The more “corporate” the job is, the more the hiring team will expect a LinkedIn.

My last dev role was like that. My current role is one I found through a personal connection where the ‘interview’ was a chat over some lunch - and they wouldn’t give two hoots if I had a LinkedIn or not.

So yeah, it depends. If you want to play the corporate game, you have to play more by the corporate rules.

Same as any update for any other OS - Fix bugs, patch security, add features.

If you come from a non-linux background, you may not be aware of the division in responsibility however between what is your distro’s concern, and what isn’t.

The thing that people think of as the “operating system” in the sense of Windows or Mac is likely really just the desktop environment - the stuff you can see and click on; your taskbar, control panel, file explorer, etc. In Linux the desktop environments such as Gnome, Plasma, xfce and many others are built by separate teams and used in many different distros, and so changes and improvements in those aspects won’t necessarily be part of the distro’s release notes even if improvements are happening.

This modular nature of Linux is likely a big part of why it doesn’t seem like much is announced as happening, even on major updates, because it’s not your distro specifically which is responsible for that.

It bewilders me how anyone could give their kid’s stuff away without asking, and yet I’ve heard it from so many people.

I guess the thought process goes like “They’re grown up and don’t need ‘toys’ anymore!” and so they give the toys away to someone they think ‘wants’ them, and they’re ‘doing you a favour’ getting rid of it.

But even if they believed that’s true - which it often isn’t - those things were given to you as gifts. They were yours! They didn’t belong to your parents anymore to give away! And that really feels like a violation of trust.

When I came back from college my room was exactly as I left it. And when I moved out I decided on my own time what I wanted and what I didn’t. So thank you Mum and Dad for respecting my space and my person.

ELI5:

In a ‘beauty’ pageant with camels as the contestants, officials discovered 20 entrants had injected their camels in the hump with a substance that would make the hump look plumper and better-shaped, with the intent to score higher in the competition. This is against the rules, so those people were disqualified for cheating.

This is unexpected because although many types of banned performance enhancement are common in human beauty and sports competitions, you might never anticipate it would happen in animal competitions, nor imagine the ‘ideal’ shape of a camel’s hump could be such an intense aspect of competition that you’d even want to try.

Names like Agatha and Edith and Florence are coming around again in kids, because they were popular around the 1920s and so the generation who had them are mostly now all dead.

Which means the names are once more free from expectations and ‘available’.

If you name a child something that had a huge burst in popularity only sixty or seventy years ago however, the holders of the name are generally still alive and almost all old, so it still has a strong connotation of being an “old-person name”

So yeah. Old names become new and fashionable again if you wait. But the trick is to wait long enough.

Non-technical people don’t have any idea what a LAN is, and can’t imagine any reason for WiFi to exist other than to get their device on the Internet.

So WiFi becomes a synonym for “Internet connection”, perfectly interchangeably.

“Suddenly” interests me the most. Not a condition or even a means, just a manner.

Like a catch-all for things they didn’t understand; heart attack, brain haemorrhage, things where someone’s fine one minute, and dead the next.

Thanks :)

What show is this? Assuming it is.

It’s clear what is required. There are no blockers to contribution. It’s immediately rewarding, and progress is rapid and measurable.

Just about the opposite of any other project you might be involved in

Different experience for everyone I suppose :)

I found the space controls and conservation of momentum to be such a fun aspect. I loved getting consistently good at it, and feeling like a competent rocket pilot when I nailed fancy manoeuvres.

Silksong on the other hand, I had to give up because it was way too hard for me!

Outer Wilds (not Worlds) is incredible, I doubt you’ll regret playing it.

Well, you might. Some people do bounce off; usually due to not knowing where to go next, or what to do next. But if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t want your hand holding and are okay to persevere a little, you’ll probably have a good time.

No other game for me has ever matched the feeling of exploration and discovery, and that is only possible because the game gives you a long leash.

I chose intentionally obscure and wacky gadgets to overstate the point. I don’t genuinely think everyone has these :)

I love how which devices get countertop space is a real reflection on culture around the world.

Here in the UK you can always find an electric kettle, without question. In Italy a Moka pot. In Japan a rice cooker.

It says a lot about what’s important to people.

It’s only really in the US that you see such a proliferation of hyper-specific gadgets. Smoothie maker, waffle maker, electric egg poacher, vegetable spiralizer…

I don’t know if that says anything about American culture, or just that you guys have really big kitchens.

I think it’s just New York

Looks like a bash shell command to me

Pro tip: It’s easy to be clothed and on the couch at 6AM if that’s how you fell asleep

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I’m glad to see people going public with these sorts of shenanigans.

The thing about maker communities is that makers generally appreciate the importance and ethics of “not stealing other people’s shit,” and putting companies on blast for it does in this community hurt their bottom line.

And when it hurts their bottom line, that drives action.

Elegoo wouldn’t release their firmware for the Centauri Carbon claiming it was proprietary, until someone proved it was just modified Klipper, and therefore in breach of Klipper’s license. And the community backlash was strong enough that Elegoo were compelled to release it.

So yeah, do the good work and keep making these companies accountable.

For sure yeah.

I still end up having to use ffmpeg directly (in combination with other CLI tools) because there’s always something the GUIs haven’t caught up with yet. Most recently for me it was converting animated webp’s into something I could actually work with