I can validate this. I work as the IT ops guy for every Fortune 500 company and we only use RAID-0 for backups.

Yeah, the perks of the Android ecosystem. There’s also a version for Android TV such as NVIDIA Shield. Again just works and filters out ads and sponsor segments.

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

I’ve been using this one for years, which filters out ads and sponsor segments:

https://newpipe.net/

Only for Android though. If you use iOS, switch to Android and you’ll also get a really Firefox browser with ublock origin that blocks all the ads compared to that 30something% what every iOS browser does.

Rust and Cargo enters the room.

We’ve been using Linear in my latest company and it is actually quite good. No bullshit fast UI, boards, issues linking with Git, a support that can take a feature request that is often implemented in a week or two after asking it.

At the same time Windows is going down the drain, so if you compare removed to that it definitely has an edge. And that 8GB Air is not that expensive either… And fanboy can tell you it can swap to SSD so fast blah blah…

But if you have the knowledge to use Linux, there are less and less reasons to go even near removed computers…

It kind of fails with certain protocols. I once wrote an async MSSQL client for Rust, and some data doesn’t say its size in the headers. So this kind of forced the business logic to be async too.

Yeah. Scary stuff. I live in central Berlin, and it’s pretty relaxed here. Did the Mauerlauf last weekend and immediately when you cross the Brandenburg border to some of these villages, they’re full of AfD advertisement. Berlin is definitely the Portland of Germany :D

Never had one, just partied in the uni and dropped out :D

So basically your typical network protocol is something that converts an async stream of bytes into things like Postgres Row objects. What you do then is you write a synchronous library that does the byte conversion, then you write an asynchronous library that talks with the database with async functions, but most of the business logic is sync for converting the data coming from the async pipe.

Now, this can also be done in a higher level application. You do a server that is by nature async in 2024. Write the server part in async, and implement a sync set of mapping functions which take a request coming in and returns a response. This can be sync. If you need a database, this sync set of functions maps a request to a database query, and your async code can then call the database with the query. Another set of sync functions maps the database result into http response. No need to color everything async.

The good part with this approach is that if you want to make a completely sync version of this library or application, you just rewrite the async IO parts and can reuse all the protocol business logic. And you can provide sync and async versions of your library too!

That’s why you write your protocol as a sync library, then implement the async IO separately and mapping the data over the protocol modules.

Might be depending where you live. I never had issues finding all the parties and having a large network of friends without Meta apps.

I was born before computers were really a thing though, so maybe that has an effect on this. Now I don’t even realize without reading these threads that I miss something. Life is just fine without…

About 12 years for me without any Meta accounts. I talk with my mom using Signal, and have a very active group chat with friends on Signal too. A dozen of Matrix channels for nerd stuff, Akkoma and Lemmy for social feeds, the orange site and Lobsters for work, LWN and Phoronix for hobbies.

Enough for one day with these…

The refurbished thinkpads you find are usually three years old after the companies who lease them buy new ones for the users.

You can do a lot of things with a three year old thinkpad…

dbg!(1) all the time…

It creates a set of symlinks so every program sees exactly the dependencies it needs.

https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/09-automatic-runtime-dependencies#automatic-runtime-dependencies

You can also create a container:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers

Or you can create reproducible docker containers with nix:

https://dev.to/anurag_vishwakarma/a-better-way-to-build-reproducible-docker-images-with-nix-2k59

The secret sauce with nix is reproducibility. If it builds once, it will continue building exactly like that forever. Bit by bit.

Nix can build you a bit-to-bit exact environment for your app. It is a superior environment, but is hard to use in the beginning and users can feel snobby sometimes. It is awesome, but YMMV.

Nix user arrives to the room.

Well… I’m still in the US, and on this trip I mostly just get a Budweiser or Modelo when I want a beer. I feel like I don’t need to make a scene about the beer I drink, because a beer is a beer… I also enjoyed Coors Banquet a lot.

Wines are a different matter. In the Oregon vineyards I’ve had some of the best pinots I’ve ever tasted, much better than the pinots I’ve had in France. One of the best things on this trip was our day of tastings in the different wineries.

It is a good shitpost though. Fry holding a German lager on Jimmy Fallon, and a joke about American beer with a typo.