Integrate777

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Maybe he's not American? Isn't that just an American thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Private company with long-term strategy VS public company chasing short-term profits to pump stock prices for shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hector posting it to social media, and by his own admission, to shame the C devs, is pretty hostile and bad faith too. Imo it's the most overt occurrence of hostility here, but no one seems to mind? Are people just completely numb to social media hostilities or smth?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

I really wanted to try developing for these. But after flashing my old poco F1 with postmarket os, the phone died instead. Now I can't justify buying a phone just for this.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

#!/usr/bin/python

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

I heard both flatpak and immutability are obstacles to developers. How bad is it really?

I've had NixOS absolutely refuse to run some compiler toolchain I depended upon that should've been dead simple on other distros, I'm really hesitant to try anything that tries to be too different anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You'll be glad to know that the difficulty comes from the syntax and very little from any programming skill level. You learn new ways of writing certain code structures like indented curly braces for example. Programming python might be easier than cpp in vim, not due to the language, but just cpp having more complex syntax to type.

Tldr, almost exactly the same amount of effort whether you've been coding for two weeks or two years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I remember the basic filesystem commands like ls, cp, mv, rm, cat etc, but I generally don't remember much more than that. Even so, I still use the GUI file manager/software center pretty often, there's no reason why I have to force myself to use the terminal all the time.

I have an app on my phone to search for commands that I barely use and don't remember. Don't worry that much about it if you aren't a professional system administrator or other such jobs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The part you missed is that it doesn't have to be all or nothing. You could maintain 0-80, 20-100, 10-90.

You could also not take it as gospel but just a soft recommendation, trying to get yourself near to a charger when your phone gets to 20, and plugging out at 80 if you aren't in urgent need for more battery life.

My laptop which mostly just stays on my desk all day, is limited to 79%. This one makes sense I think.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Why, when you have the ability to build robots of any shape or size, would you want to build a humanoid robot in particular? Are they just lacking creativity? Or is being humanoid just hype, like dotcom or AI?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No it can't be. I'm using fedora right now and it drops me into the GNOME desktop with nothing. The GNOME tours barely count, they just tell you to login to your dropbox or smth.

Have you seen the mint one? It's actually dummies proof. Full "It's my first day on linux" step-by-step guide. Everything from updating, setting themes, backups, installing nvidia drivers is in there. All relevant choices are meticulously explained.

I'm so certain of its coverage, I recommend mint to internet strangers because I genuinely believe it's sufficient even for the lowest common denominator. I can drop mint on any rando and fully trust that the Mint setup wizard will hold their hands through their first day on Linux.

I last switched distros 3 years ago, and the wizard definitely wasn't on popOS or Ubuntu either.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Go ahead with mint. It's the only distro I know with a fully featured setup wizard that holds your hand through the entire process. I am confident anyone who has used computers can use it.

But honestly, most modern distros are about as difficult as picking up an iOS/android phone for the first time. There are different ways of doing things, but they're still phones and can't be too different anyway. Same with mint, it's just a computer, it isn't all that different.

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