I feel like we’ve been having the same conversation for 20 years. Meanwhile the linux family of operating systems is now the most widely deployed in the world.

anyone who is serious about data security would laugh at this

The first rule of uptime is never have only one of something critical, including providers.

my current company does live code design challenges instead of straigt codong exercises. seems to work well

Not sure what your goal is but to make it so nothing can be exexuted in there you can put /home on its own filesystem and mount it with the “noexec” option.

i love mpd and will check this out

I have a Steam deck and I have problems like this when I use the official dock on my main monitor.

However, I have no problems with other monitors or a 3rd party dock with the same monitor.

All that to say I would try new cables, a different dock, etc but thats just a guess.

A while ago I did this by making a custom wallpaper with a box on it and set the capture region to the box.

If you ran this as a non-root user then you didn’t move any system files you just made some copies. Delete the new copies and you should be fine.

I use nix for extra packages on my linux desktop. I don"t like brew at all.

I’ve recently been asked to help some folks on the biz side automate tasks “with ai” and I’ve had very good results having gemini write apps script to do automations via google sheets.

For example HR wanted this for workshops they run “Write an Apps Script function to use the employee email list on sheet2 to create random teams of 4 and record the teams on sheet3. Use the template on sheet1 to write an email notification to each team and then send it.”

Worked on the first try and the code is decent.

My experience is that use of an LLM is an amplifier to your output but generally at no better quality that you can produce on your own.

The skilled developer who uses an LLM and checks its work will get a productivity boost without a loss in quality.

The unskilled developer who copy/pastes code from stackover can get even more sloppy code into production by using an LLM.

Its a personal style choice.

With a blank line before the ‘while’ and another after the ‘done’ its a nice little easy to identify block. I don’t know how the ‘while’ would look like its not a part of that block.

A midline semicolon just looks ugly to me so I don’t do it unless it is the only way to make a statement work.

No the opposite. I think more shorter lines makes it easier to read than fewer longer lines.

It just looks weird to me to stick a semicolon into the middle of a line when a compound command isn’t actually needed.

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Yes totally a personalstyle choice. To me, using a semicolon to save a line looks more ugly ; then ;)

Thats the concise help text to keep it short and easy to read.

The first line in the GNU Bash manual section on loop constructs says “Note that wherever a ‘;’ appears in the description of a command’s syntax, it may be replaced with one or more newlines.”

Serious question, why use a semicolon to put do and then on the end of the previous line?

Especially when do/done are the open and close control directives for a block.

Don’t you think bash looks much cleaner when you use it how it was designed?

MX Enlightenment Respin has a unique and excellent look. Add some Propaganda Wallpaper Tiles to further enhance the vibe https://github.com/BenjaminHCCarr/PropagandaTiles