“tells the user the current time” would be an excellent comment for a clock

I’m not the best at commenting my code, but generally I just try to think of what information I’d want to know if looking at this 10 years from now

Imo comments are best used sparingly, don’t bother commenting something that anyone with a basic understanding of programming would understand straight away by reading the code

Functions should generally be commented with what parameters are and what they’re for, plus what they output

use reqwest::Client;

// create a http client class that all other files can import 
// so as to only create one instance globally 

pub struct HttpClient {
    client: Client,

}
impl HttpClient {
        pub fn new() -> Self {
            HttpClient {
                client: Client::new(),
            }
        }

        pub fn client(&self) -> &Client {
            &self.client

        }

}

Here’s an example where if I were to stumble onto this file 10 years from now, I might think wtf is this looking at it out of context, the comment explains why it exists and what it’s used for

(we’ll ignore the fact I totally didn’t just add this comment because I suck at commenting personal projects)

Just because you can take a hammer to it doesn’t mean that’s the best solution

In the right situation I imagine it could be a useful tool, much more subtle than just smashing the thing, less time consuming than taking it apart

Not that I know of, I meant it could be put in a pressurised spray bottle, for example a deodorant can

If it’s bolted to a wall and unattended neither of those things are an option

You don’t necessarily need to put it into the air supply, could just bathe the specific device you want disabled in helium from a deodorant can or something

I suppose I could write a custom script that runs sudo echo or something so it’s cached

Have tried using it this way though the glaring issue for me is that I have to type the password at the end rather than start, meaning I’ll start a rebuild, go for something else then it’ll time out on the sudo password

What does remote sudo actually do I thought it was meant to be for doing remote builds over ssh

nix flake update && sudo nixod-rebuild switch

I suppose if you really can’t stand to give them any information at all, don’t want to pay and don’t use ads your only choice is to not use the service

They provide a pretty good service all things considered and have to pay the bills for their servers somehow

This makes me glad not to be on the clock, I suck at remembering to do that stuff.

Though I tend to hyper focus on one thing for 4 or 5 hours at a time anyway

Not exactly what you’re asking for but you should look into tiling window managers, if I’m understanding correctly they do almost exactly what you want

For example on my laptop if I open Firefox it opens in full screen, if I open a terminal it resizes Firefox to half the screen and opens the terminal in the other half, a third and it splits whichever window I’m focused on vertically etc etc

You could achieve what you want by having the VMs in windowed mode and just using a tiling wm

You get the added bonus of virtual desktops that you can flick through with mouse buttons/keybinds/3 finger swipe if you want multiple layouts of different windows

Also I’ve not used it but I’m pretty sure hyprland has something called fake full screen where it tricks windows into thinking they’re full screen while actually being windowed

Which at the end of the day is your choice, as much as it’s theirs not to use foss tools like mastodon and peertube

You can do that through their own interface though, there are browser extensions to do all the things invidious did anyway

Not like going to the website will cause your computer to blow up or something, if privacy is the concern there are plenty of ways to anonymise it

YouTube doesn’t have a monopoly on live streams

Not going to be a popular opinion but that doesn’t surprise me at all, almost certainly breaks their tos.

I think people should focus more on stuff like peertube that doesn’t just piggyback off another service against said service provider’s wishes

Ah I see. At my previous company we developed an in house clock in/out system that I always forgot to use. Never did but I wanted to build a big red button with an Arduino that clocked me in and out with the API and showed a timer

It’s a fp4 so older and I got it second hand so unsure if the warranty still applies

Will definitely try with the screws though

That new model with chain of thought reasoning openai released recently has been an overall worse experience than all previous models

Could have some kind of floating timer window/widget in your bar so you don’t forget