I see it is Platinum on WineHQ, will give that a try thanks.

appdb.winehq.org/objectManager…

Nothing else has so many random niches filled.

I don't know the VSCode ecosystem at all -- but you you know the emacs one?

If three out of three platforms isn’t enough, you might want to go with vim. I guess it is ported to all platforms available.

Sublime is a text-editor on steroids. It has so many good extensions, it feels like an IDE.

Anyhow: paying for good software is a no-brainer, if it safes you troubles and time, and especially if yourself are a dev, too (depending on others to also pay for your work). Also there are fair company licenses in case a firm is involved.

And finally: you can use sublime without paying. There will he a pop up dialog every 50 start or so. It’s really not annoying and fair.

Fair point. I have worn many hats through my IT career, I started out as a Windows NT admin back when it was cutting edge technology in the 90s. I fell in love with a text editor called Ultraedit that my org had a site license for. When I left that org after many years I missed Ultraedit and was delighted to find Notepad++ had most of features I loved. Now the course of my career has found me become a Linux admin and personal linux user for many years now. I have been using Notedpad-qq for years, but recently it seems to have gotten worse and I have had instances where crashes resulted in lost data. I liked the idea of having the same general UI and features as Notepad++ because I still need to use Windows at work. But I am reluctantly admitting maybe it is a time for a change.

Apologies for the digression, but I wanted to share some of the waypoints in my journey that influenced my personal choice.

Fuck you.

Love,
Neovim

(Just meming, emacs is actually pretty cool tbh and you probably are too.)

I used DD-WRT for 9 years and had no reason to switch until I was forced to. At some point after a firmware upgrade my routers began to occasionally lose their configurations after power failures. Months of troubleshooting, logging errors and recreating configs made no difference. I had been concerned for some time that the project seemed to rely on one guy, and although what he's doing is amazing, it is not possible for him to thoroughly test each firmware release. When one of my routers lost its config when I was 200 miles away and I lost alarm monitoring I was forced to make a change.

Open-WRT has been a really pleasant surprise. It's completely stable on the same routers and the feature set is unbelievably broad. The learning curve was a bitch though.

I was on DD-WRT back when WRT54G but the DD-WRT devs don't really get it,
They make the bad compromises, and most of their initial contributors appears to have moved on to OpenWRT.

At this point DD-WRT isn't just another alternative, it's very stale while OpenWRT is still evolving rapidly and has the larger contributor community. And they put as much emphasis on performance, bloat reduction and efficiency as they do new features.

I have a 8MB nvram TP link archer C7 and it's actually faster in the latest version, that's basically unheard of in all of software !

Yup, bought a bunch of TP-Link mesh towers. Turns out that they take down the whole WiFi when the main node looses internet connection. That's just not acceptable, I might have an unstable internet connection but still want access to my local devices, such as my streaming server or router.

On that node, does anyone know of a brand of mesh towers that can survive unstable/no internet connections and don't use custom firmware? DD-WRT works just fine, but I'm not gonna flash custom firmware onto friends' devices.

I have kasa switches and everything is blocked on my firewall so they can't phone home.

Overall they function fine. But I have 1 pesky switch that is constantly in a disconnected state (red light) no matter what I do. Every time I reconnect it it disconnects not too long later. It functions fine though, possibly because its a 3 way and the paired switch is fine.

I have another set of 3 way switches that have disconnected a few times but reconnecting them works just fine for a long while (years).

So my questions are, that pesky red light switch sounds kind of like your situation. When you say they reset themselves, do the lights go red?

Secondly, yours reset every 10 minutes? Most of mine seem fine. I'm not sure what's different between our setups.

I haven't seen the lights go red, only off, then orange, then green if they were already on.

Of my KP105 and KP115 plugs, only one has misbehaved, only once when their server was unreachable. The main culprit is the Kasa 303 I think it's called? The 3-outlet adapter.

They are great devices! But I'm waiting for a Zigbee or Matter alternative with energy monitoring so these can be swapped out

Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Power Strip, 3-Outlets

With 3 independently controllable outlets and 2 USB ports. Just plug your appliances into the smart power strip and remotely turn them on and off from anywhere with the Kasa Smart app.

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Gotcha. So with a few exceptions they overall seem perform well across the board.

Once upon a time I dreamed of switching them all out for something better, and was actually looking forward to Tapo with matter support.

But for my uses I'm basically pulling the plug. My switches are smart enough. I can do schedules, profiles, and control with the app.

I don't need more than that and there's not really a privacy focused option as far as I know. Blocking internet is my solution to keep things contained.

tp link routers tend to run openwrt pretty well.

Of course, I have the TP-Link router that isn't well-supported 😖

I kind of miss my old Linksys routers, which officially supported third-party firmware.