I worked with a guy who ran PopOS and loved it. He said the UI was really good. I’ve seen it get some love in social places. Figured I’d give it a shot some time.

I’m pretty happy with Mint. It’s comfortable and the conventions feel more familiar than even my work MacBook—like I don’t even know what the desktop is for except my screenshots show up there for some reason. I don’t think corporate would let me run Linux, but if they would I’d be happy with Mint or Ubuntu. They probably don’t want to support a million flavors of Linux desktop.

I feel like Ubuntu has the greatest exposure among non-Linux folks. It’s the only OS any place I’ve ever worked used on WSL back when I was still on windows. Probably a lot of corporate nerds want to stick to what’s comfortable?

I have no idea if that’s the reason, but Ubuntu and Mint are the only two distros I’ve tried for basically that reason. Heard good things about PopOS. Might try it some time if I wind up with an extra computer.

“Look, if you call my former employer you’re going to hear some scary sounding gossip about me, but I ask you…” ziiiiip “… does this look like the penis of a person that would sexually harass someone? I rest my case.”

I usually try to practice this (or at least make room for others to merge in) but last week the zipper merge took place right where an entrance ramp was also trying to merge creating a 3-way merge clusterfuck. Whoever put up the traffic cones should’ve been shot. Or… done a better job. All they had to do was complete the first merge before the entrance ramp, but no.

I was lucky enough to have already been in the left-most lane, at least.

America is the same way in that regard. I think what op was saying is when you’re on the sidewalk or in a grocery aisle, use the same rules of the road with other pedestrians/bikers.

Uh… Khakis.

I see a strong correlation to broadband access. Once a direct, high-speed line was ubiquitous, it went from a place for nerds and enthusiasts to hang out to a market. High speed smartphones sealed the deal. Now it’s possible to have a nearly continuous connection to every pair of eyes in the world. Or at least a sizeable percentage.

But I think it’s the data speed. When you had to wait twenty seconds for a page of data to load there wasn’t extraneous bullshit like ads or content suggestions, or scripts to track everyone. You had to send the absolute minimum and the only payment you got for your efforts was your hit counter.

I miss it.

Could just be age and nostalgia, but the nineties reality were a magical time. The 80’s weren’t bad either but of course I was living at home then so thems some rose-colored glasses for sure.

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All I can really offer is if there are reviewers who review your kind of thing, watch their reviews of similar products, look for what they highlight as really good or bad, and then do what you can to make sure your stuff gets a good review. Then contact the reviewers and offer them a gratis copy in return for an honest review. If you get a good review, that can generate word of mouth that can get you a little momentum.

That’s what I’d do if I were starting on your journey. I don’t know whether it’s a good suggestion or not. Maybe others will come along and offer better.

That’s just a static image, mate. You need speed.gif

In the hands of an expert you can get expert level results from tools like ChatGPT. In the hands of a novice you get novice level results. What a succinct way to put that, thanks! You probably saved me a paragraph every time I try to explain such a simple concept.

I usually get the water in really thin plastic with sport tops which are impossible to drink without the crink.

Sport tops because if I’m buying water I’m on my way to do something active and they are less spillable.

On a side note, the hard plastic bottles impart a really gross taste. Aquafina is sometimes okay while cold, but once it hits room temperature it tastes like plastic. Dasani always tastes like plastic ass.

It was zero but to be fair voyager doesn’t sync devices so you could have some upvotes on my desktop.

There is also just something very alienating when you work in large teams where each dev only contributes a small component, a lack of knowledge about the system is not only a good thing there but an expected paradigm to create reusable code.

No. That is to say, it might be common, it might be expected, but it is often not good. Every time I join a new team and am exposed to a new code base, I’m astonished by the amount of absolute shit code that results from reusing shit in ways that it was never build with the idea of supporting.

Why? Because someone was focused on completing a single story as fast as possible and they created a dependency they shouldn’t have. And this grows and festers until you have an unmaintainable nightmare.

In order to build solid reusable code you must build it with that knowledge and intent. I’ll cut my rant off there, but I recently joined a new team and the wounds are all very fresh.

I’m looking for places with less censorship so we can have actual discussions

Who are you going to be having discussions with if no one is there with you?

regular people aren’t allowed to have their own beliefs on the matter.

I’m regular people, which is to say I have pretty much every privilege one can enjoy in America other than wealth. But this statement implies either I must think like you, or I’m not regular people. Don’t drag me down into the mud with you.

I’d honestly be surprised if even asking this question didn’t result in censorship.

As long as you’re not engaged in bullying behavior, I wouldn’t expect it to get censored. But then I don’t really care, either. I’m not interested in these conversations with you; I’d rather hang out with… regular people.

Do you use Voyager? Or perhaps another client? Nothing about the user profile is surfaced in Voyager. You have to go to the native webview and open a user’s profile to see all that. I set a brief bio there, but until it’s exposed in my primary client I don’t really see any reason to worry about all that.

I do sometimes check on nsfw boards so can flag users as OF creators vs. amateurs because I have more appreciation for folks doing that for fun than as a hustle. Other than that, it’s too much hassle to go checking everyone’s profile when maybe 10% of people set anything at all.

ChatGPT is ass at generating captchas.

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