I’ve been doing this for well over 20 years now and I taught myself by building Geocities sites and random stuff.

Just build things and push them to a repo. Have an idea for something? build it. could just be something like a TUI for Mastodon or like an eReader with AI driven text to speech, I don’t know i’m just spit balling here but my point is you just have to build stuff. It’s like anything, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Like drawing. you just draw something every day and eventually you get good. it’s the same for coding. just work on something every day and you’ll get good at it.

So just build something or contribute to your favourite open source project.

think I’d rather switch to Gentoo before going to Guix.

I mean lets face it the only reason Carney won was because of what Trump said. that’s it. We Canadians are honestly pretty dumb when it comes to politics and we sure do love our sound bites. Remember PP had this thing in the bag until Trump opened his mouth and then suddenly we all said “oh yeah…yeah we don’t want that lets vote for the guy that kinda isn’t that” while the NDP “here’s Singh, sure he doesn’t have a single original thought in his head but…yeah it’s the best we can do”

Like our choices were unoriginal man, nazi man, or none of the above man.

Isn’t the dev of this game that semi-famous youtube dev that did collabs with like Mr. Beast and others? I assume he was pretty well off to begin with. Think his name was Dani or something. I mean hell the dev for this game is literally named Danidev but backwards.

huh? they don’t work? I’ve yet to come across ANY streaming platforms that don’t work and hell I use QuteBrowser.

what specific platforms don’t work? I’ve used youtube, twitch, netflix, hulu, etc in the past and they all just worked right out of the box.

Or…just go here and not pay a dime: https://fmhy.net/

Zone of the Enders 1 and 2
Shadowhearts
SSX Tricky
Burnout
Katamari Damacey
Ribbit King
Roommania #201
SkyGunner
Oni
Dead or Alive 2
Silent Hill 2 and 3
Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Lost War Chronicles
Xenosaga
.dot Hack
Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain
Def Jam Vendetta
GunGrave
Capcom vs SNK
Marvel vs Capcom 2

on my main laptop for whatever reason Windows 11, about twice a year or so, would insist on killing my wifi. Just out right disable it and not even uninstalling and reinstalling drivers would work. It would simply just kill it and pretend it never existed. the ONLY fix was to completely reinstall the OS. so almost like clockwork twice a year I’d have to reinstall the OS. It was also absolutely destroying the battery on my laptop. I would get MAYBE 30min out of it.

So after reading some threads I decided to give Linux a go. I went nuclear winter on it and didn’t even bother dual booting, just wiped the computer completely and started with Mint. Stayed on that for a couple weeks until I completely messed up the install by trying to modify cinnemon a bit too much so then I switched to CachyOS and fell in love with it.

Since then I distro hopped a few times and I’m currently using NixOS. As far as the battery issue? I get about 4 hours out of it now instead of 30min.

eesh, that would be a deal breaker for me.

I’m not up to speed on GNOME, not a fan of it, but can’t you just try a different DM? like SDDM? would that work? seems silly that GNOME would lock you into their DM.

Mullvad.

All you are to them is an account number. that’s it. no name, no email, nothing. you can even pay in cash. while mullvad’s GUI is still meh their CLI is top notch and very quick.

stopped using Amazon when they switched to Bluetooth lockers that can ONLY be opened via their shitty amazon app. Prior to that? was easy and the lockers were great. either enter the code you get emailed or scan the barcode and boom locker opens. NOW you need to have the amazon app which tries to connect to the locker via bluetooth. It’s hit or miss. I don’t want to use your amazon app, I just want my stuff. The thing doesn’t even work most of the time. I remember once I was waiting in line to pick up my package and of the 5 people standing in line with me at the locker 3 of them couldn’t get the locker to open. Contact customer service? it’s a known issue…

yup discovered this on my server yesterday. needed something on there so just did sudo apt install blahblahblah and then come to find the little ubuntu fucker installed a snap of it.

I really should have gone with another distro for my server but meh i’m too lazy to fix it now.

yeah but from a University IT Admin standpoint NixOS would just be so much easier to maintain and set up. you literally would just need one config file to slap on all the machines. Install the OS, clone the config, rebuild, walk away and go to the next computer. Program causing issues and needs to be removed? cool edit the config, push it to the repo, clone it to all the machines, rebuild.

would be brutally easy though.

Piefed does this. haven’t seen any posts about Elon Musk in awhile.

trying it out now on NixOS. it’s buggy. VERY buggy just a word of warning but it is VERY early alpha. Can’t really do much with it right. Font issues, command window not popping up, etc. Promising though. would love to have something like qutebrowser but with decent ad blocking.

/me chuckles from his IRC chat room

and people will continue to use Discord.

My favourite game series of all time.

Wip3out 3, Mega Mall, Assegai, Xpander by DJ Sasha. my favourite thing in gaming of all time.

Just a heads up for people though the method you describe where you set a hotkey to open a video externally to mpv currently isn’t working as google has essentially borked youtube-dl. Just tried it right now via qutebrowser and youtube-dl can’t read the urls anymore.

what I find amusing is doesn’t this Patel guy not realize that once he’s fulfilled his use to this regime he’ll be lined up against the wall with everyone else that isn’t white? or is he banking on the fact he’ll be labelled as “one of the good ones”