dandroid

joined 1 year ago
[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 9 points 10 months ago

It was my first time using a Linux GUI. I was comfortable with CLI, but it was my first time having it installed on a laptop instead of just sshing into a server somewhere.

So naturally, instead of learning how the GUI worked, I tried changing it to be exactly like Windows. I was doing things like making it so I could double click shell scripts and other code files and they would run instead of opening them up in an editor. I think you see where this is going, but I sure as hell didn't.

Well, one of my coworkers comes over and asks me to run this code on this device we were developing. We were still in the very early stages of development, we didn't even have git set up, so he brought the code over on a USB stick. I pop it into my laptop. I went to check it once by opening it in an editor by double clicking on it... Only it ran the code that was written for our device on my laptop instead of opening in an editor.

To this day, I have no idea what it did to fuck my laptop so bad. I spent maybe an hour trying to figure out what was wrong, but I was so inexperienced with Linux, that I decided to just reinstall the OS. I had only installed it the day before anyway, so I wasn't losing much.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"I'm right, and if anyone disagrees, it's because they're brainwashed"

There's literally no possible way to argue against this type of logic.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm a long time Java developer who was recently moved to a project written in Go. All I can say is: What. The. Fuck. I swear, the people who designed the syntax must have been trying to make every wrong decision possible on purpose as a joke. The only think I can think of is that they only made design decisions on the syntax while high on shrooms or something.

Like, why in the actual fuck does the capitalization of a function change the scope?????? Who thought that was a good idea? It's not intuitive AT ALL. Just have a public/private keyword.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In my friend circles, the passenger was responsible for playing for the driver.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 10 months ago

It happens! I moderate !hockey@lemmy.ca, and recently !hockey@lemmy.world merged with us naturally.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That feeling when you're not a recent CS grad anymore 😭

I never even heard of rust when I graduated in 2016.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 5 points 10 months ago

If you have a good IDE, and Java has the best IDEs of any language I have used, then auto complete will take care of most of that for you.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So if I'm understanding correctly, if I created a Sublinks account, theoretically I would see all the same content, and I could use the same app, but it would be more optimized and have some additional features (on the web UI or if the app implemented those features)?

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Gen Xers: am I a joke to you?

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have solar panels and a backup battery. I was actually disappointed when the power didn't go out when it got cold here in Texas last week.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry, I must have responded to the wrong comment. That comment was supposed to be in an entirely different conversation.

Edit: Oh, I just reviewed my inbox. I thought you replied to a different comment of mine. I'm so dumb. Carry on.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 4 points 10 months ago

I have a lock that I can check the status of on my phone, and even lock it from my phone if I forgot. It's really good for my peace of mind. No more getting up in the middle of the night to check the lock.

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