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Devuan.

Hannah Montana Linux

Fucking always-on connectivity and security problems caused by it are the main reason why things can't just work. You need to be updated or else.

I visited a friend not that long ago and he kept using Windows XP and The Bat and Opera around version 9. He knew every keyboard shortcut because he didn't have to relearn every few years. Never got hacked, I just wonder when his bank stops working because of TLS incompatibilities.

I agree but at the same time cannot be bothered to go lower level than Python for my personal projects. It's so damn convenient.

Was "your work" writing memory corruption exploits in macro editor?

Yeeeah just after Reddit died all kinds of people were there, now it's just the usual Linux users and the scripts creating fake traffic

I don't agree but I see your point, that would certainly be useful to some people. Thank you for explaining.

It's the first time I hear someone praise Android messing with user's settings. Care to elaborate why you like it?

It's backed by Redhat. Somehow, projects backed by Redhat become the standard (systemd, pulseaudio, gnome)

I feel like with every major UI update it takes more steps to do the same basic tasks.

Not to "victim blame" because such unsafe junk should not be sold. But a $100 bike with amortized seat and spring suspension of wheels has no right to be durable. But an $100 simple bike with shimano gears or no gears can last for years.

Good for you mate. I have no problem sleeping when I can go to sleep around 4am and wake around 12. Guess how well that works for me with a job and a family.

Cbd is the only thing that puts me to sleep reliably within 15 minutes of taking. I've tried melatonin with no effect, i've tried some other random stuff, CBD oil just works.

I patched someone else's program which was known for being slower when it's used for a longer time. It was iterating over items in its window just to reach the last element, the more items the slower, it became snappy when i taught it to keep a pointer to the last element.

Not mind blowing, I know, but it was a popular program and this made life better for many people.

I install ncdu on any machine I set up, because installing it when it's needed may be tricky

You make sure everything is backed up, up to date and secured, you diagnose hardware issues, to a degree - you diagnose software too.

Best part is that it's engineering, not creative. If the software problem is hard, you open a support ticket with the vendor. If it's hardware, you replace it. There's no solving hard problems of thread concurrency (or whatever feels hard to you) under time pressure.

I did the same, sysadmin. Coding for work kills all passion. I still have to do it from time to time but it's not nearly as bad as being a full time programmer.

Also it's often doing a great job if you paste a stack trace into it and maybe some surrounding code. I used it to fix someone else's Java code as well as to upgrade some 3rd party Wordpress junk to latest PHP. I barely know Java and stopped following PHP news around version 5.6.

It generated a custom needs GUI OCR tool in Qt5. I don't know a single bit of Qt5 and went from zero to working tool in half an hour.

The tool takes a screenshot, lets me select an area on the screen, OCRs it and displays the text in a window.

If ChatGPT isn't made for programming then I'm looking forward for a product that is.

It's like Yakuake but with the added benefit of being in the current directory.