Not in Canada. Over the counter hearing aids are only a legal thing in the U.S.

I mean… yes those are true? lol.

It’s great for getting a feel for how things are done, imo.

But yes a crutch you should gradually stop relying on.

Surely an unpopular opinion lol.

Python is a great first language.

Dave gonna be pissed

Science

But if everyone has had Covid… and IQ is relative. Then nothing changes? 😋

Like Ubuntu, I like that Fedora is backed by a big company. Fedora is quite good at pushing the Linux ecosystem forward and often adopts and pushes new technology before other distros (flatpaks, Wayland, pipewire, btrfs etc.) that all Linux distros eventually benefit from.

Ubuntu on the other hands seems to want to be the Microsoft of Linux… which is not a compliment. I’ve been put off by things like their pushing of snap packages.

I personally like the stock gnome (on a laptop) or kde (on a desktop) desktops over the cinnamon mint desktop (but mint is closer to windows). Fedora is pretty close to stock (gnome by default).

Fedora has great flatpak integration for installing apps (think App Store) which is my preferred way to do it. Mint has this as well.

Fedora also has semi rolling releases and constant updates, which I prefer over Linux Mint’s 2 year release cycles (this doesn’t matter for any software you install from flatpaks).

I wouldn’t recommend arch as a first distro imo. I don’t see what the advantage would be for a newbie.

Personally I would recommend Fedora.

Is this a thing in Canada yet? Thankfully have never seen it here.

I have 2 kids under 3…

laughs maniacally

You can have a nefarious developer working for a nation state infiltrate the supply chain for ANY OS.

You don’t know.

I…. Don’t really get why they think this is better. Google search was good…. Other companies can copy AI technology anyway. AI is really just predicting words and wasn’t designed for search, but their old algorithm was.

Whyyyyyy

casts protect

iPhone

People need programmers to make boring things. Often boring things make more money than programming stuff for science.

We need both. Programming is a tool.

Just the parts with leaders that hate freedom.

You can still use either.

Python has never been a big language for app development… no idea why you would call it old school.

To answer op, Swift for iOS; Kotlin on Android.

In the long run, I wonder if rust will spawn a family of new memory-safe languages.

Exactly… a psychopath is not worried about being a psychopath.