nexussapphire @ nexussapphire @lemm.ee

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Then make the community, there are plenty of people interested.

One is fitting into a mold, trapped by social norms the other one is free. I find this MEME to be quiet the complement.

"Remember who you are!"

When I stop getting security patches or can't salvage it after a drop. Replaced a screen on my galaxy s20 it cost me $300 but it turns out the replace everything but the motherboard and the cameras. I was pretty pissed about that because it was needlessly waist full and it cost me more.

Start small, make silly things. Html is probably the easiest thing to pick up and see what your changes are doing almost immediately. Play with formatting and styling, add pictures, learn how to create buttons and radials.

After that I'd start learning how to make stuff happen with JavaScript maybe create a pop-up when you hit a button, figure out how to change the color of elements with input boxes or sliders, etc.

When you feel comfortable enough with the language make what you want even if it already exists. Tic tac toe, a rudimentary blog, Conways game of life. Don't be afraid to take a break if it gets frustrating and don't be too hard on yourself if it's not amazing.

Just remember it takes time, I hear most developers say it takes at least a year of carving a few ours a week just making stuff to really start grasping a language. So just make stuff and don't be afraid to look it up. The more pointed your questions the easier it gets to find answers.

I jumped head first into c++ my apps are incredibly buggy and run slower than most web apps. They're only terminal apps but I'm improving and so can you.

Only because I have figured out how to copy from vim to other apps without the mouse yet.

It's for navigating web documentation when arrow keys are too fine but page up/down keys are too coarse.

I guess you could hit tab 9000 times to get to the right hyperlink. I've done that when setting up Hyperland on an Nvidia GPU and my cursor was there but invisible.

Come to the dark side, join the sid.

Unless your on archlinux! Every once and a while you get a buggy package that makes your system a little unstable. I remember when a kernel update made the system freeze up if something tried to sleep or stop the wifi module.

It was like an infinite loop of a module failing to stop and a service repeatedly killing it.

I hate it when people gate keep. If someone who doesn't care about computers at all but finds windows annoying can switch (my mother) anyone can.

At the same time, there is an expectation for people to try to get used to how different Linux is just like with switching to macos. It's not great dealing with people switching to Linux expecting it to be almost identical to windows. I think it's left some of us a little bitter.

No means yes right? I'm gonna say no means yes, have 100G of smartphone games and spyware disguised as a web browser or an AI assistant!

Oh and were gonna do it now in the middle of you compiling a big project or running a fluid simulation. Also when we're done punching your dick in we're gonna ask you to try office 365, teams, and onecloud like we did the last 50 times.

Yeah, when my new iPad broke and I had to go back to my old iPad. I forgot how much more convenient the fingerprint reader was compared to face I'd.

On the iPad at least if you had it standing up on its own or flat on a table it was no bueno for face I'd. You know, like showing recipes or a big e-reader while learning to code from an e-book. I miss that big screen, it was like carrying a nice netbook screen with me everywhere.

I love seeing people enjoy arch and I'm not discouraging anyone from trying it. Ubuntu kinda sucks but most people coming from windows don't feel comfortable doing anything in the terminal. Debian drivitaives and fedora are probably a safer bet.

If it wasn't for the CLI first approach for arch and the dangers using potentially unstable or malicious packages in the aur I'd recommend arch derivatives to everyone. It's exceedingly rare but I have been left with broken packages a couple times in my first year of using arch. The aur isn't vetted or controlled to the degree the official arch repositories and could leave them open to downloading malicious code if they don't check the package first. Literally anyone can put whatever they want on the aur until someone notices.

With Debian derivatives I find the Debian wiki along with the forms of your distro a 1 2 punch that can be almost as good as archlinux wiki and communities. I do agree with you the information for issues you might have on arch is everywhere. That comes from a crowd of enthusiast and they typically, understandably expect a level of understanding and independence that you don't find with average users (sorry average user).

I like OpenRC! I never really measured it but it feels like a much faster boot time than systemd. I'd have to get used to the syntax and writing my own scripts but if the majority of Linux distros switched to it tomorrow I'd enjoy it.

Big and small projects alike typically have poor documentation for alternative init systems and what they depend on in the aystemd ecosystem so I'll probably stick to systemd for now. The poor documentation on alternative init systems is probably one of the biggest reasons Gentoo doesn't move fast on getting new projects in their repos.

Especially if you own a smartphone. You're carrying 4x+ cameras and a wiretap with you at all times.

I thought about this one day when I was in the bathroom and used autorotate with face detection. I practically had the camera facing towards my crotch while it was on.

I feel sorry for the fans, how desperate do you need to be for that to bother you. It's like the scary kind of parasocial relationships.

People open to change are more open to new ideas and new experiences!

It's not a family it's a cult.

Shit I mean it's not a cult it's a cult.

I mean... Fuck it, your family.

Maybe Linux mint, I love archlinux as much as the next guy but jumping head first into a glass of water takes practice. Unless you revel in the challenge of jumping in the deep end just so you can learn how to swim like I do!

I'm just glad I chose arch instead of Gentoo. I got plenty of will power to learn something new but waiting hours or even days for a bunch of software to compile was too much for me.

Like accidentally mounting your root subvolume in your home directory while it's still mounted as root. I mounted root to a directory called games in my home folder. I noticed some crap in it after accidently copying the contents of the wrong directory into it and without a second though rm -rf games/* Before I knew it, I saw my desktop unload before my eyes until I was left with nothing but a solid white _ in the top corner.

My home folder was on a slow hard drive and I was trying to make a subvolume on the small but fast SSD. I ended up just making a symbolic link to a folder on root after reinstalling.