It definitely is, and yes, you’re right, I should open a bug report.

But then again, you could make the argument that a user-friendly OS shouldn’t require developer level expertise that’s necessary for opening bug reports in the first place. After all, bug reports require a certain quality level that’s not obvious to newbies (like how to reproduce et cetera).

Absolutely. When I go to a bar or restaurant, I prefer a place that doesn’t look like a co-working space. Also, when I see anyone using a laptop in there, I’m out.

Unfortunately in Linux, UI tools often take away some of the transparency you get with the CLI tools they’re made for.

I’ve recently tried setting up a VPN connection to my workplace using the EndeavourOS configuration UI. It basically just said “can’t connect, haha, fuck you”, so I had to dig deeper. Finding out how to use the CLI commands necessary to identify and fix the problem took some time and effort, but in the end, I managed to set it up successfully (turned out most Windows admins still think l2tp is hot shit while the Linux world considers it obsolete).

In this case, UI wasn’t as user friendly as CLI, because it hid vital information that was necessary to solve the problem.

A better UI would probably have solved that problem quicker and easier. In an ideal world, you get intuitive GUI tools that cover all use cases and you still have the option to use the CLI if you want to dig deeper. So yeah, I agree with the point you’re making - Mint trying to be as user friendly as possible by offering accessible UI tools is a good thing and one of the reasons why Mint is so popular. (It’s also a reason why Windows sucks ass, because for most UI things the CLI equivalent is either non-existent or cryptic as hell…)

The point I’m making - GUI tools should always try and make using the CLI unnecessary. Taking away complexity without taking away functionality is the key, and as a consequence, those GUI tools will not be underappreciated for sure.

John Ecticut?

Still wrong hemisphere.

I know this seems unlikely and sounds outlandish, but I actually managed to jump to another employer in 2020 who wasn’t shitty and paid more. Don’t lose hope, everyone. They may be few and far between, but they exist.

Lemmy: We hate billionaires!

Me: Gabe Newell is a bill…

Lemmy: NOT THAT ONE.

When I was a little kid, one of those flying cunts stung my brother. So I vowed bitter revenge.

Over the years of my childhood, I caught dozens, if not hundreds of them with my net. Having caught one, I used to hold the net in front of a cross spider’s web, so that the wasp, triumphantly but mistakenly believing it had regained its freedom, had to fly straight into the web.

And then I watched the little asshole get destroyed. I’m pretty sure that to this day, I’m worshipped as a god by the local cross spider population.

Not an Ossi, you Flitzpiepe.

As a German I can confirm all stereotypes about us are completely true. We hate each other and ourselves, we only eat bratwurst and drink beer and we have no sense of humour whatsoever. My desktop wallpaper is a portrait of David Hasselhoff. I’m always punctual and I don’t know how to party, which makes sense because I work all day anyway.

Hope this helps.

Well, ideally you start new projects writing 100% Kotlin while only adding Kotlin code to older codebases you can’t get rid of. Personally, I don’t like mixing languages anyway and I would stay with Java in Java projects. One reason is the bloat argument you pointed out quite correctly.

True… but Kotlin makes Lombok quite unnecessary by having its concepts built in. It’s also worth to point out that null safety is opt-in in Java and opt-out in Kotlin.

Yes, there are things about Kotlin I don’t love either. But I still like how it was clearly developed having developer quality-of-life in mind.

Kotlin isn’t perfect and it gives the devs quite a lot of freedom. I would argue that if your Kotlin code is messy, that’s on you - but it will still be significantly less prone to failures like NPEs. Unless you opt out of null safety by using the dreaded ?-Operator.

NPEs are the reason why my team moved to Kotlin. Well, that and all the other myriad advantages Kotlin brings to the table.

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This man in Monty Python’s Life of Brian is none other than British comedy legend Spike Milligan, who, together with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, starred in the 1950s radio comedy show “The Goon Show”, which all members of the Pythons cited as their most important influence.

By coincidence Milligan was visiting his old World War II battlefields in Tunisia where the film was being made. The Pythons were alerted to this and he was included in the scene being filmed that morning.

Still sounds really great.

I’m German, and whenever someone here claims the British have bad food I mention all the fantastic chutneys and pickles you guys have over there. Particularly fond of a thing called “Glorious Garlic Pickle” by The Bay Tree. I wish I had the recipe because they don’t ship to mainland Europe.

The onions still do the heavy lifting, I guess, and “a few bottles of malt vinegar” sounds a little excessive.

I personally prefer pure caramelized onions without any other ingredients except a bit of salt, to be honest. Won’t keep as long in the fridge but is the most versatile.

Even then, a BMW would tailgate and flash its headlights at you on a German autobahn.