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A dishwashing machine takes easily twice as long as you to wash dishes.

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It has “while Rome burned” vibes.

Sounds like you haven’t taken the time to properly design your environment.

Lots of home gamers just throw stuff together and just “hack things till they work”.

You need to step back and organize your shit. Develop a pattern, automate things, use source control, etc. Don’t just file follow the weirdly -opinionated setup instructions. Make it fit your standard.

What do you mean by “corporate?”

You could look at higher education, non-profits, research, etc.

I don’t want a lot of money

Do you want to work full time? I’d never hire a programmer who wants to work less than 20 hrs/wk and I’d even be very unlikely to hire anyone for less than full time. It’s a pain to coordinate with somebody on a team who isn’t there most of the time.

Maybe small non profits would be interested, but

I’d like to work with REAL programming, not devops, not cloud, not managing containers, I want to write code as a living.

Small businesses will need someone who is flexible and can “do everything”. Typically only large organizations allow people to specialize.

Maybe “bug hunting” or contributing to larger oss projects that have budgets to pay for contributions?

Okay - then everything is working fine. You’ve ruled out all of your options.

I didn’t realize it was using a remote-desktop setup. Still 2-D rendering performance could be an issue in the browser depending on whether it’s using accelerated graphics or not.

There are performance metrics other than CPU/memory usage. Like network latency, disk i/o, and bandwidth. UI performance on remote desktops tends to suffer from latency even with fast machines on local networks. The “proxmox console” for VMs I run in browser is a remote desktop and it performs… well enough for a server but I wouldn’t want to do anything significant in it. And that’s just presenting a desktop.

You haven’t described the nature of your ‘poor performance’ well though. Is it display latency like I’m describing or things like loading projects or creating STL files that is slow?

Are you familiar with remote desktop or ssh?

Very.

I didn’t realize that’s what this was doing though. Still requires a bit of client-side rendering performance from the browser and network capability. Depending on what potato they’re using on the desktop the latency might be giving the perception of “slowness”.

It’s still an intensive part though.

A lot of the work FreeCAD does is in the client though. Rendering the display. That’s not going to be done server-side.

Having to make a decision isn’t my primary issue here (even though it can also be problematic, when you need to serialize domain-specific data for which you’re no expert). My issue is rather in that you have to write this decision down, so that it can be used for deserializing again. This just makes XML serialization code significantly more complex than JSON serialization code. Both in terms of the code becoming harder to understand, but also just lines of code needed.

This is, without a doubt, the stupidest argument against XML I’ve ever heard. Nobody has trouble with using attributes vs. tag bodies. Nobody. There are much more credible complaints to be made about parsing performance, memory overhead, extra size, complexity when using things like namespaces, etc.

I’ve somewhat come to expect less than a handful lines of code for serializing an object from memory into a file. If you do that with XML, it will just slap everything into child nodes, which may be fine, but might also not be.

No - it is fine to just use tag bodies. You don’t need to ever use attributes if you don’t want to. You’ve never actually used XML have you?

https://www.baeldung.com/jackson-xml-serialization-and-deserialization

Yes, which needs to be supported by your parser.

I mean, yeah. But people don’t just do things randomly. Most people put data in the body and metadata in attributes just like html.

They’re siblings. They both derive from SGML. There is a version of HTML that is also XML conformant called XHTML but it never caught on…

JSON is super easy to read and write though. Just needs a parser that allows comments…

Fuck yaml. TOML or literally anything else.

This is your confusion, not an issue with XML.

Attributes tend to be “metadata”. You ever write HTML? It’s not confusing.

The last thing I want to see when I clock out is another terminal screen.

I’m reacting to this mostly. Self-hosters are a bit of an obnoxious blend of people who want turnkey-but-not-Google solutions and people willing to learn how to do things. People whining about “having to use a terminal” are generally in the former category.

Then don’t self host?