> nothing

nice :sunglasses:

I think the opposite, but yeah.

The cloud is the original code base and the on premise is a FORK! Can you believe it? It's not even the same code and the on premise solution is so far behind.

Lol... Don't want to go down that rabbit hole. So many tools have been written to help with submodules. Such a shame. I feel like the only success path for submodules in any project is for anyone working on the project is to understand them completely.

I first read Atlassian and could potentially get on board (they have made tons of QoL changes, which I love and actually like. Their API still isn't that great, though). And same with AWS. At first it's confusing for sure. A lot of their offerings are wrappers around OSS that is much more intuitive. But comparatively to Azure and GCF, they're all confusing at first.

But then I read git, Docker, and Linux. Now I'm concerned about your approach to any of these tools.

For example Linux. There is _a lot_ of documentation out there. Man pages and arch Linux wiki just to name two that have a massive knowledge base.

Git. I mean holy smokes, I'm going to assume you've never used any other VCS because everything else before it was hell on earth (in my opinion, people have things to say about this). I would focus on learning some git commands and I think you'll really like it. Going straight into a GUI you might be confused when you have to fix a problem via CLI when GUI messes it up.

Docker - yeah, I see your point. It's not as apparent when you're trying to pull different architecture images. Kind of a shame. Maybe Rust WASM/WASI will replace it one day (kind of joking here).

I love git, but the command-line interface feels like it was grown over some time (which it was). It's just very ad-hoc in what commands are used to accomplish something.

The underlying architecture of git is awesome, but even if I know exactly what I want to do based on my understanding on the architecture, it's not obvious which command and which switches to use to achieve this. And I use the command-line all day, and I am good at remembering switches.

But still, for git I've written myself a list on what combinations to what, and when I need to do something more exotic, I look it up in that list. A more consistent CLI would allow me to do what I want without lookup.

This is exactly what I meant, but I guess people were more interested in ad-hominem attacks because I questioned their favourite tools. I also have a list of magic combinations that I know do the thing I need. But I don’t really use them now because I use a GUI.

I’ve used a few source control solutions and Git objectively has the worst syntax. At least the various GUIs help prevent you shooting yourself in the foot.

As for Linux my point still stands. I don’t use Arch Linux because I don’t want to waste time compiling everything all the time. The documentation is still poor.

50ish hours give or take 10. I'd say a good 10-15 of those hours are researching and studying material on how to improve current projects and my own development. It's greatly beneficial for the company I work for and myself in my opinion.

A good example is gRPC. We all can use it no problem, but using it correctly and efficiently is outside the scope of some teams so I like to spend the time to understand it deeper and spread that knowledge within our groups.

I like Bitwarden's CLI too, but this is cool as well. Nice work :-)

The CLI utility written in NodeJS!? Seriously, you like it?

That... "thing"... is absolutely horrendous (mostly, I think, as a result of the bad choice of NodeJS itself)!

Unfortunately I have to agree. I also had something very similar happen to me. I guess it is a price to pay.

Damn, if this were out now, I'd buy today.

Thanks for sharing the Light phone! Cool to see there are other people that just want basics.

Thanks for this write up. I have also been nervous about the companion part. I was annoyed when I first learned that and it was locked. I've been wanting a small phone that was android just for things like Spotify, taxi, Gmail, gps, and text/phone. just essentials virtually.

It absolutely functions without the companion part (at least on non-Verizon networks) and can be bought unlocked online. I haven't tried smattiso's debloating options, but there is a "fold" in the launch screen, where I put all the useless apps so I don't have to see them often (except when I go past the fold to look for rarely used programs like the Play Store or Settings).

Overall, it's about as close as I've gotten to Windows Phone on an Android device, with the bonus of Android ecosystem for some essentials like Lyft, plus the tiny size.

Don't be, you run it through a debloat script and it kills 99% of all that junk. I posted in a top level comment.