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

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

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 ❤️

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).

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

Beautiful

TLDR: Fuck "AI"

I was in the market for a 14'' work laptop and I so DESPERATELY wanted to buy a Framework but I couldn't thanks to a combination of all the AI bullshit driving up memory prices, Framework still being on the Series 1 Intel Ultra chips, and their global availability not quite being there (this bit is understandable for a relatively new company). I ended up buying a base 14'' MacBook Pro M5 even though I wanted to stay on Linux simply because it was the only thing with good perf, crazy good battery, and good build quality that was priced semi-reasonably even though it's on the opposite end of the repairability spectrum.

Even now a comparable Framework (Intel Ultra X7 358H, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) costs ~$150 more than what I paid for my Mac, assuming I can even get it shipped to where I am, and the regional pricing/taxes doesn't push the price higher. Kinda crazy because it's on the more reasonable side of things if memory serves. Dell XPS costs even more.

I hope this memory crisis gets sorted because I never thought I'd see the day that Apple became the budget option. Maybe I'll sell my Mac and get a Framework then because as much as I love using the Mac, I still hate being at Apple's mercy if anything breaks or if I need an upgrade.

Quite normal, yes. Especially the prices for DDR4 and DDR5, the most commonly used RAM types in consumer laptops/desktops

That's actually the biggest thing I miss about VSCode

That just sounds like a race to the bottom to me