airgapped

joined 1 year ago
[–] airgapped@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I picked up programming using "C for Dummies" book at age 13 and absolutely fell in love with developing/tinkering. My school didn't offer any IT lessons (yes I am old) so I couldn't wait until I got to a college that offered CS classes. Once I started these classes, I started absolutely hating development, to the point I dropped the course six months in and ferverently avoided anything IT related for the next decade. Eventually I found my way back to it via homelabbing for my own projects through organic need.

The point of my long winded anecdote: a formal education may actually hinder your IT learning more than it helps. The best teacher I found was in fact necessity or passion. Formal education will also teach you next to nothing about skills needed for selfhosting.

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Of all the things AI boom is responsible for this has to the absolute worst. Seagate hardrives were the only ones to consistently fail on me.

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

I had nothing but trouble with Suse, Fedora and Debían on my nightmare of a machine (laptop with AMD/nvidia GPUs) and honestly thought that was my lot until I hit upon Arch, which I have been more than happy with for over 3 years now.

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

This was the final straw that made me switch to Linux in fact.

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Likewise, the constant finger dancing between various symbols gave me RSI and was a readability nightmare. Shame because I liked Rust as a language.

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

AI can be both a bubble and a useful tool at the same time, a crash won't make us forget all about it, instead I have a feeling a crash may help mature AI the way dotcom bubble did web 2.0

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

everyone else arguing about being snowflake or not, I just want to know the joke

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think this meme is to do with newly introduced about:keyboard in Firefox that allows you to edit default keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+Shift+C is a common shortcut that ends up unnecessarily launching DOM inspector.

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago

Seemed like a real good idea on Friday but I am full of regret now.

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago

I seed so you may leech and give me huge ratios.

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 168 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

[–] airgapped@piefed.social 1 points 8 months ago

no guy has ever dropped the line "you don't know what I've been through"

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