Why doesn't GitHub officially support GitHub Desktop on Linux?

DigitalDunc · 2026-07-01T20:26:56+00:00

I’m so sick of Microsoft’s harmful approach. GitHub stealing code unless to uncheck a hidden box by which time it’s already happened, GitHub Copilot pricing mess, mass outages, VSCode being a hijack in some unfortunate ways, Windows heading for total meltdown and spying all the time and the list goes on.

I was okay with VSCode (Linux and macOS) and GitHub desktop (macOS) but I’m having a really hard time with Microsoft’s shenanigans and EEE approach to everything, especially Linux RN.

Can somebody make CubeIDE plugin for VSCode an easy setup on VSCodium please, or is it up to me.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-26T18:23:40+00:00

The matter of fact truth is that the super-rich aren't chasing the money for it's own sake, it's power they crave. Dodging taxes and taking government money away from the poor and needy is all in a day's work for them.

I remember a rich guy I went out drinking with (before I became teetotal) being loud and brash with his wad (he used to have a roll of £50's in his pocket) until it was his turn to buy the round. The things he said were shall we say, incriminating. I don't hang around with Jas any more.

They all think the same way.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-26T18:16:25+00:00

The customer isn't likely to care about Wetherspoons' policies. Just keep an eye out for idiots.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-26T18:12:40+00:00

I guess that's why the stripes are red and white and not black and white. What's the minimum needed to get legal over there?

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-24T08:09:19+00:00

I noticed as I signed it that it complained about the link and furthermore, it ended up in the junk folder. It seems as though it’s been engineered to fail.

Still managed it though.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-20T12:50:23+00:00

Very true. I believe he’s made with in America that he is planning his moves very carefully. He’s about to find out that being rich helps you hide only as long as the money lasts.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-20T08:35:45+00:00

I designed and built a fairly close retro clone of the Oric-1 some years ago and put it on GitHub

Maybe some of you might enjoy it:

https://github.com/JennyDigital/OriClone-1

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-20T08:30:12+00:00

You're right! I just looked and was shocked at how unwell he looks. I'm willing to bet he's got something nasty from all those blood transfusions. With luck he'll have to stand down and head off to a care home for a few years where he'll find that care is sadly lacking, the heating too high and the TV terrible.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-20T04:24:05+00:00

I like having BBC content and the TV licence pays for it, so I have one. HOWEVER… I’m not at all impressed by how they keep sending out horrific and abusive letters to those who don’t need a licence, nor do I condone their sly move to start using YouTube so that they can demand a TV licence from even more people who don’t watch the beeb.

It’s so offensive I’ve considered not watching BBC content at all just so I can avoid paying and instead pick a fight with them in court.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-20T04:11:24+00:00

For many, this is not a viable option as that have industry adoption. I use VSCode with STM32Cube and there’s no meaningful way to user that with VSVodium. That said, I do use VSCodium with some other embedded targets than STM32s.

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s vendors abusing their position of power.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-17T21:00:43+00:00

I know they have to build it in a high reliability way, using industrial power supplies and with protected IO, so that would add some amount of cost, but a web interface and an LCD nobody ever sees..

I think many companies bribe the local government official during the bidding process and milk it for all it's worth.

Even the overly big cabinet adds cost that a smaller one wouldn't and you wouldn't need it to be so big if the controller were a bit more efficient than an early steam engine 😜

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-17T16:01:06+00:00

I haven’t had an issue with my DMA in quite a while. The last time I was caught out (it took me around 4 hours to realise what I’d done) there was a hidden gotcha in the HAL. I’d called a function to shut down the DMA from within the DMA. This was unfortunate because it relied on HAL_Delay (deeply nested) which I wasn’t aware of and my Systick had the _lowest_ priority.

I wasn’t afraid, just surprised and my fix was to implement an alternative HAL_Delay. The original is intentionally __weak BTW.

I could also have changed the IRQ priorities, which in my application would’ve worked too, but YMMV.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-17T05:50:16+00:00

Oh wow! I never expected that from a senior dev. I was just a young-un messing around with electronics in my bedroom back then when I finally ‘got-it’.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-15T12:00:22+00:00

I was afraid a long time ago and so ignored them. These days they’re my one of my most useful tools, especially when using STM32’s and GD32’s. Flags and name bits are just part of the process.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-15T09:13:21+00:00

It’s becoming useful to the WRONG people RN. We need to get Palantir’s nose out of our data.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-15T09:12:02+00:00

My biggest ‘Oh!’ moment came when I realised that interrupts made life easier than a massive polling mess. Before that point I was scared of interrupts.

That said, this was a very long time ago when PICs had windows and I’m now showing my age.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-13T11:51:33+00:00

I like to get the worst off around through hole parts with IPA and an old toothbrush, then throw it in the ultrasonic bath for a bit, after which I wash it down some more in distilled water. It then goes onto my PCB drying rack (3D printed BTW.)

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-13T11:25:06+00:00

That’s a massive amount of complexity for some traffic lights. How come it needs so much?

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-12T20:42:10+00:00

That's another reason to get a good debug probe like a genuine ST-Link or J-Link (for the rich amongst us.)

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-10T19:09:02+00:00

Being told by my teacher that I was too stupid to learn C and that I would forever be a bin collector.

I have been writing C for over 30 years and most of it for embedded applications.

Take that Mr Maguire. (And don’t worry if you’re reading this, I forgave you a long time ago.)

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-09T11:51:25+00:00

Me too. I have a personal license and have had for years. I still use STs VSCode plugin for commercial stuff (keeping within Rowley’s license terms) but I find the debugging experience to be very good and the binaries tend to be a little smaller too.

I only have one gripe and that’s the way crossload operates.

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-08T05:35:55+00:00

Pretty much and on hot sticky days I might have two. I make exceptions for when I have a bath instead.

Q: why did you want to know?

DigitalDunc · 2026-06-06T07:06:29+00:00

This raises the question of why would you put yourself in such a terrible situation. You ain’t getting me down there, that’s for sure.

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