Not as glamorous as everyone else but I'm learning Neovim to manage my todolist (replacing Obsidian). My goal is to just keep it at a single page, since instead of having power, a todo list really benefits from simplicity.

Wouldn't a personalized RSS algo be a great use case for a simple LLM?

I'm on infosec.exchange and there's plenty of content, especially since it federates so I get content from all over the fediverse. I don't mind that there are only several very large instances, since federating to them from a tiny or even personal instance is no problem.

I've been using 8 GB on my M3 for years as a security engineer, doing pretty heavy development. I usually have like 15 Brave tabs open, several terminals, a game (PokeMMO) and a small DeepSeek model, lots of Claude Code instances running, Obsidian, and LadyBird, among other small things. I honestly have no idea what people do with all that RAM.

To provide my anecdata, my work MBP is 48GB and with nothing more than our dev environment, VSCode, Slack and Chrome it's at 34GB memory used. Modern NVMe drives make swapping to disk bearable (and it's the same on MacOS and Linux), but it is still swap and there will always be a performance penalty.

Sure I could survive with a 32GB machine but over the many years of life a laptop has, the extra cost seems negligible, and I would prefer to have slightly more RAM than I need rather than slightly less. With how bloated the web is becoming I wouldn't recommend an 8GB machine in 2026 to someone who intends to use it for the next decade. (I know people still using 2013 Macbooks with 16GB that are still fine for the kind of usage the Neo is aimed at.)

15 tabs? I manage multiple projects, one per window, and have about 15 to 30 tabs per window. So maybe 300 tabs.

Oh yeah well I run 500 VMs of Windows Vista each with an instance of DeepSeek botting Neopets stocks for me. I make more neopoints in a day than you'll make in USD in a year.

/s but I suppose I've developed a work flow that adapts to the RAM I've always had. I've seen people with zillions of tabs and I do wonder if it's really that much more productive than the occasional HTTP request to reopen one. I find leaving things open as a form of bookmarking clouds my mental space too much.

I do intend to have beastly RAM on my new desktop so who knows, maybe I'll be like you in a year.

If you like the core games I highly recommend PokeMMO. It's the first five games glued together into an MMO and it's free.

I wondered if this would be about PokeMMO, which I've recently started playing. Basically, they made a commercial Pokemon game by gluing the first five ROMS together, and they get around intellectual property by making players supply their own ROMs (which they assume you've acquired legally) for copyrighted assets.

It's incredibly fun. I'm pricklypears2 if anyone wants to play together. And if the devs read this, please add Mimikyu somehow I beg you <3

I was about to comment the same thing. Usually I don't call the function directly, but via the tty command in my shell scripts:

  if tty -s; then
    echo "Standard input is a TTY (interactive mode)."
  else
    echo "Standard input is not a TTY (e.g., piped or redirected)."
  fi

Now I wonder how _isatty_ itself detects whether a file descriptor is associated with a terminal!

In OpenBSD, with the fcntl system call

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/lib/libc/gen/isat...

https://man.openbsd.org/fcntl

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/sys/fcntl.h

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/ba496e5267528b649ec87212...

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/ba496e5267528b649ec87212...

Highly technically knowledgeable people are more influential in this sphere than the average consumer. If developers hate your device and love your competitor, that's a real problem.

It's not clear to me what the net outcome is.

I've mostly owned Android devices but for my family I've always recommended iOS devices because they are more locked down.

Open process manager to force an unresponsive program to close. This has been part of popular lexicon for decades. Eg from the song Death to Los Campesinos, "I'll be ctrl-alt-deleting your face with no reservations"

anthes.is, my favorite Unix blog