VS Code Obsolescence:
https://cyberb.space/notes/2024/vs-code-obsolescence/
"With only my web browser open & VS Code running, my laptop slowed to a crawl",— you knacker, you've been running two instances of Google Chrome on the same machine! Poor thing! 😨
I see the widespread acceptance of "tools" like vscode as nodejs as indicative of systemic, terminal brainrot in C.S.
@RL_Dane
Well, in this sense, at least this story has a happy end because that made the author abandon VSCode for something more lightweight.
But in general, you're right, when I'm looking for software I could use on GH and see traces of npm in the root of source tree, I immediately navigate back out of it 😂
@RL_Dane
We live in a truly amazing time technology-wise: on the one hand, we have decentralised social networks, decentralised messengers, Gemini as alternative to the web, free and open software that you can daily drive, mobile operating systems that can get you through the day and even (mostly) open hardware that is affordable and widely available — on the other hand, a lot of people find it acceptable to put up with universal surveillance and be forced into using web bloat daily 😩
@RL_Dane
Threads like this are particularly appalling: https://mstdn.social/@firecat/113000667155122118
Someone went into the trouble of making open hardware available to you in a very attractive package and you find it appropriate to complain they didn't make it cheaper than a vendor locked-in product from an international corporation with planned obsolescence baked in… Well, to each their own I suppose 🤷
I was in that thread. ;)
Honestly, I'm not *that* bothered. You will always get the silly "I could put this together for half the price LOL" kinda crank/boomer comments. I think mntre answered with a ton of grace, too, which is encouraging.
I was in another thread which did *not* go as well, and the FOSS dev/admin/rep ended up blitzing their account. That was sad to me, and I was trying to encourage them to roll with the punches, but I'm guessing they didn't receive it well.
@RL_Dane
Yeah, I think it was your page where I found it and proceeded to make a few comments myself, sharing my experience with Apple: some things might not be obvious to those who are considering getting their first MacBook.
I agree, it's best to keep your cool and people most often make such comments without the intent to offend. But it doesn't make it easier not to lash out on them 😅
And yes, minute handled that really well!
@m0xee
There's a toxic cocktail of ignorance and apathy out there. 😥