Yeah that’s what I mean; this is a bit edgier than I’d expect out of him these days. To be fair people often tend to become less piracy-enthusiastic once they publish their own books!
He’s gotten a bit less edgy over the years. Mostly in good ways.
Oh, Linux started being like that some 3 or 4 years ago for me. Of course, it depends to some extent on the actual games you want to play. Destiny 2 is apparently never gonna run.
On Windows, there used to be (possibly a third-party application) a desktop widget that had a “turtle”, and if you clicked on the widget it would drop a little pixel of food, and the turtle would slowly walk over to it and consume it. I thought that was really cool.
The guy who discovered the xz attack was also a Microsoft employee, for what it’s worth.
I migrated to fish recently and at first I was really annoyed that I had to decompose my
~/.bash_aliases
into 67 different script files inside~/.config/fish/functions/
, but (a) I was really impressed with the tools that fish gave me to quickly craft those script files (-~> function serg sed -i -e "s/$1/$2/g" $(rg -l "$1") end ~> funcsave serg funcsave: wrote ~/.config/fish/functions/serg.fish
) - and (b) I realized it was something I ought to have done a while ago anyway.
Anyway, all this to say that fish ships with a lot of cool, sensible & interesting features, and one of those features is a built-in place for where your user scripts should live. (Mine is a symlink to
~/Dropbox/config/fish_functions
so that I don’t need to migrate them across computers).