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  • I use Ubuntu professionally and Arch at home

    Anything that’s not Windows is my preference.

    I love arch because I know what’s in it and how to fix it and what to expect, the community is mostly very nice and open to help

    AUR is great and using pacman feels lovely

    I also care about learning and understanding the system I’m using beyond just using a GUI that does everything for me

    Ubuntu is not bad it’s probably one of the most used distros by far

    Linux motto is: Use what you like and customize it how you like because there is no company forcing you to do things their way


  • underscores@lemmy.ziptoFuck AI@lemmy.worldOn Effort
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    3 days ago

    Sure. okay. I’m more in the camp of “why does AI do things that humans should do?”

    Why does AI draw or make music or write poems but I have to sort everything out myself and still go to work.

    Why can’t AI do things that make this world a job prison ?

    Even then I don’t trust the oligarchs using AI for our benefit. Even if AI could do menial work it would be used against us.






  • Yes, I barely if ever drink alcohol. I’m not social and hate talking to people or crowds, I’m also pretty ND so I can’t fake or pretend I give a shit about what other people are talking.

    Alcohol helps a lot, if I have to meet whoever and their friends and they’re asking me about work or how I would design an app that does blah blah I definitely need to be like 4 beers in to tolerate that conversation.

    That being said I don’t drink for things like school presentations or other events that require me to speak, like conference stuff. I just bite the bullet and it sucks, but I’d rather be sober and speaking coherently than feeling like I am.



  • TL;DR: Smart sibling ahead of the curve told me in 2011 that tech jobs will be the future and naturally I didn’t listen, fast forward to 2016 and my contract job laid me off so I started learning Python (as advised by smart sibling)

    I start making all sorts of stupid stuff mostly CLI programs, beginner alg problems. beginner alg console games and so on.

    Suddenly I realize I probably know enough to make something real, start slowing learning new things and always think “hmm a real software dev probably does x” and then try x.

    Went from CLI stuff to web APIs, then full stack websites, then platform specific gui programs, then learning C++.

    And at some point it clicked that this stuff is a lot easier than I thought (I had literally no concept of what programming was before)

    I apply for an associates in tech program, just before starting I decide to use Linux to get more familiar with dev technology.

    I picked Arch Linux btw, had some issues btw, overcame issues btw and then I landed a job during school as a dev and I kept using Linux as dev.

    So it was mostly about getting to understand dev landscape more

    I use CachyOS on my desktop (I game), and Arch Linux on laptop (by far the best laptop user experience with tiling wm)







  • underscores@lemmy.ziptoMemes@sopuli.xyzGreat plan
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    14 days ago

    It works for them because their work is high skill and always useful, general office work like mine (dev) is impossible to find a job if you were to immediately quit. It’s quite different when you’re competing against thousands of cheap IT graduates looking to flock to your country and work for pennies on the dollar.

    BTW not saying I’m anti immigration, it’s just the way the tech space is right now.

    Not American but I’ve heard American companies hire foreigners because they can wage slave them with Visa entrapment, no Visa and you’re deported. People that are trying to improve their life are just taken advantage of.

    I haven’t heard of anything like that happening to tradespeople