Come to the dark side! We have GDPR and we’ll get browser choice in iOS soon (because as much as I hate having my software freedom being taken away, iOS is the superior experience if you don’t have time to tweak everything. This is coming from someone who’s had a custom ROM on every single one of their Android phones).
You also can’t be fired without cause in I believe most EU countries, definitely not in mine (Estonia).
Software engineer (luckily not in games) here. Definitely feeling it in terms of looking for a new job. Everyone’s only looking for senior engineers and they’re SUPER picky because there are so many unemployed engineers applying, even in my country where there are a lot fewer layoffs.
Work is pretty much the same, but depending on your job it can be way worse, or actually not that bad. I’ve had both.
Started off in a repetitive job with highly demanding monthly targets that we’d need to hit to get our full bonus (which was a significant part of total comp, salary was low as hell). It was an endless cycle of “X more days until Friday”.
I transitioned into software engineering. Ya know what? Occasionally I was EXCITED for the next work week. It’s still work and it’s hella stressful and sometimes you wish you could take the next 5 years off and have no obligations. But a lot of the time, you’re not actively waiting for the weekend anymore. Helps that my commute before I transitioned fully to home office was a 12 minute walk and I had after-work activities on weekdays to be excited for.
Proprietary language to commonly used language - Got something on my CV that other future employers would appreciate more. Also was a chill job anyway. But I got bored.
Then I hopped jobs to another completely different commonly used language (not just different in syntax, but one that required a completely different way of thinking about things). I learned a lot, but project itself was way too stressful, so I quit at the end of my probationary period. Not a good outlook on my CV, but overall I can, without lying, say I pick up on new languages and frameworks very quickly and if I get a take-home assignment in a language I’ve never touched, I can still complete it in a reasonable time frame. So there’s some good out of it.
Both times also came with a significant salary increase so that’s also nice.
I’m withholding details about the languages because I might be too easy to identify given I’ve also mentioned my homeland in previous comments.
This is not an ad BTW, I literally stumbled upon it a few minutes ago. From what I can gather, however, this is a [DIY-ish] search engine that solely searches on text (no other forms of media, such as, … idk hypertext maybe), which allows users to have more control over queries (like including and excluding terms). I suppose...
Direct replacement for Cyanogen would be Lineage. There are dozens of decent ROMs to try though.
I still opted for iOS in the end. As much shit as Apple pulls, they did 6 year software updates when only flagship Androids got 3 and they aren’t generally trying to dominate the Internet.
I know, but as a software engineer, I just hate reading through other people’s code and I don’t have time for tinkering anymore. Apple’s ecosystem is convenient for me and that matters more now. Used to care more of course.
Never been ghosted, but I was on Tinder for 4 years (no, I didn’t swipe every day) before finally finding someone. Went on like a date a year because most conversations just fizzled out before even meeting IRL and I’m not the most attractive physically, which kinda plays a role in the total amount of matches. I might have had about one a week on average.
3 months in and so far this is the most amazing woman I’ve ever dated and I hope this is not a temporary feeling, because rn I feel like she’s an absolute keeper and my friends seem to agree too.
Point being: keep your options open, have accounts on popular dating apps just in case you accidentally swipe right on your soulmate. But don’t hope for anything because you’ll be disappointed. It’s all random chance and your chances are low so things take time.
That’s not your own place. You could get kicked out at any time with just a month or 2 of notice. I’ve been renting apartments since I left the uni dorm, never considered an apartment to be my own place, even though I usually lived alone.
What a creative and meaningful way to dismiss someone’s arguments.
The words “your own place” imply ownership. Mostly everyone rents when they leave their parents place. To have your own place, you need to actually buy one, otherwise you’re still living in someone else’s place
Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.
Fellow Gentoo user here, personally I find that most of the time, it doesn’t really take extra time once it’s been set up. World updates do take ages, but they can be done in the background. Most of the time my config doesn’t break anything.
Imagine a standardized API where you provide either your own LLM running locally, your own LLM running in your server (for enthusiasts or companies), or a 3rd party LLM service over the Internet, for your optional AI assistant that you can easily disable.
Regardless of your DE, you could choose if you want an AI assistant and where you want the model to run.
I’ve run LLMs locally before, it’s the unified API for digital assistants that would be interesting to me. Then we’d just need an easy way to acquire LLMs that laymen could use, but probably any bigger DE or distro can create a setup wizard.
My team wanted to start using Trello to better organize the work we have to do and, since I believe it’s much easier to start using foss software from the beginning rather then switching to it after years of using something else, I wanted to suggest now a different option, possibly selfhosted....
Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU) (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (www.theverge.com)
🎵that's life🎵 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Did you ever change languages for a better position? How did it go?
'political cartoons ARE NOT MEMES!!!' lmao (lemmy.ml)
www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-43783521...
Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market (arstechnica.com)
Has anyone checked out marginalia search? (search.marginalia.nu)
This is not an ad BTW, I literally stumbled upon it a few minutes ago. From what I can gather, however, this is a [DIY-ish] search engine that solely searches on text (no other forms of media, such as, … idk hypertext maybe), which allows users to have more control over queries (like including and excluding terms). I suppose...
just when you don't think about, bääm! a German. (feddit.de)
Google Decides To Pull Up The Ladder On The Open Internet, Pushes For Unconstitutional Regulatory Proposals (www.techdirt.com)
Love Burnout (lemmy.world)
Looking for a forever ROBOT (lemmy.world)
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Where do kittens learn to swim?
At the kitty pool! 😺
Who here uses a less popular Linux distribution? What made you choose it?
Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.
What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux? (lemmy.ml)
Selfhosted Trello Alternative?
My team wanted to start using Trello to better organize the work we have to do and, since I believe it’s much easier to start using foss software from the beginning rather then switching to it after years of using something else, I wanted to suggest now a different option, possibly selfhosted....
Yeah, This Seems About Right (suppo.fi)