25+ yr Java/JS dev
Linux novice - running Ubuntu (no windows/mac)

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  • MagicShel@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzget sum
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    5 days ago

    Graduated in 91. Can’t confirm first time for anyone but me and one girlfriend but I will confirm we were getting laid. I was almost 15 and she had recently turned 15. Can also confirm post virginity high school sex with another girl. I really only had two serious girlfriends in high school. I had a few other near misses but I don’t recall any others that sealed the deal off the top of my head. I wasn’t swimming in it, but I did pretty well for a nerd with self-confidence issues.








  • MagicShel@lemmy.ziptoLinux@programming.devBest distro for me?
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    12 days ago

    I’ll keep these thoughts in mind for the future. I’ve yet to try Linux on a laptop in any capacity and some of those concerns are not anything I’ve had to give thought to. I do use a pair of UHD monitors but not noticed lack of scaling supposty but that could be because they are the same DPI or maybe I’m just so used to scaling issues in every other OS I’ve internalized them.

    Ubuntu isn’t bad by any means, Mint just feels more comfortable to me. I really should experiment with some other distros but as I said I don’t turn on my computer to fuck with things that are working for me. Most of my experience with anything but Ubuntu and Mint is two decades ago.

    I don’t really get the whole Wayland vs X11 but I think I did try installing Wayland on Ubuntu once and it was… unfamiliar. I was troubleshooting an issue that turned out to be a bad ram stick and it left me with a negative impression of just about everything I tried because everything would crash so damn often (go figure), so I probably need to try that stuff again.

    I did install /home to a separate partition to make distro hopping easier and then just… never did.


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    Mint is Ubuntu-based and I find it very natural to transition to from Windows. More natural than Ubuntu, despite me being slightly more familiar with Ubuntu from work.

    I’ve never found it to suck, but I don’t get on my computer to fuck around with the OS and make things just exactly the way I like them. I automate some scripts to save myself typing for things I commonly do, and I do gaming, browsing, and development. I’ve yet to find Mint wanting. It makes more sense to me than macOS.




  • The guideline that I follow is that if a tool doesn’t enforce a rule before the code can be merged, then it’s not a rule.

    Good guideline. One of the first things I did when starting a side project with a friend was to figure out how to run a code formatter triggered by git (I think?) that reformats code into a common style. If we didn’t like it we could apply our own styling when we pulled.

    I don’t always love every line of automatic styling even if I have free reign over the rules, but it saved so much time and effort in code reviews.





  • It’s also fun in the other direction. Like Exalted has stat blocks for mortals, but the PCs are literally built to fight entities more powerful than gods.

    An encounter with a mortal is always just a narration scene even if combat ensues. You can pulverize ten of these guys without breaking a sweat, but do you? What does your choice say about you?

    Exalted isn’t a game about fighting mortals in quantities less than an army, and there is no threat in doing so. Any tension in the scene is purely about what the characters do with essentially unlimited power. And that can be interesting and tense for some groups and in others it’s a thirty second aside on the way to fight timeless terrors.



  • Then you’re just going to be at the mercy of the people that do maintain these things. I realize maybe my response was taken as disagreement or argument but it really wasn’t meant that way.

    As a product owner I’d want a way to contact or validate a user for customer service or service management reasons. Self service password reset, etc.

    But I’m interested in anonymity and if there were another good solution I’d be all ears. I’m not trying to defend email, just curious what mechanism could take its place. Some sort of cryptographic signature might work, though I would have to think carefully about no separate communication/ confirmation channel. I could see offering someone to use any identity of their choosing which would allow them as much anonymity and freedom of choice as they wanted. It’s an interesting challenge.