Speaking as someone who does their development in Vim (with YouCompleteMe / NerdTree / CTags installed), that's pretty much exactly what it looks like when I'm coding to this day. OP recognises elegance when they see it.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Yeah, indeed. Steam language breakdown is about 40% English, 30% Chinese, 10% Russian, 5% Spanish, 15% other. Chinese speakers overwhelmingly use Windows rather than Linux, so choosing 'English only' basically doubles the Linux percentage.
I'd be interested to know why Linux has such bad update in Chinese-speaking regions. (It's the lingua franca for much of Asia, so not just China, just largely China.) Obviously, inertia plays a part - easier to move to Linux if you know someone else that can help you, which if there's no-one then you might be a bit stuck. Are the fonts crappy? Are the input methods greatly superior in Windows?
Sorry, putting the two things together, my mistake. My router doesn't let you specify the DNS server directly, but it does allow you to specify a different DHCP server, which can then hand out new IPs with a different DNS server specified, as you say. Bit of a house of cards. DHCP server in order to be the DNS server too.
The router provided with our internet contract doesn't allow you to run your own firmware, so we don't have anything so flexible as what OpenWRT would provide.
Short answer; in order to Pi-hole all of the advertising servers that we'd be connecting to otherwise. Our mobile phones don't normally allow us to choose a DNS server, but they will use the network-provided one, so it sorts things out for the whole house in one go.
Long, UK answer: because our internet is being messed with by the government at the moment, and I'd prefer to be confident that the DNS look-ups we receive haven't been altered. That doesn't fix everything - it's a VPN job - but little steps.
The DHCP server provided with the router is so very slow in comparison to running our own locally, as well. Websites we use often are cached, but connecting to something new takes several seconds. Nothing as infuriating as slow internet.
Big shout out to Windows 11 and their TPM bullshit.
Was thinking that my wee "Raspberry PI home server" was starting to feel the load a bit too much, and wanted a bit of an upgrade. Local business was throwing out some cute little mini PCs since they couldn't run Win11. Slap in a spare 16 GB memory module and a much better SSD that I had lying about, and it runs Arch (btw) like an absolute beast. Runs Forgejo, Postgres, DHCP, torrent and file server, active mobile phone backup etc. while sipping 4W of power. Perfect; much better fit than an old desktop keeping the house warm.
Have to think that if you've been given a work desktop machine with a ten-year old laptop CPU and 4GB of RAM to run Win10 on, then you're probably not the most valued person at the company. Ran Ubuntu / GNOME just fine when I checked it at its original specs, tho. Shocking, the amount of e-waste that Microsoft is creating.
Heroic keeping all your GOG games up-to-date is a revelation, and it can keep the GloriousEggroll proton fork up-to-date where Steam can use it too. Fixes the most serious irritations of GOG-on-Linux right there, no reason not to prefer it over Steam (if they have it).
Agree completely. Don't think the Swiss have any problem finding someone to look after their money, tho - they've always been the first point of call for nazis and nazi collaborators.
The gameplay is inscrutable, but who cares when you've got such banging tunes? Very start to very end, best soundtrack on the NES.
The amount of fuel required to launch them into the sun is more than is required to eject the from the solar system completely, it's not very efficient.
Although putrid, they remain a valuable source of protein and nutrients. As a more carbon-efficient alternative, I suggest tying some waste stone around their feet and chucking them into the sea. Something in the depths will eat them.
Set up us the bomb...
Only has the functionality that you need, everything is obviously in its place. Runs incredibly quickly without using a lot of resources, and then gets out your way when you're trying to do stuff. No settings hidden away because they might confuse novice users. No bullshit shoehorned in by managers.
Apart from the ugly font rendering, this might be as good as the Windows UI ever got. WinNT looks the same and has almost incomparable stability improvements, but only if you've the right hardware to run it. WinXP starts the downhill slide with 'appearance over functionality' and the hot mess of the control panel.
I could live with how OP has things set up here; my own copy of Plasma doesn't look a million miles from this.
They are remarkably expensive, but 'microchip reading cat feeders' do exist, that only open for the pet with the correct chip in their back. There's a token for their collars if they're not chipped, too. Made mealtime with our three much less fraught - we'd have ended up with one spherical cat and two rake-thin ones, otherwise. Also make medical treatments easier - you know who's the only one who could have eaten it.
https://www.surepetcare.com/en-gb/pet-feeder/microchip-pet-feeder