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It’s a blessing and a curse. I’ll give you that.

Goto is surprisingly readable.

Loops don’t get labels. Labels are awesome. Sprinkle in some goto so you can use labels.

In languages like python inside a loop you have if condition: continue. Except continue means don’t continue, you skip to the next iteration without breaking the loop. That’s confusing as heck (and what is else doing on loops Guido???). if condition: goto loop is more honest.

I also like that goto is “take my stack frame and run that procedure instead”, which is kind of unique and cool in its own way, and impossible to do with most lexical scoping systems. It’s reliable zero cost function calling (if you can make your optimizer happy).

Everyone loves repeating “goto considered harmful” and “numbering should start at zero”, but nobody critically thinks about those things. Rules are made to be broken.

~Oh, and the numbering argument is totally wrong… using one notation to advocate for another is silly. Offset from zero, but index by domain logic!~

Ah, I guess it still just doesn’t feel like an awkward penguin meme, but I understand the duality.

I still don’t understand

This one does not spark joy for me

How do you know when you have a coloured orb vs there being colour under the cursor?

That actually looks okay

On the bright side though I think security is an afterthought and it needs to be the default on internet facing software.

That a hacker hasn’t bothered to look except the lowest hanging sql injections isn’t enough.

And, I know vibe coding gets a deserved bad rap, but you can ask an AI to test out your security or point out obvious holes you might not know to look for.

It feels like a terrible horrible no good bad month for Linux :(

I did not know that, updated my comment accordingly.

I’m not in the rails community, so this was news to me.

EDIT: You can safely ignore most of what I wrote. Rails World is the DHH Rails conference (I am not a rails person) that they sponsor.

I can’t figure out if this is true or not.

They did sponsor Omarchy, and they do still list on their linux support page that they seed hardware to Omarchy, but on their official list of sponsorships (included in the spoiler/hidden block so as not to spam/monopolize the thread) they do not list Omarchy.

So I don’t know what the current situation is, but it does appear they’re distancing themselves from it a bit. They last posted on Bluesky about Omarchy 8 months ago (about when the scandals happened).

Actually: in writing this I realized that Hyprland is also problematic, or maybe they’re not anymore, but they are listed in their sponsorships. So I don’t actually know what that means.

https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/framework-sponsorships

KDE just merged a bunch of rendering improvements for HiDPI displays in their latest release.

I use it on a 2x scale display and it works perfectly fine.

You can achieve zero bugs through liberal use of rm.

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I’ve said some negative things about KDE Plasma feeling like three desktop oses taped together, but the latest version the fixed all that and it’s pretty good.

I still want to destroy all the hotksys and window decorations, but it just works, and it works well, and it works for edge cases where Gnome and Cosmic crash or fail silently.

KDE is pretty good, and I say that about a very small amount of software.

Also: I just switched to Nixos and now I can actually setup systemd units without wanting to shoot myself in the face. So that’s nice.

We have OurSQL at home, it’s called MonoDB

That’s fair.

I went gnome -> kde -> cosmic -> kde -> cosmic.

And I’m thinking of trying hyperland or something built on river so I can more customization.

Gordon Freeman?

Cosmic can feel pretty immature still.

I’ve had to write some of my own widgets and I mostly deal with settings through terminal controls unfortunately (e.g. Bluetooth pairing hangs if a device needs a password).

While I had no issues with my network, if it’s “unique” in some way it might have bugs still, and the terminal tools would be better.

I’m new to Linux and I haven’t really had to deal with this, so I can’t say what the right way is.

It’s just basic respect.