I'm liking the recent posts about switching to Linux. Some of my home machines run Linux, and I ran it on my main laptop for years (currently on Win10, preparing to return to Linux again).

That's all fine and dandy but at work I am forced to use Windows, Office, Teams, and all that. Not just because of corpo policies but also because of the apps we need to use.

Even if it weren't for those applications, or those policies, or if Wine was a serious option, I would still need to work with hundreds of other people in a Windows world, live-sharing Excel and so on.

I'm guessing that most people here just accept it. We use what we want at home, and use what the bossman wants at work. Or we're lucky to work in a shop that allows Linux. Right?

I thought I'd try an experiment with letting Claude Code work on a fresh project. I'm not diving right into coding - I'm using Claude Code to write the specs first.

I'm blown away. It's like having a short-range time machine. I got so many pages of user stories, tech requirements, roadmaps, mvp vs later versions, and all that stuff. Done in a few hours over two evenings. Yes I hit the limits way before the 5-hour window, but on the plus side I went to bed instead of sitting up half the night, so there's that.

What would have taken me days of typing, Claude just magicked into existence with a snap of its virtual fingers. I review every line of it and still save oodles of time, plus I get to ping-pong about my ideas and refine them along the way.

Using Claude Code instead of just browser-Claude was the real boon. Working with markdown.md files is fast as hell. Running it on my Windows desktop using WSL to get a new one Linux session that maps to my home folder, and simultaneously using Obsidian in Windows to read and edit the output. That sounds a bit roundabout but it's very efficient, and as a side effect I am beginning to grok Obsidian and loving it. A powerful combo, plus it syncs with my phone. Add git to the mix as a finishing touch.

Claude can execute git commands, it can spin up a Docker instance to run the code it will eventually write, and I get to see it my browser, all on localhost.

I won't be surprised if the prototype it produces is shit. But I might be pleasantly surprised that maybe it isn't.

(I wrote this text myself.)

Hi all - please tell me if I'm doing this wrong:

My 12yo spends all day on YouTube shorts. I want to block it, but can only block YouTube entirely. Blocking for everyone would upset my 15yo, so I need per-client domain filtering.

That was easy on Pi-hole. But my Raspberry died and I heard praise for Adguard Home so now I run that as a Docker container.

1. I can't figure out how to block YouTube for only some devices. Is that not possible with Adguard? Claude gives me complicated nonsense; you can easily do better.

I want to ditch Adguard and go back to Pihole. The caveat is that I must let Pihole run the DHCP server, in order to get correct per-client blocking. That's a pity, as I have a neat UniFi network set up.

2. Can I get Pihole's per-client blocking without Pihole as DHCP?

I don't mind setting it all up in Pihole again (as yet another container) because I know it works (it's how I had it before the Raspberry died). But I would love to know if I am going about this the wrong way? Thank you!

I like the animation, odometer style. It works exceedingly well = I can downvote thirty-seven times and see the vote decrease thirty-seven times.

Not sorry to the damn cat photo that got downvoted hard as I discovered this.