I'm old and thus my relationship is old enough to drink. As we met they were using an utterly virus riddled Windows XP install. I suggested alternative and that Debian install has survived a couple decades. Sure, I'll do anything major like hardware changes but mostly it has just been easy living. For most people working browser, some sort of office package and an image editor is plenty. Linux has been ready for that for a long time.
If Debian has to be something on four wheels it'll be a lorry. Something that does nothing fancy but absolutely essential and is doing alright thank you very much.
What I really don't get with tankies is their reverence of Russia. Their history can be summarized like so: and then everything took a change for the worse. To this day Russia is an empire where white people use colonized people to die for bits of field in parts they already starved in 1932-1933.
That's pretty much the problem. You know how to work around the issue. I know how to work around the issue. Institutional knowledge doesn't and just opens the application just like they've always done. I resolved this one by associating .csv files with Notepad++ company wide. Now this is a mandated change so they'll grumble and get on track.
The real issue I have with all this is changing data without consent. It's like the new Notepad is malware all by itself, doesn't even need remote exploits.
As I'm in no position to demand company wide switch to a sane operating system I'm constantly in awe of new and innovative ways Microsoft has managed to make my day suck. One such thing is that they have decided that Win 11 Notepad will convert everything it touches to UTF-16. That's kind of a problem when an external system expects ISO-8859-15 and users have decades of experience in editing said config files with Notepad.
In like to go for a walk. I happen to live in a rapidly emptying part of rural Finland. Here we have freedom to roam so all the forests are open to explore. I've been in places nobody else has seen in decades. I love it.
+1 to this one. I cut my teeth writing boring in house business software, some 15 years of that. Time went on and the company started to automate, so as the in house software guy I ended up messing with various pieces of industrial automation. It has been interesting, I've learned a lot and coming from outside sometimes I can think non conventional approach to a problem.
Oh, and find a laptop with real RS-232 -port. Protect it with your life.
I know running Gentoo is labour intensive and for the most part unnecessary. Something still draws me back and every now and then there's a fresh install.
I live in the countryside and my better 3/4 has always had horses. We've had many cats at the stable and one in particular swam in bowls that the horses drunk from. One horse in particular preferred the water that tasted like cat.
If this comes to pass I'll just revert to ways of my youth. I'll spend more times with books and there is no such thing as online communication or SMS or anything.
Not to be snarky, in programming there's rarely (in situations like this) a reason to keep count. Computers are exceptionally good at counting integers so they'd just count individual client id's (however they've implemented that system), not keeping toll on how many clients are in a group chat.
So one client, be it at position zero is a one client group. Add another client at position one and you have two clients and a two person group.
Leave it to the Internet to be the best (and worst) of all.
I'm at best a poser punk but the diy ethos always rung true. That said one of my favourite places online is a local old school punk forum. It's niche enough that with its own problems there's still a community.
In my experience that's kind of what an online community needs to be. Not exclusive, but niche enough. I too used to be on Reddit, got there when the great Digg migration happened. Those days it was small enough to have have a community on some subreddits. Gradually it got the point that when I'd read the article or had a reasonable thought about the question there were 11000 replies and anything worthwhile was already said.
These days Lemmy feels kinda similar to the old Reddit. Maybe things stay the same or maybe they change and there'll be another place I log on.
All that said, what OP posted is profound. What you posted is too.
At work I have to use Windows, Notepad++ is my safe place. It is fast, there's plugins for years, and it handles (with some wait time) 100 000 line long documents.
Me too. To this Day our national Electric invoice standard uses ISO-8859-15. An that's just fine until somebody feels the need to have a look with Notepad, add a random space and save the file.
Notepad then helpfully changes the encoding to UTF-16 and the whole patch errors out somewhere down the chain.
I don't want to be too much of an asshole. In any case, I'd like more Germans being the meme Germans and less of them being the fax using, sending random pictures as Excel files and demanding answer in snail mail.
And yeah, I do work with quite a lot of legacy German industrial machinery. The average German I interact with is quite possibly closer to the end of their career than to the beginning. But on this particular lemming said experience is taxing.
I do live in a bit of a different part of the globe. It is a losing battle here on side of humans. Trees pop up and every year there are less people around.
I like it here, may it make me a hillbilly on a flat ground or not.
My better 3/4 likes to ask me for info on random stuff. I like to ask if they want short or long answer.
I'm old and thus my relationship is old enough to drink. As we met they were using an utterly virus riddled Windows XP install. I suggested alternative and that Debian install has survived a couple decades. Sure, I'll do anything major like hardware changes but mostly it has just been easy living. For most people working browser, some sort of office package and an image editor is plenty. Linux has been ready for that for a long time.
If Debian has to be something on four wheels it'll be a lorry. Something that does nothing fancy but absolutely essential and is doing alright thank you very much.
What I really don't get with tankies is their reverence of Russia. Their history can be summarized like so: and then everything took a change for the worse. To this day Russia is an empire where white people use colonized people to die for bits of field in parts they already starved in 1932-1933.
That's pretty much the problem. You know how to work around the issue. I know how to work around the issue. Institutional knowledge doesn't and just opens the application just like they've always done. I resolved this one by associating .csv files with Notepad++ company wide. Now this is a mandated change so they'll grumble and get on track.
The real issue I have with all this is changing data without consent. It's like the new Notepad is malware all by itself, doesn't even need remote exploits.
And hello fellow Linux user :)
As I'm in no position to demand company wide switch to a sane operating system I'm constantly in awe of new and innovative ways Microsoft has managed to make my day suck. One such thing is that they have decided that Win 11 Notepad will convert everything it touches to UTF-16. That's kind of a problem when an external system expects ISO-8859-15 and users have decades of experience in editing said config files with Notepad.
In like to go for a walk. I happen to live in a rapidly emptying part of rural Finland. Here we have freedom to roam so all the forests are open to explore. I've been in places nobody else has seen in decades. I love it.
+1 to this one. I cut my teeth writing boring in house business software, some 15 years of that. Time went on and the company started to automate, so as the in house software guy I ended up messing with various pieces of industrial automation. It has been interesting, I've learned a lot and coming from outside sometimes I can think non conventional approach to a problem.
Oh, and find a laptop with real RS-232 -port. Protect it with your life.
I know running Gentoo is labour intensive and for the most part unnecessary. Something still draws me back and every now and then there's a fresh install.
I live in the countryside and my better 3/4 has always had horses. We've had many cats at the stable and one in particular swam in bowls that the horses drunk from. One horse in particular preferred the water that tasted like cat.
Quite a few of them/we/us end up in thrift shop/second hand/army overflow.
That makes it so very frustrating when one tries to determine if somebody is a nazi or an elder goth.
If this comes to pass I'll just revert to ways of my youth. I'll spend more times with books and there is no such thing as online communication or SMS or anything.
I do what I can to not have that future.
Not to be snarky, in programming there's rarely (in situations like this) a reason to keep count. Computers are exceptionally good at counting integers so they'd just count individual client id's (however they've implemented that system), not keeping toll on how many clients are in a group chat.
So one client, be it at position zero is a one client group. Add another client at position one and you have two clients and a two person group.
All joking aside I've just scrolled random amount on scrolling ones and just hit 'end' on dropdowns for decades.
Anything that really needs my actual birthday has a proper method of authenticating who I am.
Leave it to the Internet to be the best (and worst) of all.
I'm at best a poser punk but the diy ethos always rung true. That said one of my favourite places online is a local old school punk forum. It's niche enough that with its own problems there's still a community.
In my experience that's kind of what an online community needs to be. Not exclusive, but niche enough. I too used to be on Reddit, got there when the great Digg migration happened. Those days it was small enough to have have a community on some subreddits. Gradually it got the point that when I'd read the article or had a reasonable thought about the question there were 11000 replies and anything worthwhile was already said.
These days Lemmy feels kinda similar to the old Reddit. Maybe things stay the same or maybe they change and there'll be another place I log on.
All that said, what OP posted is profound. What you posted is too.
At work I have to use Windows, Notepad++ is my safe place. It is fast, there's plugins for years, and it handles (with some wait time) 100 000 line long documents.
Me too. To this Day our national Electric invoice standard uses ISO-8859-15. An that's just fine until somebody feels the need to have a look with Notepad, add a random space and save the file.
Notepad then helpfully changes the encoding to UTF-16 and the whole patch errors out somewhere down the chain.
I don't want to be too much of an asshole. In any case, I'd like more Germans being the meme Germans and less of them being the fax using, sending random pictures as Excel files and demanding answer in snail mail.
And yeah, I do work with quite a lot of legacy German industrial machinery. The average German I interact with is quite possibly closer to the end of their career than to the beginning. But on this particular lemming said experience is taxing.
I do live in a bit of a different part of the globe. It is a losing battle here on side of humans. Trees pop up and every year there are less people around.
I like it here, may it make me a hillbilly on a flat ground or not.
It's not like Finland is a perfect country. It's just least shit one.