Twitch is probably one of the LAST companies I would trust with storing any sort of ID in safety. Remember all the leaks that happened with them? like the time they leaked what EVERY stream makes off the site? no thanks.
Plasma is good, it's in a better place now than it was even like a year or so ago. I always end up switching from it though because I just don't need all the stuff that's in it. But I'd rather use that over GNOME. I still to this day don't know why people like GNOME so much I find it awkward and "slow" or maybe I've just been using it wrong.
kinda is the performance also though, that's the reason I switched from Windows just over a year ago. My laptop battery was horrible. on win11 I might get maybe an hour out of it. Also for whatever reason Windows insisted on constantly removing my Wifi adapter completely where the only "fix" was completely reinstalling the OS. I had enough and switched to linux.
My laptop battery now lasts 3+hours and haven't had any issues with wifi. Also as an added bonus I noticed better performance/higher FPS with games as opposed to Windows on the exact same machine.
I have a private instance of forgejo on my dedicated server and use codeberg for public facing stuff. it's great. I wish MORE FOSS stuff got off github. Like Searxng for example. I have a Searx instance set up also but I can't add it to the searxng list on github because I refuse to sign back up with them. there are a few others like that.
Also if you have the means to afford it consider donating to Codeberg.
I have a private instance of Forgejo in docker on my server. took me all of 5 minutes to set up. I did this only because I wanted a web based GUI for some stuff.
As someone right there in the trenches getting hired specifically to clean the slop up, I don't buy this survey at all and I'd be very suspicious of any "senior dev" that participated in it cause...where are they? I'm not seeing them when I go in to my clients offices because they all got axed. I do see a lot of junior prompt monkeys though.
nothing would stop me and honestly if I could find a decent and new one similar to my old Sprint/Nokia phone from like 2001 I'd use it. I can't stand smart phones, I never liked them.
the infuriating thing is I'm on wayland because I have to be on wayland but given the option I would use x11 simply because the choices for WM's are better and overall I prefer x11 even though I know it's "dying".
The problem is on my specific main laptop which I use for work and everything it's a dual amd/nvidia GPUs. Nvidia being the main GPU and AMD being secondary. x11 does NOT like this at all. So some programs will completely crash out if left unfocused for more than 2minutes. i.e. i'm testing something and need to move away from that workspace and if I go back the thing is graphically unresponsive. on Wayland it's not an issue. Gaming on x11? forget about it, it's a no go.
Now there are things on Wayland that just infuriate me. For example Discord. If i'm on a call with someone on discord I HAVE to keep that discord workspace active otherwise I can't use the keybinds to push to talk or anything. on x11? not an issue. So i'm constantly having to switch my WM's from a wayland one to an x11 one for the dumbest reasons.
not trying to be one of those guys but trying to be helpful. What software for work do you need that won't work on a linux distro?
I mean wine/winetricks is pretty much to the point now where you can simply download an .exe or whatever, double click it, and it'll launch. I do this for several Windows only programs I have and they all work. And the thing with the Linux community is that there's always SOMEONE that will insist on getting the most obscure drivers working on it. I once had this dongle from like the early 2000s that would allow you to plug PSX and PS2 memory cards into it. I thought "yeah I'd like to use this again, no way it'll work on linux" and sure enough someone had actually made the drivers for it. I think it's only me and the guy who made the driver that actually use the thing.
for setting stuff up, putting down a basic empty framework, setting up dirs/files/whatever, it's great. in that regard yeah it'll save you time.
For doing the ACTUAL work? no. maybe to help write say a simple function or whatever, sure. beyond that? if it can't nail it the first or second time? just ditch it.
as someone who now does consultation code review focused purely on AI...nah let them continue drilling holes in their ship. I'm booked solid for the next several months now, multiple clients on the go, and i'm making more just being a digital janitor what I was as a regular consultant dev. I charge a premium to just simply point said sinking ship to land.
Make no mistake though this is NOT something I want to keep doing in the next year or two and I honestly hope these places figure it out soon. Some have, some of my clients have realized that saving a few bucks by paying for an anthropic subscription, paying a junior dev to be a prompt monkey, while firing the rest of their dev team really wasn't worth it in the long run.
the issue now is they've shot themselves in the foot. The AI bit back. They need devs, and they can't find them because putting out any sort of ad for hiring results in hundreds upon hundreds of bullshit AI generated resumes from unqualified people while the REAL devs get lost in the shuffle.
I guarantee you that it HAS done that and I can almost assure you that whatever hobby project you've vibe coded doesn't scale and I sure as hell hope it's nothing that needs to be online or handles any sort of user info.
Rule of thumb: only use it for one or two runs and that's it. after that back off because then Claude Code is then just going to start vomiting fecal matter from the other fecal matter its consumed.
If it can't nail something on the first or second go, don't bother. I have clients that have pushed it through those moments and have produced literal garbage. But hey I make money off them so keep pushing man. I got companies/clients that are so desperate to reverse what they've done that they're willing to wait until like March of next year when I'm free.
This is the martyr they wanted for whatever reason to finally roll out their next phase. He'll be used to lock up/kill anyone that says anything negative about the administration. They're treating this nazi like he was jesus fucking christ.
can't speak for OP but for me, surprisingly, youtube shorts. Once that damn thing gets your algo figured out for you suddenly you can start finding bands that are in your wheelhouse. Start by looking for shorts on your current favourite bands and eventually new stuff will start popping up that should be similar to your taste.
Honestly for all the crap that's on youtube, shorts has been one of if not the best tool for me to find new music/bands. Once I find something I like then it's off to SoulSeek/Nicotine+ to add it to my server.
Twitch is probably one of the LAST companies I would trust with storing any sort of ID in safety. Remember all the leaks that happened with them? like the time they leaked what EVERY stream makes off the site? no thanks.