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Bashy Mar 5

OpenAlt Romania Mar 5

📢 Meetup Date Update

Our second meetup will take place on 25 March at 6:00 PM at Centrul pentru Tineret.

Location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=46.770295&mlon=23.590912#map=19/46.770295/23.590912

Bashy Feb 26

My first experience with #LaTeX was back in 2015 when my Uni said we should use it for our papers. I was confused and didnt understand how to work with it and refused it.

I used it in October again and l liked it, so this week I've decided to learn to use it and I am really loving it. It's been a while since I was this excited about a technology x)

I also think that the experience and exposure to different technologies over last 10 years made it easier for me to understand how to work with it.

Bashy Feb 16

Bogdan Buduroiu Feb 14

> Coding with automated systems like this is intoxicating. It’s addictive, because it’s the lootbox effect. We don’t get addicted to rewards. We get addicted to potential rewards. Notice that gamblers aren’t actually motivated by having won. They’re motivated by maybe winning next time. It can lead us to the glassy eyed stare with a bucket of quarters at a slot machine, and it can lead us to 2am “one more prompt, maybe it’ll work this time” in a hurry.

https://aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/12/the-ai-haters-guide-to-code-with-llms/

#AI #LLM #claudecode

The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time

Bashy Feb 15

Meringue and chocolate cake https://blog.bashynx.com/Baking/Birthday-Cakes/2026-02-15-meringue-and-chocolate-cake/ #Baking #BirthdayCakes #Cakes

Bashy Feb 9

OpenAlt Feb 9

OpenAlt Romania #1 - January 2026

https://vhsky.cz/w/bSdLQJV81PfBvzbHn75qLX

OpenAlt Romania #1 - January 2026

PeerTube

Bashy Jan 29

Chocolate, yogurt and blackberry cake https://blog.bashynx.com/Baking/Birthday-Cakes/2026-01-29-chocolate-yogurt-and-blackberry-cake/ #Baking #BirthdayCakes #Cakes

Bashy Jan 29

Placemat experiments https://blog.bashynx.com/Crafting/Homemaking/2026-01-08-placemat-experiments/ #Crafting #Sewing

Bashy Jan 18

I've tried baking my own bread after a while, and I love the results.

I've used this recipe: https://www.chainbaker.com/a-very-simple-easy-white-bread-recipe/

And I've also found, that the key is methodology and the process of making it, rather than just the ingredients. I used to underestimate the process part with the breadmaking in past and it shows.
#baking #bread #homemaking

Bashy Jan 17

OpenAlt Romania Jan 17

The first OpenAlt meetup in Cluj-Napoca is officially over.

Huge thanks to the Broadridge for providing us with the venue, our speakers (György Kovács and @tassos ), and everyone who showed up and took part.

See you again on the next meetup, on 12th of March!

Bashy Jan 14

Chris Trottier Nov 13

It is so funny when people claim Linux authority by saying, “I’ve been using Linux since the 2000s…”

Sit down. My first distro was Slackware on a 200Mhz Pentium MMX. And back then, window managers were the hotness, not desktop environments. Back in my day, we fiddled with Xeyes in IceWM—and we liked it.

But none of that vintage cred actually matters, because Linux never wins people over with nostalgia. It wins people over when it finally does the thing they care about.

I abandoned Linux in the early 2010s for the same reason most people did: it didn’t have the apps or the games I needed. The OS was fine. The software ecosystem wasn’t.

What brought me back? Gaming. Not philosophy, not ideology, not a love of fiddling with config files.

Gaming forced Linux to solve real, modern problems—drivers, performance, Vulkan, translation layers, graphics pipelines. And once those problems got solved, the benefits spilled into everything else: creative apps, productivity apps, niche tools, Windows compatibility layers that actually work.

This is what people still don’t get: regular users don’t care about Wayland vs Xorg, package formats, compositor drama, or kernel minutiae. They care about whether the apps they need will run with minimal friction.

An operating system succeeds when it disappears into the background and lets people use their software. For the first time, Linux is genuinely doing that—and that’s why the momentum is finally real.