CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@stonykark @dyckron I'm always glad when the Trump fans out themselves early in a discussion. It saves me so much work. Enjoy your block.

@stonykark @dyckron I see you're new here. A reply that's both unhelpful and awful may be a fine thing on Twitter, but it's not here.

Has anybody seen any good articles about vibe coding from addicts in recovery? I see people talking about it being addictive, but in the "gosh I love smoking" style you see from people talking about addictive games. I'd love to see it from the perspective of somebody who deeply understands addiction because they've had to move away from one.

@benjamineskola I see what you're saying, but with Wayland, for example, my IDE's makers, JetBrains, have spent a year or two trying to work with Wayland's much stronger limits on window placement to get the UI as good as it is under X. And I had a number of cli tools for managing windows that are hopelessly broken now because Wayland is more of a sealed box. Searching, I can find years of complaints about both of these issues from users and app developers.

So for me, Wayland has been straight worse.

Linux users, a question. Is this just me?

To me, the original bargain with Linux and Unix was that although the quality of the user experience varied, I had the tools to solve any problem I cared about enough to put in the work.

But as I try the latest Ubuntu with things like systemd, snap, and Wayland, I feel like the bargain has changed. Now the UX is still quite uneven, but I no longer have the tools. The power is in the hands of small groups of developers who aren't interested in sharing.

Ring a bell?