[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

I too support women in men-dominated fields

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

I've used a Z Fold 4 for two years now and it's been the best phone I've ever had. Desktop versions of websites, on my phone, without feeling cramped. Two apps side by side, both roughly the size of a usual phone screen. Huge screen for retro emulation using a Bluetooth controller. All with still having a small screen for one handed use and more traditional scrolling.

Games like Hearthstone, Gwent, Chess, Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition, Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic, feel way more playable.

At this point, using any other device feels limited and cramped in ways that a big screen doesn't.

My only complaint has been price, and I only got mine because my company paid for it

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly for me the draw is in minimizing the mental/emotional overhead of forgetfulness. My wife and I both have ADHD, and I have autism. That leads to a potent combination of spacing out and forgetting even very important things.

So both in service of that and as a fun hobby (My special interest is computing), I have automation using presence detection, various timers, Z-wave outlets/light switches (I refuse to use IoT, I prefer local access/control every time), GPS position and various stuff like that, in order to avoid things like leaving our home theater projector powered on unwatched (reducing bulb lifetime), leaving the oven on, leaving the espresso machine on (boiler heating water over and over again unnecessarily, wasting thousands of watt-hours of electricity), turning reptile enclosure lights on/off on a schedule with sunrise/sunset, that sort of thing.

I have this ultimate vision in my head of my bedtime routine going from "Walk through the whole house for a few minutes and lock doors/turn things off" to "Triple-click my bedroom light switch 'off' and it turns off the rest of the house lights/TVs/projectors, reduces AC temperature a couple degrees, locks the doors, arms the security system for 'home', locks the car...". You get the idea.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

Four words all uppercase, one word all lowercase

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

I've been running the same installation of Manjaro since 2018, across three different machines. Each time I've upgraded hardware I just pop the SSD out and stick it in the new motherboard. Zero instability or troubles from that. Meanwhile I've done that to my wife's Windows PC and it resulted in going through a whole rigmarole with calling Microsoft because the OS install was suddenly no longer activated.

Linux didn't even care that I went from AMD to Intel to AMD.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

I remember "eg" as "example given" and "ie" as "in explanation". Nice mnemonic ways imho

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

I use zsh for my shell, with powerlevel10k as my prompt. It's gorgeous and has an interactice condigurator on first start. It includes stuff like git repo branch and status, python venv, aws profile... I've used it for years and loved it the whole time.

Here's what mine looks like

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

This joke is never funny; Forgetting a semicolon in c results in compile time errors, not runtime errors

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

I realize that you're using 'my lord' as a bit of an exclamation here, but I initially read it as you addressing the commenter as your lord. it just made me imagine you with a heavily British accent, going full medieval peasant style to mock the guy. I found that quite humorous.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

This is basically my biggest reason for it as well; A lot easier to explain programming.dev than it is to explain beehaw.org or such

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

To be fair, many of those problems are things you can mitigate by picking the right vendor and staying away from anything that needs to phone home or use the internet

What's stopping the company from just updating the software

The fact that I buy zwave stuff designed never to connects to the internet

And you can't host your own servers either

Home Assistant says otherwise

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