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Moved from Ventura/Santa Barbara to Palm Beach FL, due to the alot of shortcomings that California has faced. Witnessing several overdoses outside my condo near the beach was the final straw for me. Too heavy to be around. I still miss the contrast of the beach and mountains, but since after the Pandemic, things just didn't feel the same in California. I hope things can turn around in but it seems like there are issues that stem from the highest offices of government and go beyond the issue of homelessness.

Palm Beach is pretty cool, West Palm Beach/Jupiter area reminds me a lot of Santa Barbara. West Palm Beach to Miami is about the same distance from Ventura to LA. You get a lot of the benefits of Miami without being directly in the madness. A lot of young professionals working in Finance and Tech in Miami are moving to West Palm because of the new BrightLine train that goes from downtown WPB to downtown Miami.

I haven't really got out much and explored due to crazy workload, but want to start attending meet ups here and meet some people my age. A lot of the problems that I had with California, don't really exist, at least to the same degree, out here. It's pretty comfy.

I wanted to not like Chromebooks as someone who either uses a Linux or Mac laptop, but honestly it’s great.

If you’re looking for a cheap notebook to be able to do most dev on go for it. I just developed and deployed a Rails website this evening on my 100$ Chromebook. Everything just worked.

That being said, if you want to spend as much as an Air. You might as well get the Air.

I think Google gives you a choice to get a Chromebook as your main dev laptop, so it is capable, but anything you can do on a Chromebook you will be able to do on a Mac. If I had a choice between a Chromebook or a Windows computer I would choose chrome, unless it was a gaming pc, then I would then choose Linux.

For me, it's Emacs keybindings everywhere. Well really readline commands. I don't use super heavily (mainly just C-a, C-b, C-e, C-p, and C-n)

Every computer I use, I remap control to caps lock. On my work Mac, nothing really changes since these commands work globally.

On my home PC, I run stock Ubuntu and use gnome-tweaks to set emacs commands.

These commands are so ingrained on how I edit text, I feel extremely uncomfortable without them. The deal breaker when using a new desktop environment or Windows, is whether I can get this setup up and running.

Does anyone have any hacks for supporting Readline out of Gnome or MacOS?

This is amazing. Thank you.

I think this is a good way of approaching life. Learn the absolute basics, then start making things.

Trying to learn everything first will keep you in the consumer mindset. Be a producer.

Once I make my money I dream of opening a 90's esque hacker space like you see in movies like Hackers.

Dark warehouse, neon lighting, The Protegy playing in the background, a place where hackers can bring there machines, talk tech and rage. Coffee in the mornings, bar at night.

Mental health is a serious issue. The past few years I have been putting family and work before my own care and it caught up to me. 10xing is great, but if you have a mental condition the slightest thing can really set you back if you don't put your own health first. I am taking some time away from computer next few weeks last minute. Management seems fine with it and is offering any help they can. Though I didn't lose my marbles 100% slipping into depression is very real and can be scary. Don't hesitate to go to the ER or any other service if you need it. Take care of yourself.

Remapping Control to Caps is my secret weapon. One feature I can't live without either on MacOS or Gnome is the Emacs keybindings for moving around text. Ctrl-A to move to the beginning of line, Ctrl-E to the end, ctrl-n for next line etc.

I generally use emacs when I'm doing quick edits and don't want to open a GUI, or if I want to take notes. After I got used to the bindings for movement I realized I was able to do them globally. This pretty much allows me to have great keybindings (when Ctrl is remapped) on any editor or application I am using. If you don't already do this I highly recommend trying it for a week over the arrow keys. Just be careful. It may be hard to go back.

I was self medicating with massive amounts of nicotine and coffee, which probably was worse for my health than ADHD meds.

Before I was on meds I was all over the place, could hardly write code even though I knew what needed to be done. Got booted from company I started because of ADHD/Depression. Didn't graduate high school. All the signs were there. I just started seeing a psych from Stanford and he dismissed a lot of my preconceived notions around taking medication.

I was almost homeless before I started and thinking about working construction. Started meds. Got a FAANG-tier programming gig without even studying for the interview. No harm in trying things out if you're having trouble.

I can take an Adderall and take the best nap of my life which is the exact affect it should have.

Medication. I dropped out of high school because I couldn't focus. I didn't really have the outward symptoms of ADHD but my mind was always racing.

I ended up eventually getting diagnosed, even doctors who don't usually prescribe stimulants prescribe them to me. I went from being unemployed and extremely depressed and doing small odd jobs living out of a cheap hotel room, to working at a FAANG like company without even studying for the interview. I am 26 and often wonder what life would have looked like if I got help earlier.

Todo lists help. Exercise helps. Medication did the trick for me.