brainw0rms [they/them]

That’s actually pretty cool. I was born with one of my adult molars missing and always wished this was possible. Hope the results turn out positively.

So are you saying you think western sanctions have been working as intended, then? You haven’t actually stated anything that refutes what others in this thread have said. I only ask because Russia seems to be doing fine economically, all things considered. Germany and the rest of Europe that were/are dependent on Russian exports, though, not so much…

Care to elaborate?

Personally I don’t like reading news very much, I just keep various live news feeds up in the background while I do other things. Typically Al Jazeera English, but they rerun segments pretty often throughout the day, at which point I’ll just turn it off, or switch over to CGTN. Occasionally I’ll watch MSNBC or CNN if they aren’t being ultra cringe (rare occurrence) for more US focused coverage, though I can hardly stand to watch either for very long.

I use a Macbook Pro because they are much more performant and have way longer battery life compared to a similarly priced Windows laptop, no other reason. There is just nothing in the x86 realm that is even comparable to what Apple silicon offers, and Windows on ARM offerings just aren’t really there yet. I use a Windows desktop and an Android phone, though.

I’m curious what you think Navalny stood for, which you claim to totally support? Spoilers, he was an ultra far-right nationalist piece of human garbage.

Be installed on any PC I own

I’m in this article and I don’t like it

I guess it depends on your threat model, but if you’re dealing with mission critical proprietary code then it should really never be leaving your own companies infrastructure, imo. If for some reason it is necessary to use enterprise cloud hosting, established actors like Github, Gitlab or even Bitbucket still seem like the obvious choice.

The issue is this “Gitea Ltd.” company (or is it “CommitGo Inc.” now? honestly pretty confusing…) which appears to have been created with the singular purpose of monetizing Gitea, appeared out of thin air with no input from the community that actually develops Gitea. They’re basically saying “you can’t trust those other smelly hosts that have existed for years and have contracts with tons of huge companies, but you should definitely trust us with your stuff bro!”. Seems off to me.

By all means please go on, don’t let me stop you from making a fool of yourself.

damn you typed a lot of words just to be completely incorrect.

Takes like this are so bizarre to me ngl. I highly respect developers of free software - especially those that give up their time without any compensation. However, at the end of the day people are going to use what they know works best for them. If that’s the free alternative for you, then great! But digging your heels in the ground and only using certain software - not because it’s better functionally or in any material way, but only because it’s free, at the expensive of your own productivity (or worse, the productivity of your peers because now they have to deal with your broken shit) is incredibly childish. No one actually cares in real life. Being a smug open-source zealot, and belittling people who don’t have the same narrow perspective isn’t “making a stand,” or really doing anything besides making you sound insufferable lol. Saying this as someone who’s contributed to and maintained several FOSS projects, as well as commercial ones. (edit for clarity: I’m using free/open-source/FOSS interchangeably, not referring to freeware.)

or for people who don’t have a week to dedicate to learning utterly deranged nonsense, just use sublime merge and never look back.

Beyond Compare 4 - various types of file comparison and merging operations.

WinDirStat - makes it easy to identify and clean up files taking up your drive space.

Everything - I resisted using this for a long time and wish I hadn’t.

Joplin - note taking app with markdown editor.

QTranslate - discontinued freeware, most recent version that I’m aware of is 6.10.0. very useful translation app that supports Google, DeepL, Yandex and others.

RapidCRC (Unicode) - file hash creation and verification

also shout out to Windows Firewall, not really a new thing but many people don’t bother learning how to use it properly.

I almost always use PowerShell (Core) for automation/scripting things that don’t warrant an entire “application”. It’s as powerful as you need it to be, but I wouldn’t recommend it if you aren’t already familiar with .NET and its ecosystem.