Did you ever use Atom?

I used to had linux mint in an old computer and for some reason the wifi didn’t work.

To me this implies it isn’t their primary computer. It’s not “manipulating and humiliating” someone else. It’s just saying, “you’ve been saying you’d fix this but it hasn’t worked, I need to use this computer for something.”

And no need to feel sorry for my wife. We’ve been together over half our lives, married for over a decade, and extremely happy with each other. My wife has done things like this to me. It’s not toxic or manipulative. Sometimes I overestimate my own skills and/or get distracted with other things.

Why? Imagine your house’s door doesn’t work so you have to make a long trip through the back. You keep asking your partner to fix it. They insist they’ll get the door working. Either they can’t or don’t, doesn’t matter, but you have the money and are willing to pay for someone to fix it. Your partner insists they can fix it. I think it’s reasonable to say something like “if it’s not fixed in two weeks I’m paying someone to fix it.”

It’s like, I get the idea of saying “this user is searching for a program they don’t have, let’s link to it” but then they’re like “oh what if we searched for everything?” and then someone else is was like “And what if we put ads in to monetize it!” Then that last person probably got a bonus.

Don’t forget the child labor aspect. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/09/the-trouble-with-roblox-the-video-game-empire-built-on-child-labour

American here, have heard orders of magnitude more people complaining about vegans than I’ve ever heard vegans complaining.

They keep saying that but those Bitcoins are still in the dump. (I’m aware it’s not comparable since having the drive in hand versus missing is a huge difference. Just a little joke.)

Because it’s cool. When I first made my Lemmy account, I was looking through my computer’s saved images. I had this saved from earlier because it looked so cool. It felt right because federated social media feels like a return to the old web in some ways, prior to the abundance of walled gardens. So a retro logo felt like a cool choice. But it was really just because I saved it when I saw it somewhere so it just happened to be here when I made my account!

The more insane, unlikely, and catastrophic the error, the more appropriate an insane, terse, apocalyptic error message is.

git pull
# you see bullshit
git reset --hard HEAD@{1}
git push --force

Solved! Tell your coworker to make their own branch!

Honestly, yeah. I mean, not the best but I definitely am more in favor of comments being a commentary than explaining what’s happening. Explaining why is better than what, but in general, comments where anything absolutely bonkers is happening are useful. Bare minimum, I think some sort of acknowledgement that the person writing the code also recognized their code was weird (necessarily or not) is nice.

Okay but those glasses actually go so hard.

It has a corrupt form of capitalism.

I AGREE! We must return to a more pure form of capitalism by repealing the Chimney Sweepers Act 1788! Boys younger than eight should be allowed to be apprentices! Master sweeps should be allowed to take them on without getting their parents’ consent, a four year old young man is able to make his own decisions!

Did either of those do banker’s rounding?

This reminds me of a time at work when we got sued. The company was allegedly using (or had copies) of some tool we couldn’t have anymore. Annoying, but fine. However, to check this, they scanned all of our computers for the name of that company. They told us all to delete our entire local Maven repository. Someone who worked there was on the commiter list for a couple of open source projects. I just manually deleted those files because I knew for a fact that our central Maven repository didn’t have some of the versions of our own code on it and I wasn’t confident we wouldn’t need them again. Turns out I was right and needed to grab one later on to upload. Because I manually deleted the files with the company’s name instead of just deleting everything, the scanner thing they were running didn’t detect offending files. (Not that a file listing someone’s email address as a commiter to an open source project should be offending, but still.)

It was a Java project and every class was in a separate Maven module.

And it will be legal to fork it and remove that, yay GPL!

When they’re saying “barely legal 15 year olds” then that’s not the discussion.

This is goofy, I’m not gonna fail a build because somebody used some random Unicode character. That’s draconian.

There are plenty of non ASCII characters that are okay in code. ñ comes to mind. There are also box drawing characters.