Yeah, thats not age verification…

Its true about the updates but its also that Microsoft is now owning your computer.

You are asking them now if its ok to use it to run programs. I dont think people realize how very different it is to run Linux. There is no American corporation running your computer anymore. Thats a huge difference in how the system speaks to you, how it acts, what it lets you do.

I guess most have never experienced that so they dont get it.

Actually yeah, I didnt think of that but commodore 64 was my first computer. Its actually incredible the things it could do without any cooling or fan, and tiny graphics chip…

When I was young, older people thought the monitor was the computer and had no idea there was a chassi under the desk connected to it. :)

Yeah the agreement for me was always that i wont need any support from the company for my Linux, and I never did.

If you know Linux, it will just work. I had to use the web version of office and teams sometimes, but that worked ok during meetings.

I will not use those services. I think im willing to give up any service except email. And if Im forced, I guess I will identify for email since its critical to have. But its all ridiculous and part of building dystopia.

Or, windows 11 doesnt support my system. Not my problem.

Its actually interesting how they phrased it so that our systems are the problem and not their product.

Probably yeah. Ive done the same and said no to jobs where I couldnt use Linux. I didnt even want mac at that time, because 70% of the fun of the job was using Linux and native tools there.

Its not really strange. We are using our computers to do our job and we think its fun, so being forced to use a different platform ruins a lot of the fun.

First thing i thought of, but yeah, most devs today have never held a disk like that.

Why do i always gets so extreamly nostalgic every time something from the 80s and 90s are posted… I guess everyone is like that, stuff from their childhood remains loved.

I think also because it was a fresh field, nobody knew IT so it was exciting. It was like a small interest, similar to collecting stamps or something.

Back when girls in Hollywood were actually beautiful. :)

If you use cosmic desktop, you can switch the entire desktop from floating to tiling and it works very smoothly

I started out using tiling but actually like floating more now. Still, cool to have such easy switches.

You can use a dedicated tiling window manager but cosmic is a lot more “batteries included” and just works.

Also it seems that they are constantly adding new features so its exciting to see where its going.

Linux will do what you tell it. :)

Writing code but never seen the thing the code runs inside of…

I guess they are not very curious.

Yeah I know, I think junior developers have a hard time today. Not sure how to learn without writing the code yourself.

I just let the Ai write all my code and spend all my time looking for the bugs it creates.

Its not so fulfilling mentally since I dont think anymore, but sure, goes fast and lots of code is produced.

Also its the new normal now and I think humans can only be faster if they know the domain very well already.

Most of us are working with apis we dont know every method of by heart, so its quite slow to write code manually, even if its correct.

Which means this entire profession will be about fixing Ai bugs by telling it whats wrong and let it retry until it works.

Its because people get other priorities with age. They dont care about learning new things as much, as a general rule. They have their paycheck and they value time with family or friends. The job is just a way to get money, not a choice or a passion.

This is in contrast with young people, who often wants to show how good they are, make a career, get recognized. Believe it or not, those older people wanted that too but not anymore. They did it, but other things became more important than work.

Loved that guy! Need to rewatch xfiles…

I actually did rewatch it all a few years ago. Its quite good, but I see now as a older guy that David Duchovny actually wasnt very good playing Moulder. Didnt notice it as a kid but yeah, he is just reading lines with the same facial expression all the time. If you havent noticed, try rewatching with that in mind… :)

Gillian Anderson is amazing though, really good actress and she was paid much less than Moulder, despite being able to actually act properly.

Ive used it for 30 years… :)

Try cosmic, its very smooth and just works.

I guess its more simular to gnome than to kde so you should like it.

But I went to use OpenOffice, not watch it do its thing in the background…