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New comment by seabrookmx in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

seabrookmx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:39:52 +0000

Rust also has a much steeper learning curve. I can onboard an average developer that's familiar with Typescript and have them be productive in C# in a week.

This one is more subjective, but I also think C# has a more mature and painless web stack.

I love both languages but for me they each fill a different role.

New comment by seabrookmx in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

seabrookmx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:13:42 +0000

Ditto. C# gets a bad rap due to its Windows-exclusive history, but it's now cross platform and has most of the features PL nerds are looking for. Strict nulls, pattern matching, a really mature and easy to use async ecosystem (it invented async/await), even a lot of the low level stuff is there (unsafe{} blocks ala rust and manual memory management where needed).

New comment by seabrookmx in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

seabrookmx — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:51:20 +0000

GNOME 44 has built-in support finally, but they're hidden in the quick settings menu. I prefer having them in the tray so I can see if they're running without having to click around.

New comment by seabrookmx in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

seabrookmx — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:09:39 +0000

It wasn't actually! I've been using a third party extension that tries to provide a similar tray icon (after moving from a different extension that doesn't support my version of GNOME) but it's really flaky. I'll try this. Thanks for the tip.

New comment by seabrookmx in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

seabrookmx — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:19:12 +0000

> We’re working on a comparable UI for Windows devices

As a Linux user and fan of good GUI apps, it always bums me out I'm stuck with the CLI-only options for apps like Tailscale. Even for a simple tray icon I have to resort to buggy GNOME extensions.

I understand the fragmented ecosystem and small user-base on the desktop Linux side make it hard to justify, but I hope that changes one day!

New comment by seabrookmx in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

seabrookmx — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:53:56 +0000

You can get dongles for pretty much any controller you like.. Switch Pro, Wii U, Xbox etc. It's generally more stable than using bluetooth on a controller that supports it, especially if you position the dongle to have clear sight to your couch.

New comment by seabrookmx in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

seabrookmx — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:52:15 +0000

It's also really hard to store. The tanks need to be made of exotic materials and withstand incredible pressures.

New comment by seabrookmx in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

seabrookmx — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:50:26 +0000

Which ones?

New comment by seabrookmx in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

seabrookmx — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:47:42 +0000

A standard wall socket doesn't provide enough amperage to charge an EV at reasonable rate if you use your car more than once or twice a week. Maybe this is less of a problem in the EU where people generally have shorter commutes, but I could definitely still see it being an issue.

I know multiple people that have had to upgrade the main electrical panel in their home to support an EV charger, because their older building did not have enough capacity.

New comment by seabrookmx in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

seabrookmx — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:40:59 +0000

They were late to the game but are definitely investing more now.

They have three full EV's, in rough order of size: CH-R, BZ (previously called BZ4x), and BZ Woodland (basically a long station wagon version of the former).

Subaru is also selling a tweaked and rebadged version of each. I believe these are all made in Subaru factories with Toyota power-train components.

They're also priced pretty competitively.

New comment by seabrookmx in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

seabrookmx — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:33:41 +0000

Even the Fiesta was sold in the US and Canada off and on.

New comment by seabrookmx in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

seabrookmx — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:05:15 +0000

Because they want to make Linux sound good I guess?

New comment by seabrookmx in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

seabrookmx — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:03:37 +0000

That's probably just due to the older kernel.

I go back and forth between Fedora and Ubuntu a lot, and once you get past the snap/flatpak and the apt/dnf differences everything feels the same.

I usually format my Fedora disk ext4, add flatpak to my Ubuntu installs, manually override the fonts, add dash-to-panel.. the resulting experience ends up identical.

New comment by seabrookmx in "What if Python was natively distributable?"

seabrookmx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:36:38 +0000

Dotnet is pretty fast these days. It has a lot more low level control than something like Java, with value types and manual memory management available (it invented the unsafe{} blocks Rust is famous for).

MS even had a prototype version of Windows where the entire OS from the kernel up was managed code (a little excessive, IMO).

Dotnet GUI apps failed on Windows mostly because their UI toolkits are a mess and Electron won the cross platform war. I avoid this stack like the plague, but I write a lot of web backends in C#/ASP.NET (on Linux deploying to k8s) and it's great!

New comment by seabrookmx in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

seabrookmx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:37:19 +0000

That's desktop market share. I'm sure the comment you're replying to means overall usage including mobile and server, where Linux is far and away the leader.

New comment by seabrookmx in "I haven't used a mouse for 14 years"

seabrookmx — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:33:19 +0000

Modern GNOME distros (Ubuntu and Fedora when running Wayland, for example) work pretty well with a trackpad. You get all the usual Mac-style gestures: two finger scrolling, pinch to zoom, three finger horizontal swipe for workspaces, three finger vertical swipe for "expose" style app overview, etc.

I'm running a Framework 13 and other than the physical click requiring more effort than the haptic "click" on a Mac, it's pretty dang similar.

New comment by seabrookmx in "“This is not the computer for you”"

seabrookmx — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:17:41 +0000

You don't have to root them to do cool shit anymore. They have a full Linux (Debian based) environment you can enable with a single toggle in the settings. Any GUI apps you install via apt get their icons dropped in the system tray and their windows are rendered via Wayland.

New comment by seabrookmx in "Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs"

seabrookmx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:32:16 +0000

This completely ignores all their reasons to move to the new architecture in the first place.

My understanding is that they had a mostly in-house architecture (that predated Kubernetes' rise) and by moving to this new platform, they are now much more closely aligned with standard Kubernetes. They can now utilize EKS for their control plane, and leverage the many community provided features previously unavailable to them.

New comment by seabrookmx in "Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs"

seabrookmx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:33:17 +0000

It doesn't work this way really?

It's called a layer because each layer on top depends on the layers below.

If you change the package defined in the bottom most layer, all 49 above it are invalid and need re-pulled or re-built.

New comment by seabrookmx in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

seabrookmx — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:26:59 +0000

I've had good luck with syncthing. But I only sync between laptop and desktop.. the mobile story with syncthing isn't ideal.