It’s not any more secure. The point that “installing random debs is insecure” has been running around for at least the last 16 years I’ve been a Linux user.

While it’s technically true, AppImages are as secure as random debs. Same with random repositories that are not provided by your system. Same with flatpaks.

And unless you’re an extremely basic user, you’ll eventually have to install an application not in your repositories. The method doesn’t really matter, it’s all equally (in)secure.

Well, NixOS is mostly for enthusiasts and it’s very much the opposite of beginner friendly.

The idea is that you configure your system in a configuration file, then run a command that makes your system match exactly what you configured.

So instead of apt install or similar you just add the package to your config, run a single command to rebuild the system and you’re done.

Which also means you’re mostly on your own, most guides for other distros don’t work and the documentation on how to do the things in NixOS are very incomplete. It’s nice and fun, but definitely not for an average user.

I remember those times, too (well, some 99.9%, there are still the few issues I never found solution to).

But these times are long past, search engines suck nowadays.

I mean, not the least important, it is an important part. But way less than a common person thinks.

True, I use some local model by Jetbrains that only completes a single line and that’s my sweet spot, it usually guesses the line well and saves me some time without forcing me to read multiple lines of code I didn’t write.

Well, I recently did kind of an experiment, writing a kid game in Kotlin without ever using it. And it was surprisingly easy to do. I guess it helps that I’m fluent in ~5 other programming languages because I could tell what looked obviously wrong.

My conclusion kinda is that it’s a really great help if you know programming in general.

Please, no…

Well, JS is horrible, but TS is really pleasant to work with.

It literally does the same thing, except it’s self hosted?

I recommend caddy as a webserver, it’s very powerful, but the config is super simple compared to old school stuff like nginx or apache.

You can use frp to do the same thing a CloudFlare tunnel does without giving them your unencrypted data.

That’s true, but ISPs have logs. And if something happens that makes the police change their mind about enforcing the law, you might be fucked, retroactively.

If you live in an area where you need a VPN to keep your ISP off your ass

Uploading copyrightes material is illegal pretty much everywhere I know of.

Syncthing, runs in background, synchronises everything between machines. Use it on my phone, tablet, NAS, desktop, Steam Deck.

I’d store it as a string (ISO code), pretty much every programming language has icu data for country names.

If you need more data later, it’s very simple to migrate.

Well, IntelliJ is also plugin based, it’s just that most of the plugins are bundled and enabled by default and maintained by the same set of people as the core IDE, so there’s consistent quality.

You mean one to struggle to rule them all?

I mean, if I didn’t use a correct flag, my next command will probably include -h / --help

Eh… No?

Opening projects, I use multiple languages, so having a single place to open any project, regardless of the IDE, is nice.