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  • Graphene vs LineageOS what's the diff?

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  • I have been dancing around taking the plunge into GrapheneOS -- I have a pixel. Glad to hear you say this, bc it gives me confidence that I could move to it and not lose absolutely all the apps I have become accustomed to. There exists a list of apps that are compatible once de-googled (un play-protected), right? Also, I saw you mentioned that graphene can sandbox google play?

  • What was the last skill you learned and how?

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  • I joined a climbing gym after learning how to climb, belay and rappel for a week. I love learning knots, so that's fun, but also all the terminology and techniques. Plus there's a whole social aspect to it (climbers tend to be pretty friendly). Turning out to be a healthy and exciting new hobby!

    Also @fool I remember learning to whistle as a kid--my dad was slightly annoyed he had shown me how to do it because I wouldn't stop whistling the main themes from Indiana Jones and Star Wars

  • Best online 1on1 tutoring platform to learn programming under supervision

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  • I'm glad to see this is still around: https://exercism.org/

    helped me learn when I was starting out 7-8 years ago

  • The risks of downloading music at home with wifi

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  • What are your favorite open-source games?

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  • Endless Sky for me

  • Looking for some Android apps

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  • Neovim Is a highly customizable, modal text editor program. Probably no what you're looking for as far as terninal emulators go, but I use it daily as a near-IDE on desktop. Look into LazyVim for an easy way to get started.

    I can second KDE connect--use it between my phone and Manjaro. Can't speak to the other applications because I don't have a use-case for many of their functions on a smart phone myself.

  • Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork lie exposed!

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  • Am I one of the few who just doesn't use AI at all? I don't have to generate tons of code for work at the moment and brand new projects that I've been given are small--meaning I wouldn't necessarily use it to generate starter boilerplate. I have coworkers that love copilot or spend much longer prompting ChatGPT than they would if they wrote code themselves. A majority of my time is spent modelling the problem, gathering rejuirements, researching others' solutions online (likely this step could be better AI-assisted?), not actually implementing a solution in code.

    Anyway, I'm not super anti-AI in software development, and I see where it could be useful. Maybe it just isn't for me yet. The current hype around it as well as the attitude of big-tech exceptionalism ("AI can salve all our problems") feels a bit like a bubble, at least regarding the current generation of LLMs and ML

  • In what ways has your use of technology/internet changed in 2023?

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    • I turned my old desktop into a home server, which let me cancel some streaming services.. and I set up an rpi4 as a kodi server.
    • Signed up for Firefox Relay (had a holiday sale) to have email masks and a proxy phone number, which should help with spam & marketing crap.
    • Stopped using Reddit in favor of lemmy (which I hope to contribute to this year)
    • Gonna have to find a replacement for mint, since it's dying this month