In order of approachability:

Man pages.

Also Arch Wiki.

Also excellent books by NoStarch Press.

… Or did I miss a joke? Hehe

If it’s really long, I use less , because it breaks it up into navigable pages instead of filling your entire buffer. :)

Never knew about just using < though! Cool!

Feels like maybe that represents SUSE but…not OpenSUSE. Tumbleweed is legit and the community is super chill and dope.

~yeah I feel personally attacked lmao~

(clears throat in Zypper install)

:p

Hehe yeah I guess that’s what I meant. Just making a statement on how software has become I guess, and maybe a bit about how highly permissive licenses might have unintended consequences.

The open source spirit is one of the shining jewels of the human race, but it really sucks that I don’t think any of those “You aren’t allowed to use my code to make the world a worse place” clauses would actually hold up. =\

“Look, I wrote this neat highly advanced machine vision thing to help people with accessibility needs communicate with loved ones! ❤️. MIT licensed I guess! Let’s make the world better!”

Raytheon, Northropp, Boeing, Microsoft, three-letter-agencies suddenly fork it as a base for their own “projects.”

😐

Still learning git but apparently there’s some “power features”, and, aside from that, it’s the same BS network effect that keeps everyone on all the abusive platforms.

Discoverability, it’s where all the other people already stashed their code, sunk cost, etc…

Siiiigh…

And even though I don’t have have a degree or any certifications…

You must be really good! That’s quite impressive, especially given how many jobs degree-gate just to filter applications so HR doesn’t have to work too hard.

My job is solving business problems.

Sometimes I wish I got dopamine for solving business problems. I’d probably find myself in a lot more situations where people are willing to hand me money. XD

But yeah, software engineering is totally a thing. Like you said, it’s just somebody (hopefully) carefully creating tools to solve particular problems.

Would be kinda cool if we could get People Who Know What They’re Doing™ to just…rebuild stuff from the ground up, untainted by slop. Haha a guy can dream.

Yeah, that’s what bothers me so much. It doesn’t get “smarter” or imagine novel solutions. It simply has access to everything that’s already existed.

I’m scared we’re gonna have already experiencing some kind of intellectual slump because handing everything to the machine built on existing knowledge…doesn’t yield any new ideas.

I’m sure they’re still banking on human brains having new ideas, so they can simply steal them and feed those new ideas to the machine. Then they’ll tell the ideator their brain is irrelevant thanks to the industrialized intellect-theft device.

Yeah like the other guy I couldn’t find anything on this Mosquitto either. I’m curious! Haha. (I found some GitHub project with like zero information hah)

I’ll have to look again, I should have specified I’m in the US but it used some kinda integration that was common for EU banks but not US ones, so I had to import reports manually.

Oh sorry, what I meant was there’s a standard to do that with European banks, yeah, but US banks don’t have it, so you gotta manually download and import stuff. At least that’s how it was last I checked.

Glad to hear people like it because I thought it was really cool…

…But not having that European easy bank import option and having to manually download your sheets and import them is probably why I didn’t stick to it very well…

…but then again it imported those sheets like magic so there’s that!

LOL what the heck is the source of this, it’s so surreal, people just chilling shooting hoops in the background XD

Right there with you. I suck at it but I still find the pursuit worthwhile!

This crap is brought to you by the people who are positively baffled that someone would want to learn to make music, and enjoy the process, instead of just have it generated so they can hit “publish” and supposedly be making money off of it with zero real effort besides “having an idea.”

Heck yeah, EFF rocks ❤️

LOL that’s true! Although it’s easily imagined this is how Microsoft feels.

“Billy you should have 6 different recurring subscriptions to manage basic computing tasks — BILLY NOOO!!”

Hahaha true facts.

I think the big point of the comparison though, is that Windows by nature is something you often have to defeat or somehow subvert to use.

It’s appalling to Linux people whose software is just like “Yeah do whatever, have fun.” XD