I initially had a similar reaction, but there are so many cases like this for unit files. I think a higher level DSL for generating them would be useful.
I use a 13 inch M3 Air (16 GB ram) with goland and pycharm. It's the best dev machine I ever owned, everything is a breeze, and the machine is super lightweight. I don't really notice thermal throttling... but then again i dont run LLMs locally or anything like that.
I used[1] jetbrains tooling quite a bit on my m1 air and never had problems, though I did opt for the 16gb ram version. The newer models are presumably at least as performant if not better?
([1] These days my daily driver is an m1 mbp of some whizzbang 32gb variety, which only replaced the mba because my spouse wanted a travel machine and the mbp came for the low low cost of being caught in the late 2022 startup crash. For day to day ordinary backend dev work there really isn't a noticeable difference in my experience, except I guess the mbp is more awkward when working-from-couch. arm vs x86 was sometimes a little awkward around launch, but I can't remember the last time it was an actual hassle.)
Using Rider on an Macbook Air M2 (24 GB RAM) -- admittedly, pretty small/simple code-bases for the most part. Great performance. Only issues come when I need a lot of docker containers running too, especially if they're not ARM images. With that I don't notice performance issues - but the battery drain is noticeable at that point.
I have an M1 for reference, with only 8GB RAM which is the real limiter here. I *can* use Jetbrains IDEs and I *can* build/develop software on it. It's a bit sluggish but doable. I try to not code on that machine, but sometimes it's the only machine I have available when I need to look at something.
I do like diversity and I hope there's always be competing browser engines but folks, Chrome is really not a bad browser and Google engineers do an amazing job with it.
Just because currently it has a monopoly does not mean it's a bad product.
It doesn't matter how "good" Chrome is or will be when it's your only option (if you're not on an Apple device). Like the author states in this essay, I'm not comfortable with a browser that gives a single company complete control over Web standards and the Internet.
no, it means that it contributes to a worsening of the environment that it runs in - the web.
By making the product - the browser - the best that they can (without damaging their core businesses) Google achieves dominance to worsen the web as a whole.
It was an old idea that had been out of favor for two millennia.
> what Copernicus did was not that impresive since it was wrong
What a statement. Copernicus was more right than anyone else of his time. His model revolutionized astronomy and led to the development of modern physics.
I would play the whole Anno series, but they’re Ubisoft games and incorporate a rootkit. There are too many good games that have a modicum of respect for their customers for me to pay money to be rootkited.
Anno’s DRM was particularly annoying and had to phone home each time I played. This would have been fine if Ubisoft ran a reliable server, which it didn’t. Once I sat down to play and the game refused to open because it couldn’t phone home.
I then learned my lesson, have not played the game since, and will never buy any Ubisoft product. Too bad, it was a nice game, maybe I would have bought some DLC. But I’m sure the pirates are still getting plenty of DLC. Instead I play Factorio and Paradox games and spend money on their DLC.
I've been burned by Ubisoft before, to this day, I can't replay AC: BrotherHood because even when I launch directly from steam where I bought the game, it has some weird behaviour around linked accounts and the Ubisoft Launcher
And on Mac, it just does the wrong thing for most shortcuts (the basic moving ones, like Option-Left/Right, which work on any Mac app, including browsers, but not on Kate), which is a huge shame because otherwise it's a very good editor.
That is "does not work" for most people, including on HN. Nobody should be expected to spend half an hour installing vidual studio and building a project before they can start to use an IDE.
So why not fix that? You can absolutely build a binary and release it and save thousands of people that effort.
Comments like this remind me of people who complain about an error they saw on Wikipedia: "So, you're going to fix that, right?"
If you have a pain point in OSS that you care about, you can fix that. Yes, you the person reading these words right now. That's the entire point of OSS.
I could, but nobody is going to trust my binary. And they shouldn't.
The build should come from the official maintainer. Period.
And participating in open source? Oh, I can assure you I am a seasoned open source contributor, but I am not going to just contribute to a random project. Wasted too much time on issues and pull requests that nobody looked at.
Easy to criticize other people, right? What have you done?
So help the official maintainer. Become the official maintainer of the Windows build.
If you don't want to, or can't be bothered with the time commitment, that's fine, but realise that every time you complain about an OSS project's failings, you're really complaining about your own inability to contribute, not their's.
You're taking offence where none was intended. I was not referring to competence, as I have no means to judge, your inability was a reference to your decision to not to contribute for whatever reason you have chosen.
You've made clear that you are not going to do this. Fine. My point is that this failing you perceive then, is about your decision/inability/choice/forced situation/whatever you want to call it, to not fix it, not theirs.
If you're anywhere near as experienced as you state you are at maintaining OSS projects, you'll know the issue I'm referring to here: entitled armchair quarterbacks telling maintainers what they "should" be doing, but not doing anything to contribute themselves.
Your original remark was that kind of entitled snide, back-handed, snarky comment that deflates OSS maintainers every day.
Engage with it, or accept that's where it is. Don't race around pointing out all the things it doesn't do that you want, that you're not prepared to make happen. You could offer time, you could offer actual hard cash, you could just move on and decide not to care.
That's my point. If you have maintained OSS, you know that's the point, I even contextualised it with an easy to understand metaphor in the form of "broken things" on Wikipedia that literally take seconds to fix.
If you didn't get that on the first or second pass, perhaps you're not quite the experienced maintainer you claim to be, in which case, just hold off criticising for a beat next time, and think about what you could actually do, and if it's nothing that's fine. Move on.
If Zed wants to treat Windows as a second class citizen, I don't want to change their mind. I am sure plenty of people other than me are willing to help and have the ability to contribute. The fact that there is no official build for Windows for so long says plenty about the project. The writing is on the wall.
I am not an idiot. Recent developments in the open source world should already give everybody a better idea of where they should spend their time and energy.
