I’ve never complained to get someone moved, but there are plenty of people that I didn’t/don’t like that I still have to work with. I will maintain a positive working relationship with those people by being nice.

I don’t don’t fit the mould of these ladies you’re talking about, but it could be a similar motive assuming they are aware that your are aware that they are the reason you moved. If they don’t know that, sometimes distance can help make bad relationships amicable. Again anecdotally, I’ve worked with people who’s work I don’t approve of, but they are fine people. Not working directly with them allows me to enjoy time with them.

Without the context omitted for why they complained about you, we can’t really offer fair judgement. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, you can see my above for possible explanations.

Probably that too, but specifically the ability to spin up a private space to communicate with people for things like video games. Anyone that’s using it as their means of customer service is an idiot.

Apparently I struck a chord with my post, so I’m curious what is better than discord, and free that made my statement controversial?

Also, I don’t see locking data from search engines as a bad thing. The fediverse isn’t search engine searchable either and Google, bing, etc, don’t natively have the right to index private data.

It’s the best at what it does, but had been getting shitty in the way you described. However, it’s free and they have to support it somehow. I’ll put up with the nitro pushing and understand that’s my cost of doing business. If they go public, I’ll probably actively start looking for an alternative, because that always kills a product and it will for sure mean “AI” will be forced into it.

That must be one helluva water source to get it to cross fork tines.

As a dev that recently transitioned from a decade of sys admin experience, to two years of ServiceNow admin/developer/et all, to now full stack development, I have found AI useful for somethings. I asked it how to do a thing, and it regurgitated a bunch of code that didn’t do what I was looking for, however, it did give me a framework for what files I needed to modify. I then put nose to the grindstone and write all of the rest of the code myself, researching the docs when needed, and I got it done.

For me, if I use AI to assist in something code, I always type everything out myself whether it’s right or not, because like taking notes, typing it out does help learn what I’m doing, not just finding a solution and running with it. I’ve disabled most of the auto complete copilot garbage in Visual Studio because it would generate huge blocks of code that may or may not be correct, and the accept button is the tab key, which I use frequently. I still have some degree of auto complete for single lines, but that’s it.

My advice would be to use AI as a prompt to get ideas or steer direction, but if you want to get better at coding and problem solving, I would suggest trying to find solutions yourself because digging through docs will be far more beneficial to your growth. AI does a good job of helping fill the gaps in packages or frameworks when your ignorant to all of the functions and stuff, but striving to understand them instead of relying on unreliable tools will make you a much better developer long term

I work next to a former pastor. He’s the most based religious person that I’ve met, and he’s imo what Christianity should be about. His big thing is your relationship with God is between you and him. This guy isn’t here to judge, and knows that it’s not his place. He mostly believes that if you’re a good person you’ll get to heaven.

I don’t agree with his religious views, but we can comfortably discuss philosophically about religion. More Christians should be like him and not like the fanatics and hypocrites.

Tell them you stopped believing in ghosts when you were a child. If coincidentally, the Christian God is real and all those other dieties aren’t, he’s a real fuck face. Why would anyone want to follow a supposedly all powerful being that gives children cancer instead of not being a piece of shit? If I die and go to Hell, at least I’ll be spending time with the one angel that fell because he loved me too much. It’s these old Christians that explained what Hell is like, and they had a pretty strong bias when writing it out. Why should anyone take their words with any value?

God’s either fake or a dog shit entity, so either way I have no interest in giving him any sort of praise.

I want to reenforce the other response you got with yes to all of you questions. I use steam and discord daily on my Linux install. I don’t use blender, but as mentioned is was developed for Linux, so should have no issues. If you have an old laptop or something around, try flashing on a distro and give it a whirl. Otherwise you may be able to get something dirt cheap on Craigslist if you want to have a lengthy try without configuring a dual boot, running off the install drive, or nuking your current setup.

I went all in on mine fairly blind and it’s one of the best decisions I’ve made in a couple of years. Go with something more stable if you’re hesitant or not well versed in computers and terminal. I went Arch because I wanted to force myself to learn more about how Linux is built and operates. It took me a full day to get loaded to a desktop mostly reading the wiki and deciding what items I wanted and how I wanted them configured. Linux 10 years ago is so different from the current versions, so if you’ve tried it before with issue, forget that experience and treat it as a first time experience.

Admittedly it’s worked fine for me, and this is my only use for it, but they were bought out by a company with history if malware based ad injection. PIA still maintains no logging and since they can’t really feed ads to my torrents, it probably doesn’t matter. I’ve known this for years and still haven’t switched, but it wouldn’t be my first choice for a VPN I use for web browsing or other online activities.

Oof yea. I can see how that’s missed. Knowing it’s there, I kind of like the minimalist design. Not ideal for a new user.

I have qbittorrent and PIA VPN. I need to switch VPN providers but that’s a separate topic. Qbt is on a kill switch so if the VPN goes down, no torrents flow. I’ve never received a letter when running VPN but have a few times in the past when not.

I have a Plex library over 40TB in size, and the vast majority has been torrents. I love in the US for geographical context. If you also are in the States, a simple VPN will be enough.

I did read the source, but that doesn’t change what I said. Lines of code is a shit metric. The source even specifically says, “…line of code is of course a questionable metric” then says how 400k lines of rust are auto generated in bindings.

So after re-reading, the intent of the article is to compare lines of code between different languages and their percentage of gnome. It’s apples and oranges, and a meaningless, shit metric.

That’s weird, and sucks you had that experience. I should take a step back and say that I haven’t used a lot of different districts, including Debian. What I have experienced though, was either a star menu like button either in the bottom left, to left, or a floating dock.

I went full in on Arch when I made my permanent switch a couple of years back to make myself really learn more rather than just plug and play. That may be skewing my perspective some. However, I did throw mint on an old laptop that I have to my brother, and I was shocked that everything was exactly ready to go after install. Libre office, browser, other useful tools, updates, etc. I spent more time verifying things than configuring them and just passed it off.

I know that at least when I install kde in Arch, there are a few different build options from fully loaded to no extra apps. Perhaps with Debian there is a similar selection and you grabbed something stripped down rather than fully loaded? I’m not sure, but it’s good to hear this stuff to check my ignorance when discussing this with people.

I go out to Keystone Colorado most years to go snowboarding and stay near or on the mountain. There is a pizza joint there called “Pizza on the Run” where I first had it. It’s now a staple for every trip I take out there.

Pepperoni, jalapenos, and pineapple is the best pie with pineapple as a topping. The spice of the jalapenos pairs very nicely with the sweet pineapple, and pepperoni is just good to boot.

There are definitely use cases where something like C is still the best option because it’s faster. For the most part consumer software it’s unnecessary, but it’s not obsolete for all applications.

I don’t truly understand things like this. Most DE’s are similar enough to Windows that anyone who’s spent a minute on a computer should be able to intuitively get to a web browser to surf the web. That’s what most people do. Word processing and the likes is tough since most are ingrained in Office, but something like (pukes in mouth) Google sheets is decently popular and good enough for most people.

If you give most someone a computer with a browser and auto updates, they’ll be able to do almost everything they are already doing on Windows with minimal thought.

There are exceptions, but those people suck at Windows already, so it’s a moot point. If you can’t find the start menu in Windows, it doesn’t matter what OS you’re using.

Lines of code is such a shit metric.

In the low level languages like c and rust, it takes 2 to 3 times as many lines to do the same thing. It’s a sensationalistic way to try and share information and I think the intent is disingenuous rather than ignorant.

It’s Grindr, almost everything is in the back end.

Blaming AI is in general criticising everything encompassing it, which includes how bad data centers are for the environment. It’s like also recognizing that the crack the crackhead smoked before robbing your house is also bad.