GNOME is typically the worst of all the options if you need feature support. They aggressively nack wayland proposals, and subsequently don't implement those proposals - while almost the entirety of the ecosystem does.

This is trivial to geofence, so I expect this to be one of those that doesn't benefit the whole country.

This may or may not change your perspective on keyboards. Assuming Covid never happened:

- How many hours a day do you spend driving?

- How much do you/did you spend on your car?

- Did you purchase the cheapest car that just filled the need you had (aesthetics, comfort, etc. are therefore off the table, "gets N people to N places")? If not, why not?

- How many hours a day do you spend typing?

- How much did you spend on your keyboard?

If you haven't tried a good mechanical keyboard see if you know someone who has one and spend some time using it.

A $80 x86 mini PC is wildly more powerful than prior Pis - at least so far as my home assistant use-case goes (Pi 4). Of course, the Pi is still king of power consumption (where x86 has improved, somewhat) and form-factor.

- $200 PC: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266099800893 - Core i5 @ 3GHz

- $80 PC: https://www.ebay.com/itm/135697152406 - Core i3 @ 3.5GHz

So Pi is really filling a niche where you want form-factor, perf, and power consumption - but not necessarily price. This keyboard is firmly in that niche.

I'll be hanging around until someone mods more PIs into it.

I think that many companies have been appending + to the end of product names for an extremely long time. This is hardly an Apple innovation.

I wonder if [good examples of] SVGs of pelicans on bikes are "being introduced" into training sets. Some of the engineers who work on this stuff are the kind to hang out here.

I recently switched back to kitty from ghostty. Ghostty was taking > 1s to boot, and I really don't have the time to debug it.

My friend sent me that article a few months ago. It _completely_ changed my approach to OSS contribution: from a 25yr MIT/BSD adherent to AGPL adherent in 30min.

EAC works fine if the game has it enabled for Linux, which The Finals does (I play it).

Yeah it legitimately trades blows with the lightweight desktops.

I attempted to make a ostree+Nix distro a while back, but ublue didn't exist at the time and the build documentation was a masterclass in obfuscation.

Immutable is definitely the future.

You're absolutely right!

I worry about the brain rot because, while I am not purely vibing, I am relying on Claude for most of my typing. I still routinely need to work those hard-earned brain muscles with what it produces; it's terrible at factoring things into components, I've seen it write SQL injection vulnerable code frequently, and it litters the code base with TODOs. If I were to describe it, it's extremely lazy - and you constantly have to remind it to do the work, do it correctly, and course correct it when it's making bad long term decisions.

If I end up brain rotting I am seriously concerned about the quality of code that I will be producing.

But I do agree with the core of your argument. Code is a tool, one that I don't mind replacing.

There is one unmentioned far future benefit: if you pay your mortgage off before retirement you'll probably enjoy more shelter security than your peers. Rent is a monthly cost (eating into your retirement) that could skyrocket (which your retirement plans may not have accounted for).

Of course, a solid investment plan may offset these - but only a domicile (doesn't need to be a house) would survive everything related to the economy going to utter hell.

I agree about houses, though. A saner plan may be to purchase a modest apartment or the like, that you keep in the wings until you reach retirement.