Just so you know, the byproduct of over integrating technology systems is how monopolies are formed. By implementing tools to only do specific functions, it is fighting against monopolistic power. That is what the “Unix way” is describing.

In essence people are predictable. If people have a google home in their house, they will most likely be using google for email, searching, and messages, and its all tightly over integrated (IE: the home has access to the email, to the messages, and it integrates it into a single device). For me, I dropped google a few years ago. For other people, they may depend on google services more often, so it isn’t just painstakingly forwarding your new email address to applications, they’ll also loose the integration as well that comes with google.

Generally speaking, to combat technology monopoly’s you want to diversify your applications. You basically want to make a system so complicated no one single software has control over it aka a decentralized system. Octave is a decentralized system, in that packages are developed by members in the octave community. Octave integrates those packages in a server but octave doesn’t have control over those packages. Linux, delta chat, lemmy, mastodon, these are all uniquely decentralized systems with all of them inadvertently following the “Unix way.”

I’ve used it before when trying out IDEs. Its really good, its a no bullshit solution to VS code. If you’ve used sublime text, Kate is similar to that as it is quite minimal.

On a spectrum of minimalisim and memory consumption, you have emacs, Vi, VIM at the lower end of the curve. This is for users to customize or to use the smallest memory footprint, than in the median its kdevelop/Kate sublime, and VS codium, and on the far end of spectrum you have your bloat software VS code and ItelliJ idea.

Personally I’m using Vim for my projects in C, C++, Python, octave scripts, sh scripts, and markdown. I like to keep my memory footprint small which is why I use a text editor over a full blown IDE. I have used amd’s Vitis IDE for embedded systems (which is just a fork of VS codium).

Computers operate on MOSFETs (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors) not PNP or npn transistors. Each MOSFET only uses so much wattage compared to transistors which is why they are more frequently used over npn/pnp transistors.

I get its a joke, but you could have at least gotten the correct kind of transistor.

not so much a specific distro. I know KDE has its own graphical updater in the “discover” app store, COSMIC DE also has its own app store. personally I always update my apps through the terminal as its just faster and easier.

Welcome to Linux! Heres your starting package

Whenever you get recommended a text editor, VIM, emacs, or nano will at least be mentioned once, and yes we are in a brutal war so there will be backlash. That said, We can all agree on one thing, fuck IDEs.

Init users will recommend anything other than systemd, and that is another war in itself.

Distro-hoppers will try and justify themselves changing distros when in reality they fucked a package installation and just want to redo everything. They may also do it to try out a new desktop environment not realizing you can just install the desktop environment in a terminal without going to a new distro.

I’ve always said this, don’t switch to a different flavor of Linux because the developers are starting to use LLMs to code it. I would also say don’t jump into a distro that is completely vibe codes.

Quality Information, contrary to popular belief, is becoming more and more scarce; what you could search early 2000s - 2010s you can’t really do now, there’s advertisements now, there’s LLM prompts at the top result, and you have to dig through pages of search results before finding a golden website. Information is being controlled and funneled by google and there is a price associated with that (your data).

I think if a linux distro regulates its AI usage (IE not entirely vibecoded and pushed to the repository ) I don’t see a reason to be switching distros. Again the primary reason why developers are using LLMs to code has to do with the clusterfuck that is of attaining information.

Its not just the exit nodes, you also need to control the entrance nodes to pinpoint people in the network.

That is an expensive arrangement which I doubt the CIA or defense industry would put money towards to surveil people going through the network.

Same here, I started with hyprland and every time I go back to KDE or gnome, I feel like I’ve went back 10 years. I use the base sway package in the fedora spin, and after customizing keybinds it works great.

does he have the video’s research published?