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Did you know that #theouterlimits had an episode in 1999 about privatization of space flight, reusable rockets etc?

Today I had to install Ubuntu on Thinkpad for my mom. I used Linux for 25 years before switching to Mac 4 years ago. I can tell you for sure - it's NEVER going to be "The year of the Linux Desktop" - it was a TERRIBLE experience. OMG why do ppl do this themselves?!?

I tried really hard to use VSCode for git related stuff, but lazygit is soooo much better. Sorry VSCode, but I just cannot do this to myself any longer. And sorry to my client, who insists that the VSCode is the 'perfect tool for everything and we do not need anything else'. Well, I do!

Lately I have been pondering: why do all modern editors/IDEs use mono fonts? Used to be important for term based apps as it uses chars to draw the UI, but non term apps? "The indentation" - yeah, but space is equally wide in variable-width fonts... So I switched to Go for VSCode 🤷🏻and it's great!

Honest ask: are there any non-ad related use cases for Shared Storage API? The promo materials from Google for it put the accent on ads...and nothing else, it makes me wonder...

Why is that American and UK developers seem incapable of pronouncing `Vite` the way the authors intended, as in the French word? Here is a helpful hint (I hope): Its the same as git, but with `v`.