Where are Purism, System76, Tuxedo Computers, Starlabs, SlimbookES, and others? Instead there's Dell, HP, ASUS, and Fujitsu...

It was announced about one year ago

If lemmy had user-defined filters, I'd use them. Right now I'm downvoting the stuff, but there's already a community for musk-related stuff: !EnoughMuskSpam@kbin.social

Doesn't have to be from this week or this month. A wow moment can even be years back.

For example, I can't upvote or comment on a single thing in this thread https://programming.dev/post/4577853?scrollToComments=true which is from !technology@lemmy.world

Same goes for !linux https://programming.dev/post/4449644?scrollToComments=true

There must be some way they can EEE linux.

I would like to write my own read-only client(s) to pull my transactions from the bank and keep track of my spending. It would be possible to then feed this into other software (either that I write myself or that I can find and trust).

In the future, the goal is to actually initiate transfers to European bank accounts. For example an automatic transfer between savings accounts when the interest rates increase for one bank, or transfer from a savings account to a stock exchange instead of letting it sit on a stock exchange waiting to be invested.

It's not entirely clear where to start as the banking system seems quite opaque and it feels like I'd have to get a job at the bank to understand how it works. Stock and crypto exchanges have APIs and sometimes even libraries, but banks?

Edit: no libs, but PSD2 is the keyword. Banks in the EU must(?) support open banking and provide APIs following that standard.

Original title: The PERFECT Desk Setup!

Large companies don't innovate anymore, they acquire and Google's sourceforge offering is... let's call it underwhelming. If they tried to compete with Github and threw money into Gitlab, what do you think they'd do?

If you're modeling relational data, it doesn't seem like you can get around using a DB that uses SQL, which to me is the worst: most programmers aren't DB experts and the SQL they output is quite often terrible.

Not to dunk on the lemmy devs, they do a good job, but they themselves know that their SQL is bad. Luckily there are community members who stepped up and are doing a great job at fixing the numerous performance issues and tuning the DB settings, but not everybody has that kind of support, nor time.

Also, the translation step from binary (program) -> text (SQL) -> binary (server), just feels quite wrong. For HTML and CSS, it's fine, but for SQL, where injection is still in the top 10 security risks, is there something better?

Yes, there are ORMs, but some languages don't have them (rust has diesel for example, which still requires you to write SQL) and it would be great to "just" have a DB with a binary protocol that makes it unnecessary to write an ORM.

Does such a thing exist? Is there something better than SQL out there?

I've been considering paying for a European provider, mounting their service with rclone, and thus being transparent to most anything I host.

How do y'all backup your data?

Say you want to contribute to a project and find out the only way to do so is by discussing the issue on IRC or the mailing list, then submitting the patch per email.