If you always just throw more money, more people and more time at a problem - you are never forced to think. This is what I say to myself every day as I use a desktop from 2013 with an i7 4770S CPU. It has drawbacks and limitations, I have had to find ways to work around those. I had stopped using that desktop in favour of an M1 air . It has now been a month that I moved back to the desktop. I’m curious to know how long the switch is going to take. ...
AI is making linux so much better This is happening through (1) making it much more powerful and (2) making it easier to deal with some of the drawbacks. The open nature of Linux makes it easy to script for! No more hunting around the internet for solutions to your errors Example, obs replacement for desktop recording. I use OBS on my mac to record myself and send that out to the company. It’s a great practice which has saved me countless hours of meetings. I’m using a machine from 2013, OBS would be overkill. I asked an AI agent to write a script which uses FFMPEG to do the same, I even told it to capture video of me through my webcam! ...
You write email, maybe even a lot of email. Do you do that well though? If you want to be better at writing email, just do what is written on this page: https://subspace.kernel.org/etiquette.html The people who wrote the short hints/guidelines in the link above built the Linux Kernel1 while communicating nearly only through email. I’m confident they have figured out a good set of rules to reduce confusion and improve efficiency through written communication2. ...
I never thought I was going to be one of those people but here I am. I am here to tell you that the latency on typing using bluetooth is terrible. You have to either upgrade to a 2.4gz dongle or simply add a cable to your keyboard. I recently switched from BT to using a cable and it feels like before my keyboard would think whether it wanted me to actually type the character I wanted before doing it. ...
I thought I wanted to use email to keep notes. I keep notes in a specific format . Email notes do have some great advantages: Integrated metadata There are very mature apps for all platforms including mobile The apps built for email generally have a lot of funding, they tend to be high quality including very good search The mbox standard is not going away any time soon Sharing of notes is integrated directly in the system in the form of email Adding multi-media to notes is included in the system If you add more notes to previous notes, you have a record of the date of each amendment There are some important disadvantages though: My notes are mixed in with all of my email It’s more complicated to backup, email clients tend to be sneaky about what they keep locally and remotely. Means that my backups have to happen on the server side not client side Searching, although not bad, is not as good as on a regular text file where you have access to all the unix tools It’s not as easy to switch away from email to other formats. Using jrnl I can easily create different files with my search results You cannot edit emails; you have to send amendments to yourself Today, my notes have my todo list included directly within it For now, I have kept all of my notes in my big text file. The fact that I can super quickly do fuzzy searching within the file is amazing and very useful. ...
Gitlab is not just for keeping your code, in fact we don’t keep any code. We only use GL for project management - it’s great software for that. I suggest you give it a try.