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Total Annihilation... couldn't get enough of it. Even playing strategy games today I desperately miss the elaborate control and mechanics of TA.

It's restricted right now. Most recent post is 10 days ago.

When workers strike, are the temps better?

They can do this. It won't go well.

The beehaw admin said, to grossly paraphrase, they don't have enough admins to deal with the extra activity and they're "mildly annoyed" that sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world have "open registration" policies as they feel it invites trolls and the like.

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Edit: full post if you want to read it. I left out some stuff about ethos and spirit and stuff.

Huffman said 97% of Reddit users do not use any third-party apps to browse the site.

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Huffman acknowledged that if those users instead browsed with Reddit's own app, it would shore up the company's bottom line.

Hmm.

I think my best advice would be to make a philosophy out of it. Learn how to solve every problem you come across with the CLI. Only use Google or ChatGPT when you hit a wall, and utilize the man pages to understand why the answer works.

Make a habit of automating common tasks using shell scripts. Over time you'll accumulate a library of cookbook code for doing common things that you can always refer to. Write comments in them to save time when you come back and refer to them. It also saves time to automate common things.

Long ago I followed the Linux From Scratch guide and it was very enlightening. It walks you through installing a working Linux system from scratch, starting from within another installation. So you could e.g. install Debian to a VM, add a second virtual hard disk, and follow the guide to iteratively install each bit of the system on the second hard disk until you can boot it and use it. This is an intense (or at least time-consuming) process but it's worth it.

Although it's terribly outdated now, I got a lot out of the book The Unix Programming Environment. It lays out the history of the system really well. In general, anything written by either of those two authors (Kernighan in particular) is just gold, they're both excellent teachers. It helped me intuitively understand concepts like pipes, "everything is a file", shell programming, awk, etc.

I've been using Linux since ~1996; I used to wonder about this a lot.

The tl;dr answer is, it's too much effort only to solve the problem of making life easier for new users, and it can be a disservice to users in the long run.

As others have pointed out, there are limited GUI tools for common administration roles.

Power users are much, much faster at doing things via CLI. Most administrative tasks involve text file management and the UNIX userland is exceptional at processing text files.

A graphical tool would have to deal with evolving system software and APIs, meaning the GUI tool would be on constant outpatient care; this is counter to the UNIX philosophy which is to make software simple and well-defined such that it can be considered "done" and remain versatile and flexible enough to live for decades virtually unchanged.

It wouldn't be that much easier for things like network rules unless a truly incredible UI was designed, and that would be a risk since the way that's implemented at the system level is subject to change at any point. It's hard enough keeping CLI userland tools in sync with the kernel as it is.

It would need to be adaptable to the ways different distributions do things. Administration on CentOS is not always the same as it is on Debian.

And ultimately, the longer a user spends depending on GUI tools, the longer it will take them to learn and become proficient with the CLI, which will always be a far more useful skill to have. You'll never learn the innards of containers or VPS' if you only know how to do things from the GUI.

I'm a JetBrains person. I like vim, but I also heavily use IDE features and VSCode just never scratched the right itches. I've worked with many people who use VC but when I pair with them and watch their workflows, they simply aren't as efficient, as if they're unaware of what a proper IDE can actually do. They also complain when VC extensions get mature and become paid extensions, which hasn't been a problem with JB.

I use Copilot with JetBrains, but it's only "cool", not "awesome". When I really need help with some code Copilot rarely does the right thing, and JB's code completion already works really well. I know Copilot for VC is better than for JB and they claim they're going to bring parity to JB at some point, but this article makes me suspect they're lying. If they don't I'm going to start shopping for competitors.

Digg didn’t survive though. Right now it looks like a corporate blog with a barely visible comment section.

That's what I was getting at.

I agree that reddit won't run out of users. I think the big question is whether they can figure out how to turn a profit.

Hah, that'll be fun on my desktop... I don't even have a microphone.

Got it. This is helpful, thank you!

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Ah okay. I'm in the habit of copy-pasting after the > manually so I hadn't noticed that.