I always thought the signing is for a specific set of hardware and current os installation.

Ah, no, PGP keys are intended for identifying people, not machines.

I have the directory .gnupg

That’s all you need for GPG.

Is there something else I have to copy?

Why not copy your entire home directory?

Every time I have to reinstall my operating system (its really only a few times in a decade),

Reinstalling your operating system once a decade seems a bit excessive. When you’re more experienced you’ll probably not want to do it that often.

creating gpg keys

While it is a good practice to create new PGP keys with some regularity, there’s absolutely no reason to do it at the same time as reinstalling your operating system, doing that is only an unnecessary complication. The normal thing to do is to copy the entire home directory (and at least the keyring) from the old installation to the new.

Am I doing enterprise level security for the sake of an icon or is this really more secure?

The purpose of PGP signing git commits is to make it possible for others to verify that a commit has been created by you and not by someone else pretending to be you.

If there are other people who look at your commits and want to verify that they really were made by you then this matters a lot. If no-one does that with your commits, it doesn’t matter at all.

That’s why the checkbox should be grayed out, so that you can’t uncheck it.

Incompatible with Dark Mode.

I recommend reading this insightful, sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening, but almost always educational collection of texts about open source development:

https://un.curl.dev/

He should be earning at least 5x more like his colleagues are.

Do you think it’s fair that any person ever makes 5x more than anyone else?

It doesn’t answer your questions about calendar and contacts, but you might still find it interesting to take a look at this project:

https://maddy.email/

The answer to every single one of those questions is: Conan the Barbarian

Doesn’t need any comment:

int getCount() { return count; }

Absolutely needs a very extensive comment:

double getBojangleFlux { return fubar * .42; }

Your friend sets you up on a date. Are you going to treat that person horribly. Of course not. Why? First and foremost, because you’re not a dick.

I have in my life met a number of people to whom you might want to explain that this was how they were supposed to behave.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/dot_internal_ratified/

Just curious: If you’re willing to use Discord, why not Google?

I myself prefer my trailers rare.

Imo not really noob-user friendly.

In what way? It would make it entirely invisible that the archive file isn’t just a normal folder, it would be possible to use it just as if it were. What would be unfriendly about that?

The operating system could mount it as a virtual drive, then all its contents could be used directly just like any regular folder.

It’s now been 18 years since the last time an employer paid me to write assembly, but it’s only been a year or so since the last time I had to read assembly at work (in order to verify what the compiler really was doing).

I still don’t get what would be so difficult about typing one such character if ever needed.

Sure, but when was the last time you saw, say, a Python project using some third-party library instead of simply calling isnumeric() from the standard library?

There’s a reason for these jokes always being about Javascript.

Twitter ceased to exist in July 2023.

Most people never type a full file name on the command line, they normally just use file name completion.

And if they happen to have a lot of files that are only distinguished by some single character, what would be so difficult about typing that one character then?