Mission Accomplished.
I delayed Linux on the main computer for years for the kids' video games and trying to give MS a chance when they were trying to be good (WSL2, Win10 forever, etc.)
Now when I start the machine in windows, a splash screen comes up and literally tells me to buy a new computer. Linux has been lovely.
Who's the southeast quadrant?
The first Black Adder.
Great for giving incantatons for ffmpeg, imagemagick, and other power tools.
"Use ffmpeg to get a thumbnail of the fifth second of a video."
Anything where syntax is complicated, lots of half-baked tutorials exist for the AI to read, and you can immediately confirm if it worked or not. It does hallucinate flags, but fixes if you say "There is no --compress flag" etc.
HN crowd told me they're porting to swift. When I asked "why not Rust", they said the C++ code was very OOP, so it was easier to port to swift.
Busuu looked promising.
Fastmail is really, really nice.
For my family member who moved out of country, signal's voice quality was not very good. WhatsApp's quality was better than a regular phone call, very impressive.
Also, outside the US WhatsApp is some kind of standard the way rich Americans think iMessage is. Companies will ask her to contact them on WhatsApp, so she'll have to have it regardless of your personal involvement.
There's also jitsi.
I vaguely recall there being a stereo record needle explanation for this.
"Ubuntu" is Zulu for "can't install Debian".
I discounted this theory the first time I heard it because it's too cool.
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