I’ve been using (X)Ubuntu for ages. I just wanted something that “just works”. Tired of too much tinkering and there’s plenty of (non commercial) support. Mixing it with i3 as my window manager.

Roast me ;)

Christ, what a stretch. It’s obviously a play on the tech Mogul definition.

You can also use something like notifyd to generate a pop up for visual feedback :) I can’t remember the exact command right now though. Differs per distro or desktop environment, obviously.

I have been experimenting with Reaper a bit, but I am a sort of DAW noob, so it’s kind of hard to get in to. I’ve done a tiny bit using Lmms though, but I am missing synthesizer stuff in Reaper. I’ve tried installing plugins by putting them into the proper folders and let Reaper attempt to resolve it, but it doesn’t really work as expected.

Any tips? Especially for Linux of course. Many of the tutorials are Windows oriented.

Fish is a really great shell for daily use. There’s so much built in, its scripting language is better (not portable though if someone else does not have fish).

Fair enough, but Python is not that hard, especially for simple calculations. Start up the repl and type away!

from math import *
x = sin(12) + pi * 3.2
y = tan(x)
y
# prints 0.09200389785419612

Why not just use python as a calculator then?

I’m all for bashing Elon Musk, but how is he actually directly responsible for that massacre?

Is Python scripting working on version 3.0? For the life of me I can’t get that to work on version 2 (whichever version).

Hey man you’re human! Mistakes! Everyone makes them! At least you admit it, right :D

Have been using Open Telemetry with Micrometer in a Spring Boot 3 microservices architecture. I have to say (regardless of framework of programming language) : structure your logs (like the article mentioned), use the tracing ID propagation and collect the logs in something like Elastic. This makes analyzing logs nice, especially if you’re in a Kubernetes cluster with many services with multiple pods.

Eh, what’s a dcp?

No! This has been bugging me for quite some time as well. Other than that, it’s excellent software.

My go to hack was quickly running a python http server and connect to it. I can’t remember what the command was exactly. Something like python -m http.server or so, then connect to the ip from my phone, heh.

The language Java has nothing to do with the JVM. Use OpenJDK (temurin or the likes) instead, although I understand if you don’t have the freedom to do so.

Nonetheless, the suing part is damn stupid.

Java has gotten me lucrative jobs and I make a more than decent living thanks to it. And I bet I am not the only one.

People should stop hating on languages and just use what’s right for the job. I am no fanboy of Java or anything (I program in multiple languages), but saying it should die already is a weird take, IMHO.

Because it’s a statically compiled binary, it tends to grow the size of the binary. Increases portability though.

Wow I forgot I once made a DragonBall Z skin for winamp. It’s still there :D Blast from the past!!

Take this advice, especially if you are just starting with Linux. You can also install it in a VM if you are still running Windows, to get a feeling of different desktop environments (Gnome, xfce, KDE, etc) before choosing.

This is extremely helpful!! The filters are arcane and it really helped me out with something :D