I mean, double quotes and curly brackets also require using the Shift key, as do the at sign, number sign, dollar sign, and ampersand. The brackets are a small enough part of the code that it doesn't matter.

And besides:

  print("Hello World");

requires just as much chording as:

  (print "Hello World")

Red Star. I'd sooner use Berry, Kylin, or SUSE if I wanted to avoid the Noid- I mean, avoid U.S.-based distros.

Truly 2025 was the year of the Linux... console? Let's go with that.

I see many comments here about Claude and I get the same feeling I get when I see comments about MacOS: it's nice that you're content with it, but I don't trust Apple/Anthropic for a fraction of an angstrom.

Wake me when we have ethically trained, open source models that run locally. Preferably high-quality ones.

The term you're looking for is 'instant gratification'.

Someone I know who works at a telco (no idea if Vodafone is a thing in Belgium, but whatever: not Vodafone) was talking about a number someone has: 0411 11 11 11, and they got over a hundred operator messages every day.

I mean, anyone capable of accessing YouTube can listen to S.O.D.'s Kill Yourself, so at some point it's a question of who is responsible when a vulnerable user gets into contact with potentially harmful content.

It's a culture fit question. When the culture is 'make everything ourselves' you're not a great culture fit. When the culture is 'just solve the problem', you fit in perfectly well.

I've been happy enough with my Ubuntu phone. Music works, I can send SMS messages and use the phone, timers and alarms work, and it takes pictures well enough. There's even a LibreWolf clone so I can see when my bus/train arrives.

Better link to Itch (<https://maddymakesgamesinc.itch.io/celeste>) than Steam, Itch by default only takes a 10% cut instead of 30%.