If containers, VMs, and dual-boot are banned in the workspace I kinda feel the fear of things not work is legit. When I’m forced to code on a Windows computer without WSL at university’s Programming course in electrical engineering department. Everything I’m used to, bash, cat, cd, ls, nvim, sed, grep, …, simply don’t exist. And I end up find it easier to code in the small text box of the site they provide than any of the slow, non-Vim mode, IDEs.
I am a Ubuntu to user now. However, I find myself reading Arch wiki far more and a bit Debian’s but barely Ubuntu’s. But I agree that Ubuntu is the industry standard and it’s acceptable to distribute a deb and test it on Ubuntu LTS and call it a day. Other distros can simply dig into it and make it work. Containers and sandboxes are great, but I hate the concept to only distribute things that way. Snap Flatpak LXC Incus Docker Podman etc. stuff don’t work on some restricted/weird environment.
And keyd to remap it on Linux, e.g., f23+leftshift+leftmeta=rightcontrol
Installing Linux is just so easy while it genuinely took me a long while to (re)install Windows alongside Linux cuz the driver they provide is an exe and the install process wants some format else, and I ended up found a Github repo that provides decompressed driver files.
VPN is a shifting of trust from your ISP to your VPN provider. If you already trust your ISP, you don’t need a VPN (except for accessing content that can only be accessed from another country). BTW, I think that Mullvad, Windscribe, and AirVPN are probably some good options if for privacy and security.
Every time seeing this kind of news, I thank redlib.catsarch.com.
Let me recommend phice, a lightweight privacy-friendly alternative front-end for Facebook.
I’m a CLI enjoyer. It’s easier for me to define what I often do as a bash function than to remember which button to click in a GUI app. It’s easier for me to copy paste a StackOverflow answer than to zoom the screenshot only to find out that the UI has changed. And I’m too lazy to move my mouse when I can do it with a Neovim keymap.
I use Neovim with this config https://github.com/Willie169/nvim-config
I sometimes also look like LLM when writing in English since it’s my second language.
ISO-8601 or RFC-3339 is the way. It’s not about which is better, but about that it would be confusing to use MMDDYYYY or DDMMYYYY since the other exists.
I block system update immediately when I heard this. Though I could use Shizuku, who knows when they will block loop back ADB. And the recent CVE-2026-43499 exploits are another reason to keep me holding my kernel version. BTW, I now have 0 app are my phone that receives update from Google Play or those OEMs stores now. Some still use APKPure over Obtainium or Aurora Store, but most are FOSS.