Fun fact!

The £/s/d system comes from Charlemagne in the 8th century to unify currency in his Frankish empire, not Roman times! A Carolingian pound of pure silver (libra/pfund, about 408g) was divided in 20 shillings (solidus/schilling), themselves divided into 12 pennies (denarius/pfenning). Only pfennings were actually minted, the other two were accounting units.

Yes, I installed Fedora and everything was working OOTB. Nothing to tinker with, no issue with sound, WiFi, Bluetooth or external screens. Then I moved this SSD to a new AMD laptop and it worked perfectly. It even switched from Intel to AMD utils by itself.

So disappointing.

I’ve put my dad on Bluefin (same project as Bazzite). It’s perfect. Major upgrades are the same as weekly updates. Transparent and uneventful. It’s been almost 2 years and zero major complaints. He even finally accepted to ditch his ancient MacBook Air since I installed the Affinity suite on his Linux laptop. It was his last holdover.

Yeah nah I’m not replacing a device that will stop being supported in a few years by another device that will stop being supported in a few years. Besides, fuck nvidia.

Well, technically the open source kernel behind all Apple’s OSs is still (mostly) open source. It’s useless as is, but it exists. So yay for BSD licences, I guess?

Most of them are just a frontend for upower anyway.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Geocities pages suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

They always were Linux-friendly. Some hardware choices like the fingerprint reader were directly related to Linux compatibility. Firmware and UEFI updates have always been available on Linux. They sponsor a lot of FOSS projects (some of them unfortunately linked to nazi dipshits, stirring a lot of controversy, but 99% of them are clean).

They may not have explicitely advertised Linux before, but they dropped a lot of hints.

I don’t think you understand the point of an immutable distro.

Ouch. And I guess it’s slightly more involved than removing 5 screws and a connector…

I think you’re supposed to use brew on uBlue.

Doesn’t change the fact that the new input cover is 200€, vs 100€ for the 2nd gen one and discounted 45€ for the 1st gen.

I hope so. I’m still rooting for them

Man I was really hoping for a haptic touchpad compatible with the current input cover… At least they kept the Pro input cover compatible with the regular chassis, although it’s a very pricey upgrade.

My 7040u is rock solid on Fedora. I’ve seen some pretty bad shit with the Ryzen AI series, but people tend to only post about issues.

Tuxedo (and most of “European” and/or “Linux” brands like Slimbook, XMG/Schenker etc.) are rebranded Tongfang or Clevo laptops though. They are neither designed nor made in Europe.

It was a long time ago when code reviews were not yet standard practice everywhere. He was also protected by one of the few customer’s employees in the team, who was almost universally hated, because they bonded over some controversial political views.

Yeah nowadays this code would never make it past a PR.

STORY TIME.

I once worked with a guy who spent so much time and energy trying to prove he has smarter than any of us. That smug bastard was a senior contractor paid twice as much as us lowly regular contractors. I once had to do some simple evolutions on one of his projects. Seriously it was one of the worst shit code I’ve ever seen.

Every single line had to be a 200-character long hack of nested functions, ternary operators and conditional operations. It’s like this condescending fucker was living in a hackathon where the most simple shit had to be implemented in the most brain-fucking, unreadable, convoluted manner, in as few lines as possible. His code was a literal fucking brick wall of symbols. It’s like this fucking idiot never heard of if…else blocks and/or decided that ternary operators were the only way to do conditional statements.

This cunt was fucking proud that none of us rubes was able to maintain his shitstain code. He even gave me a smug smile when I started working on this dumpster fire.

Anyway, I trashed the whole thing and rewrote it from scratch in a “dumb” way. Lots of air, simple unitary instructions, a code so simple a non-tech person could probably follow it along with little difficulty. Oh, I also fixed several major bugs and design flaws while reimplementing it.

Guess which version is still in production and has been evolved and maintained by more than a dozen contributors since then?

Funny thing is, when he eventually got booted from the project, we realized that nobody could maintain his code, not even himself. Since his main project wasn’t in my department I barely looked at it when he was here, but when I was asked to take a look, a simple commit history check told me everything I needed to know why every single feature took fucking weeks to be released and had some weird-ass edge-case regressions in unrelated places.

Because it’s a surveillance state baby. Everything is uploaded to a central server so our corporate overlords can monitor our usage.

Agentic IDEs like Cursor track usage and how much of the code is LLM vs human generated.

Which probably means it tracks every single keystroke inside it. Which rightfully looks like a privacy and/or corporate code ownership nightmare.

But hey at least our corporate overlords are happy to see the trend go up. The fact that we tech people were all very unsubtly threatened into forced agentic IDEs usage despite vocal concerns about code quality drop, productivity losses and increasing our dependence on US tech (especially openly nazi tech) says it all.