There’s also group C which I was part of, you just say that you just pooped or scratch your butt whenever they ask you to load/unload and they’ll immediately offer to do that for you instead.

The tone may be a bit harsh but it’s muuuuch better than how he used to be during his most toxic days. This is how he used to talk: https://www.networkworld.com/article/706908/security-torvalds-to-bad-security-devs-kill-yourself-now.html

Linus definitely got much better at handling his anger since his public apology in 2018.

There are DIY tutorials for that for those interested: https://www.diybookscanner.org/en/intro.html

Wait until you hear stuhd, that’s how we agreed to pronounce std because “ess tee dee” would have been awkward.

For the C/C++ nerds: Clang. There are still many people pronouncing it “Cee-lang”.

Chrono Trigger is really a must if you like JRPGs.

Obligatory Frog theme 🐸

I already got functional laptops (an Alienware M15 r3 and a very recent HP Pavilion) but none of them come close to my Thinkpad T480 in terms of comfort of use, the overall build quality and the damn awesome keyboard.

Too bad that all (?) recent Thinkpads now have soldered RAM.

lacks an anime girl wallpaper IMO

I’d call the cops on them

Since you already know Java, you could jump straight to C++ with Bjarne’s book “Programming - Principles and Practice Using C++”: https://www.stroustrup.com/programming.html

You can then move to more modern C++ with his other book “A Tour of C++”: https://www.stroustrup.com/tour3.html

And then if you’re curious to know how software design is done in modern C++, even if you already know classical design patterns from your Java experience, you should get Klaus Iglberger’s book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/c-software-design/9781098113155/

In parallel also watch the “Back to Basics” video series by CppCon (see their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CppCon , just type “back to basics” in that channel’s search bar).

Learning proper C++ should give you a much better understanding of the hardware while the syntax still remains elegant, and you get to add a new skill that’s in very high demand.

If you’re doing C++ then C++ Weekly by Jason Turner is an awesome must-watch.

Make flashcards of short questions + answers from your notes. You can use Anki for that (on Android it’s AnkiDroid), and you might want to watch this quick tutorial by Derek Banas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5urUZUWoTLo

One way you can speed up the process of making flashcards is via an AI (not necessarily ChatGPT, I tried Mixtral 8x7b on a few Wikipedia pages and it also works well for this, it’s opensource and you have a free demo here: https://huggingface.co/chat/).

You could ask the AI:

Extract a precise and concise answer to the question “[INSERT QUESTION]” from the following paragraph: “…”

The reverse also works:

Formulate a few short questions that are answered by the following paragraph: “…”

TIL!

and it’s mobile-friendly and distraction-free too

My bad, I’ll move there then

With how MS Teams and now CNN have been reported here to be blocking Firefox, you know that Firefox is doing things right. If web giants are ganging up against it, it’s all the more reason to switch to it to make a statement and prevent big tech from making privacy violation the norm.

This. I don’t think people here realize that HR doesn’t really have a say in this, they aren’t the ones deciding on the firing and they aren’t the ones who can undo it since they aren’t the ones providing the team’s budget.

HR’s job in these situations is to do the dirty part: handle the announcement to each employee and damage control if necessary.

The girl in the video is saying that her manager was “pleased” with her work and she didn’t understand why strangers in the HR department are doing the announcement to her: that’s the whole point, it’s very likely that it’s that “nice” manager who threw you under the bus when he had to make a choice on which people he needs to keep after top management told him to downsize his team but he didn’t have the guts to tell you that personally.

Wayland reduces bugs

As I have to give a few lectures, I can’t say I’m pleased with how screen-sharing or using a projector in the classroom fails almost half of the time and always embarrasses me in front of everyone. I ended up purging the Wayland stuff and going back to good ol’ i3 and I haven’t had a display-related issue ever since.

X11 works, it may not be as sexy or modern as Wayland but it’s battle-tested and just works and for the vast majority of people, excluding Wayland’s bugs, the differences are not even noticeable.

It’s a lifelong learning nerding process

Bad track record with their privacy invasion via their Amazon shenanigans (which Richard Stallman called the Ubuntu Spyware), the shilling of Ubuntu One cloud and now Ubuntu Pro subscriptions that are reminiscent of Microsoft’s shilling of Microsoft accounts and OneDrive, Snap telemetry…