• Platform27@lemmy.mlEnglish
    601·
    1 year ago

    What she didn’t see is me whispering in her mothers ear “I run Arch, by the way”. Then giving her a quick wink.

        • Resolved3874@lemdro.idEnglish
          91·
          1 year ago

          I mean. How would I go about proving that. I’m currently just imagining the look on her face when I tell her we need to take a picture with my lemmy username in it so randoms on the internet believe I have a hot girlfriend. lol We go to the beach this weekend though. soooooo I’ll leave it up to you to remind me to do this lol

    • sheogorath@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      This really grinds my gears especially when working with the junior devs. They are always preaching about this new hot library and tried to refactor the whole app based on this cool article written by some well known developer. When I asked about their reasoning behind the chance they’re only able to link the blogpost made saying that X is bad and Y is the way going forward. I asked them what situation where they actually cannot solve an issue using X in a project and whether they can prove that using Y is the panacea for all of our woes, they all go silent.

      Afterwards I always tell them it’s fine to look for new ways to do things. But before you go to try to propose such a big change at least write some PoC demonstrating the strength of the new thing when they have some downtime.

      • ganymede@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        agree 100%

        have also noticed an uptick in “new is always better, those old ways are so dumb and they were so stupid” mindset.

        not sure if this is directly part of the reason, but the upshot is you don’t need to learn the fundamentals. you’re protected from learning how things actually work, because there’s always a bloaty house of cards chain of libraries to keep you separated from reality.

        and of course its always easier to write off all of the fundamentals as ‘pointless old garbage’, than actually challenge yourself with any of it.

        then you can enjoy a false sense of superiority, not because you overcame anything, but by never even trying.

        “undefeated”, not because you ever won, but because you never fought.

        and its not the “kids these day’s” fault. training institutions are corrupted by greedy suits, its all about the $$$s and pumping unprepared grads out at a blinding rate is more profitable (short term).

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I keep a Windows install around because of CoD Warzone not having anticheat support on Linux but I have multiple Linux machines. Two Fedora and one for Kali but I’ve considered just making that a persistent bootable and putting mint with xfce as a DE on that machine instead.

        I just snagged a recycled slim client from work and was going to test out EndeavorOS on it since I’ve heard good things about it’s resource use compared to bare minimum Arch installs with much less user hassle.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Right now Nobara (Fedora based) on my gaming laptop but was curious about Endeavor and planned on testing it out on a POS slim client from 2012 that I just got. Steam deck just has stock SteamOS.

        My main desktop is still windows because I play CoD warzone a lot with friends and that’s still a complete non factor for ricochet anticheat but if they fixed that I’d probably move off of it entirely assuming i could get my peripherals/davinci resolve/stream Labs/oceanaudio all working and get used to GIMP/Krita instead of Paint3D.

        So yeah there’s a few reasons I stick with windows, plus I like to keep up to date since I work IT networking and we are a windows shop primarily.

          • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            I appreciate it, I’m not a Windows Stan I just hate that every community here has the same memes and conversations. I don’t want to see lemmy die but it feels like it’s just for a very specific person and I’m not sure it’s going to last.