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Cake day: June 19th, 2023
  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksto> Greentext@lemmy.ml•Anon reflects on his life
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    10 months ago

    Number one, it takes time and practice to get good at anything, so being a wimp because you aren’t on top in the first year is just… wimpy.

    Second, there’s this saying that went around the school I mostly trained at. “Hard fist is for kids, soft fist is for old timers”. And it’s true. Striking arts favor youth and resilience more than grappling arts. You start getting older, and you worry less about a knockout than you do about not being in pain after the sparring session is over lol.

    Dude just wimped out instead of putting in the work or switching to something he could physically function at

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksto> Greentext@lemmy.ml•Anon gets several homeless handys
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    10 months ago

    In the hierarchy of paid sex, it is not fair to lump lot lizards in with the rest of the sex work milieu. That’s like saying the guy digging through dumpster for food is a sanitation worker. They’re doing essentially the same thing, and under horrible conditions, but it ain’t exactly comparable.

    I’m not knocking lot lizards (or anyone stuck eating from dumpsters), I’m just saying that the level of desperation and lack of self care is so non-existent as to make it an entirely different world.

    Well, I guess the term lot lizard is kinda knocking them, but that’s the term that’s still in use to indicate the people stuck in that role of trading their bodies sexually at truck stops.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•To those not in the IT industry, what do you think programming is like?
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    10 months ago

    Well, I’m not really the truly blind here, I used to do some BASIC back in the eighties. Just introductory level shit, though. I’m talking a course taken over a summer for “gifted” kids, not even an actual full on course at a serious level. And I wasn’t very good at it lol

    But, I still have no clue what modern languages are like, or how they’re used professionally. I’ve always assumed, you guys are busy entering lines of code, then compiling and testing, then punching things because you have to go back and fuck up with the code again.

    I figure there may be ways to streamline the coding itself, maybe chunks of prefab that can be copy/pasted, or whatever.

    Other than that, I suppose there’s lots of coffee, coke and/or meth, and a lot of waifu pillows.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.workstoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Appreciation post about Cromite (and PrivacyBrowser)
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    10 months ago

    Overall, about the same in my experience. Where you’ll notice a difference is older devices. Lag shows up on Firefox forks then. But usually you can throw klar/focus on and do fine.

    Ublock is way better at ad blocking, across the board. Not much gets through cromite, but you will get the oddball one sneaking by now and then. Plus, ublock is easier to tweak.

    Now, I will say that cromite looks better on most of my devices. It makes better use of the screen in subtle ways like tabs on a tablet. Just little things I like better visually, which is subjective as fuck, but I’ve used both cromite and fennec in specific recently enough it might be of interest since you’re asking a general question.

    Now, I run mull most of the time, but I check out fennec every now and then just for poo and giggles. There’s never any surface level differences between the two.

    I think it fair to say that on tablets, bromite is my preference for opening links from other things. It does so faster, and the tabs make switching between things easier for me. But on a phone, they’re essentially equal. Since firefox and its forks are a better choice for the health of the internet, I use it almost exclusively on phones; and it’s maybe 50/50 on tablets.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux?
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    10 months ago

    Look at it like this.

    When you got your first smart phone, be it android or iOS, you didn’t know where anything was, so there was a learning curve.

    But, in the same way as phones, there are built in “stores”. Those stores are called repositories, and they’re accessible in more than one way. You don’t actually have to use the terminal, it’s just usually faster since you really don’t type much more than you would entering a search in whatever GUI interface comes with your distro. Indeed, you can actually set up the commands in a notepad, change the package name each time, and copy/paste the commands, and you’re only a couple of seconds slower than opening the package manager, searching, scrolling to find what you want, clicking to install… See what I’m getting at?

    Windows isn’t really faster than that. You have to go to a site, download, find the exe or msi in your download folder, then click in the various pop-up windows. And you can find .deb files that do the same thing as an exe or msi, just not for every program, because they’re an unnecessary pain in the ass. It’s extra steps.

    I promise you, comparing the way Linux works now, and the learning curve it takes to the learning curve on windows back when it was a new experience (and I’m talking windows 95, the previous msdos shells were worse than that), Linux is way easier. And don’t even get me started on how shitty a user experience DOS was. Jfc, I’m dyslexic, and it was a nightmare. Windows 95 wasn’t a big jump better in dyslexia land, but it was at least better than DOS.

    If you were used to something like mac only, and had never used windows, the transition would be similarly annoying. And, for me at least, dealing with installs on windows is more of a pain in the ass now that I’m used to package managers.

    I did a clean install of Windows 7 on my media PC (and yes, you valiant security friends, it’s air gapped) maybe two years ago. From start to finish, including programs, took me about five hours.

    My laptop that I run Linux mint on? An hour, start to finish. The only differences in the programs installed are in specifics, not in types. I plugged in my live drive, hit install, and was ready to start installing programs in maybe twenty minutes. My media pc is an old gaming PC, btw. Tons of ram, ssd, etc. The laptop is an old thinkpad. So it wasn’t like the laptop was better hardware lol.

    Which seems tangential, but it’s pointing to the underlying ease of use once you’re used to the system. I’ve being doing windows installs since the nineties (and a little before, but only in classes), so it isn’t like I’m not experienced. I’ve only been doing Linux installs since about 2015.

    Hell, my very first Linux install was Ubuntu on my dad’s old computer just to make sure I didn’t screw a box up that was in use. Even that, going from Ubuntu being ready to go, and having the programs set up to use was only maybe two hours, and that was mostly looking up the very process that’s been described by others in this thread and copy/pasting things in for each program.

    So don’t get discouraged. If you end up really not liking it once you get past the learning curve, that’s okay, windows will still be there. You can go back to it. But, if you’re like me at all, once that learning curve is past, you won’t enjoy the extra hassles windows puts in the way.