I know we’re here for the joke, but can I be real for a minute:

There is absolutely no reason to have read receipts on and everyone should turn them off. You gain nothing from seeing someone has seen a message. You want a reply…wait for a reply. You gain absolutely nothing from letting others know you’ve seen a message. Try turning off read receipts for a little while. I guarantee your life will be better and you may never turn them on again.

The only exception is my wife. I find it useful to know she’s seen the shopping list I’ve sent her, even if she didn’t get a chance to reply. But then again, she’s the only one I’ve convinced to use Signal, so she’s in a separate app and I can keep read receipts on just for her.

Pro level next step:

Try turning off notifications. Put messaging app notifications to silent, minimised and never on lock screen. If there’s something urgent then someone will phone up. We all check our phones often enough to see the message badge soon enough. Silencing the endless pings of alerts will give you a serenity you may have never experienced before. Try it.

The definition is important and leads to different solutions. Meaningless work can be because of a bullshit job or because of work alienation.

I don’t know about the industry specifically, but learning and applying the knowledge takes a certain number of work hours. This is good advice to start putting in hours. OP is asking if there are shortcuts. You can optimise to get the most out of your time, but there’s really no way around having to put in the hours. His fate will depend on what assessment/sign-off involves and how soon it will be.

I never replay games (except for roguelites which are obviously intended to be played repeatedly); but I’ve replayed Hollow Knight twice and it’s been pure joy each time.

Yes, it’s like Reddit. But you’ve got a much much smaller population. And it attracts a certain type, you have to have a certain minimum tech aptitude to be able to figure out the fediverse.

You won’t find anywhere near as much content here, and no niche content. You need to browse “all” and will run out of fresh content if you spend too much time doom scrolling. But it’s still good and worth checking out.

I’ve recently got a new Retroid Pocket 5 and I’ve finished setting up all the emulators. Now I’m playing bits of all sorts of games trying them out on this amazing screen.

PSP is a particular highlight on this console and my regular games currently are Rock Band Unplugged, Blast Off and Tony Hawks Underground 2.

Depends on how you are using your scale.

1. One way is to quantify how much knowledge do you have right now. This might be average or low or whatever. This doesnt matter at all.

2. The better way is to think about your willingness to learn and try with confidence. This is what you should actually put on a scale.

My existing knowledge is better than average. I’ve spent the last 2 years learning to put together some hardware (NAS/server, custom keyboard from scratch, hitbox videogame controller) and using more software (Linux basics, Docker and server basics, emulators, etc). I’m still probably way behind the tech professionals who are on Lemmy, but I would say my willingness to learn and try is very very high and that’s more than enough for an enthusiast and hobbyist.

Also worth considering benchmarking against the general population rather than Lemmy’s tech community. The general public mostly hasn’t even heard of the Steam Deck or Linux, and certainly can’t manage anything beyond pressing the install button in an app store. Compared the the general public, my wife thinks I’m a literal wizard for having an email address with my own domain and being able to access a remote desktop.

This?

FYI, anyone in your family who has done this “for a bit of fun”, has just given their whole genome sequence away for however this company sees fit to use or sell (which can include other companies they sell this info to in the future, or any government or law enforcement agency that gets access to this in the future).

Anyone in your family who has given away their genetic info like this, has indirectly given away parts of your genetic information too without your consent.

The RTS genre is sorely lacking. Even if they don’t make a successor to the competitive multiplayer success of SC2, I would be happy with a good campaign.

Meme is actually just a single unit of information.

The way the image macro jokes are made now have come about from the way social media is laid out and needing quick consumption. They’re aldo easily made by anyone. Otherwise there was a time when Flash videos were the preferred medium for internet jokes.

Tom Nichols did a good video on an unrelated subject, but he covers a good and relevant point. That communities want to clarify who is part of the “in-crowd” and who is not. This is a role that inside jokes have always had. If you’re part of a group, then you have inside jokes that no one else understands, and there’s a feeling of community in that. Memes do this. My wife sees me laughing and asks why; then I find it difficult to explain 3 layers of reference in a meme (you have to know about the videogame and the political issue they’re referencing, as well as the fact that the meme is a variation of another meme…try explaining a derivative of a derivative of a “loss” meme and why that’s funny and why this story of miscarriage is funny).

Similarly the jokes look to exclude the undesirables. Boomer conservative memes do really well on Facebook and have no value in youth and liberal spaces. People do a lot of virtue signalling and display of values through memes.

We all love our memes, but essentially they’re all a bunch of dumb inside jokes. And the deeper you get inside a community, the more convoluted and weird the jokes get.

For home LAN use on the Steam Deck, the built in Steam streaming is very usable now and much much better than it used to be.

Shit, I thought I found a messiah who would teach me the ways.

Graphene OS on your phone? Or a dumb phone?

No internet connected TV device?

Modern cars also have an embedded sim card that’s reporting back data.

Any other “smart devices” in the house?

It’s possible, but difficult to avoid surveillance capitalism… Teach me how.

John Deere? Is that you?

“I’ve been watching you from over there, and was wondering whether to come up to you to talk, but I couldn’t help myself… So I’ve come to tell you your squat form is terrible and you’ve taken over half an hour here doing your non-exercise. Give someone else a chance on the squat rack.”

Now suck it!

Noob opinion: they’re all the same, you’re just choosing from the minor differences in the quirks one has over another and it would be easy enough to work around those if you were motivated to.

The real difference is the DE, how quickly updates are pushed, good GUI on a package manager and if it is immutable or not.

For noobs like me it also helps if it has a lot of users so I can find forum posts about my specific problem. Vetrans keep saying that online documentation is enough, but I wouldn’t even know where to start with applying generic instructions to my installation (e.g. how is a wiki going to be able to tell me that my low framerates in Street Fighter 6 are because of split lock protections on my CPU). How would I diagnose the problem to know where to look? This is the major appeal of Debian based systems.

You’re not screwed. Depends on how much you enjoy tinkering and troubleshooting.

My main advice would be to keep your data backed up and completely disconnected from the PC. And make sure your machine is not critical (i.e. for working from home or something). Other than that you do what you want. If you want to dive deep in Arch then that’s fine.

One thing to know is that the important part relevant to you is: the desktop environment (KDE) and the Linux distro (Arch) are different things. The far more important thing for you is to have KDE… the distro underneath just needs to not get in the way.

If you’ve got Arch up and running then stick with it until it gives you trouble. I naturally ended up distro hopping in the beginning because I would catastrophically break something I couldn’t repair and could change distros naturally when reinstalling.

Good options for easy distros with KDE would be:

1. Tuxedo OS (or Kubuntu) - easiest and there’s lots of support online.

2. Fredora - rock solid and highly recommend. Although I would recommend OpenSUSE Tumbleweed instead, this got me hooked on Linux and was the least problematic for a bleeding edge updated distro, where I happily used Discover for installing and updating.

3. CachyOS - good option for sticking with Arch.

I personally consider the risk of being robbed to be very very low in my city/country. And if it’s the kind of person who would rob you, then I don’t think that will change on the basis of how you respond.