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Cake day: February 5th, 2025
  • MangoCats@feddit.ittoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•We're cooked y'all 🤣English
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    5 days ago

    It is always different. I was born because times before I was born were different, my parents’ friends were being drafted and sent to Vietnam to die, or worse: come back mentally or physically screwed up. Apparently, being a new parent was just enough consideration to keep a college enrolled man from being taken - so they did that and here I am.

  • MangoCats@feddit.ittoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•We're cooked y'all 🤣English
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    6 days ago

    If it’s any consolation, there was a nuclear sized crater of a job market for all engineers (software and otherwise) after Reagan’s 8 were up. The .com aftershocks were pretty huge, and the 2008 housing crisis hit everything really hard too. Then in 2012 I got laid off due to the end of our Afghanistan debacle, then there was that pandemic thingy…

    So, yeah, the current foolishness is going to make a hell of a mess, but there has always been a huge mess either cleaning up, or coming soon for the past 35 years, and longer I’m sure, those are just the ones I’ve been hit by.

  • MangoCats@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.ml•I'm committing to Linux, but it's so unstable. Any suggestions?English
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    6 days ago

    I started using Linux more or less full-time in 2014. I find it to be just as “stable” as Windows or OS-X, which is to say: it’s stable until you do something that makes it not stable.

    If you’re staying in the mainstream, using a “stable release” from a big distro (Ubuntu, Debian, there are others…) and waiting at least 6 months after the release of that stable release before using it, I have found Ubuntu to be just as stable as Windows or OS-X. You might want to use an unstable app, that can be a problem in any OS, but granted: there aren’t as many “stable” apps to choose from in Linux as Windows.

    OS-X and their apps have burned me hard, repeatedly, for things that Windows and Linux had under control 10 years earlier.

    The major difference in my WIndows vs Linux experiences has been: when you want something to work and it just doesn’t, in Windows you have to shrug your shoulders and explain to your customers: It just doesn’t work, there’s nothing we can do. In Linux, you have the option to do the heavy lifting and make it work. It will frequently not be worth the effort, but if you’re really determined you can fix just about anything in Linux.

  • MangoCats@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.ml•Which browser do you use and why?English
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    2 months ago

    I read the new language to mean: they are going to record your input streams and feed them to AI/LLM - thereby recording your previously private info that they used to discard and protect. Up to you, I use Chrome because it integrates well with the gmail account I’ve used for 25+ years and I appreciate the “login anywhere and get your same setup” functionality, as well as the ability to nuke remote login sessions.

  • MangoCats@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.ml•After almost half a century, I'm still doing it...English
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    2 months ago

    I had a remote relay box: 8 channels of power control, so I could at least power cycle machines from remote when all else failed.

    I actually ended up not using it much at all, it was a nice security blanket, but the last time I decided that I wanted to power cycle something was about 6 years ago, and at that time I realized it had been over 3 years since I had previously used it, and that usage was more of a “let’s make sure this thing is working like I think it should” test.

  • MangoCats@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.ml•Being Forced to Say GoodbyeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My org recently declared that all remote access to “Office” must be through OS-X or Windows for “security reasons.” So, they put a check on browser IDs and if your browser IDs as being on Linux, they harass you for password re-entry every 90 seconds. Of course, Chrome Network Conditions tab allows you to choose what your browser IDs itself as running on…

  • MangoCats@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.ml•Being Forced to Say GoodbyeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Back in the 1990s I developed an app over the course of 6 years, first 3 in C/DOS then we ported that to C++/Borland/Win95 and continued developing it for another 3 years. I was the only coder, we had a dedicated tester / documentation specialist and the algorithms lead who was more of an idea guy than any hands-on code work.

    We got bought out. Buyers “needed it in native Win32 because of the depth of the talent pool.” Whatever, I’m here to help if they want it during porting. Buyers estimated 2 developers could port it in about 2-3 months. Yeah, o.k. Never asked for help, but at 6 months in they had expanded the dev team to 6 guys and were still struggling and looking to hire more. Ultimately they reduced scope a little and called it “ready to use” in Win32 after about 15 months. Glad they got it “maintainable” by switching to that Win32 dev environment with such a deep talent pool to hire from, they easily spent more man hours on the port than we spent developing it in the first place.

  • MangoCats@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.ml•Differences between Wayland and X11English
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    2 months ago

    A shorter take: x11 is old, and big, and didn’t originally consider security much at all.

    Wayland is newer, therefore lacking some bells and whistles of x11 that some x11 users may still care about, but also designed with more awareness of security issues - making it more extensible and maintainable into the future.

    There was a time Wayland wasn’t a great x11 replacement due to its level of development. When it will become the better choice all depends on what kind of user you are, but it seems inevitable to become the better choice for most users in the future.