I use it for letters too. It is a breeze to use.

LaTeX is by far easier to use than “word processors” if you want consistent formatting.

Arch is often pictured as some Uber hacker magic which it isn’t. It is a useful collection of software packages with great documentation.

Arch is for example useful if you want to program with new Rust versions, tools like jujutsu, cross-compile for your Sailfish phone, and so on.

(By the way, Guix features now a recent Rust/cargo version, too!)

And both Debian and Arch have advantages / disadvantages, so both are useful for different tasks. Learning Arch is really not a big step or costs much time if you know the foundations of Linux.

>= 33 years

• Unix
• C
• the shell and commands like cd, ls, find, xarg, cp, mv, ln, df, du

>= 32 years

• vi/vim
• LaTeX
• tar

>= 28 years

• Emacs
• awk, bash
• C++
• Linux

>= 26 years

• Python & Numerical Python
• screen and tmux
• rsync
• ssh
• InkScape

>= 20 years

• git
• literate programming tools

>= 17 years

• Thunderbird & forks
• Debian & Ubuntu
• GNOME

>= 15 years

• MeeGo, Maemo, Sailfish & siblings
• Lisps (Clojure, Guile, Racket)

>= 11 years

• tiling WMs (i3)
• Arch (as second system)

what I use now and will very, very likely still use in 10 years

• Rust
• Guix
• Gollum wiki
• Gemini protocol

EVs already are much safer than ICEs

That’s new to me. Why exactly?

And trolley buses, which are cheaper to install and more flexible for lower volumes of passengers. They don’t need a battery either, alternatively can use a very small one, and this saves a lot of weight.

Yes, the blog and its sources explain in depth that this is not caused by individual faulty engineering decisions but by the security culture of the organization and the culture and incentives driving it.

For example, the decision to not test the heat shield in full tests under real conditions, and to not make full physics models of the processes in it are mayor decisions. And the decision to make a crewed flight without these tells a lot about values and priorities.

LOL. You made my day!

Looking at young people and having sad thoughts about their future - feeling we owe them something I can’t give them.

You have to be deliberate about where you live. If you don’t want to be car dependent, you have to move somewhere that isn’t car dependent or you’re gonna have a Bad Time™.

This. The two most important places are the home and the workplace. It is ideal if average daily commuting is less than one hour. But you can factor in that healthy humans positively need about one hour of daily excercise per day, so you can subtract that as gym time.

Everything else flows from chosing the right places and making it a priority to be able to get there either by bike or public transport.

Having done that, you will invariably find that you do not spend more time on errands and getting around than people which own a car. Inhabitants of Copenhagen or Amsterdam do not spent more time commuting than inhabitants if Houston or Los Angeles.

It is also great to chose a place with a community which has local social interactions. Most humans need that, too.

I live in Munich.

I bike to work. It is only 14 kilometers (about 9 miles).

If the road is to icy to cope with studded tyres, I take the fast commuter train… it is a tad slower, because bikes are often more efficient.

BTW I have doing that since the last 15 years and the last five jobs, in five towns or cities. That may shock you, but I am 58, and never had a car.

To go to places farther away, I use the train. We have a decent train system here (though it’s not as good as Japan’s or Switzerland’s - these countries lack bribe money from the car industry.)

I use the train for travel and vacation. I have been in a large part of Europe by train, including Greece. For example, in the last years, me and my partner traveled to Scotland, Netherlands, Croatia and Slovenia, and to Denmark - by night train.

BTW it also saves a ton of money. Cars are fucking expensive. In the last ten years, I spent about 3000 € on bikes (I have two, a normal trecking bike and a recumbent one), and about 1200 € on professional maintenance (I repair and clean most stuff myself, but I let look a bike mechanic for it every year, for safety and because it saves time and unplanned repairs). So, my costs are about 420 € per year.

So bike to your car. I like the idea.

Really, the Dutch are very pragmatic people.

The thing is that the bicycle is the only means of transport for medium distances which statistically makes your life longer, not shorter.

The reasons are the health effects of cycling, compared to the health effects of sitting in a car and not doing daily excercise. The number one cause of death is cardiovascular diseases, which are also caused by lack if excercise. These risks are far larger than the risk of accidents.

tyre and brake dust

Fuck electric cars, too. They are not the solution to the crisis we are in.

Literally burning the planet with power demand from data centers but not even knowing what it could possibly be good for?

That’s eco-terrorism for lack of a better word.

Fuck you.

I would agree with that.

Especially, “being 70%” finished does not mean you will get a working product at all. If the fundamentale understanding is not there, you will not getting a working product without fundamental rewrites.

I have seen code from such bullshit developers myself. Vibe-coded device drivers where people do not understand the fundamentals of multi-threading. Why and when you need locks in C++. No clear API descriptions. Messaging architectures that look like a rats nest. Wild mix of synchronous and async code. Insistence that their code is self-documenting and needs neither comments nor doc. And: Agressivity when confronted with all that. Because the bullshit taints any working relationship.

Copilot told him: “you are absolutely right!”

Yes. One good option now might be PocketPC or so. Look for “Palmtops”/“Handheld PCs”. New devices are popping up, the technology is there.

I’ve been rocking a Minimal Phone for about 6 or 7 months now, and man am I excited to have options for QWERTY phones again.

It’s like they’re designed solely for scrolling an endless feed of mind-numbing slop.

It is because they are exactly that.

There exist palmtops and handheld computers. I have a Gemini PDA running Sailfish OS Linux and it feels very different - like a small, cat-sized laptop. No problem running ssh or vim or ledger on it, or self-written guile apps, or cross-compiled Rust CLI tools. It is a computer, not a consumption device.

Isn’t that obvious?

I live in Germany and cycle about 14 kilometers to work. Often when I get to my desk, I think “that was such a joyful ride through the wood / along the river!”.

I had never a coworker (or my partner) when they were using their car heard saying something like “this was such a wonderful morning commute through the city”.