Lost My Notes

So I learned a valuable lesson today - Samba does not apparently support the question mark character in file names, even if the volume used by Samba does. Also, either I wasn’t paying attention and clicked a “stop bothering me with these file copy errors!” or KDE just didn’t copy unsupported files over to my Samba share the last time I backed up. Also, turns out Obsidian will make files with question marks in the filename. And finally, I erased my main computer to migrate from Linux to Windows for a few reasons and have lost those notes in the process. So a small set back there, unfortunately.

But why Windows?

1. My wifi card is flaky in Linux. It’s a Mediatek unit and it will drop connection randomly but mostly when I’m trying to play Helldivers with friends. So that’s not fun
2. I want my HDR. Granted, it’s on the way for Linux and I’m stoked, but it’s not here juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust yet.
3. S0ix sleep sucks in Windows, but for whatever reason I have had more luck with it in Windows than Linux. My game machine just hangs when entering sleep and my desktop will enter automatic suspend, but then immediately exit.
4. The Firefox wonderbar is a little buggy in KDE currently (I’m also waiting for Orion to drop. Oh boy!)

I absolutely detest Windows, so who knows how long this will last? Maybe I’ll hop over to MacOS again. Maybe I’ll get an enternet drop in here. Maybe I’ll suffer bad wifi. Who knows? But I have knocked back most of the Windows annoyances so I’m ok… for now

Gitea setup follow up

Wow this works great! My setup is on a 2014 Mac Mini and I have a little build pipeline in Jenkins triggered by a webhook from Gitea. So I just have to commit and push to either my blog or My React Project. Once the push happens, it builds and dumps it on my web server. How did I survive before this?

An Aside

So a few posts ago I mentioned the Copilot Agent Mode and how I wasn’t probably going to try it out. Well, I lied apparently. Incidentally, I used that to create My React Project. The boss is asking if we can leverage some Copilot action to help with some migration work at work, and what better way to find out than feed $100 to Microsoft and find out? None really. So I did. First impression is that it’s impressive and also kind of dumb still. It was able to make this Next.js app with very little intervention. I think I wrote about two lines of code. However, I wanted to enable the React compiler and it struggle bussed all night long. Ultimately all I could get it to do was upgrade Next.js and React to the versions necessary to enable the compiler, but at each step it kept removing the compiler settings and telling me the compiler was automatically enabled. Which is a lie. In this instance I was using Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Perhaps another model would produce better results - I don’t know. Maybe a thing to test in the future?