In the end I popped up the terminal and used some pot command with some flag I can’t remember to skip the login step on setup.

I reckon there is good chance you aren’t using windows 11 home though right?

Sorry answered it elsewhere, yep windows 11.

The forced update took forever and failed and then it also fucked out with the Microsoft account. It was legit 2 hours from boot to seeing a desktop. I wanted to skip the updates and the Microsoft account.

The start menu is full of ads for software I don’t want. If I buy software off you, stop trying to upsell me.

Yeah, sure. But I don’t run a shop anymore and just picked up an off the shelf machine from a retailer.

Turned it on, connected it to wifi, then it took forever to try and update itself, which failed, required another reboot, then made me sign in, which also failed, needed a reboot

I dont want a fucking ms account, I don’t want to wait for every update, just ask my name and take me to the desktop

I’ve been a full time dev since 2012 and needed a Mac, I had barely used windows over that time but beforehand ran a PC service business.

Anyway, Ive been using Linux as a daily driver for the past 6 months for reasons.

… The other day I got a new cheap laptop I needed to setup for run a single application.

Holy fuck what a shitshow.

It took me 2 hours just to get to the desktop. Shit didn’t work, bullshit login screens, ads everywhere.

It was a massive pile of dog shit.

After battling to get the system setup for the rest of the day I gave up, chucked Fedora Kinoite On it… Took 30 minutes from creating boot media to getting a desktop going, chucked the app I needed to run in a Flatpack, chucked it on a USB, and it was up and running.

No bullshit.

Just works.

Truly the year of the Linux desktop.

I’m a fan of AI, I know that’s unpopular here but I think it’s a cool tool.

But you need to know what you are doing and how to program. I’ve said before we are going to see sooo much of this

The reality is we will always need engineers. Certainly not ready yet, but we probably won’t always need “programmers” - which is a shame because I do get a kick out of solving a really complex problem in a super elegant way

Sucked in!

Android is Linux

At least own the libs

Honestly, one of the great uses for gen ai is “write me a script to diagnose this problem” and then pass the output back with “write me a script to fix it”

I don’t have the bandwidth in my life to diagnose and tinker for fun, and it’s really made a bunch of big annoying things easy.

I found KDE way more intuitive than gnome, even though I was last on a Mac before the switch. Perhaps pick a KDE distro.

Also maybe list here if you have any deal-breaker apps or workflows to the folks can say if it’s worth your effort.

“these lazy fucks in the government are using ai to come up with policy”

Also news outlet

“I am too lazy to do the laziest thing I’m angry about, even though it’s my literal job”

Claude code can make something that works, but it’s kinda over engineered and really struggles to make an elegant solution that maximises code reuse - it’s the opposite of DRY.

I’m doing a personal project at the moment and used it for a few days, made good progress but it got to the point where it was just a spaghetti mess of jumbled code, and I deleted it and went back to implementing each component one at a time and then wiring them together manually.

My current workflow is basically never let them work on more than one file at a time, and build the app one component at a time, starting at the ground level and then working in, so for example:

Create base classes that things will extend, Then create an example data model class, iterate on that architecture A LOT until it’s really elegant.

Then Ive been getting it to write me a generator - not the actual code for models,

Then (level 3) we start with be UI.layer, so now we make a UI kit the app will use and reuse for different components

Then we make a UI component that will be used in a screen. I’m using flutter as an example so It would be a stateless component

We now write tests for the component

Now we do a screen, and I import each of the components.

It’s still very manual, but it’s getting better. You are still going to need a human cider, I think forever, but there are two big problems that aren’t being addressed because people are just putting their head in the sand and saying nah can’t do it, or the clown op in the post who thinks they can do it.

1. Because dogs be clownin, the public perception of programming as a career will be devalued “I’ll just make it myself!” Or like my rich engineer uncle said to me when I was doing websites professionally - a 13 year old can just make a website, why would I pay you so much to do it. THAT FUCKING SUCKS. But a similar attitude has existed from people “I’ll just hire Indians”. This is bullshit, but perception is important and it’s going to require you to justify yourself for a lot more work.

2. And this is the flip side good news. These skills you have developed - it’s is going to be SO MUCH FUCKING HARDER TO LEARN THEM. When you can just say “hey generate me an app that manages customers and follow ups” and something gets spat out, you aren’t going to investigate the grind required to work out basic shit. People will simply not get to the same level they are now.

That logic about how to scaffold and architect an app in a sensible way - USING AI TOOLS - is actually the new skillset. You need to know how to build the app, and then how to efficiently and effectively use the new tools to actually construct it. Then you need to be able to do code review for each change.

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I’ve been a professional full stack dev for 15 years and dabbled for years before that - I can absolutely code and know what I’m doing (and have used cursor and just deleted most of what it made for me when I let it run)

But my frontends have never looked better.

I hope they just never fix it, just be like “yeah 🤷🏽it must be the R’s??? We are working on it”

No intern, it was St Luigi doing the gods work

Yeah, you know you can put CSS inline / in the header, and images can be base64 encoded and put in line as well.

Same with JavaScript. It’s probably a whole single page website with no ability to cache anything and can never be bigger than the context window

I get that everyone seems to be sticking ai in everything, but it’s just another tool and it’s here to stay. People thought the digital calculator was going to make everyone an idiot… And it probably did. That’s why the world is like it is.

Since I’ve switched to using SSH keys for all auth Ive had no problems I’m aware of. Plus I don’t need to remember a bunch of passwords.

But then I’ve had no training in this area. What do I know

I just think it’s delicious that this is playing out on twitter

To be fair Sony may have produced quality electronics but their tactics have always been anti consumer.

They always insist on proprietary everything and try to get first mover advantage for each new iteration of tech and then lock the market down. The problem is they hold out for so long with their proprietary formats that it makes their products unattractive. Case in point their memory cards.

Requiring a psn account is just another anti consumer control tactic by the company.

Except the “AI” part would be using a linear static formula to adjust the brightness of the RGB LEDs based on ambient light which only works when connected to the wifi and you must install a dodgy likely spyware app that requires a $49/yr subscription to keep it working.

The buttons would probably be a touchscreen though. Which is annoying because now you are running an ugly 2m USB C cable to the nearest outlet you needed to buy a 40w usb-pd charger for they didn’t mention you would need to buy on the box - you know, because we all just have the myriad USB charging technologies already in our homes.