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There’s a relatively new latex replacement, which is much easier to use, although its ecosystem is not as complete (obviously)

https://typst.app/

(The CLI tools are OpenSource and independent from the GUI thing they sell)

Actually, scratch that, I think it really started with the non-consensual updates:

At first I ignored it, and carried on as normal. Sure, I’d get mad from time to time and I’d complain.

But hey, nothing beats the convenience of being able to have all of your applications in one place

It really started there for me as well, and where it ended: Windows 10 was hellbent on making me use newer, broken GPU drivers. So it was better to lose the ability to play some games rather than all of them. And I also was able to get all the updates from one place :)

pd: at the time this happened Microsoft still hadn’t released the tool to allow to rollback drivers.

Still not a substitute for a decent IDE, though.

It is with plugins, however. I’ve used neovim for years at work and it has LSP capabilities and grammar-based syntax parsing. So it provides lots of IDE-like features on top of its excellent text-editing features. Nevwrmind that it integrates with the terminal much better than IDEs.

So I couldn’t disagree more with your statement

I’ve used Wayland exclusively for years, but here’s an example: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/

tl;Dr the Wayland ecosystem has still not caught up in all edge cases, the weirder setup you have the more likely you’re affected

Translation: they want to stop paying Denuvo for their DRM system

Vates demoed on kubecon an ARM workstation running XCP-ng, a xen-based virtualization platform.

https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/11/13/xcp-ng-on-arm-with-ampere/

It’s still early days, but I’m hoping it can reach homelabs, the big question being hardware enablement, which is difficult on ARM baseboards due to lack of standardization.

Disclaimer: I work with Vates, and prepared some component to compile under ARM to prepare the demo.

I know, yes. But I’m talking about virtualization, not containerizarion

Personally, I want to properly isolate the services with virtualization. The main reason is I expose some of the services online, and I don’t t want to only rely on keeping all software up-to-date at all times. This allows me to limit the damage if one of the services is compromised.

I wouldn’t use MacOS as the virtualization platform, and instead use something else, like BSD, Linux, or xen-based for my servers