I like being able to work at the office because then I don't have to pay for electricity and internet, although commuting is bad for my ecological footprint.

I will never support forcing RTO on people who prefer WFH, nor the opposite (unless dire circumstances mandate it, like a pandemic or other natural disaster).

I can tolerate open offices, but prefer plans with private spaces which make it easier to go into and maintain full focus mode.

I've never done pair programming, but I imagine I would like it, if me and my colleague use my computer (set up how I like it, Dvorak layout and everything) for my part of the programming and we switch to my colleague's computer when it's their turn.

I would like to add my personal bugbear of 'less/fewer'. 'Fewer' is such a nice word, it feels so pleasant to say, it would be nice if it saw more use.

Isn't it dramatic irony when we, the audience, know that the first sentence is counterproductive to the point being made by the author while the author isn't aware? Maybe it depends on how meta you want to be about considering the author of the article a character.

As someone who's always bought music rather than getting a subscription, welcome to the club!

Do make sure to back everything up, though, I remember when Google Play Music was shut down and I needed to download everything (fortunately it was announced well beforehand so there was no need to rush).

7digital is also pretty good, I've bought a bunch of Saxon and Rainbow albums on there. As awesome as Bandcamp is, many bigger artists don't have a presence there (although King Diamond's entire discography is on there, that's cool).

> Steam, like Origin, is one of the few that refuses to support 3rd party launchers due to DRM.

I think Ubisoft games would like a word. I can't finish AssCreed Brotherhood because the Ubisoft launcher wants me to use a 2FA key which I don't have any more.

GOG's anti-DRM stance makes it the #1 store in my book. Yeah, Galaxy not being available is a bit meh, but between being able to just download the installers and back them up as well as Heroic having first-class support, I have no problems playing my games.

I used to like Xfce until KDE 4 won me over. Since Xfce switched to GTK 3, though... if you put Thunar and the Xfce system settings next to each other they don't look like they're part of the same project and that's a shame.

LXQt is great, except for the fact it can only do 'regular, italic, bold, bold italic' for font weights even when a font supports medium (my preferred font weight, regular just seems so dainty now I've gotten used to medium).

I also like the fact that it allows use of any window manager and even supports Wayland now (so Wayfire is an option).

I kinda (but not really because I don't much care about tokens and don't really know anything about models) wonder about Common Lisp. There's probably far fewer examples of CL code in any training sets than Clojure or Python or whatever, but it could still be somewhat interesting.

When I switched back in 2012 I had used an Ubuntu live disk to rescue some files from my borked Windows 7 install. After reinstalling Windows 7 I was annoyed that it didn't have ethernet drivers so I decided to just install Ubuntu. When the Amazon lens controversy happened I started distro hopping and now I bounce between OpenSUSE and Arch. If I wasn't so insistent on cutting edge software I'd probably be using Mageia, which is stable as anything.