dajtxx
Joined 13 years ago
Joined 13 years ago
I struggle to see how data brokers, social media, etc are a net benefit to society so would be happy to see those sorts of businesses cease to exist, but I suspect I'm in the minority.
You do have to wonder what the hell the people in charge of the Windows UI are thinking. They seem to have got it so badly wrong. But so has Apple in macos.
I agree, JavaScript and all it has enabled is a curse.
If one wanted the good bits of JavaScript I'm sure there are languages they were copied from that could be used instead.
Could be one of those with the everlasting ERP type software running on an emulator.
Something that should be local and snappy is just an awful experience.
Offline first apps 'sound like the future'? I agree they're far better than the trash we have now, but it's not like we can't build them now.
We should be building them now. The web was never meant to be an app delivery platform :(
Maybe it's because I use the free tier web interface, but I can't get any AI to do much for me. Beyond a handful of lines (and less yesterday) it just doesn't seem that great. Or it gives me pages of javascript to show a date picker before I RTFM and found it's a single input tag to do that, because it's training data was lots of old and/or bad code and didn't do it that way.
I use copy/paste more than I use interrupt.
I hated MacOS keyboard shortcuts at first, but cmd-c/cmd-v do work around this problem.
Focus stealing happens quite a lot on macOS.
I have a Mac for work and containers are a pain. I've tried Podman, UTM, colima, Docker Desktop etc and it all boils down to the same thing - run a linux VM and have the command line utils cooperate with the VM to run the containers.
It comes down to which solution has the least friction and irritations and Docker might still win there.
My current setup is UTM running a debian VM which I share my source directory with and ssh into to run docker. This is simpler for my brain to understand because the linux VM isn't a hidden component I forget to manage.
But it's not obvious how to mount the shared directory and I'm constantly running into networking problems - currently I cannot connect as myself and must sudo ssh for it to work. A reboot (of the Mac) used to fix it, but no longer does. I've given up trying to fix it and just sudo.