Another commenter basically deduced this

No mention of the Kinesis Advantage 360? I was lucky and scored two of them for free, one from the ergo center at my employer, and one from a generous coworker who didn't vibe with his.

There are a lot of keyboards I'd like to try, but I'm pretty happy with these.

Thanks for mentioning it, I included the Kinesis Freestyle (traditional split) but I think it's worth including the Advantage. Added!

Not to say you need every keyboard in the world in your article, but the Freestyle Pro is also nice - it's essentially a Freestyle 2 but with mechanical keys.

8 years ago or so I had a job that necessitated doing a bunch of LDAP integrations and I tried FreeIPA, openLDAP and others. It was such a pain. OpenLDAP (slapd) was actually configured using... LDAP. Yes, you configured an LDAP server using it's own protocol. It was not good. My fading impression of FreeIPA is that it had some nice things going for it, but it wasn't nearly as lightweight or friendly towards automation, it felt more like setting up a windows domain controller and clicking through a webUI to set things up.

> Yes, you configured an LDAP server using it's own protocol. It was not good.

It's still possible to configure OpenLDAP via the slapd.conf file. The old roadmap called for ditching configuration file support in 2.5 IIRC, but it proved hugely unpopular so the file works to this day. The new configuration style is mainly useful for live updating of access rules and indexing.

My thoughts exactly. I'm not 100% ideologically against piracy or training LLMs on copyrighted datasets necessarily, but it is definitely not their data..

we are also stressed, scared for our jobs and bombarded by constant distraction

I have used Linux on and off since 1997. A few weeks ago I decided to try Linux on a laptop for the first time in a very long time, having only used Linux for cloud servers for many years. I may have picked a bad device for it, a Surface Studio laptop. Initially, I was surprised how much stuff just worked, the high-res display, the wifi, etc. The touchpad didn't work. I mucked around for a few hours and got it to work "OK". The computer would go to sleep, and I couldn't wake it up without hard-booting it. I downloaded a new kernel (linux-surface), which partially, but not entirely fixed the problem. When I plug in a totally normal USB mouse, the cursor moves in a way that is more erratic than either my macOS or windows machines. I haven't figured out a solution.

It doesn't feel like the year of the Linux desktop for me unfortunately. You can get an M1 macbook air for like $400 right now. It's a pretty hard sell.

Working at Microsoft, I've just now hooked up to Claude Code (my department was not permitted to use it previously), through something called "Agent Maestro", a vscode extension which I guess pipes claude code API requets to our internally hosted Claude models, including Opus 4.6.

I do wonder if there is going to be much of a difference between using Claude Code vs. Copilot CLI when using the same models.

> I do wonder if there is going to be much of a difference between using Claude Code vs. Copilot CLI when using the same models.

I’m also at MS, not (yet?) using Claude Code at work and pondering precisely the same question.

Is this an indictment of OpenAI's models -- that Microsoft has access to through their investment?

We've had both GPT and Claude models available to us in Github Copilot for some time. At first, it was only GPT models.

> I honestly don’t think the models are as important as people tend to believe.

I tend to disagree. While I don't see meaningful _reasoning power_ between frontier models, I do see differences in the way they interact with my prompts.

I use exclusively Anthropic models because my interactions with GPT are annoying:

- Sonnet/Opus behave like a mix of a diligent intern, or a peer. It does the work, doesn't talk too much, gives answers, etc.

- GPT is overly chatty, it borderline calls me "bro", tend to brush issues I raise "it should be good enough for general use", etc.

- I find that GPT hardly ever steps back when diagnosing issues. It picks a possible cause, and enters a rabbit hole of increasingly hacky / spurious solutions. Opus/Sonnet is often to step back when the complexity increases too much, and dig an alternative.

- I find Opus/Sonnet to be "lazy" recently. Instead of systematically doing an accurate search before answering, it tries to "guess", and I have to spot it and directly tell it to "search for the precise specification and do not guess". Often it would tell me "you should do this and that", and I have to tell it "no, you do it". I wonder if it was done to reduce the number of web searches or compute that it uses unless the user explicitly asks.

Compare their system prompts and the agent harness logic. It's 99% of what makes the agent useful, and it can be quite different.

Crowding around our first ever computer, a 120mhz pentium with 16mb of RAM and a 1.6gb hard disk, watching that Weezer video on the CRT monitor with my whole family is a cherished memory.

ya, starting with M1, Apple really broke away hard. Windows laptops, especially of the thin-and-light variety, are so bad by comparison.

Very cool, I have not given Ardour a try in many years but the UI looks quite nice. Will give it a go