Both can be true. CEOs influence the direction the company takes.

Money talks and in that case, lots of people in this thread don’t want to encourage a company that endorse a fascist. Which is legitimate.

Politics are mixed with everything.

In that case, I see this as speak with your wallet moment. That statement has done it for me and I am dropping proton for Tuta or something else.

Live service games and mobile games use the same psychological tricks to keep people coming back and entice people to buy microtransactions.

After that, the theme of the game appeal to different folks.

I’ve learned to recognize my triggers, but it took a lot of conscious efforts to achieve that. I still buy some microtransactions from time to time for free games I play a lot, but this is a conscious decision I make and not a trigger making me buy things.

And even then, I feel the temptations every time a cool skin is put straight in my face. The psychology behind all that has been distilled to a science and used against us.

The right kind of brain being most human being.

Companies have made everything in their power to find what is addictive and how to implement it in a game to squeeze more money from players.

I like the look, but it has been my worst DE so far

I switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint and I have more issues with Linux Mint. From the top of my head :

• Sleep simply doesn’t work. I have Mint on two different machines and both don’t work (it worked fine on Ubuntu)

• If I do a soft reboot, it reboots to a black screen 100% of the time on both machines. I need to power cycle to reboot.

• I need to restart Pulseaudio frequently because it starts to make white noise.

• Cinnamon desktop environment crashing to a black screen and logging me out randomly.

I am just waiting to finish my current game to switch to a new distro because Mint isn’t working for me.

I donate to Wikipedia monthly because this is such an important website, but their donation drive is making my blood boil each time.

//Todo: fix this bug in prod

Never realized that Etcher was an Electron app and it makes a lot of sense.

Bang for bucks, ASRock is really good. I bought a mobo when the first gen of Ryzen came out and it is still rocking today. It supports up to Matisse series cpu. I paid like, 70-80 bucks back then. I had a lot of value out of it.

It is still living inside a home server and will be soon repurposed into an arcade cabinet.

Here is a bunch of random tips to become more comfortable with the terminal.

Do absolutely everything that you can on the terminal.

When you install something, enable the verbose if possible and snoop around the logs to see what is happening.

If an app or an install fails, look at the logs to see what is the issue, and try to fix it by actually resolving the error itself first instead of finding the commands on the internet to fix your issue.

Instead of googling for your command options, use the help menu from the application and try to figure out how to use the command from there.

It is by design. Pool a bunch of money, buy companies to bleed them dry. Wait for new companies to take their place, rinse and repeat.

Haven’t you heard about Raid Shadow Legends?

A shielded braid reduce the noise on the data lines and gives a better signal integrity. So it doesn’t increase the quality of the material, but increase the signal to noise ratio (SNR), which is very important for data transmission.

The trend we see in programming is the same trend we see in many sectors. There is a spectrum of skills, and unfortunately, we only talk about the bad programmers and not the good ones.

The reality is that your company probably don’t pay for top skills, so they get what they pay for. The pool of worker is spread thin, so the only thing left is the bad programmer.

So diploma mills churn out a maximum of workers to cash in on the situation.

I am not in the US, so I cannot compare, but people here that go to college equivalent explicitly learn to code.

When people go into computer science at University, they are decent coders and can do a lot of things out of school.

Scientists write code that works for them, so that’s fine if the code isn’t optimized.

When your software is your product, then it needs to be much more optimized.

The main issue is that not a lot of companies want and do take the time to train less experienced devs. Every company is expecting new hires to be trained already.

So many new devs need to scrape by with whatever means they have. And it is true is a lot of industries.

No because it’s an up to date firmware with the latest security patches.

Unless the hardware is also shitty and has some vulnerabilities.

More than half the points are just good engineering practice directly embedded in the language.

It tells a lot about the state of programming in general with the pushback we see with memory safe languages.

I’m down with Rust and I can’t wait for official support for embedded Rust in chip manufacturers, because until then, very few clients will be okay with using unofficial Rust cargos for their products.