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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I’m in an extremely similar situation. I’m a professional software developer, but the software I develop is cross platform, but in practice most of our users are on Linux (Ubuntu LTS more specifically), and a smaller contingent of Windows users. Honestly not sure if anyone uses macOS besides the developers, but we ship best-effort builds anyways. Our developers run a mix of macOS, Linux, and Windows. I’ve used all three, and ultimately while macOS isn’t perfect, I’ve decided it’s what I can be most productive with, for the reasons you mentioned. It’s close enough to Linux being Unix-like, homebrew is sorta like having all the up to date packages like arch, except with the comfort that an update will never completely break my system, and the macOS creature comforts are extremely nice to have when I’m doing more office tasks rather than writing or reviewing code. Hardware is head and shoulders above everything else, I can go a full day without a charger. Great community too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I understand where you’re coming from but that’s just not practical for me, even if I had the specific device. For pretty much the same reasons as before. I tried this once in college, not fully degoogled but using microg. I was able to make it work but the experience was pretty awful and I just don’t want to spend my time managing something like that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I went to college in the mid-late 2010s and I recall they specifically banned WiFi routers, but when I checked what they meant specifically all they cared was that it didn’t broadcast on the 2.4 or 5 ghz spectrum and if it was all wired I was fine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sounds like you haven’t met very many professional programmers then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (10 children)

It’s really best in class in that regard. It’s the most customizable mobile browser. Firefox in android has more extensions, but Safari’s actually integrate better in the UI and you can use shortcuts for simple things too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Most people don’t care about that even a little bit. Back in the day I used to use various custom roms on my android devices, it was awesome. But that was then, I have a job and family now and I can’t just reset my phone on a whim because there’s some cool UI tweak in a new rom. Plus, most of the stuff that made custom roms worthwhile has been integrated into the OS nowadays, so the value add is significantly diminished.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Makes sense. Would that not be trivially mitigated by just blocking dhcp responses from unapproved servers on the switch though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

A consumer router only operates DHCP on the LAN side. Presumably one would plug the WAN side into the university network, making this a non-issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This applies to any information though, it’s got nothing to do with LLMs specifically.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Using a different high level interface to generate code is completely different? The fundamental concept is the same even if the UI is very different.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I generally avoid voluntarily giving money to people threatening to sue me.

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