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I can know literally nothing about a programming language, ask a LLM to make me functions and a small program to do something, then read documentation and start building off of the base immediately, accelerating my learning allowing me to find new passions for new languages and new perspectives for systems. Whatever's going on in the AI world, assisting with learning curves and learning disabilities is something it's proving strong in. It's given me a way forward with trying new tech. If it can do that for me, it can do that for others.

Diminishing returns for investors maybe, but not for humans like me.

I replied to an above comment, not when utilizing KDE's widgets and other desktop integrations like RSS feeds, weather, embedded system/server informations, etc. KDE is amazing, but I like to utilize the widgets, and full functionality of things with it. With my i3, 8GB RAM I opted for Manjaro XFCE.

I absolutely suggest using KDE for people switching over. Full desktop experience.

When not using anything my systems would idle at around 800MB-1GB running default install Manjaro. Firefox after awhile and I was using the full 8GB and tabs were crashing.

I'm talking utilizing it with the desktop widgets, tools, customizations cool taskbar widgets (I'd add the openAI app), different system informations/rss feeds embedded across multiple monitors.. the stuff KDE is awesome for.

KDE is amazing. I love it. My little laptop though I get by with just XFCE on an i3 8GB RAM, 250GB NVMe SSD.

Agreed on everything else you said. People switching from Mac's ultra-HD for fonts get the 'ick' switching to Linux desktop too. We'll get there.

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Been using Manjaro XFCE for a minute, KDE is great if you're rocking ~32GB of RAM but for lightweight, MX Linux (Debian), Lubuntu (LXDE) Lightweight Ubuntu. Most distros come with drivers that trackpads and wireless just ..work. So many flavors but with KDE you can customize everything with rightclicking, no config edits. It's fun, but lower end machines I'd suggest XFCE, KDE will use 2GB of RAM just idling on desktop.

I ditched Windows completely back in 2017-2018 and haven't looked back. I'm no star-programmer or star sys-admin or anything but the love of tinkering with things, VMs, networking, sockets, SSH, SCP, rsync, having direct access to my kernel (like sysctl stuff), managing my ssh keys in ~/.ssh/, using a drop-down Quake style terminal (Tilda) has been a dream.

Why would somebody want to sign on with a 'cloud account' for their desktop login, have forced stuff like Teams, Edge (Are you SURE YOU WANT TO SWITCH TO CHROME/FIREFOX? notifications), OneDrive, and have things like Recall pushed on them.

Linux isn't rocket science any more there's Add/Remove programs on every distro and people can browse from there, there's software pulled straight from github for compiling/installing as well as the 'app store' for exploring.

It's been my tinkerer's heaven. Most you need is a trustable VPN with a killswitch that runs Wireguard and your linux install is going to be great.

Gaming wise, well gaming needs to get their heads out of their asses and dev for Linux and respect that just because there's not yet manjority market share doesn't mean there won't be.

Disposable OS now adays is just boot a live CD (USB) that loads everything in to RAM with NVidia drivers already loaded.

My suggestion to anybody, check out Ventoy: https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

Try a bunch of linux distros .isos in oracle VMs or any VM managers, use Ventoy to put the ISOs on a flash drive, my 128GB stick lets me have dozens of them, and boot any distro you want you can have as many ISOs that will fit, they'll all boot when you select which one you want.

For the nerds: https://www.ghostbsd.org - BSD Desktop.

Say no to Recall.

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Actually, a lot of people use Lemmy, and there's pretty decent content on it in the communities. I post Linux stuff mostly and my threads get a lot of comments. Or I'll ask questions like "What are everybody's cool not so well known websites" and get a ton of feedback. Accounts are accessible via Mastodon as well, it isn't ideal, but, it's some kind of start.

So, lots of people use it, actually. I haven't noticed any bots replying to each other like what Reddit is now adays reposting content and reposting top comments.

'Testing' -> Our release and deployment automation is environment agnostic.

Due to HIPAA how many hospitals and patients got screwed because of this and we don't hear about it? No QA/QC and push straight to production? All to check a check-list for 'compliance' how about 'Software passed QA by X Y Z engineers and here are their notes:' transparency if they're running on ....the world's computers.

Makes too much sense to do that.

Where's the class action law suit for all the people who missed their flights, meetings, family? I've seen stories of people's families last moments being missed as an emergency flight was booked and they got trapped at an airport. How many people were stranded in weird places they weren't familiar with and couldn't afford a hotel and weren't accommodated, or were but ended up being stuck in a place with the absolute need to be on the next flight out?

Crowdstrike doesn't care. We should.

https://devopschecklist.com/

The owner of this website (www.bleepingcomputer.com) has banned your IP address (IP)

K.

edit: VPN, ssh -D to vps & socks5 localhost worked. Can't have anything anymore.

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It needs to stop here.

This is all really cringe to see. The fact that 50% of websites run this is something else.

Because kiddies have no honor. It's always been like that. They do this stuff as jokes/cool points within their little circle jerks.

Already is. I suggest everybody else de-google as well.

NextJS is pretty much the go-to for making decent webapps, check out KeystoneJS if you want to make a custom CMS.

Looks awesome! I'll fav and keep checking on it.

went to sign up

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You get a grip.

I won't be utilizing wordpress moving forward, not even for fun or suggesting it for clients or friends and looking in to other self hosted simpler solutions for them (preferably nodejs based). After seeing the interviews and then the comments he made on HN (un: photomatt), I'm worried for this guy.

My heart goes out to the millions of organizations that abruptly got cut off when having nothing to do with any of this.

When using a VPN, will leak your IP address. Use https://ipleak.net/ to check. It'll show your VPN IP address, home ip address, and your IP address will leak your client information. Even if you bind it to the right bindings in the settings it'll still randomly do this.

When I saw that in the ipleak after seeding something to my private server I was in awe; that good software like this would allow something like that.

Return to our offices or else!

How about -> 'No.'

How about we get with reality and realize that spending ~$5 a gallon to sit in traffic, wait at red lights, waste time office chatting/gossiping/putting up with politics/drama/and countless 'meetings' that we can..

1. Wake up.

2. Get ready for the day.

3. Sit down at our computer.

4. Log on.

5. Work. Apply ourselves.

Achieve more as a lot of the day ends up with waiting on others, so this balances the work/homelife even greater... which in return..

Makes better employees and contractors!

Who knew, saying this for when I was in a position as an executive myself.

Working next to people on projects closely is very good, but, how often does that happen that a voice channel with push-to-talk and screen share doesn't do the same thing?

RIP Aaron Swartz.

Same

> What do we do when reality is a distant second to digital simulation? We don't do anything. People already have phones in their faces and screens as their main source of light all day.

We go outside. Hang out with people. Form meaningful relationships. Biking. Hiking. Have fun. Enjoyment. Fulfillment.

Loneliness and stress are killers. Digital simulation aint no solution.

Truth.

Hobbies. Groups. Classes, MMA/Self Defense classes, computer clubs, local singles groups. you want to not be isolated.. trust me.

Lucky you. IT / Tech sector is at 6% unemployment and the worst its been since the dotcom bubble burst. Remote work would be awesome. Operations, even Dev-Ops and Business Development level is hard to find for remote, and the market is pretty bad. Haven't seen or noticed what its like for the return to office culture, but, I'm not driving from one computer spending my gas to sit down in front of another computer. Preposterous.

I turned the consulting just to keep my schedule; it's ..an interesting change of pace. I think people are lucky to be having remote work at this moment.

Ah yes, the selling of emojis and simple file storage.

I miss the GameSurge IRC and caleague with Mumble days.

And catch another chromium 0day, good idea

Agreed. Make a stand. Open and free internet is the last bastion. Look at everything. We're not the god damned product. We're not advertisement data. I'm not a fucking ROI. We're human beings, and we enjoy the internet, hacker culture. We're visionaries. We tinker. We build. We share.

Seeing what the internet grew to from the 90s to now, is ...well you see it.

I think you're just overthinking it maybe. To me, I picture a train crashing in to a vehicle that's on the tracks. Train smacks in to military vehicle. Blame isn't even in the equation but I can boldly assume as to why if it were too close, or on the tracks.

But yes it's mostly all weird, click-baity sensationalist horse crap.

Oh, so they're replacing those jobs? Glad the people got good severance.