You can also install and run Zoom in FlatPak which secures your computer by running the executable in BubbleWrap. If you know what you're doing, you can also sandbox it directly.
When Zoom took the world by storm due to the pandemic, they're security was known to be horrible. They aquihired the keybase team who are crypto experts and this presumably had some measure of positive effect.
The advantage of Zoom was that it just worked. No more spending the first 10 minutes of a call making sure everyone is online and can see/hear you. Or at least greatly improved.
I agree that this probably isn't in their own interests but "because I refuse to do business with a company that takes its customers for granted" should be heavily qualified. My power company is taking advantage of me but so far I haven't had the nerve to fire them.
I don't think I can do a better overview than https://ghostty.org/docs/about . It's not world-changing but simply a very polished, well-executed terminal.
GPU rendering virtually eliminates typing latency. Most terminals that have it don't support native content like tabs, but Ghostty gets minimal latency without having to compromise on essentials since it uses native toolkits under the hood.
The modern TTY has lots of protocol extensions that allow your CLI tools to do things like display high-resolution images. There's tons of good-quality color themes out-of-the-box (with a built-in browser for preview).
Configuration is highly customizable but the defaults are good enough that you barely need it.
I moved because Ghostty feels just like the native terminal but allows me to set the color scheme. I have it set to match the vscode Monokai theme.
No, macos Terminal will not let you use whatever colors you like. It will helpfully adjust the colors you select to increase contrast. And it can't be disabled. It bugged me for years.
I didn't realize that KDE was now considered to be "lightweight". I left after installing KDE 4 as my relatively new computer slowed to a crawl. This was a bit sad because I like the Qt widget system and was writing apps for my Sharp Zaurus.
I have quite a few machines that were constructed using Ansible ... When I get a chance, I'll reverse then and compare the results to the IaC that created them
Funny ... I have a 50-line bash script that does this but it also runs each agent in a sandbox so the agents can't write to disk outside their designated got worktree. I'm happy to skip the TS+NodeJS but will admit my version might not be as portable.
Kafka is fast ... And MongoDB is web scale [0]. I completely agree that we shouldn't go chasing each new technical bauble but we are also wasting breath on those that do.
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