay and rappel for a week. I love learning knots, so that's fun, but also all the terminology and techniques. Plus there's a whole social aspect to it (climbers tend to be pretty friendly). Turning out to be a healthy and exciting new hobby!

Also @fool I remember learning to whistle as a kid--my dad was slightly annoyed he had shown me how to do it because I wouldn't stop whistling the main themes from Indiana Jones and Star Wars

TIL Conkers is a game--with a world championship no less

I'm glad to see this is still around: https://exercism.org/

helped me learn when I was starting out 7-8 years ago

Hahaha thanks for the chuckle! This got me 😄

Helix is, but I don't think Zed is? At least not by default. It has a command palette and multi-buffer, multi-cursor, but not visual/normal/nsert/etc AFAIK

Zed's pretty new on the scene, but it's worth a look

Someone where I work set up a process to provision a VM with simulated devices & networking using containerlab. We use it to simulate scenarios and test the orchestration/automation software we develop. You declaritively define the nodes and connections, it's multi-vendor, and uses docker.

There's also clabernetes, which allows you to deploy the topology into a kubernetes cluster

Don't know if this will help assuage your fears: https://www.techradar.com/news/mullvads-no-log-policy-proven-after-police-raid

I've used Mullvad for years, and from what I know, they store almost nothing -- only your randomly generated account number. If you are paying using an anonymous method that's even less to go on.

Endless Sky for me

Neovim Is a highly customizable, modal text editor program. Probably no what you're looking for as far as terninal emulators go, but I use it daily as a near-IDE on desktop. Look into LazyVim for an easy way to get started.

I can second KDE connect--use it between my phone and Manjaro. Can't speak to the other applications because I don't have a use-case for many of their functions on a smart phone myself.

Am I one of the few who just doesn't use AI at all? I don't have to generate tons of code for work at the moment and brand new projects that I've been given are small--meaning I wouldn't necessarily use it to generate starter boilerplate. I have coworkers that love copilot or spend much longer prompting ChatGPT than they would if they wrote code themselves. A majority of my time is spent modelling the problem, gathering rejuirements, researching others' solutions online (likely this step could be better AI-assisted?), not actually implementing a solution in code.

Anyway, I'm not super anti-AI in software development, and I see where it could be useful. Maybe it just isn't for me yet. The current hype around it as well as the attitude of big-tech exceptionalism ("AI can salve all our problems") feels a bit like a bubble, at least regarding the current generation of LLMs and ML

I thought the same and just rolled with it. What was the whole jean thing anyway?