Wow, the entitlement of “I don’t want to do things myself, do extra work for me instead”.

screen doesn’t scroll

Screen (and any other muxer) can scroll just fine. You just have to learn how to do it in each one. Tmux, for example, is ctrl+b [ to enter scroll mode.

mistyped file operations

Get a good TUI file manager. I use and recommend ranger.

The solution for me is that I run Nextcloud on a Kubernetes cluster and pin a container version. Then every few months I update that version in my deployment yaml to the latest one I want to run, and run kubectl apply -f nextcloud.yml and it just does its thing. Never given me any real trouble.

Seems like this is a bug: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1427695/how-to-make-snap-firefox-use-locally-installed-fonts

Ok legit I’ve been writing terminal applications for years and seen this everywhere without being able to find it. Thanks!

because I’m objectively a terrible programmer.

Sounds like you know enough to know you don’t know that much, which means you’re a better programmer than you think!

disapprobation

TIL a new word. Thanks, stranger! 🙂

I run my NAS on TrueNAS, and it just has a built-in solution for taking ZFS snapshots, encrypting them, and shipping them to an S3-compatible storage.

However, for unraid, I think your easiest thing will be to use the rclone plugin

I use wasabi, it’s an Amazon s3 compatible storage solution, $5/month/TB with no network or access fees

Well, it’s terrible at factual things and counting, and even when it comes to writing code it will often hallucinate APIs and libraries that don’t exist - But when given very limited-scope, specific-domain problems with enough detail and direction, I’ve found it to be fairly competent as a rubber ducky for programming.

So far I’ve found ChatGPT to be most useful for:

1. Writing SQL. Seriously, it’s fantastic at writing SQL if you tell it the relevant schema and what you’re trying to achieve.
2. Brainstorming feature flow - Tell it the different parts of a feature, ask for thoughts on how the user should be guided through the process, and it does a decent job of suggesting ideas.
3. Generating alternative names/labels for buttons and such. “In X feature, I have a button that does Y when the user has Z. Currently I have that button labelled ‘Start Y’, but it feels robotic and impersonal. List 10 suggestions for what such a button could say to be more personal and friendly.” and the like. My favorite was a button that was labelled “Map Incoming Data to Job Details”. Wound up renaming the whole process to just “Job Ingestion” because it sounded so good.
4. Reformatting data. Give it a data structure and tell it you want that data in some other data structure, and it is really accurate at reformatting it. I don’t think I’d trust it with a huge amount of data that way, but for an unimportant one-off it was a nice time savings.

Emacs is a great os, just needs a good editor installed. Thank goodness for evil mode ;-)

Honestly I felt the same way for a long time, until I decided to just learn the motions. Now I couldn’t go back.

The combination of actions and motions makes it incredibly fast to edit code - Imagine you have a strong in double quotes that you want to change the double quotes to single quotes. There’s a plugin called vim-surround that combines with the basic motions and with my cursor before or within the strong, I can just type cs"' and it’s done.

Want to copy everything within a pair of parentheses? yi) … So many things like that.

Even for editing things like HTML, `cst delete surrounding tag. That will remove the tag around some content without changing the content.

(Neo)vim is incredibly important to my workflow these days and it feels like I write and edit code at the speed of thought.

Skill issue

I think the story is photoshop

The good old scunthorpe problem

Basically it’s a year in review of your Spotify listening

C U B E

Huh, I use terraform for my Proxmox clusters without any major issues. What kind of trouble does it give you?

Back in the distant past of 2008, a RuneScape player by the name of Icedpizza thought my complaints about driver problems on older hardware would be easily solved by this incredible thing I’d never heard of called Ubuntu. Downloaded 8.04 Hardy Heron and my life has never been the same since.

Little Caesars: It’s hot and ready!

Us: Is it good?

LC: It’s hot, and it’s ready.