https://www.androidpolice.com/signal-threema-nothing-to-do-with-whatsapp-eu/

No, Signal announced they won’t implement interoperable messaging.

So basically GNU style formatting?

(maybe the python version helps convince a few people it isn’t malware?)

A screencap on peertube would convince me it does not blow my ears off.

It was a known bug, I assume it is fixed now that Linus merged it.

Curious too. I tried running bcachefs last year and with the combination of compression and encryption everything ended up corrupted very very fast.

and this has led to a rampant monopolisation of the init system.

You will be shocked if you find out that virtually every distro runs on the same kernel. Pure monopolisation! For the freedom to choose!

Gnome. Feels most polished and least cluttered to me.

C C C

Gosh, I love and hate C.

I prefer to define the UI in application code, because separation introduces a lot of overhead for bindings.

Nevertheless, I think it is important separate UI code from business logic.

Yes they do. Microcontrollers contain a microprocessor that is optimized for branching instructions and already include memory and peripheral interfaces which are connected directly to the processor bus (opposed to general purpose CPUs).

Gnome Boxes is also great for simple stuff on Linux. Besides there is virt-manager as GUI for libvirt. On macOS UTM is a good free and open source tool.

Fedora is a great distro for development (used by Torvalds himself ;-).

If RAM is a problem you could try using ZRAM. Unlike the name suggests, this compresses data in RAM instead of swapping to disk, so that more data fits in there than normally available. Fedora for example uses zswapzram by default with a value of max(0.5*RAM, 4GB) but can be configured to utilise more.

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EDIT: confused zswap and zram

I made the switch too earlier this year from a Samsung Galaxy S10e to an iPhone 12 and I agree to all of your points.

The only thing I liked much more on Android were the notifications. Android’s notification are so much more flexible with the option to customise each different kind of notification for each app, to have silent notifications and “collapsed” ones that do not show a marker in the status bar.

Speaking of that, it is annoying that on iOS there is no indicator in the status bar if you have a notification, so that you always have to pull down to check for new ones.

Beside that, Apple ecosystem is so incredibly well integrated and in my opinions feels overall smoother than Android.

EDIT: changed tone a little bit

In addition to what was already mentioned: reptyr

Qwant (but I hate all search engines nowadays)

Good to know. In Debian and Gentoo nano is the only editor by default.

I don’t feel like this is true anymore. Many distros do not ship vi(m) anymore but only nano.

I recently gave it a try after seeing dessalines recommending it. It is pretty cool but years of vim muscle memory won’t go away so easily :D