It’s for work only, no gaming. I have a Steam Deck and a Linux desktop for gaming.

My hardware refresh came up this year. I asked for a MacBook instead of a windows laptop for the first time in my long career. Linux isn’t an option at my org yet.

This has the stench of junior engineer all over it. This rewrite will go way over budget and come limping across the finish line late, with more bugs and less features than the system it replaces. I guarantee it.

The Thaumaturge and Clair Obscur both look pretty weird

If you decide to try moka pot, check out This guy’s channel for in-depth tips. He’s really into moka pot.

Ah yes, the era of US box art so ugly the mind reeled wondering how it ever got approved. Look at the US and JP cover art for Mega Man for one of the most iconic examples in a target-rich environment.

Japan

US

I’ve had a similar journey recently. Used to assume it wouldn’t be good, found out it is, and now I get to enjoy more of my favorite beverage!

As an owner of every PlayStation console since the PS1, I am unhappy with the selection of PS5 games this late in the lifespan of the console. So unhappy that for the first time ever, I consider it unlikely that I will want to buy the next generation console. I’ve played more new releases on my Steam Deck since its release than I have on the PS5 since its release. And that’s coming from someone with a full-time job and a family. I count myself lucky if I can play an hour a day, and the PS5’s game release schedule was too sparse for me.

Nah, it’s a legit good and demanding game

I use JetBrains Rider for dotnet (with Vim emulation), VS Code for general misc code editing (with Vim emulation), and NeoVim for quick in-terminal edits and Git workflows. I even have vi-mode enabled in my terminals, but I haven’t bothered trying to do it in browser yet.

My experience is that modal editing is only a little faster, but it’s much more comfy, even fun! I enjoy coding with modal editing much more so than modeless. Being able to zip around the code without having to move my fingers to the arrow cluster just feels nice.

In my personal experience, it’s a little faster but not a huge speed difference. However, it’s much more pleasant and ergonomic. I enjoy the act of modal editing much more than modeless.

True, that is surprising and makes everything worse. It’s probably controlled by a setting that none of those engineers knows how to change, based on the lack of knowledge described here.

This sounds 100% credible, based on the outcomes we can see

Sounds like classic junior engineer shit. “Let’s do a big rewrite!” Followed by everything going to shit because they don’t how to create good maintainable software architecture and for whatever reason there weren’t enough senior engineers around to show them the way.

Seriously, it doesn’t sound great, but it sounds about what you might expect wiring up a new UI widget in WPF or whatever the latest thing for native Windows is. Sounds like what would happen if you started developing a Windows app using the Microsoft scaffolding and never applied any kind of software architecture beyond that and it just grew and grew into a big ball of mud. Exactly what I would expect given the quality of so many of their frameworks, and I say that as a professional dotnet software engineer.

🎼 My boys are otherwise engaged, so I’m gonna have to bring it all myself now 🎵

I’ve been there. It’s great!

Just install Mint Cinnamon. It’s super approachable and Steam works great on it.

Oh good, FREE SLOP FOR ALL!

Same! It’s a good life.