Can't wait! I'm really glad I discovered it through the show, now on book 10 and on one hand I can't wait till I finish and at the same time I'm dreading it.
Given the person said they're 28, I'm actually older. And I decided to not be a dick about it and to not pretend that everything was better when I was young. Everything was different, sure. Some things were better, some were not. But I decided to not do the whole "back in my days" thing because I always found it stupid and luckily that didn't change with age.
Eh, if you're into computers, you'll find your way. My first "programming" adventures were writing batch/vb scripts and putting them in the startup folder and watching the teacher lose their shit when when their computer turned off after five seconds. Or watching all of the classroom open and close the CD drives 50 times when we were the first to have an IT class that day.
Glad you can read and repeat stuff! I presented it as such to avoid wannabe smartasses, guess they still arrived. Since we've touched on the subject of managers and hiring, do you often hear the phrase "not a cultural fit"? Wouldn't surprise me.
If an old geek argues with a senior architect about architecture, I kinda think the architect is the one who's right in 99% of cases.
Sure, sure, old man. Everything was better when you were young.
There never was a majority of people who were into computers. It was always a minority. And I'd argue that nowadays there's more developers because there's simply more people with access to computers.
Some of them won't like them, some will be neutral and some will be "geeking around".
And having seen some code from people both older and younger, the younger ones are better (note that it's my anecdotal evidence). And you at least can train the younger ones, while the "experienced" will argue with you and take energy out of your day.
I'm so tired of the stupid "when I was young, everything was better". You know what else was exactly the same? The previous generation telling you how everything was better when they were young. Congrats, you're them now.
Can't speak specifically for Germany, but one thing that comes to mind for the whole of the EU is healthier food. Basically everything here will be healthier, unless you go out of your way to eat healthy in the US.
Also the obvious language barrier unless you learn German. Not that you can't get on with English, but it's gonna be a subpar experience.
Also if you're into travelling, the whole EU is open to you, just a few hours ride will take you to sometimes vastly different cultures!
If you ever come visit Czechia (one of the neighbouring countries), feel free to ping me and we can grab a coffee or something.
Like the time that one game didn't want to implement a separate train system, so trains are implemented as a huge hat that a NPC wears while going underground on the rails.
That was just rules to make it work on the technical side - you're not helping the user experience if you have to wait half a day until someone manually approves your registration.
The rest would need to be discussed and actually thought out (and agreed upon with Lemmy devs, who own the join-lemmy domain).
I haven't given it much thought because I see no point if it never gets implemented.
My proposal have been a little more complicated, but IMO works well for a BFU:
create some set of rules for "default instances" - every instance that wants to be in the list must follow them and will be periodically checked
I don't have any particular rules in mind, but some examples might include active moderation team, obviously registrations being open and if you really want to make it easy, either no application question or having it automatically approved by an automod of some kind
on join-lemmy, present a registration form that will create an account on a randomly selected instance from the pool and redirect there afterwards
there should be a link somewhere for "experts" where you could link to the current wizard
I'm willing to work on this if we can sit down and agree on the criteria for the pool. I can also ask my UX guy to help a little.
Feel free to text me here or on Matrix if this is something you think is worth pursuing. I'd also appreciate if you let me know it's not the direction you want to go in.
I remember the old joke when Ubuntu was the hot new thing: If you put grain around the enter key, a chicken can install it.
Nowadays it's true for every graphical installer. Hell, even NixOS can be installed by pressing enter (though good luck doing anything else after boot if you're a basic user).
Maybe?