I had high hopes for the PinePhone but the one I got can't even reliably make or receive calls so it sits in my desk drawer.

Will someone please sell me a simple phone that works without any smart crap?

I have my own love/hate relationship with many of the things you list and I currently share many of your preferences. However I didn't always see things that way. Best practices start as informal approaches to address the problems of the day. After achieving a modicum of success they'll get enshrined by others as languages, features and cultural artifacts giving rise to new problems.

I find the broad tendency of unthinking "best practicification" more troubling than any particular "best practice".

Take OOP as an example. Stroustrup's early C++ presentations argued OOP meant more than "slow graphics" since people at the time were struggling to build graphical user interfaces for machines without much memory. The idea of melding state and behavior made it easier at the time to build complex user interfaces with imperative languages. But OOP isn't a silver bullet. Many attempts to apply the OOP ideas to other domains met with failure.

Fortunately we now have more powerful machines and better tools available to us.

I'm +3 Abstract, +2 Human-Friendly - https://pastebin.com/Y7t4ys3J

At the end I would have liked to see how each answer contributed to the final score, perhaps plotted on the final graph.

It would also be interesting to see how many others took the test and how my answers compared to theirs.

¹- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

¹- https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html

> I'm still needed here, annoyingly.

Indeed you are. Indeed you are.

¹- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34647947

²- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168595

I wanted to use their pages service as well to serve an SPA but their https://srht.site/limitations prevent SPAs from contacting external services I need. I get why they do that but I need my SPA to let users login to their databases and there's simply no way to do that while adhering to SourceHut's policy.

Fortunately pico.sh², codeberg³ and GitLab⁴ (not GitHub) don't have that restriction. I experimented with each of them last year. All of them worked reasonably well. Eventually I settled on GitLab which had the nicest CI/CD of the three at the time.

¹- https://sr.ht

²- https://pico.sh

³- https://codeberg.org

⁴- https://gitlab.com

Sorry but I do not pay for cellular service in order to receive unsolicited texts.

My daily driver is a dumb Consumer Cellular Link II (which uses a castrated Android under the covers). It's turned off most of the time. I don't use or want apps on it. My laptop satisfies those needs. My texting is limited to rendezvous with my family. A silent ringtone effectively blocks all unknown callers but I can't easily block unknown texts.

Apple is doing the right thing here if this feature works as described. Although I won't be switching any smartphone, I would immediately upgrade to a dumb phone that segregated texts this way and I hope to have that option in the future.

https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2012...

¹ https://crystal-lang.org

My leisure laptop is an older macbook with firefox 78.15.0esr and a little over a year ago I stopped being able to view github files and issue discussions with it. I can still view READMEs most of the time but now I have to use chromium or another computer to actually read code without cloning the repo.

I know they could easily generate JS for older browsers if they cared to set the esbuild target.

¹ https://blueprintjs.com/docs/#core/components/tree

  Seek patience and passion in equal amounts.
  Patience alone will not build the temple.
  Passion alone will destroy its walls.

  - Maya Angelou

I feel this way as well. I've tried to incorporate Zed into my workflow a few times but I keep getting blocked by 30 years of experience with Emacs. E.g. I need C-x 2 to split my window. I need C-x C-b to show me all my buffers. I need a dired mode that can behave like any ordinary buffer. Etc. etc.

Sadly the list is quite long and while Zed offers many nice things, none are as essential to me as these.

As mentioned in another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162965 I think this "few days" is unrealistic given the commit history. I think it would be more accurate to say it allowed you to do something in under one month that may have have taken two. A definite improvement, but not a reduction of weeks to days.

Or is that history inaccurate?

What other tools could do that?

I don't think this is a fair assessment give the summary of the commit history https://pastebin.com/bG0j2ube shows your work started on 2025-02-27 and started trailing off at 2025-03-20 as others joined in. Minor changes continue to present.

> That said, this is a pretty ideal use case: implementing a well-known standard on a well-known platform with a clear API spec.

Still, this allowed you to complete in a month what may have taken two. That's a remarkable feat considering the time and value of someone of your caliber.

Organizations profiting from theft and exploitation should be prosecuted as the pirates and criminals they are. If they want to profit from content, let them license it and pay with real money instead of likes and upvotes.

People need to stop impoverishing themselves and their communities by giving away all their personal details. They need to stop giving away what is precious to them to the likes of google, meta and X. If that means a decline of media subsidized by advertising and AI, so be it.

So I hope your prediction is correct. I would love to see stupid laws like these lead us to a world of small community networks protected by encryption and rights laws.

So... clickbait.