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gerryflap

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  • What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?

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  • Wait overmorrow is correct English? We have "morgen" and "overmorgen" in Dutch which is tomorrow and overmorrow respectively, so I always missed an overmorrow in English. Is it actually commonly understood or will people look at me like I'm a weird foreigner when I use it?

  • Wat voor simpele dingen hebben jullie moeite mee?

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  • Uhhhh, en wat doe ja dan na het in tweeën snijden? Uitlepelen?

  • Wat voor simpele dingen hebben jullie moeite mee?

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  • Blijkbaar Sinaasappels pellen. Misschien zijn het gewoon de sinaasappels die ik heb, maar het voelt niet prettig. Nagellak niet kapot willen maken (of in m'n eten willen hebben) helpt hierbij zeker niet.

  • linux or windows?

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  • Oh this is useful information, thanks!

  • linux or windows?

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  • Forgot the number, but one of the most common Logitech ones. Right now I'm not even getting past the first hurdle though, which is getting Assetto Corsa with Content Manager and mods to start. I spent a few hours on it and then decided that I had better things to do with my time

  • linux or windows?

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  • Both. I'd prefer Linux because it respects me as a user, but unfortunately too much stuff constantly breaks to fully convert. The moment I can play Assetto Corsa with all my mods using my wheel in VR I'll consider fully switching. Many other games already work though, so I'm slowly converting to using Linux as my default and Windows as the exception instead of the other way around.

    (I use Arch btw)

  • Off by one solitude

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  • And Julia!

  • About that...

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  • Lemmy generally attracts the same kind of person that would also use Linux. Both of them are open source and community driven alternatives to software otherwise provided by large corporations and milked for every last cent. Both of them require just a bit more knowledge in order to comfortably use them. Linux with all the distro's and desktop environments, Lemmy with all the instances and apps/front-ends. We're very much a bubble here.

  • I redid the meme with what hurts me

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  • I may or may not have done this haha. I'm a threat to any working piece of software, just enough knowledge to be able to break shit and too little knowledge to avoid breaking shit. I think after all these years I've mostly learnt my lesson though. The package manager is the boss, and if I don't like it I have to work around it without upsetting the package manager

  • I redid the meme with what hurts me

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  • Good meme. However I do think that most people starting out will not really have to deal with any of those issues in the first few years apart from maybe the pip/venv/poetry/etc choice. But whatever they'll pick it'll probably work well enough for whatever they're doing. When I started out I didn't use any external libraries apart from pygame (which probably came pre-installed). I programmed in the IDLE editor that came with Python. I have no idea how I functioned that way, but I learnt a lot and hat plenty of fun.

  • What should have hindered you when you were younger but ended up being a positive part of your growth?

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  • I think autism falls onto this category for me. I wasn't diagnosed until my early 20s. It did hold me back and probably made some things way harder than they should be. But likewise it also fuelled my desire to constantly learn new stuff. Especially when I was younger my interests would constantly switch around. My mind was constantly hyper-focused on the few topics that I was interested in at that moment. Anything else was deemed irrelevant.

    This made me struggle with anything that didn't interest me, but I managed to just about get by in those subjects. But more "logic driven" subjects like math, chemistry, physics, and biology would constantly feed me with new interesting information to dive into. Throughout highschool and especially throughout university (Computer Science) this effectively became a way for me to learn without much effort. Whenever something is interesting to me, the information is just absorbed and I'd spend my free time still thinking about it. Many lectures in uni just led to an overwhelming stream of new ideas and as a result to me playing around with the concepts explained to me

    Autism definitely isn't a "super weapon" like some people seem to claim, but certain parts of it can be very useful traits in the education system and beyond.

  • What percentage of phone calls (to your personal phone) do you answer?

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  • All those with a known number attached (or when I'm expecting an unknown call). Probably 70-80%. But I rarely call, maybe like once or twice a month

  • Bread

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  • Either lawful or chaotic neutral depending on whether I can find the clip again. But I doubt it matters since I store it in the freezer and heat the slices I need when I need them.

  • Which one are you reaching for today?

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  • The "Forgetting How Your Own Code Works" is real. I've looked at code, thought to myself "what fcking idiot wrote this garbage", only to see my own name next to it. It's a very humbling experience

  • LINKIN PARK Announces New Lineup, Music And Tour

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  • Emptiness Machine sounds cool. Happy to see they're going again and creating more stuff.

  • Linux Directory Structure - FHS

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  • I was just about to post the same thing. I've been using Linux for almost 10 years. I never really understood the folder layout anyway into this detail. My reasoning always was that /lib was more system-wide and /usr/lib was for stuff installed for me only. That never made sense though, since there is only one /usr and not one for every user. But I never really thought further, I just let it be.

  • after 40 all meals are horror

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  • I also eat pretty much the same breakfast every day. For lunch I can vary what's on the bread and the type of bread. That's just how things are here. It's not the nicest, but it saves a lot of time and money and can also be quite nice

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    What kind of messaging apps do you use?

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  • I try to steer as many people as I know to Signal, but I don't want to be the type of person who accepts no compromise so I also use a bunch of others. Whatsapp is the most common, as pretty much everyone here in the Netherlands uses it. I used to use Telegram, but nowadays I trust it less than Whatsapp and all my Telegram chats have moved to Signal. SMS is only there for backup and older people who don't use other apps. And Discord is there for people who want their messages to never be read, because that app is a dumpster fire that constantly makes me miss messages.

  • after 40 all meals are horror

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  • Here in the Netherlands a lot of people just eat sandwiches. I usually take them with me to work. Not a lot of effort