My pro open-source teacher in HS pushed for all of us to use the handful of Linux computers and recommended GIMP over Photoshop. He even said we can download GIMP at home for free.

Back then, searching for GIMP gave you bondage suits.

And because we were immature fuckwads, we played real hard into that joke, to a point where the principal had to send a letter to parents about how to actually find free open-source software with links.

I don’t know what half those things are but I laughed at the words “Breast Mints”. No idea what it means.

So yeah after a year of a release.

Nah. It’s just a paradigm. I hated it when I studied it in the 2000s, and have gained some appreciation of it 20 years later.

What I realized isn’t that I hate OOP, moreso I hate how old ass books/old guard developers used OOP.

Could also be related to c++

But I want AI to convert my mp3s to Oggs and vice versa 😭😭😭

Not some stupid “conversion library” or whatever that is

I would have disagreed with you when Pis were like $50 and chaining 3 Pis together with a hard drive was a fun project to do self hosting.

Now to get to the beefiest raspberry pi, it’s $120. And in the range, yeah, for price and reliability, use a mini-pc/laptop.

In a room full of dickheads, it’s often the loudest dickhead that gets their way. Often it’s the CEO.

Pretty much. These commenters seem to believe engineers are given all the resources needed to deliver everything in time in perfect condition.

I just realized I have no idea who pays for Let’s Encrypt. I just run the server commands, automate it, and move on.

Joplin.

Ive been paying for Workflowy and honestly, I’ve reached my limit of cost vs value.

I needed a way to do more than just bullets, like Evernote without the bloat, or OneNote/Notes without the megacorp, something I can export and read 100 years from now.

I was surprised how often I use it, and slowly weening off of Workflowy.

Is there a tldr here?

https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/instant-karma-employer-who-replaced-his-tech-team-with-ai-asks-for-new-developers-on-linkedin-heres-what-happened-next/articleshow/116625826.cms

Politics in my sci-fi? Yuck.

Gonna go enjoy my politics-free shows like Star Trek, Star Wars, Black Mirror, Westworld, and The Man In the High Castle.

Sorry to ask: can you include a summary?

I don’t often get time to watch videos, even short ones.

IT team is in charge of backups. They swore up and down that everything was fine and backups are working correctly.

For my department because I believe in Happiness, asked them to send me a backup. It was garbage data.

Then I learned how they verified the backups were working if the file size was bigger than 0kb.

That’s exactly what I tell tinkerers.

You can be a Windows IT person for a decade and not really know anything except how to copy and paste something.

You do the same for Linux, and at some point, everything clicks.

We hired a IT guy who had a decade of experience with Windows Servers. The dude was not a good fit for our linux-heavy IT team. Didn’t fully know commands or how the OS worked.

He was still a smart dude, and he moved to the AWS team, where there’s a lot more GUI aid.

I was pretty amazed at this when I learned about it.

It feels like digging into Windows was finding a bunch of compiled code.

Where there’s been some times where I understood what was happening in Linux because I was able to follow how the library was set up.

Imho, ‘cheapest’ and ‘useful’ are rarely a great combo for a VPN.

Yeah I never understood why people have this mindset.

Like looking for security, but then buying the cheapest option?

It’s actually kind of nice to see this as a JS developer.

Not like, “Oh wow this is neat!”

But like, “Finally the golden child, Python, also has some fucked up shit”