Steam isn't perfect and I sure as shit won't be the one defending a corporation, and this isn't a good excuse at ALL, but if you've never gamed you wouldn't believe how much worse it is on the other side (GOG being the only exception).

Fr tho basically what /u/AnimalsDream said

"I refuse to work in defense. I'd rather my work wasn't used to blow anyone up" is a line I've used in multiple job interviews. I like to think the hell I end up going to at least has chilly weather and/or really good AC.

I love how it's the people who know the most about how modern tech works that want nothing to do with 90% of it.

Yup, that's John Trak, the lead in Star Trak

This is dead on! 99% of the fucking job is digital plumbing so the whole thing doesn't blow the up when (a) there's a slight deviation from the "ideal" data you were expecting, or (b) the stakeholders wanna make changes at the last minute to a part of the app that seems benign but is actually the crumbling bedrock this entire legacy monstrosity was built upon. Both scenarios are equally likely.

Actually!

I went to the comments expecting some more jokes but found multiple dissertations instead wtf.

That sounds strampunk af, I'd get it even if I didn't need one if it did that!

Wtf windows search is so much snappier now!!!!

Thank you!

If you ever try dual booting again, just wanted to say it works much better if you have linux and windows on separate drives because windows gets to do whatever it wants on its own bootloader while linux handles everything else including switching to windows. Familiar with acer nitro laptops myself and 1050ti with i7 I assume means it's the older model with the hdd bay you can get to without disassembling. Should be simple enough to plop a 500GB SATA SSD in there for windows if you don't have one already.

P.S. be very careful with the hinges on that laptop bc it ain't fun when they break

If by D2 you mean Destiny 2, then I recommend making the switch so you CAN'T play D2. As a former addict myself, I can tell you it doesn't have control your life. I know it doesn't seem like it now but there is a way out if you're open to it.

Sending thoughts and prayers ❤️

Global clipboard is chef's kiss. Back when I was on Ubuntu/Gnome, I had to install CopyQ but having one come with the OS is great

Beautiful

This looks like those gimmicky android launchers and themes from a decade ago

Um, acksually, what you're referring to as Linux is in fact....

1. On a college project, a friend was working on some changes on a branch which I proceeded to merge into my working branch. Visual Studio asked to stash, I said yes, his changes replaced mine, I panicked, raged, then redid the whole thing because I had no idea what a f***ing stash is.

2. On our final project, my friend and I had separate branches we were working on and since we both thought git was magic, we figured we'd just merge our changes the day we were supposed to submit. So naturally we had a merge conflict on a single file that he had since been restored (by re-commiting the old version, not git restore) which meant we had to spend that morning frantically recommitting? rebasing? (still not sure) the next 92 commits (I just checked the repo) and hoping we didn't break anything in the process.

3. There was that time at my job when I accidentally pushed some stuff I REALLY shouldn't have only to realize I had no force push permissions on a gitlab repo I created because it was under a group owned by the org. That one was there for months before I finally asked someone with the permissions to sort out (and they didn't forget to do it).

Thank you! Every time a story like this comes up, people seem to wanna pretend managing your own hardware is all sunshine and rainbows. Especially if you want global scale or as little down-time as possible, cloud provider's your best bet, albeit one where you have less control than you would with your own servers.

Opinion: You should be building on top of open source platforms and tools (Docker, Kubernetes if you need it...granted I'm not an expert in this area) to mitigate some of the vendor-lockin, and take a multi-cloud approach. If you're mainly hosting on GCP for example, host smaller deployments on AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, or something else as a contingency...eventuality you can also add or just move to your own servers relatively painlessly. Also AGGRESSIVELY backup up your database in multiple places.

That's actually the biggest thing I miss about VSCode

Holy crap I think that may be why I never used it. Fuck how much Windows likes to calls home

That just sounds like a race to the bottom to me