quickslowdown

I don't know how you're confused enough to read this as some kind of libertarian bend, but I'm not interested in the genre of political fantasy libertarianism exists in. I'm talking about the reality of the current administration, & how it's never been a good idea to send this trove of highly personal data to a private corporation with a profit motive.

It's kind of the opposite of a libertarian dream.

There are plenty of juicy tidbits of info in your genetics that an insurance company would be very interested in having to not have to pay you when you need them, info that wouldn't be in a blood panel.

I think my frustration with the people willing to send their data is that there's the "ideal world" where sequencing your DNA shouldn't lead to things like your government or insurance provider using your genetics against you.

And I'm frustrated because I haven't trusted my government or these companies to be responsible with that data even before it was glaringly obvious they wouldn't. So now here we are in the "I told you so" phase, and it just sucks how much of this data is already out there, ripe for misuse. And now it's just too late.

This sounds like a great safeguard, for an administration that respects laws & precedent. Which we don't have right now.

The ACA may very well not be long for this world.

Uv addresses all of your complaints in an elegant way. It's ok if you don't understand its purpose, this list is confusing to me, it's incredibly specific and barely related to uv.

I have tried Pixi, I was a big fan, but at the time it involved a LOT of manually editing text files & I didn't want to deal with that. And now I have a hard time imagining installing from Conda could possibly be faster than the sheer speed of uv

You'll get it when your insurance company bought your profile and automatically added a ton of pre existing conditions to the list of things they won't cover for you. Or when the government decides to start rounding people up based on ancestry or health conditions.

It'll be way too late by then, but at least you'll get it.

It must be nice to live in a country that gives even 1 single shit about your privacy.

Chrome/Chromium is not a bad browser, and that's not what the commentor you're replying to said. The chromium family all uses a single browser engine. It's bad for the health of the web if everyone uses the same engine. If everyone uses the same engine, any bug, vulnerability, or engine quirk is experienced by EVERYONE if there's only 1 browser.

I have a spare laptop I could ship, it's running Linux now and cannot "officially" run Win11. It's a little older, Lenovo X1 Carbon with a chipped case & wonky touch bar for the Fn keys, but it works perfectly fine.

If you're interested and want to drop a way to contact you, I'll figure out a way to ship it to you. Otherwise, as much as I loathe sending you to Facebook, the local "buy nothing" groups another commentor recommended sounds like a good place to start.

Good luck!

It's pretty fucking empty when the peanut gallery wants to quarterback from the sidelines.

Ok

Pithy hand waving aside, yes, those are the stakes right now.

As an American, I 100% agree. This is extremely frustrating. This community has way too many people who are far too comfortable, complaining about how an authoritarian government is making their comfortable lives more difficult.

The current government is exhausting. That's the point. It's so frustrating hearing people complain instead of taking action. Things are harder for everyone, a lot of people here have lived too many decades without any real form of struggle and it shows in the things they complain about & how they frame the current reality.

Yes, it is. At this moment in time, none of us get the luxury of a quiet, simple life. Burying your head in the sand & refusing to engage with the world around you is a choice, a tacit support of what's keeping you from that ideal life you want.

It's a very tone deaf & privileged stand to complain about how an authoritarian government is making your life harder. If you're not being mistakenly imprisoned or actively hunted, the options are to join the resistance, or put your tail between your legs, let the government trample others' rights (and by proxy, your rights), and try to fool yourself into thinking you can just let things blow over.

If you're not joining in the resistance and you're instead choosing to sit out the fight for your freedoms & rights, you don't get to criticize the people who ARE fighting. They're fighting for themselves & their loved ones, and for you, whether you join in or not.

Because we have the resources to support suppressing diseases that can outbreak and spread back home. I'm sure you can find a selfish reason to frame any one of these global aid programs, most of them are a fraction of the cost versus the alternative, diseases & unnecessary mortality have far reaching effects.

Uv works fine with tox, but have you tried nox? I only dipped my toes in tox, but I found nox around the same time and gravitated to it. I replaced PDM's "scripts" concept with nox sessions. I have a project where most of the functionality is nox sessions I call in CI pipelines. Writing sessions in pure python opens so many doors.

I came to uv from pdm, and the only reason I switched is the sheer speed and simplicity of uv. Pdm is such a great utility, and it can use uv as the package solver, but uv still has it beat on raw speed, and it feels simpler to use (whether or not it actually is).

My complaint is about the features being added to these apps at all, not that they're paid or "useful."

Make a new app, "notepad AI" or whatever, and let the rubes use it after coughing up some pocket change.

I've been using Pinta, but I find it slow to open (Paint is also slow). Is paint.net quick to open? I'm talking 1-3 seconds; Pinta & Paint take 6-10 seconds. Granted, this is on a work machine with a bunch of AV and other things slowing it down.

This looks cool, am I missing the Windows client, or is it only available on *nix systems?

"Cwotch" and "Bloodwed"

I can't wait for the next AI winter. I've got my coat ready for when everyone realizes the hype train they've jumped on is headed straight off a cliff.

For those looking to pester me with sealioning & strawmen arguments, I'm not interested. This is unsustainable and will come crashing down. If you have a retort locked & loaded, save it for 5-10 years & come back, we can discuss if this was another Silicon Valley snake oil frenzy or the real deal once every company overleveraged on AI has crashed & the rubble pile has stopped smoking.

Decades of hearing literally everyone but current jeep wrangler owners saying it?

You can control dependencies per platform

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/dependencies/#pl...

Not sure if it's as granular as you might need

I highly, highly recommend uv. It solves & installs dependencies incredibly fast, and the CLI is very intuitive once you've memorized a couple commands. It handles monorepos well with the "workspaces" concept, it can replace pipx with "uv tool install," handle building & publishing, and the docker image is great, you just add a FROM line to the top and copy the bin from /uv.

I've used 'em all, pip + virtualenv, conda (and all its variants), Poetry, PDM (my personal favorite before switching to uv). Uv handles everything I need in a way that makes it so I don't have to reach for other tools, or really even think about what uv is doing. It just works, and it works great.

I even use it for small scripts. You can run "uv init --script <script_name.py>" and then "uv add package1 package2 package3 --script <script_name.py>". This adds an oddly formatted comment to the top of the script and instructs uv which packages to install when you run it. The first time you run "uv run <script_name.py>," uv installs everything you need and executes the script. Subsequent executions use the cached dependencies so it starts immediately.

If you're going to ask me to pitch you on why it's better than your current preference, I'm not going to do that. Uv is very easy to install & test, I really recommend giving it a try on your next script or pet project!

I'd be curious how much Jack Daniels has donated to their own demise.

I'm just curious who they think will buy their shit when the whole market has no income. I guess nobody has ever accused a CEO of having foresight beyond the next 3 months.