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Surveying a pipeline, canal, electrical/communication line, rooftop. Drones are standard tools for site survey; you can inspect infrastructure without the same risk of human injury.

I've been using fundamentally the same Linux setup for over ten years now. I think the biggest change it went through was migrating the audio system to Pipewire, which took about an hour to figure out and hasn't need attention since.

I have no solutions to offer for smartphones sadly.


Amazing. The mental peace you've gained this way probably vastly outweighs the initial investment and missing out on the newest "features".

100%. I'm not OP but have had similar experience. My basic UX hasn't changed beyond trivialities in pretty well over 10 years. Contrast that with SaaS and many modern mobile apps that get completely redesigned every couple of years whether you want them to or not, and you have zero control on even the timing of the update. I've found a lot of refuge in open source as complete redesigns just for the hell of it (or to justify a full-time job) are nearly unheard of, but there are definitely tradeoffs. Usually (though not always!) the UX isn't great, but it will be functional. As a person who prefers function over form (though does harbor an intense appreciate for the latter), this is often a good trade.

I just wish the Linux desktop experience were better. I'm going to give Deepin a try as it is focused on desktop experience.

It's honestly pretty great on a desktop PC these days. Laptops are hit or miss depending on the model.

Exactly. Fedora on the desktop is wonderful, and on laptop is really good assuming reasonably supported hardware. I have a framework 16 and 13 and both run fedora really well.

I'm using Ubuntu but it has a few issues. Overall it's OK because I treat it as a development machine for my side projects.

My archlinux has moved from a bunch of scripts to just a window manager with Chrome. At the end of the day, you realize you don't really need all these gadgets and notifications but just a terminal and a browser.

Yup, my core applications are Kitty, Vim, coreutils, Firefox, and pcmanfm.

SailfishOS is pretty decent on mobile, as in a simple system that moves slowly. You can get support for Android apps with an emulation layer. Even banking apps tend to work well. Sadly, to get a license from the US you'd need a EU IP address.

LibreWolf has uBlock Origin built in. uBlock Origin also works with Orion - it's explicitly advertised as a feature at https://kagi.com/orion/

The administration has set an arrest quota for ICE, and ICE is far below where the administration wants them: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5313059/immigration-ice...

> The most recent DHS data released this week shows that fewer than 600 people per day have been booked into ICE detention facilities across the country during the first three weeks of February — well below the pace of 1,200 to 1,500 arrests a day that administration officials have said they want.


My sibling is a molecular biologist working in the industry and they do use BLAST data. She's been telling her company for months they need to secure access with an alternative source or offline backup, hopefully their software team started it in time.

Everyone can set-up their own blast database. Usually if you are specialized on a certain species you have your own DB cached in memory somewhere locally for efficiency. Also there are alternatives. NCBI blast is just one of many. Also all the sequences are globally kept and in sync in different regions of the world, so if one Datacenter goes down you still have the option to use the exact same data from Europe or Japan and so on.

Yup, her company's software was set up to only use NCBI and she's been warning that that was a risk :)

I'm really liking Orion browser, unfortunately it doesn't support Windows or Linux yet

My problem is the amount of money I would make in a year selling the software I make for my hobbies would likely be less than one paycheck at a normal job.

It's probably worth more than $30 as a collector's item. There are people who pay hundreds for keychains made from airplane metal. https://planetags.com/

I showed this to a bunch of friends none of whom use emacs and they're _really_ excited about it. Most of them aren't programmers.

Phones go into a shoebox. Shoebox goes on the shelf. Everyone participates.

Then you face the fallout from the other silent epidemic: everyone thinks they have a reason to be an exception to the rule

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