Ya, it’s a work laptop so cut the disk in half and installed Pop!OS Linux on one half and kept Windows just in case work needed it.

Then I needed GUIX OS and installed it over the Windows partition, so it’s a dualboot Linux/Linux now.

Maybe I should put two Apple stickers on it.

Depends on your tolerance for stretched definitions, but it’s one of those covered litterboxes a door.

My wife uses mac and gets a lot of these stickers.

I put them on everything because I find it silly: my Thinkpad, my Nintendo Switch, the cat toilet…

It’s also valuable and round, so I consider pizza coin.

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What do you write in it? Languages, tech stack etc

I like NeoVIM, but in the end it got a bit frustrating to get the tooling to behave, like language server for Guile, especially when the configuration was half config format, half Lua code, third half referencing those from Vim.

In Emacs everything - code, config, invocations - are jus lisp. And the ecosystem is a bit more mature for the tools I use in our current codebase.

Programmer here.

Clicking things in elaborate IDE GUIs and copying stuff they don’t understand appears widespread because it’s easy to teach and make a video about, but it’s not it.

My days are spent in Emacs, (used to be Vim), and a Bash terminal. I sometimes use an more “fancy” IDE for a year or two but I always realize they slow me down and make me stupid.

I write code I understand based on system models I discuss with the team. My time is spent thinking about the models, learning the components I work with, debugging, etc. While all of these involve typing up some code, only 5% or so is writing actually “finished” code.

A frequent frustration is recursive guilt-by-association.

“Yeah so okay we do align on everything however you refuse to denounce your friend who didn’t really do anything but he is a fan of a controversial figure who also didn’t really say or do much but they are friends with a bad person so… Get lost?”

Another is translation based on the assumption that one’s assumptions are universal.

“You said you think Terry Davis was a technical genius for his OS. Honestly his work is nothing compared to a modern OS. I think so so therefore you must think so, and so you must mean something else. What you are really praising is his extremist christianity.”

Europe. Technically meat eater but not an “identity” and generally prefer veggie.

This rule makes no intuitive sense, or factual sense. It sounds like one of those US-specific things that have spread through “everyone knows” like the 3 second rule.

We have other nonsense rules here, basically.

If you are not willing to listen, don’t pretend to ask questions.

Ah, sorry this is me being actually stupid. I was looking up normal drives. My apologies.

Yeah we’d have to filter this a bit.

A backup can mean many things. One interpretation is as text files, which works.

Edit: actually any “backup” will work as long as the compression is pre-2002-era. After that it’s something I could work out with a hex editor worst case.

Text content of wikipedia is 24GB compressed.

USB drives in 2002 could hold up to 256GB.

This isnt hard man

I can mount an old drive made in 2002 right now, formatted in a 2002 era format, and put text files on it, compressed with tar and gz from 1990 if need be.

I assume that is the hardware we have to work with in this scenario.

Hate.

Hard core hate.

Hard core hate for anyone religious.

I am sure individuals who have this hate in them, and there are circles where strong disrespect for anyone religious is tolerated, but this? No. And “many” circles?

I’m sorry but I do not believe the premise for the question to be real.

In my country, we have that I think.

Several banks and gorernment functions are only accessible via internet, so it the state’s rsponsibility to assure every resident has internet access.

Not amazing internet access, or even “good”, but access.

Some places you have to bus to the nearest library during opening hours to use one of the freely accessible terminals, but it’s free and available. You can also apply to have the bus ticket refunded if you’re really struggling.

Which subject or subjects interest you? Do you prefer just reading, or are audio sources fine?

E.g. literature and story themes have good coverage on Nebula or YT.

History has a lot on just plain Wikipedia, or sites like NativeOak.org digital library.

There is no contradiction. Progressive is about taking the forced mold away, not creating a new one.

Does your diploma come with gold embossed lettering and a red stamp? If so I’m in.

Try to have a conversation around what this diploma “unlocks” in her life that she wants. If all she needs are a diploma to flash while witching, there are cheaper diploma mills that take less time.

Edit: Reading back it sounds like I’m being light-hearted about this. I’m not really. At some point children are adults that make bad choices that are out of your control, and the best you can do as a parent is to not alienate them by trying to prevent it but help them think things through.

That’s not the same as encouraging bad decisions, but accepting them. In a year or two that thinking may be what they need to make better choices, and they will still trust you to talk things through.