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This is so cool, I have a compatible Mazda and never thought to check if such an upgrade existed. Have ordered the kit and very excited. Thanks!

I’ve always really disliked the sharp knives metaphor. A chef’s choice of knife doesn’t impact their coworkers, nor does it end up on the plate to a customer.

If we were chefs a knife would be your laptop, your editor, your cli tools. Not your programming language.

A better metaphor would be the lumber in a building or the soil in a garden. I don’t know what I’d call ruby in this metaphor, maybe “lightweight wood that splinters”…

This is a cool idea. Two questions:

Arion can wrap docker-compose and run as a project or part of a nixos config. Did you come across Arion before creating this, and have you compared them?

I had a brief look through your examples and it doesn’t look like compose2nix implements docker-compose’s network per compose file. Is this something you want to add?

I have a Garmin Venu 2 that acts like a thumb drive when plugged in on Linux (and I assume other OSs). The files it stores exercise data as are accessible with a few FOSS tools. You can also put music on it this way. I haven't tried to extract and view sleep data to desktop, but it will show sleep scores and charts on the devices screen. I believe most Garmin behave this way when plugged in, so can be used without cloud/app interaction.

I would be interested to know if others have interesting linux desktop software or workflows for working with this data when it comes off your watch

Operational transforms are one of those interesting technologies I’ve wanted to learn by implementing but haven’t made the time yet. I also didn’t realise it could be implemented in that little code.

Can you recommend any learning resources for implementing an OT? (Ideally typescript, python, or rust)

UTM is really good. It’s basically just a nice GUI around QEMU. But their bundled version of QEMU also includes a patch to get SPICE working, the homebrew and Macports versions don’t have SPICE working so clipboard access and auto display resizing doesn’t work. Or at least I couldn’t get them to work.

The Ubuntu ARM image from their “gallery” works perfectly out of the box so is a good starting point.

> I have heard this many times from many different people that I respect. However, I'm just not experiencing "the joy" after several attempts. Maybe it's just not how my brain is wired.

This has been my exact experience too. My current theory as to why it doesn't click for me is that it tries to be too much like English. Sure it's fun writing poems all day but try refactoring a poem someone else wrote with any kind of confidence.

That said I love that ruby and rails exist, it seems to unlock creativity in some people and that's awesome.

Sometimes I use macOS for work and get reminded why I prefer Linux.

- homebrew is slow and brittle, between 10x and 100x slower than pacman in my experience, and the only package manager I've used that breaks at least every year

- homebrew is only a userspace package mananger, many applications have their own update mechanisms. I greatly prefer being able to update my entire system with one command.

- xcode is a fragile 10GiB pig that I don't want, but homebrew needs it

- docker has a significant performance overhead on macOS

- the tiling window managers available on macOS are less reliable and don't have the features I value

- some terminal based software is significantly slower on recent versions of macOS, even on a 2019 macbook. I'm not sure what's causing it but there is noticeable lag that I don't get on much older hardware with linux

- documentation; in my experience searching for error messages on macOS results in something like "paste this command into a terminal, no one knows why, and it will break again on the next OS release" or "plug the charger into the left usbc port not the right". Where as on linux I end up on the arch wiki with a fix that makes sense, and I've learned something I find valuable or interesting

- I don't like how macOS is visually turning into iOS, I like that I have the option to use what looks like a "desktop" on linux

I'm learning nix at the moment, and hopefully that can solve a lot of the problems I have with maxOS/brew.

macOS is good, linux is good, as always it depends on what you need.

> It would be great to have a command that lists all the available commands in Neovim

Both the fzf.vim and telescope.nvim plugins provide a fuzzy searchable list of commands; `:Commands` and `:Telescope commands` respectively. The built-in commands have a description but commands from plugins usually just show it's definition.

I started with vscode but moved to (neo)vim 2 or 3 years ago. Last year I experimented going back to vscode with one of the vim plugins.

By default there are some conflicting keybinds like ctrl-o and ctrl-v, but these can be disabled in vscode settings.json so wasn’t a problem.

The main feature that doesn’t work over the neovim-vscode rpc bridge is undo tree, that was important to me. You also have to put up with much slower start up times and slower syntax highlighting because vscode uses lsp highlighting.

But the deal breaker for me was losing any vim plug-in with a ui component like fzf, fugitive, and the file tree I like (fern.vim).

It might work for you, some coworkers switched from vim to vscode-neovim and were very happy with the compromise.

I've been using it as my only terminal for ~6mo on linux/x11, linux/wayland, and macOS. I picked it because it was fast, simple, and cross-platform. By those criteria I'm very happy with it, never experienced a bug or crash either.