What the hell, how have I never opened that? 😅

I’ve been using webpages for this, but this is so much quicker.

You might generally prefer not setting zsh as the system-wide default shell, but rather just to be launched by default in Konsole or whatever terminal emulator you’re using.
The actual default shell will still show up in TTYs, or when you use the newgrp command, or I believe when you ssh into the machine, and probably other such edge cases, but usually, you can then just run zsh to get into zsh.
Not setting it as the system-wide default shell just avoids any potential for problems, particularly also if some script doesn’t have a proper shebang.

Having said that, on Debian-based distros, I usually still set the system-wide default shell to Bash (even though I use Fish), because the default dash shell is pretty much unusable.
Not unusable enough to prevent typing “zsh”+Enter (if you don’t typo), so this is definitely optional, but yeah, it comes up often enough that dash annoys me, and I haven’t yet had compatibility problems from setting it to Bash instead.

I feel like there’s just too many different programming workflows, to try to pre-install them.

Here on openSUSE, there’s ‘patterns’ you can install, which are basically just groups of packages, and they’ve got some pre-defined patterns for programming:

I feel like that kind of goes in a more useful direction, although it’s still partially questionable what those contain. For example, the Java development pattern comes with Ant as the build system, when Maven and Gradle are more popular, I believe.

I also have to say that I often prefer installing programming tooling in distro-independent ways, and ideally automated in the project repo, to avoid works-on-my-machine situations.
Of course, something like Git, Docker, VMs etc. tend to be stable across versions, and I might not care for having the newest versions, but even with those, I think it’s good to install them on demand, rather than having them pre-installed. If the distro simply makes it a breeze to install them, that’s ideal IMHO.

There’s this open-source, Diablo-like game/engine, called FLARE, which I find interesting in that regard, because the basic gameplay is there. My monkey brain is having fun with it, i.e. getting an endorphine rush, because big numbers go brr.

But they obviously don’t have the budget of Blizzard, to try to hide that that’s what it’s doing.
I think, around 4 times throughout the campaign, you get the same spider model, but this time it’s five levels stronger than last time. 🙃

A VLAN is very different from a VPN.
With VLANs, you can separate traffic that goes over the same physical wire.
With a VPN, on the other hand, you can connect devices from anywhere on the planet, as if they were in the same LAN, which bypasses firewalls, NAT and all that crap. Presumably, you want a VPN.

I don’t think, there’s a special trick to making them. You can look at existing kaomoji lists and pick out individual symbols to create the shape that you want.

Or you can combine kamojis. For example, maybe you want a cat handing over a flower, but you want it to look sad, like an apology.

Then you find a sad cat kaomoji:

/ᐠ • ˕ •マ

And combine it with the kaomoji you posted:

⠀/\__/\
 (• ˕ •)    
/ >🌷< \

Well, could be better, but just as an example. Combining different faces and arm shapes and such is relatively easy.

As for managing them, I usually see tags assigned to them. On the webpage that you posted, it’s the little text boxes below the kaomoji.
But in its simplest form, you could have a text document and just write a few words above each kaomoji, like e.g. “sad cat flower”. Then if you search the text document with Ctrl+F for “cat”, this will be one of the results.

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There is the concept of a “slowrun”.

You must’ve caught my comment shortly before I snuck that “non-security” into there. 🙃

Slowroll can alleviate that pain, if you’re fine with non-security updates being delayed by up to six weeks or so.

Apparently, it’s like Smash Bros in the Ubisoft universe, except it’s a first-person shooter.
So, you got different factions from Far Cry, Splinter Cell etc. with which you can play…

Hmm, Kate has a feature called “Sessions”, which might be able to do that.

You can create just one session and then in the settings, set it to always load that session:

Well, and there are those two checkboxes, which I’ve also marked. The “Newly-created unsaved files” sounds like what you want, but seems to be broken on my system. It just reopens an empty file for me. Is that also broken for you?

As others have already said, Kate should work as text editor. I think, the only thing that’s not built-in is base64 en-/decoding, but you can set that up like this:

That’s for decoding. For encoding, just change the name to “base64 encode” (exact name doesn’t matter) and remove the “–decode” from the Arguments-field.
This relies on a CLI utility called base64, which is going to be pre-installed on most distros.
It’s not entirely perfect, because it’ll always insert a newline, as that’s part of the base64 output. If you do want to get rid of that, you could write a tiny script and then call that script instead, but obviously, you don’t have to.

You can also install Kate on Windows, if you want to give it a test-ride: https://kate-editor.org/
(The base64 CLI won’t be available on Windows, though.)

That’s the journalists that inflate the meaning of these studies. The study itself will just say “we did measurements like this, here’s the data” and probably even “we should do more studies to confirm or deny or narrow it down”.

My workplace preinstalls Ubuntu, personally I’m using openSUSE. I don’t even think that Ubuntu is particularly bad, I’m mainly frustrated with it, because it’s just slightly worse than openSUSE (and other distros) in pretty much every way.
It’s less stable, less up-to-date, less resilient to breakages. And it’s got more quirky behaviour and more things that are broken out-of-the-box. And it doesn’t even have a unique selling point. It’s just extremely mid, and bad at it.

The guy is the lead dev of the Budgie desktop environment. Budgie started out kind of reusing components from GNOME, but Strobl has been rather frustrated with GTK and the directions it took with GTK4, for various reasons: https://joshuastrobl.com/2021/09/14/building-an-alternative-ecosystem

(The disclaimer is important, some opinions on what alternative to use changed, but the frustrations with GTK remain.)

.desktop files are a Linux/Unix thing. Basically, it’s a fancy shortcut, usually to an application, which allows specifying additional infos, like e.g. translated names.
In particular, the contents of the application menu are defined by just a folder filled with .desktop files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcut_(computing)#Unix

LOL

I would still imagine that has a very different psychological effect. Nobody wants to click a “pay”-button…

Here’s their FAQ answer for that: https://just.systems/man/en/what-are-the-idiosyncrasies-of-make-that-just-avoids.html

I imagine, there’s various smaller differences in how the recipes are defined, but yeah, this is the big one.

I find that Just feels a lot like just a collection of script files, with built-in error handling for argument parsing and during execution. And it also offers easier discovery of available tasks and how to use them.