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Very fun, but I'm horrible at this

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I love the idea. However, the blue bird thing that's floating on the screen is very annoying. There should be a better way to advertise yourself ( and who's gonna use Xitter anyway? ).

This is clearly illegal

There are some space between windows when using this, which create some komorebis

From “their foundation web page”

> Take control of your data with our end-to-end encrypted email, VPN, cloud storage, password manager and calendar.

I think it’s pretty obvious?

It’s even horrible with this change

It might be helpful when accessing news websites outdoor (since my internet provider rate limits hard). It’s basically a proxy, right?

I’m not even going to try though because there’s a signup wall.

Yeah that’s exactly what I thought just after finding out it uses whisper for transcribing. Why not use it when it’s already transcribed?

Cool, but I want those titles to be distinguishable

Do you think C has a better syntax compared to Rust? I'm honestly not sure about this. It surely heavily depends on your preferences, though. Generally speaking, what do you think?

How is it compared to manim?

It looks suspicious, although you may not intended.

Openness and transparency are the main factors of choosing, especially those software that requires access to mic and cameras.

I hope it isn’t just a re-invention of NixOS (or worse).

ThinkPad E14 Gen 5, which I ordered recently (using student discount), have memory slots as well. It also has 2nd SSD slot.

Thank you all for the informative advices. Here is the summary for those who are in the same situation:

1. Run Windows on Linux by using VM

for the applications you can’t run on Linux

Risks:

* some softwares may attempt to detect VMs and refuse running

* Anything what needs to touch hardware may not work.

2. separate "data" partition on D:

3. back up %APPDATA% and %USERPROFILE%

4. learn chocolatey, scoop or winget

Winget should be good enough

5. Don’t worry about C:\Program Files

6. (Mixed) Use/Don’t use Ansible (or saltstack/salt)

Use:

* Allows you to setup a new machine quickly and consistently when one breaks, get stolen, or lost in an inconvenient time.

* You can get a clean and consistent development environment so that you do not depend on anything accidentally installed on the machine.

* If you define specialised roles, create test playbooks for those individual roles, use these roles to compose more complex playbooks, and offload logic to custom ansible modules that are written in python, you won't wrestle with heavy logic in the template or playbook layer.

* installing software and pulling some configs and scripts down is fine

Don’t use:

* You will spend your days fighting a mix of yaml and Jinja.

* You will end up looking at Python errors because there are no static types.

* errors are cryptic.

7. Use WSL2

You need 32gb of ram, but ram is cheap so choose a good thinkpad

8. Debloat with Recommended Tweaks

Run

irm christitus.com/win | iex

from Administrator Terminal (Powershell)

The link leads to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/mai...

VirusTotal

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/709834b0e003b6bb546cf16e...

9. Get [PowerToys](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys)

10. Use Devbox for containered environment

https://www.jetpack.io/devbox

11. Dual-Booting Linux and Windows

If you use physically separated drives, you don’t need partitioning.

12. Dedicated Windows machine for class

Yes it sure would be the cleanest solution but I prefer one device for everything

13. keep a git repository with all dot files in it

Many people suggested that using virtualization is the way, otherwise just let Windows be Windows.

Also, backing up seems to be a good practice.

I’m planning to write a blog about this, if it worked.

Again, thank you all for the helps!

I’m probably going to buy Thinkpad (I’ve been thinking this as the only option before I open this thread, actually).

I was talking about Thinkpad X13 Gen 4, but yours seems to be better in terms of cost. I don’t really like numerical pads, though.

I think I’m going to learn software engineering and electronics. I’ve been using VSCode + PlatformIO for ESP32 programming and I probably wouldn’t change this.

There are many software out there that requires configurations for better experience, so it’s an inevitable problem.

I’ve been just trying out different options listed on the official manual. Options are searchable by ctrl-f. I’d recommend you to use home-manager as well.

https://daiderd.com/nix-darwin/manual/index.html

> I don’t understand what you’re referring to about configuration. Do you mean setting for networking, peripherals and reg edits to get rid of those darn folders for ‘games’ and ‘videos’?

Basically everything, including ones that you mentioned. Networking, for example, have these options (link below)

https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=23.11&from=0&size=5...

peripherals are typically managed by “home-manager”

Registry in this context is specific to Windows so I don’t know. Environment variables are configurable.

Dual-booting requires partitioning so I personally don’t really like it.

I don’t know. They specify the requirements in a pdf file downloaded from their website, and it just says MacOS/Chromebook/iPad is not appropriate.

Interesting. I’ll look into it

I tried that before, but it’s not very clean, is it? That way, I still need to deal with “Windows”.

And I think laptops with 32gb of RAM are too expensive for me.

Can’t wait to play Call of Duty on this thing

That's a good point. According to their privacy policy:

> We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

Understand and analyze how you use our website

Develop new products, services, features, and functionality

So, maybe. It's not clarified that they will use the data for training their AI though, that's possible.

https://typehero.dev/privacy

I hate nim for depriving me of the joy to use tabs instead of spaces. It's just... unreasonable.

I really hope uBo for Safari would get some love thanks to chrome banning

> the pool of engineers with C++ background is much larger than the pool of Rust developers

Well that's pointless.

A batch file that turns on all the "geeky features" will do

> My computer, my rules.

YouTube server's not running on your computer.

The implementations are pretty neat. Especially this one.

https://httpraccoons.com/418