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Since I deal with this first hand with clients I will tell you it doesn’t have to be good to be embraced. as far as the managers and CEOs know, they don’t know. LLMs with vibe coders CAN and routinely DO produce something now if that something is good and works is another thing and in most cases it doesn’t work in the long term.

Managers and up only see the short term and in the short term vibe coding and LLMs work. in the long term they don’t. they break, they don’t scale, they’re full of exploits. But short term? saving money in the short term? that’s all they care about right now until they don’t.

I use Vaultwarden hosted on my private server. It’s great, will never use another PW manager. and yes it’s cached locally so you’re good. on PC, at least via the bitwarden CLI, you do a one time login and that’s it. you’re logged in until you tell it to logout, logs you in automatically on restarts and what have you. plus it’s very easy to access on whatever pc or phone you want to use. for pc you can just add the bw extension and have your passwords where ever or just simply login to your vaultwarden page remotely. this has been a life saver for me a couple times when I needed a pw for something but I wasn’t on my machine and borrowing someone elses.

one of the many reasons I switched to codeberg and my own forgejo instance.

Github is garbage. if you can, get off it.

yup this is what companies are going to pivot to and I’m already seeing it. I’ve recently had potential new clients reach out to me not to code review their vibe coders AI slop but rather something similar to “verification debt” i.e. they want to stay the course with LLMs and vibe coders BUT have someone else on board to verify everything.

I’ve told each and every one of them no, I won’t do that. Why bring someone else on board or even a team of people to verify the slop when you can can just circumvent the slop, fire the vibe coder and cancel your LLM sub, and just have the people verifying actually write the shit instead.

These places simply refuse to ditch AI. they’re too deep into it now. they’ll continue to utilize AI and Junior Devs to build their crap from end to end and then hope that someone can come in and make sure whats been produced actually works and scales. It won’t, it never will, so build times will take longer and end up costing them as much if not more than when they had a team of devs.

They all drank the linkedin tech bros kool-aid and refuse to admit they were actually drinking tech bro piss.

I’m in Canada and a NixOS user and today i’m wearing long jons and hiking socks cause it’s god damn freezing here.

yeah as a dev myself I saw this coming a few months back and stopped using Bun so this doesn’t surprise me. They got on the cursor hype train awhile back and that was enough for me.

it’s honestly one of the best Terminal Emulators. wish I could get it on Linux in all honesty. I’m sure someone has but I haven’t really looked into it.

yeah some government sites, regardless of what browser you’re using, think that you’re some “1337 Haxors” for using Linux Mint.

I use Qutebrowser on NixOS and sometimes it’s…yeah they don’t like that.

yeah for iOS ply:sub is the way to go. my friends and family who use my Navidrome server and have iphones all use ply:sub. Android friends use Symfonium.

It’s really good, I’ve been using it for well over a year now. has everything. The dev also had one for youtube but I don’t think he’s developing it anymore due to the constant changes.

meh better than when it adds a #TODO and then claims whatever you told it to do is done.

Bazzite is like a easy newbie introduction to Linux. It’s really hard to mess up Bazzite, like really hard. In the same regard it can also be a pain to install anything outside of their ecosystem. If you run it with Distrobox it’s not a big deal but I don’t see a lot of new users going that route. If you’re just looking to browse, stream, and game than Bazzite is perfect and you don’t need anything else. Beyond that? Distrobox or use a different distro.

I tried Bazzite, I didn’t like it, I found it too limiting but I do see the appeal of it.

yeah it works flawlessly on Wayland, that wasn’t what I was saying. I’m saying on x11 it doesn’t work for gaming because of the setup. Say I want to use I3 or Herbstfluftwm. If I open a game and ONLY stay on that game it’s fine. but if I navigate away from it to look at a web browser or check discord and then toggle back to the game it results in a black screen or simply shows the desktop and the game is unresponsive. And from what I was able to find online the consensus seems to be it’s because x11 doesn’t play well with integrated and discrete dual GPUs.

ugh I know. In hindsight I would have never bought it.

ugh I wish I could but my Laptop set up says “no, you can’t.” discrete Nividia GPU with onboard AMD GPU and gaming on x11 is a no go for me. So my only choice is wayland :/

never really an issue with that either because most GUI menus will trigger via alt. even in something like KDE with the proper keybindings setup it’s not an issue. heck even discord now has keyboard navigation.

I use Qutebrowser. All links and interactions are keybound. so if for example I want to “click” on your user name I hit “F” which pops up a link hint and then hit whatever two letters are over the link. so for your profile it would be f + ll. that’s it. everything that it’s on a webpage that you would normally use a mouse to interact with can all be done with keybinds. It’s great, it’s quick.

Browser navigation is also keybound. if I want to go back I hit shift+h. forward is shift+l. to switch tabs it’s shift+j or k. closing a tab is just pressing d.

there’s also extenstions for chrome and firefox that will do the same thing like vimium and tridactyl.

If you’ve used Vim for an extended period of time then navigating the same way in a browser is actually awesome. takes a bit to get used to but once you do you won’t go back and trying to use a browser with a mouse just feels slow.

The thing about Vim is once you get the navigation down you’ll want it for everything and you’ll refuse to go back to anything else.

I used Vim for so long that I can’t live without some form of vim style navigation. my Window Manager uses it, my web browser uses it, all my TUIs use it, hell I even switched to Emacs and installed Doom Emacs and THAT uses it. Now I only ever use a mouse for gaming because you realize that navigating around your PC purely with your keyboard is actually faster than using a mouse. I’ve disabled the touchpad completely on both my laptops.

If you’re digging Vim check out NeoVim with LazyVim. makes plugins and theming and what have you easier. I use it as my backup to DOOM Emacs.

when I first switched to linux I used mint for all of two weeks, was an awful experience and almost made me go back to windows until someone told me to try cachyos instead.

I haven’t used Mint since but I might install it on my VM to give it another crack since likely it was personal user error that made it awful for me. Just had constant issues with my nvidia gpu.

honestly it’s better to just host your own private instance as if you want a lemmy and mastodon instance that others can also set up you not only have to admin it you also have to moderate it.

Also keep in mind it’s NOT just actual people signing up but you also have to deal with all the bots which WILL register en masse to your instances. a lot of people won’t mention this. bots flock to this stuff like flies on shit. It’s not worth it unless you plan on really dedicating the time to actively admin your instances.

I run Akkoma instead of Mastodon and Piefed instead of lemmy. both of which were easier to setup than mastodon/lemmy and less resource heavy.