Hotdang, nailed it first try!

Thanks for the info! So far I’ve been enjoying those same characteristics. I spend my work day arguing with computers, so I have little patience for doing more of it when I’m off (more seriously, I carefully marshall my tech efforts outside of work as a long-term strategy against burnout). I appreciate how “out of the box” gaming (and anything else I’ve tried) works in Bazzite, and the stability has been great too. Though to be fair, def helps that it’s my first experience with Plasma which really makes the “feeling” of the OS pop, in an unfair way lol.

My new measure for intuitiveness of an interface - do half-drunk, clumsy fumblings with a mouse occasionally reveal a slick new feature I wasn’t aware of?

Feel like elaborating? I’ve been running it for a couple weeks and very happy so far. One nice little feature was how I can just scroll on top of the little sun icon in the taskbar and my monitors dim and brighten. But that’s prolly a Plasma thing more than anything else.

Oh! Hmm. That’s a good question and I really don’t know. So in other words (this is just how I’m organizing the thoughts in my own head, probably includes some misunderstandings so feel free to correct any you notice) - your “system Python” is really an activated venv specified in your user config in some way, and the question is what happens when you deliberately try to then activate a distinct project venv, which Python executable and collection of installed libraries is invoked when doing stuff with it active?

On the one hand I’ve never considered that and it’s probably a mistake to make too many assumptions about how Python (and its instrumentation, pip etc. included) are interacting with the OS. Because I know fuck all about that, when I really think about it lol. On the other hand, one of the things I find pleasant about Python is that usually much more informed and thoughtful people than myself have chosen among several ways of dealing with whatever situation I’m thinking about, and have decided on a sensible default. But yep, idk. I originally just thought you misunderstood the idea of a venv lol, to my happy surprise, nope!

Why would you want a venv “inside” a venv? What would that mean?

Out of curiosity (and if you’re willing), how come? Been wondering if I should do similar, would enjoy another perspective.

I get mileage outta this one in particular too. Still sometimes get turned around and bamboozled, overall I’ve kinda learned to treat the info as more like…the Platonic ideal of a perfectly modeled store, lol. The many changes and failures and surprises just make me even more grateful that any of that info is in there and works well. Really convenient.

It was always going to end this way.

Lol ah yes, the “fork me daddy!” camp weighing in

When did they add blackjack and hookers?! That’s a hell of a feature update

Heard anything about Mullvad’s browser? You seem knowledgeable about the topic. I use their VPN already, still using Firefox for my browser though. I’m further behind the curve than you are, lol.

What are you using for your browser now?

Thanks for sharing this, hope ya continue 🤙

Aww c’mon, I was gonna deliver this in a much more conspiratorial tone!

Definitely not wrong! Especially once you’ve dialed in your routine of anti-malware utilities to run on pretty much everything. It’s like an antibiotic cocktail, lol. Or did you prefer the “back up and nuke on sight” approach?

Yep, I did similar around the time. Can’t blame people for being mad that the thing they bought is damn near unusable (and was destined to be, but they didn’t understand that part). If someone buys a new bike, even if it’s cheap, it shouldn’t roll like you’re on gravel after a couple weeks and become impossible to pedal within months. But damn, there were a lot of horrible machines sold in those days.

And then of course, the least fun part of that era, the guys who would bring their machines back weekly despite very stern warnings to stop visiting “those sites”.

Awesome, thank you! This largely matches my own experience, I’ve found it (Claude in my case) most useful in areas where I’m weakest. I haven’t tried this scaffolding-via-comments approach though, it sounds cool.

Any experience with Cursor or other IDEs or agents? Was co-pilot a choice or just kinda a natural default?

Would you mind sharing a bit more about the workflow you’re describing? I’m on a “ask people how they’re using AI to help them dev” kick.

Sounds like you’re using an agent integrated with your IDE, would you be willing to give specifics? And you’re talking about writing some comments that describe some code you haven’t yet written, letting the AI take a stab at writing the code based on your comments, and then working from there? Did I get that right?

Happy for literally any elaboration you feel like giving :)

Ugh, poor error reporting is such a frustrating time sink.