varsock

for the dummies (like me) that can't read the room, especially online, a sarcasm tag /s goes a long way 🙃

you sound like a Microsoft engineer ;)

I agree with the sentiment but Google is an Ad business. Selling phones by itself does not financially support them.

GrapheneOS on Pixel is the most stable and secure way to have a modern mobile phone that is free of trackers (from google and apple alike).

I can't picture a better way to "stick it to the man" than 7 years of them unable to track and serve you ads

hahaha good point.

That colleague, keep in mind is a bit older, also has Vim navigation burned into his head. I think where he was coming from, all these new technologies and syntax for them, he much rather prefers right clicking in the IDE and it'll show him options instead of doing it all from command line. For example docker container management, Go's devle debugger syntax, GDB. He has a hybrid workflow tho.

After having spent countless hours on my Vim config only to restart everything using Lua with nvim, I can relate to time sink that is vim.

Had a distinguished collegue (from the Bell Lab days) say to me recently:

"IDEs take up a lot of RAM on my machine. Vim takes up a lot of squishy RAM in my head. I need squishy RAM to hold info relevant to problem solving, not options available in my tool chain."

As a former Vim user myself, I have to say I really dislike screensharing with coworkers who use Vim. They are walking me through code and shit pops up left and right and I don't know where it comes from or what it is I'm looking at. Code reviews are painful when they walk me through a large-ish PR.

These days, I tend to bring my vim navigation/key bindings to my IDE instead of IDE funcs to Vim. Hard to beat JetBrains IDEs, especially when you pay them to maintain the IDE functionality.

code is just text, so code editors are text editors.

What sets IDEs apart are their features, like debugger integrations, refactoring assists, etc.

I love command line ± Vim and used solely it for a large portion of my career but that was back when you had a few big enterprise languages (C/C++, Java).

With micro services being language agnostic, I find I use a larger variety of languages. And configuring and remembering an environment for rust, go, c, python etc. is just too much mental overhead. Hard to beat JetBrain's IDEs; now-a-days I bring my Vim navigation key bindings to my IDE instead of my IDE features to Vim. And I pay a company to work out the IDE features.

for the record, I am in the boat of, use whatever brings you the greatest joy/productivity.

wait until Google releases a new pixel this fall, buy "last year's" pixel at a discount and they are supported for 7 (?) years of updates (including firmware).

I would recommend GraphenesOS bc they only deal with android and pixel phones so there is a high level of compatibility and things rarely break. (In many cases GrapheneOS was more stable than Google's android, recently with the multiple profiles and memory bug). They also push fixes and security hardening upstream sometimes.

Anyway, GrapheneOS will support a Pixel for as long as the manufacturer (Google) releases firmware updates. So you have the potential of 7+ years of support from GrapheneOS.

I can always get behind a more open platform, but what is the appeal of codeburg over github?

EDIT: gitlab is also an option. Many companies use it internally and you can also have external accounts

How exactly does this make apple look bad?

sincere question, I am layer 3&4 network stack developer so I am quite out of the loop for mobile apss/web tech

don't insult children like that.

Yeah I was not a fan of paying for Spotify and them cramming ads of podcasts down my throat when I wanted to listen to music. Plus their shuffle is a joke. Music discovery was pretty sweet though