Highly recommend fly.io as well; I started an elixir app for a client and decided to use fly.io and very impressed with how easy it is with the feature set so far.
Even after reading the Wikipedia article [1] I'm a bit confused what the relevance is, unless it has to do with Christian pacifism, but even then it would be nice to have context of some sort.
And I had no clue this site existed, but Anabaptist World news has no exciting news related to anything tech [2] (though that is kinda expected).
I did hear this week that Autodesk Construction Cloud is currently banned from military projects (was in use and is not currently permitted) because of something to do with security policies; but I didn't find out what exactly was in violation, does anyone happen to know what the issue is/was?
I use it for servers because of the stability. For me, that's the key differentiating factor. I set a server up and it will keep running indefinitely, with easy sysupgrade, syspatch, and updates. I haven't had that same experience with Linux servers. Rock solid foundation with ease of use and administration is great.
If you run any (Debian-derived) system for more than 5 years, you will run into plenty of these issues. They're always subtly different (the thing that breaks is not the same), but it will absolutely break somehow.
I work with the KDE virtual desktops grid with a 3x2 arrangement and wrap around on a 32" curved screen. I've found it very useful to put the same windows in the same grid squares and have hotkeys to easily go between. I know exactly the keystrokes ahead of time to get to the window I want and don't have to move my neck to get there. I can tile them, since I've got plenty of space on the one large screen, but usually the 6 virtual desktops are good enough. I've tried multiple monitors before, but couldn't get into it.
That's pretty much exactly my setup. On top of that I make sure I can do most important things with just my left hand: I use Ctrl+F1/2/3 as is default in KDE (Firefox on F1, editor of F2 usually), but then I rebind stuff to the Windows key: Win+W maximises a window, Win+A tiles to the left and Win+S tiles right. Kinda unrelated, but I also rebind Konsole's "Clear Scrollback and Reset" to Ctrl+Shift+X because I use it before running compilers and stuff, so I can easily find the actual start of the command's output.
I triple boot; there are things I can only really do on Windows with full support (commercial art programs, Unreal Engine), but for software development and general usage Linux wins hands down; even the ability to switch out a wm and have it customized for my workflow is a major win, and the command line utilities and environment aren't even comparable. My third is OpenBSD, since I run that on my servers.
I second this. When I saw that they were moving to subscription I was suspicious, but with the fall-back license and discounts for subsequent years' updates, I'm very happy with it. I have the All Products Pack and love it.
Document generation from Word Templates (yakdocs.com) & stripe analytics dashboard w/ SQL queries (yak-mu.com), both use Kotlin on the JVM w/ Java WebToolkit (https://webtoolkit.eu/jwt) because of familiarity, kotlin's expressiveness to share components & so that everything is written serverside; OpenBSD as the base operating system because of simplicity and good defaults.
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