I would highly recommend the Framework 13. I’ve had it for a bit more than a year now. The only problem I’ve faced was that the WiFi card was a bit unstable in EndeavourOS. But that was fixed by replacing wpa_supplicant with iwd. (I hear that it was only an issue for the AMD version, and that it’s fixed now.) Battery life is fine for me. I limit charging at 70%, and that usually lasts me the whole day.

I love how Linux friendly it is. On my last laptop (an HP), it was pretty much impossible to upgrade the BIOS from inside Linux. Now it’s trivial. There’s also good support available when you face issues. (Both from Framework, and community members.) The hardware is pretty nice. I actually like how it’s MacBook-like, because it just looks nice in most settings. It’s portable too, I really hope they don’t make it bulkier like some folks here seem to demand.

There IS one of these for everything, eh?

AFAIK, it’s still in closed beta.

You’re spot on. The same people complain endlessly about Rust being used in the Linux kernel, even though the actual experts are happy with it. It’s just culture war bullshit.

I didn’t know how much of a change Lunduke had had until recently, when I watched a video by Nicco. I used to watch his Linux Sucks videos 4-5 years ago, and he genuinely seemed like a chill dude.

Ah that makes sense. To be fair tho, there’s a lot of unwarranted hate towards Rust so it can be hard to tell.

I hope you’re joking. If anything, Rust makes error handling easier by returning them as values using the Result monad. As someone else pointed out, they literally used unwrap in their code, which basically means “panic if this ever returns error”. You don’t do this unless it’s impossible to handle the error inside the program, or if panicking is the behavior you want due to e.g. security reasons.

Even as an absolute amateur, whenever I post any Rust to the public, the first thing I do is get rid of unwrap as much as possible, unless I intentionally want the application to crash. Even then, I use expect instead of unwrap to have some logging. This is definitely the work of some underpaid intern.

Also, Python is sloooowwww.

Here you go.

I use a few of them. There’s one to bring back YouTube dislikes, one to translate Lemmy links to my home instance, and another (self written) one to automatically change the YouTube share button to copy which copies the link in s single click.

There are a few more, but these are the most useful ones to me, I guess. I use ViolentMonkey as my script manager.

Also, I hate the name of the column. The frequent mention of the name “Who, Me?” just takes me out.