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I've had 4 Samsung phones (s4, s6, s10, Flip Z3) and a few TVs. This is not reflective of my experience with Samsung products. Their products don't suck at all.


That's an anecdote. I've also had shitty experiences with Samsung products. Maybe it's a mixed bag but I hear more bad than good without going out and looking for it.


And your experience + what you've heard is what, data? Versus being a collection of anecdotes?


Currently it's the washing machine that just ... doesn't work occasionally. Power is good to it, confirmed with an electrician but it won't turn on. Give it a bit and it works. Prior it was phones having software issues but that was more than a few years ago at this point so I don't remember specifics.


My Samsung phones have been fine.


My S5 is an absolute trooper. My partner and I both had S5s, and played the "no phone game" for years where one would randomly try to smack the phone out of the others hands, maybe try to throw it out an open window or something. Ironically we both smashed our screens on the same day at our respective workplaces by dropping them on gravel. Still, her one survived a swim in the toilet with a smashed screen, then a swim in isoprop, and a few weeks in a jar of rice. Not that she wanted to use it after that.


Me too, I'm still using one and it's great.

I think my last three phones have been Samsung, and all of them have been good.

I won't be with them for my next phone however, unless they return the headphone jack.


The S4 is what convinced me to switch from Android to iOS. Did yours not have overheating issues?


yeah same my s3 and s6 were both great, and I considered staying with samsung before choosing a pixel at the time


The posted extension is about using vim key bindings to navigate links and other useful common commands. Firenvim is about embedding an nvim instance in an text input field. Apples and oranges.


Working on projects that were meaningful to me personally.

After a certain amount of time (years), I could troubleshoot any bug. No need to reach out to others to solve bugs. I will always find a way.

Using GNU/Linux as daily driver. Helps with dev-ops enormously.

Lastly linked to the above, learning the full-stack.

Am I a success.... na. But I consider myself a success in terms of being self-taught.


To some degree this is solved when using stow and a dedicated ~/dotfiles directory. No need to dig around in ~/.config

But I agree with Pike. ls -a in the home sir, becomes an unorganized mess with all those apps that don't use the xdg default .config folder.


This is one of the main reasons I moved all critically important services (Government accounts, banking) to a different email provider. I should really do the same for SSO with Google account, but damn it's convenient...


Rather convolution article. First mentioning economic scarcity then moving onto 'good ideas' like Unix. I'm missing the central thread that ties it all together.

If anything it was the antithesis of Unix, namely GNU with its specific license that protects the users freedom, that was really the revolutionary idea, thank you RMS. Of course Unix, the work by Thompson, Ritchie etc brought extensibility and endless creativity to the development/app space. Ie write programs that do one thing well and able to connect those through pipes and ultimately through networks. The cli interface is ancient, but its here to stay for a very long time indeed.

Not sure of the point that my comment is making. Meh. Happy Friday.


My therapy is Brazilian jiu-jitsu. It's basically active meditation. When someone is trying to choke you unconscious, you are not thinking about the past or future. It's not just exercise that makes you exhausted, you become an assassin. And it's very social!


Rowan Atkinsons latest work: Man Vs Bee on Netflix.

https://youtu.be/YQ1vN_91KO0

I thoroughly enjoyed it, and is in the same visual style as his earlier work.


My children found it very funny. I think they liked the foreshadowing of each gag as much as the gags themselves - and obviously all the chaos is previewed in the court case that starts the show.

Probably quite a smart pandemic project - few actors, almost all in one inside location. Watch it in one hit (like we did) or an episode a night with young kids, or break part-way through if young children are due to go to bed.


I personally love the neovim community. The subreddit is full of helpful people and the core developers / contributors are absolutely wonderful people. Everytime neovim has a major release, there is a presentation and plenty of interviews with said wonderful people.


This is just an honest assessment of one individuals experience. I've heard it myself from my father who was at the top of Europe's largest corporation. He definitely is an expert in his field, but still had a healthy dose of doubt and was clearly honest with himself. Hubris is a far more dangerous imo.


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