Zink

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Very well put.

It took me a loooong time to realize what I was doing and to get out of it.

This year I have gone harder than ever into my hobbies, and I have intentionally done every single bit myself without even consulting the people I usually would have had helping in the past.

The "pros" list covers basically everything from the physical outcomes of the project to the positive effects on me throughout.

The only negative is maybe that it's going slower than it would if I had some judgy relatives around, but that's not much of a negative in reality. Hobbies don't need to have deadlines.

And I dare say that the boost in confidence from the process has bled over into other areas of my personal and professional life. And I don't mean in a Linkedin Lunatics kind of way where I've rediscovered my ambition. Lol no, now I have the confidence to pursue the happiness and fulfillment I want to find in life.

Self confidence is a weird thing.

It's one thing to know and believe that you're intelligent and that you've done more research into the subject than the downers around you. But when you have a lifetime of issues dealing with people thanks to undiagnosed ADHD (insert meme "if you get good grades they let you raw dog ADHD your whole life") then impostor syndrome is just your starting point.

But once you do something significant on your own and see the consistently great results, the confidence shifts from being something you believe "on paper" in your mind to being something you feel in your bones and know to be true in a deeper way.

Or at least that's how it worked for me during this specific period of my life. Relationships are a big deal for our psyches so it may turn out that you need to lean into healthy relationships rather than lean out of mildly toxic ones.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

i’m glad you’re excited about this screenshot, but there are many worse types of people…. i think the worst types of people are racist genocidal serial killer pedophilic sadists who complain about people

Yeah, yeah, yeah!?

not putting their shopping carts back….

Oooooh, not today, Satan.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Linux Mint Cinnamon is awesome. I'm a developer for embedded linux systems and I run the current version of Mint on all my machines, even at work. Having a user friendly experience out of the box doesn't make it not Linux/FOSS.

And if the ease of installation surprised you, just wait until you see what system updates are like compared with windows!

I updated two of my systems to Linux Mint 22.2 yesterday and the entire install process runs in the background in about 90 seconds without disrupting what you're doing (I was in a meeting while I let it install). Then you reboot whenever convenient and that's less than another minute.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

For simple edits to single text files nano has to be my most used editor. Vim is a close second though.

For editing code, I've used just about everything for one reason or another but it's usually just my IDE with the directory open.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That silly program can't trick me! I used Vim last year and I'm totally able to use other programs!

...I just have to use Vim also at all times!

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Mint is based on ubuntu so that makes sense to me!

[–] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

Linux being in double digits: you love to see it

Windows 2000 having a larger market share than 8: you also love to see it, lol. I had some fun years where I was mostly using UNIX for school stuff and Win2k for games.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It does, in my experience. At least in Linux Mint.

At home, my old Brother laser is tucked off in a far corner of the house connected to wifi, and my wired home PC as well as my wifi work laptop both see it and can print to it just fine.

At work even those big printers show up and function.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's a pretty roundabout way to describe regular old cops.

It's almost like there was a plan behind the right's propaganda machine that has spent decades convincing ordinary people that if other ordinary people ask for things like rights or fairness or safety then that means they are an evil enemy.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

There's some good potential here for sure. I use a project called Sober to run Roblox on my Linux PC, which runs the Android version. It works incredibly well.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know which all aircraft were involved at different points, but there was absolutely a shoot-down by an F-22.

I don't know anything about this website but it was one of Wikipedia's sources. I remember seeing the pictures/videos with the F-22 clearly visible, plus the noteworthy stats like being the first f-22 kill, being the first engagement over US territory since WW2, and that it was probably the highest air to air kill.

https://www.twz.com/f-22-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-off-carolinas-with-missile

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah this about tracks. I bet a bunch of happiness and quality of life related stats all moved downward together over the past few decades.

But the sex and time with friends ones are great bottom lines to look at, because spending time with our people is good for us, and our society is not structured with individual personal well being as a priority.

And I say this as an extremely introverted person who loves being a recluse and especially lives having an empty house on the weekends. The effects of good positive relationships are undeniable, and lacking them can leave somebody in a negative feedback loop that really sucks.

I know other comments already went into the "if conservatives want the country to have more babies maybe they should make life conducive to raising a family instead of getting billionaires an 8% CAGR return rather than only 7%" thing, but i've got to acknowledge it here too. We have the whole damn country caught up in the rat race.

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