space_comrade

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[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Eh I've seen colleagues that use Vim heavily do their work and they're like at best 10-20% faster than me when it comes to pure text input/editing, honestly not worth the effort to switch to Vim for me.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Just switch to VSCode or something similar, it has enough features and shortcuts that will quickly make you like at least 80% as productive as you were in Vim. It even has a Vim mode so you can wean yourself off of it more easily.

Honestly never got the appeal of Vim, you need to spend so much time learning and configuring it only to squeeze out a little bit of extra productivity out of it when compared to a "normal" editor/IDE. I don't see why it's so important to be able to edit and write code as quickly as possible since most of the time you're going to be debugging or looking at the code or reading docs.

EDIT: Just noticed you said you don't code a lot. I think most of what I said still applies, I imagine you don't spend 99% of the time in the editor typing away.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

It's pretty close, you just don't want to admit it because you've been taught to hate that word.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's pretty close, not sure why you're being so belligerent over this.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Interesting perspective, never really looked at it like that, I've always just interacted with the corporatized bullshit implementations of Agile.

It seems Agile really did have a kernel of worker self management in it but the original people behind it didn't have the right ideological framework to realize that this is what they're trying to achieve.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Agile is the anarchism of software development: sounds nice on a high level but basically no theoretical foundation behind it and thus in practice everybody makes it whatever the fuck they want it to be.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Strange, usually things just work there considering the limited hardware variety. Is it an older Mac? I'm typing this on an M2 macbook and it works perfectly.

Anyway try to dig into the config and check if you're using hardware rendering: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox_Hardware_acceleration

If it turns out you're using software rendering try forcing hardware rendering on: https://jamcity.helpshift.com/hc/en/6-genies-and-gems/faq/5737-how-do-i-enable-hardware-acceleration-on-my-browser/

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Sounds to me like some hardware issue, I've literally never experienced any of this in the last 5 years on Firefox. My guess is considering it works fine with other browsers the graphics drivers are a bit wonky, or maybe Firefox is falling back to software rendering for some reason. Are you using Linux or Windows?

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Wym? Youtube works just fine for me with uBlock Origin. Very rarely there's some wonkiness but nothing unbearable.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For what I see as a helpdesk guy, most problems that are encountered origin from Windows being Windows, not tech knowleadge of some person.

Yeah but things just work by default more often on Windows than on Linux. "Linux being Linux" is also the most common cause of Linux problems.

Linux usually does give you the tools to fix problems more easily than Windows but that's where the tech savviness comes in.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Just bail out, it wasn't meant to be. I tried a similar thing with family a few times and they always went back to Windows.

Linux is unfortunately not for people that aren't at least a bit tech savvy. If you insist on them using Linux you're gonna be on call to fix their shit all the time.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Not sure what you mean exactly. The Windows workstation machine could be accessed remotely from anywhere. I mean sure you're gonna have to hook it up to a monitor to set it up but after that you shouldn't have to access it directly, at least not often.

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