Moto G Stylus (2021) user with no screen problems here. My only gripes is Motorolas shitty update policies and lack of custom rom support. Guess I can’t complain for a sub-$200 phone.

Non-developer searches seem to work Ok. I honestly havent tried that much. It seems like most the time I do engage with Phind its usually code related. Its become a pretty good utility for debugging.

Strip out any sensitive bits, paste it over asking the questions and or presenting the error while running usually results in figuring out my mistakes (or at least gets me closer).

I’ve patched on to Phind(phind.com) a bit more lately and for the first time in a while thought that i would absolutely pay for it if the service can remain the same.

I’m all for paying for services that make sense for the better of my own data. I’ve been running a SearXNG instance for a bit though. I’ll likely check out Kagi, as SearXNG hasn’t been too quick to return results.

That would have been awesome. My kids always want McDonald's and we have a rule where we only go like once or twice a year. Needless to say that period was recently (mainly due to family craziness / scheduling).

The Grimace birthday shake......1/10 would not recommend. Like a watered down heavily food colored vanilla shake. Mistakes were made for sure.

Outside looking in on this its almost as if they are trying to kill that product line off. The cost jump between the Mac Pro and Mac Studio is atrocious. Looks like the only major benefit being some PCIe slots (that is restricted in compatibility anyways) along with additional Thunderbolt ports.

MicroOS user here. Honestly I love the workflow of using distrobox for about everything I need.

Essentially I have distrobox images setup for specific development workflows. I just hop into the one that is suited for the task I'm doing. It automatically sets up icons in the Gnome menu if you don't want to use the cli commands.

Between flatpaks and containers I couldn't be happier with my setup. Combine that with the fact I can potentially trust the underlying OS to not crap the bed via updates (and when it does I can roll back my filesystem snapshots) is a win/win.

My Pantum P2500W has been seamless across many distros. Its a cheap little laser printer that costs usually sub-$100.

Agree, there's likely subtle differences between the interaction. Let along adding in the other layer of Apple silicon (aka ARM). I'm actually intrigued on the overall performance of this.

Most of the anti-cheat could be fixed by the game developers to allow Wine. I know there are numerous posts about it to Epic games and the overall consensus is they are purposefully detecting Wine. Having Apple back this direction might help the community overall push the AAA game studios to finally allow it? One can dream.....

I would honestly find it very difficult to believe that there wasn't going to be some telemetry, data / etc sent back to the mothership. I know in the marketing realm Apple caters towards "privacy", but who's really validating those claims.

Granted......I'm also very tin-foil-hatty about my data and retain it all locally with offsite backups. I tore down my Google Drive / cloud data about 2-years ago.

Debian up until the last couple of years was my go to in the server realm. The desktop side is fine if you want stability. The only real downside on the desktop side is the packages tend to drift in versioning as the distro lifecycle progresses.

Agree on snaps though, never been a fan and I used to be a huge Ubuntu fan pushing that on to family / etc. I haven't given them a shot in a while, the last time I used them (circa 20.04) the performance was not anywhere close to Flatpaks.

These days my primary desktop / laptop driver is OpenSUSE MicroOS and when its not that its usually Fedora / Nix. Server side still remains a mixed bag of Debian and OpenSUSE.

The one Debian based project I do use in both enterprise and home is Proxmox. They are marching towards Proxmox 8.0, which is based off of Debian 12.

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-ve-8-0-beta-released.128677/

Anyone needing a good opensource hypervisor backed by Linux KVM this is the answer. Its been my daily driver for years now. Recently in my enterprise setting we have been able to rip/replace VMware & Veeam with Proxmox. This is with still paying & contributing back to the project reducing our licensing costs by about 75%.

This is a weird one in some ways. They basically are using a wrapper script of sorts around the Wine project.

Apple published some of this on their Github. The thing that baffles me is why didnt they assist in the project upstream development. It seems like the main project Wine really didnt even know they were doing this until the WWDC. That community would have embraced Apple helping to patch certain blobs for making Wine run better on MacOS.