f4stjack

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by f4stjack 21d ago
The problem is, google is an advertising company now the "ad-blocking makes all content free" is a temporary argument at best. At any rate, I like Nebula's curated content better than the ai-slop/clickbait slop Youtube p
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by f4stjack 3mo ago
Something obvious to others may not be obvious to you - and to be fair it was a key ingredient in blogging. I find it extremely sad that blogging shifted from personal writing to a performative act - we can feel ashamed stating something ob
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by f4stjack 3mo ago
The problem lies with people trying to claim credit without doing the work: writing. AI is a fantastic tool that catches flow errors, grammar problems and punctuation misuse, just like a copywriter. But copywriters don't get bylines. M
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by f4stjack 3mo ago
Yes. Exactly. I, for one, am following this credo: If your single player game has an “always online” clause; I am not your customer. No ifs, no buts, no “but i like this franchise”s. Vote with your wallet. Do not hesitate to boycott.
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by f4stjack 3mo ago
Nerds became an industry field - that's what it happened. Back in the 90'ies we were doing IT things because it geniunely interested us, not that it would "net us high salaries". I'd do this even if you didn't
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by f4stjack 3mo ago
Yes, you can but then if you have any older software in your system (for company reasons) will not play ball. And it is a workaround, not a permanent solution. Because we still do not have that fabled WinFS so...
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by f4stjack 3mo ago
The best thing you can do with an enterprise Onedrive is having long long file and folder names. The moment it exceeds 255 characters, the software application dies. I am ready to hear easier fixes but so far this worked: - Rename the offen
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by f4stjack 4mo ago
Just a small note about fastmail: Do not launch a trial with your planned username. Because I have opened up a trial account, it expired and when I decided to reactivate it (with payment in mind) I find myself unable to sign in. I cannot re
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by f4stjack 4mo ago
Well, I have created several assistants for writing checks, the researcher module is really good and am using it when the need is there. It is expensive but the chained search queries it does is extensive and solves my problems so... that b
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by f4stjack 4mo ago
Google does not hate us... it is worse than that - it is indifferent to us. Hate requires some sort of recognition. I mean this single incident may not mean anything but overall google is heading to an _interesting_ place. In short, it was
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by f4stjack 8mo ago
As technical people we tend to have a technical outlook to this. However, after a certain threshold - say $1M - these projects become political things rather than a simple technical issue. From a creator's standpoint, a software projec
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by f4stjack 9mo ago
This may be an unpopular opinion but I feel Bazzite (and immutable distros in general) is the future for the normal users. Yes I know, they take the freedom of messing with the system core but for most people this is fine. All they need is
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by f4stjack 1y ago
To be honest, I do not understand this new norm. A few months ago I applied to an internal position. I was a NGO IT worker, deployed twice to emergency response operations, knew the policies & operations and had good relations with user
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by f4stjack 1y ago
Ta! Heard about them but will definitely check them out.
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by f4stjack 1y ago
Agreed. Time and time again, I wished I'd knew Ruby and/or RoR. Do you know any good (and "boring" as in time-tested & practical) tutorials/learning resources?
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by f4stjack 2y ago
thank you!
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by f4stjack 2y ago
Holy… I still miss kuro5hin. Wonder what is rusty doing nowadays.
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by f4stjack 2y ago
Preach brother. I am in the same boat but in the caring side of things. I read e-mails, I respond to them as promptly as I can. I read the tickets and contact the users to resolve their issues as quickly as I can. I attend to meetings, do t
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by f4stjack 2y ago
With W11, they seem to really gung-ho about creating that achilles heel. As for myself I am tired from having an unstable OS on my devices which may or may not bork without any intervention from me. Thanks to this (and Steam Deck for a grea
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by f4stjack 2y ago
For me, Agile is a good idea implemented badly and subverted by the "business people" to hell and back. Without going into details, I find its core methodology cool. - You meet with the client, get an overview of the project - Cob
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Google Support Disappoints
3 points by f4stjack 2y ago|0 comments
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by f4stjack 3y ago
To be honest after switching to Pop_OS! several years ago I have no regrets. The system just _works_. And curiously enough, even though it should be as same as Ubuntu, Ubuntu does not work as seamlessly as this distro. Bluetooth, for exampl
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by f4stjack 3y ago
All these might have been true for Windows 10, but with Windows 11 all the things you mentioned are my daily woes. W11 suddenly "upgrades" the video driver and explorer crashes; updates bios and camera borks. With Linux I have the
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by f4stjack 4y ago
From my experience, Microsoft wants you to move to a Microsoft 365 subscription. As an example, 6-7 months ago an update made Outlook 2016 clients fail to connect to the Outlook servers. You had to explicitly set an update (its KB escapes m
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by f4stjack 4y ago
https://poolsuite.net/ to capture those nineties feeling for a sec or two...
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by f4stjack 5y ago
Maybe so, but his previous company's attitude is sticking out like a sore thumb it overshadows the focus you saw...
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by f4stjack 5y ago
Kevin I am sorry but you are not the one that is fault at here. There are several red flags but most noticably your ex firm lacks accountability. You shouldn't be hired with an impulsive decision, there shouldn't be closed doors d
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by f4stjack 5y ago
Unsurprisingly this will be an anecdotal advice but here goes: Find a new job that nobody expects you to code. I know, it sounds hard - especially if your whole career is dedicated to one thing - but you probably have picked up other skills
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by f4stjack 5y ago
Just installed Zorin's lite version to an Aspire One with Atom CPU and 1gb of ram. Works like a dream for a machine that's ancient for our standards. Some aspire specific tweaks were required but all in all replacing the mechanic
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by f4stjack 6y ago
Holy crap, I've seen myself in the op here. I used to love coding, owned a c64 and wrote games and other small utilities when I was only a toddler armed with the "programming guide" that came with the ol' breadbox. After

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