And I always anticipate an “unexpected” crash that almost never happens. Even in shows where it would never happen.

ChatGPT has been spot on for my DDLs. I was working on a personal project and was feeling really lazy about setting up a postgres schema. I said I wanted a postgres DDL and just described the application in detail and it responded with pretty much what I would have done (maybe better) with perfect relationships between tables and solid naming conventions with very little work for me to do on it. I love it for more boilerplate stuff or sorta like you said just getting me going. Super complicated code usually doesn’t work perfectly but I always use it for my DDLs now and similar now.

The real problem is when people don’t realize something is wrong and then get frustrated by the bugs. Though I guess that’s a great learning opportunity on its own.

Pictures you can hear.

It was also one of the only (that I can remember aside from maybe SUSE - maaaybe Slack?) actually putting their distro in stores back in the 90s. I was a middle schooler and used Christmas money to buy RedHat at Best Buy (I had no idea what I was doing) because I thought it was the distro to get. I can’t remember a single other distro more synonymously associated with Linux than RedHat because they were marketed hard and were widely available for purchase which I’m guessing made them at least appear more legitimate to new Linux consumer and business adopters.

Finally. My low sensitivity for gaming is about to pay off.

“Did you see that email?”

“My cursor is on its way to check”

This might be my favorite joke here yet. Best part is it’s not really even a joke.

Yeah the local thing is something I’d like to see working properly because I mostly used Reddit and now Lemmy for software/tech discourse since Reddit replaced IRC for me like 15yrs ago haha. I expected to only see stuff specifically relating to that via my local programming.dev instance but I’m getting more of a catch-all in there currently. Maybe I need to clear the app’s cache or something.

I’ll try the scaled sort, it seems to be the popular opinion here. Thank you!

Edit: I’m an idiot. I was confusing the users posting to these local (to me) communities with their home instance tags aka uhn0id@programming.dev or someUser@lemmy.world as the instances I was seeing. So if I saw a post by someUser@lemmy.world then I was incorrectly interpreting that as a post on lemmy.world. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Thank you for this! I’ve used Boost for Reddit for years so you’d think I would have thought about this already haha. I really appreciate the thorough walkthrough! Hopefully it helps more people than just me!

I have no idea why I didn’t think to adjust the sort and just relied on the category itself. Ugh. Thanks for pointing that out haha.

Any idea about the local category showing communities from non-local instances? Do you experience the same thing?

Ultimately privacy is part of security so, if anything, everything you mentioned is just more reinforcements that this is a major security concern.

As someone that has been obsessed with tech since being a kid in the 90s I think the tech side of this is super cool and very exciting stuff. As a user, though, I only like this if I’m the one implementing and using it. I do not trust a mega corporation (or really any company) to “leave it locally on my computer and totally not use that data for other purposes”. Right now it’s supposed to be (as far as I last heard) only on your machine but we’ve seen EULAs and TOS’ etc change many times over the years but especially over more recent years as data continues to be king and data like this is a literal bottomless diamond mine.

I know this isn’t your point but it’s just worries I have in addition to your points. And let’s not even start about what this means for law enforcement abuse. No thanks, I’ll wait for a FOSS equivalent that at least gives me and the community the opportunity to evaluate how it works.

Rad. Thank you. Working on my switch to Firefox today. Between this noscript stuff and learning about styling Firefox with CSS I’m absolutely sold on the switch and no longer dread the process of ditching Chrome (mostly due to familiarity than anything else).

Thanks for the info!

How did I never know about this? This might make me switch to Firefox sooner than planned. Thanks for sharing!

Would noscript allow you to block things like when a site packs your history with their website making it impossible to back out to the page you came from? How does it work considering so many sites now are built with JavaScript libraries like React?

Got my new Thinkpad T14S yesterday and immediately installed Linux Mint. I refuse to give in to the Windows 11 pressure.