I know it’s been asked too much, but we’ve come a long way. Curious to see everything from the fullest trajectories/journeys to short wacky simples.

Why your instance, platform? What keeps you there? Are you a piefed PWA enjoyer? A traditional browser lemmy diehard? Do you refuse to use any front-end that isn’t blorpblorp or has some invaluable feature like tesseract/alexandrite? I think there are even a few who only mobile voyager or ??(whatever that other popular one is…apollo maybe?) Curious to know what future options lie on the near future’s horizon too

I admit I have trialed many but go back to plain browser more than not tho 😆

PS: I can’t remember if these posts in anyway get federated out to other platforms like mastodon or what not, but would still be interested in their respective answers too

  • ジン@quokk.auOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Browser solidarity! C reigns supreme, but don’t make me do pointer arithmetic. I’d rather do pointless long-division lol What’s the preferred ide for C these days? I’m the ‘compile and run inside nvim instance’ kind of goober

    • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, browsers nowadays are so powerful, I’d go as far as to say that if you don’t game and don’t do some niche production stuff requiring specific software, you could make do with just a browser: file management, word processing, spread sheets, media consumption, video calls, chats, etc…

      I’m a complete beginner at C but I really like that I chose it as my first language to learn. I don’t use any fancy IDE 😅 when outside, I code on an rooted Galaxy Tab A9+ in Termux in vim and compile with clang. At home, I write on my PC in vim and compile with gcc. You can view my posts over at [email protected] if you want to see how much of a beginner I am. 😅

      • ジン@quokk.auOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I code on an rooted Galaxy Tab A9+ in Termux why do you hate yourself? j/k apparently tablets are packing serious heat now. We really overspec everything now and my old ass will never get use to it…

        Do you have a god-tier .vimrc or nahh?

        • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Edit: oh, and I of course use a robust stand to get good viewing angle on the tablet and a mechanical USB keyboard (Deltaco WK90B). This is basically my idea of an ultra portable “laptop”. 😂

          Seems like I keep referring to my posts but in all seriousness, speaking of packing serious hear, I just posted some shit about fiddling with power management on my tablet. Short story: it worked. Check it out if you’re interested, ジンさん。

          If by god-tier you mean adding colorscheme industry so that I can read stuff on semitransparent black terminals, then yes. 😂

          • ジン@quokk.auOPEnglish
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            2 days ago

            it worked. it worked thus far. I have not fully reviewed everything but I already know this ducktape will fall off eventually just wait for the next update😅

            I had an intense ricing obsession way back when, and I have sadly sold my colorscheme soul to the solarized math wizards. You now have me exceptionally curious about a mathematically superior semitransparentj-specific solarized theme 🤔