MangoKangaroo @ MangoKangaroo @beehaw.org

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While we're at it: dear bots, please give me whole milk, low-moisture mozzarella. Thanks.

Although I technically used OSS before (ie Firefox), Linux (Ubuntu) is what made me actually start caring about it.

That's a pretty healthy difference between donation income and expenditures. You love to see it.

Thanks, Dave.

Thank you. <3

Well shoot. :(

Thanks. I'm mostly having fun. ;)

"I’d kill for an IDE on macOS that uses the native UI." Possibly dumb question from someone who hasn't used MacOS for ages: isn't that what Xcode is?

That's pretty similar to my experience, although I'm maybe slightly less seasoned than you in terms of experience. I wasn't exactly expecting to get a new position immediately, but given all the talk in the media of a needy job market, I had a pretty damn hard time getting so much as a call back from most places.

For quite a while I'd always told myself, "I'll just forego the usual advice, since I could just draw from unemployment if I ever found myself without a job." I'd had the usual advice drilled into me but, until recently, had completely ignored it. I'm pretty damn glad I pivoted when I did, because holy hell it's a nightmare to actually start getting benefits, even in my state.

As to why I posted this: if my experience can convince even one other person who was as naive as I was to save a little more, then I'd consider that worth any ass kicking that I get from others. More than anything, I wanted this to be a, "it could happen to you" style of post.

Would you like me to lecture you on not eating avocado toast?

Is it nearly as much a nightmare to start getting unemployment in other places? I'm stunned that it's taken as long as it has in my case.

No, but finding a job in a slightly less fucked country would be great once I have sufficient work experience.

No. From rural Oregon, early 20's. My dad has been meaning to teach me with our old Ford Focus, but it hasn't happened yet. :(

My humble used office desktop turned NAS quickly became a dual-processor, 64GB ECC machine with more storage and processing power than I'll probably ever need.

Bright red gang represent 😤

In terms of games I actually play, Cataclysm: DDA (even if I still suck at it after hundreds of hours).

In terms of technical/visual impressiveness, Veloren.

Google, unlike many of their competitors, doesn't support display out on the Pixel. (Maybe to incentive people to use Chromecast?) I originally thought this was a feature they had and then removed, but apparently they actually never had it at all. Either way maybe we'll see Apple do some impressive things with the PD on their implementation... Or add a lint filter to it ;)

I have not and would not deny that, for the time, lightning was a hell of a lot better than micro USB and whatever other shit we had going on. That said, it's missing a lot of must-have modern features that myself (and others who need > USB 2 transfer speeds) would need. Type C is a mess, but I'm not to be convinced that Apple isn't more than capable of implementing it in a manner which offers a far better experience than what lightning is offering now. Either way, the deed seems to be done and Apple appears to be gearing up to offer Type C. I can only hope that they can do so in such a manner as to push other smartphone manufacturers to up the ante as well (looking at Google with its crippled Type C implementation on the Pixel.)

Don't apologize, this is super helpful! I appreciate your wisdom and I'll keep that all in mind going forward.