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I use Fish as a user shell everywhere I can and end up using Bash daily for scripting and on servers/VMs/containers at work, I've also been using Nushell a lot recently for personal scripts.

Biggest drawbacks for me is mixing up a few bits of syntax and some software doesn't ship Fish completion scripts, although I never write scripts in Fish which reduces the syntax I actually use.

In my opinion Fish is worth it just for the auto complete suggestions alone, but I also really like the way it handles editing config, it's sane default config, understandable error messages, and plug-ins.

Nushell is very nice, but I find it doesn't match the usability of Fish for interactive shells. Love it for scripts though.


Sadly that almost makes things worse, if it's off then it's a data point that helps to id privacy conscious people.


Just use a default (GMT) for people who don't want to disclose it.


Timezone: GMT with an IP that says something different is still more information than the IP alone.


There's Lix, although I'm not clear on if it's about changes to the language or if it's entirely focused on improving the tooling.

https://lix.systems/


There are a whole lot of attempts of "Our own Nix, with blackjack and hookers" and so far none of them have any traction. (Not counting Guix here.)

I don't think any of them are trying to make huge changes to the language itself, considering that an inability to use Nix packages would be a deal breaker for basically everyone.


In my experience the view of the police is pretty positive here in the UK.


It used to be - but even now the problem is a different one. Less about police brutality (Menezes and Tomlinson notwithstanding) and more about police apathy and not-my-job-ism when facing any crime harder to solve than a traffic collision.


The company that I work for makes a b2b wholesale platform. We use Rust on the backend for its reliability. The performance is a nice bonus too.


That's correct in the most of the English speaking world, apple juice is what it sounds like, cider is fermented apple juice (as far as I'm aware, it is in the UK). In American English cider is apple juice, and hard cider is fermented, alcoholic apple juice.


Correct that we call it hard cider if it's fermented. For non-fermented, we draw a distinction between apple juice and cider. Best explained by Flanders: https://youtu.be/L1BfF77Pvio?t=15


> Been smooth sailing ever since

Did you stay with Paypal after that? I'd have run for the hills.


Mostly use stripe/freshbooks these days but have kept that paypal account all these years because it feels like it's got special powers :-D


Maybe even one that can randomise some settings to throw off fingerprinting.


Do you know a good alternative?


I don't have a good alternative for points of interest (restaurants, ...), but for maps and routing I use https://www.locusmap.eu (with offline Locus Maps, Android only). For car navigation Waze, ironically an app from google, is also nice and has full congestion avoidance.


> Moreover, for some reason people tend to read only that first tweet while what I wanted to say is in next 5 tweets too.

I find it concerning that Twitter has become such a common way to share news. The short message format can make it impossible to get a full point across reliably.


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