forgot call of duty

crash racing sitting at a table with hoodie on

I can tell you how I learned linux. be prepared to cringe.

1. I installed Linux before going to school, I figured that if I used Linux as my main OS I would be less tempted to dick around and play games

2. I eventually found a coop part time job as a dev. I used my own Linux machine, and being the star eyed young person I was I used arch.

this is the cringe part:

3. I did dev work on arch Linux without fully understanding how it works and ran into multiple issues (none of which was because of arch). for instance my USB wifi driver was the dogshit broadcom ones so the “drivers” for it were kind of messed and I had to hack several things into get it to work.

I learned systemd, Linux kernel modules, dkpg, obviously more familiarity with bash and shell stuff

4. I ran into issues with grub because FUCK grub. so I had to learn about boot loaders, fixing your install with chroot on a live usb, I also wrote step by step guides to untuck my particular problem just in case I run into it again

so moral of the story is… dive in?

you probably ly don’t suck you just haven’t practiced learning the content blind. it’s a skill set of its own

the last raid sucks specially this late in the tier. my advice is to practice until you get to phase 2 and then start looking for a clear group online, probably using discord

if you don’t look for a group you will likely spend the next few dozen pulls getting griefed by PF

I was extremely lucky and found a 7/8 static when I came around phase 2, I listened to my friends advice to find a group and I locked in with them thext day to clear

so I’m passing that advice to you now

Amazon Canada is just a bunch of no name brand Chinese shit.

the hilarious part is that there is genuinely good Chinese products in 2024 but it’s almost like Amazon wants to flood their store with over priced junk instead

there’s nothing about Linux itself that makes the steam game not work. it’s up to he developer to release a binary that supports Linux, most devs who are using tools like unity or unreal probably have the highest realistic chance of making a clean Linux executable

but the way proton works is to use the compiled binary for windows in a way to make it compatible for Linux

I work with SOAP for a legacy API

fucking kill me, I beg you

actually schizoposting before it was popular

NDT the goat of saying rly dumb shit but everyone thinks it’s somehow enlightening. he’s like Jaden smith but Twitter likes him

they’ve successfully pandered to you with an advertisement of literal empty words

that’s modern dev for you. least optimal solution but the most hyped. call it hype driven development

yes but for me every day at work leaves me with no energy on a 9 to 5 so I’d rather have 4 no energy days than 5

Rose tinted glasses

this is something I didn’t expect would bother me until it did

growing up I thought “part time” hours meant you could just pick a set of hours and work but that’s “contract work” instead (don’t get me started on time sheets)

and so for full time in thought you get to pick your days or schedule or any, nope, all HR and company policy.

I’d work 4x10s if I could and have a nicer and longer weekend if I could

Suit psychology is so different from tech workers. they don’t understand why tech workers don’t want to live stream their private working area and tech workers don’t understand why suits are obsessed with looking at people in meetings

> someone nitpicks word you used in a variable declaration

> you change it

> someone more senior says the former made more sense

> this goes on for far longer than it should

> eventually you get a real review from someone in your team that identified something actually needs to change

> you change it and re request reviews

rinse and repeat

my phone at 80% vol is fairly quiet with my earbuds.

I’ve also noticed that this warning’s timing is quite random.

I always listen to music on my commutes and they’ve been the same commute for 2 years and Ive only seen this warning like four or five times completely out of the blue.

it’s the age of grifting and unfortunately she’s kind of winning, Dems spend so much time calling Reps idiots but reps are making a killing with their grifts, breaking the law and getting away with it

it’s more of a “know your audience” thing for me

I can make all sorts of stupidly sarcastic jokes with my friends but when it comes to the internet there’s probably thousands of idiots who read content and take it as face value and as genuine

this is what I said about the Linux memes about Linux being hard to use, people were upset I said that because of the “can’t take a joke” angle

but I seriously believe that those memes do more harm than good