flubba86 @ flubba86 @lemmy.world

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Exactly. Its "I could eat this chocolate bar, and do an hour of cardio later in the gym" or to achieve the same outcome: "I could just not eat the chocolate bar".

Its not a very "patient gamer" recommendation, but Sea of Stars came out a couple of weeks ago, it is a modern game inspired by retro JRPG titles like Chrono Trigger. I haven't played it yet, but it looks super cool.

I find it hard to believe you're having difficulty finding the information you want on Google. I've never had issues searching for Linux stuff of Google, it's not that niche.

When it comes to "what does Linux do that is better than Windows?", it's better to look at what Linux doesn't do.

Linux doesn't force updates on you while you are trying to work. It doesn't put ads in your start menu. It doesn't send all your usage data to Microsoft. It doesn't use all your system resources running countless unknown background tasks.

I find Linux is best for the kind of people who really care about exactly what their computer is doing. If you want to know exactly what applications are installed, where they are installed and how they are configured, Linux is great. If you want to know exactly what processes are running on your system, why they are running, who launched them, how much RAM and CPU they are using, if that stuff is important to you, then Linux is great. If you like to have the ability to look through the source code of every application, utility, and driver installed on your system, to know exactly what lines of code your computer is executing, for paranoia reasons or just because you find it interesting and fascinating, then Linux is for you.

If that stuff is not important to you, then you (like most people on Earth) are not the target audience.

Me too. I haven't used Reddit at all since RIF stopped working on 1st July.

Well the one I'm thinking of, it had something like a 64x128 monochrome OLED screen, that fits the description of "surprisingly high resolution" for a pregnancy tester, but Doom would still appear as a "Pixelated screen" like you described. Its probably the same one we both saw. Either way, there is no microcontroller inside that device capable of running Doom, so an additional external microcontroller was attached to run the game itself.

I saw that too, but it was a bit misleading. The pregnancy tester for some reason had a pretty high resolution monochrome OLED display, so the guy used the tester's display to show the Doom graphics. The actual device running Doom was a more powerful microcontroller external to the tester stick.

It was more like 11pm till 1am. They went to bed at 7pm, so sleep for 4 hours, get up, do stuff for a couple of hours, go back to bed, and sleep for another 4 hours, get up at 5am.

I'd take this opportunity to upgrade to a Klipper setup. Find which board fits the Ender 3 Pro that can be flashed with the Klipper firmware, then get an external klipper controller, go from there.

The new ISP would have given you a new IP address. Do you use a dynDNS to automatically update the record? Or do you need to manually update your domain's DNS service to point to the new IP address?

Ah yes, the brownringed squarker.

I've never heard this one before, and I love it.

I love linguistics too. I like to make up new words and assign them meaning based on blatant etymological rules. Then I drop them in a sentence like it's no big deal.

Depends where you live, and what the job market is like. The demand for programmers goes up and down over the years, with various tech bubbles growing and popping. There are some job markets during high demand times when any programmer with any level of skill can get a good job, can name their own price and make good money, but at other times there is oversupply of programmers, thousands of graduates apply for every entry-level job, where hirers have the advantage, they can name the price and pick only the best of the best. I've personally seen both situations in my career.

I will admit, once you get a few years of professional experience on your resume, your chances of landing a good job and making good money goes way up. And yes, it definitely can be a career.

It can be like an artform if you let it be. Or it can be rote and robotic. There are choices in how you express your talents, and how you approach given problems. Lots of people make money from good art anyway.

Tomayto tomato.

Bro, did you just say the cat has hobbies? I've owned three cats in my life and none of them have had hobbies other than sleeping, eating, licking their butthole, and staring at birds through the window.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/programming-socks

Your opinion on programmer socks?

I think the guy was actually referring to something a bit different, that is having a second number scale on the caliper that is offset by the width of the first jaw, so you can use the outside jaws for measuring inside dimensions. I don't think that would work, however.

That's what the two prongs at the top are for. Flip the caliper upside down, use the prongs to measure the inside dimension, and read it off the same scale.

I once ordered a sheet of small "for rectal use only" stickers, and put them on a bunch of things in the house like the our letter opener, my wife's leg shaver, a coffee spoon, and the TV remote. Maximum hilarity for me, and lots of eye rolling from my wife.