jdnenej

22 ms·

181.
by jdnenej 7y ago
During the summer here I was cycling in at 30c just fine. Yes you get a bit sweaty but that's hardly an issue. I think people just need to harden up a bit and bring a change of clothes
182.
by jdnenej 7y ago
It's the result of a lifetime of marketing and consumerism. How could you possibly be happy if you aren't buying something new constantly?
183.
by jdnenej 7y ago
They all do for fire safety.
184.
by jdnenej 7y ago
That depends on the current price of petrol which changes often.
185.
by jdnenej 7y ago
I have never seen a toaster just randomly break. I have had 2 toasters in my life. The first one broke because someone attempted to clean it and after that it would trip the ground power breaker on use. The second one has been working for a
186.
by jdnenej 7y ago
It's a little hard to do for some devices but I often look for older devices that people have been using heavily for many years and still work. I check the internet to see what the most common failure points are and how to fix those fa
187.
by jdnenej 7y ago
It's possible to have sandboxing and convenience. Programs just need to change the apis they use. Rather than expecting to have access to everything on the system programs can just request the OS file picker API and get the user to sel
188.
by jdnenej 7y ago
In places without proper internet access it's common for phone stores to host their own fdroid repos on the local network to set people up with apps.
189.
by jdnenej 7y ago
Absolutely not. It's an outdated concept from the days where all the software you run was either preinstalled or you created it yourself and the only security consideration was stopping you from messing up another users setup on the sh
190.
by jdnenej 7y ago
The vast majority of real world programming isn't math or algorithms. It's knowing that your framework has all of these algorithms built in already and knowing how to utilise them instead of rebuilding everything from scratch.
191.
by jdnenej 7y ago
There is unlimited meaningful work available that doesn't generate much real profit. You can easily perform music on the street which others enjoy but you won't make a lot of money. You can easily learn crafts to create things for
192.
by jdnenej 7y ago
Because enterprises take it for free. The way you can prevent this is to use AGPL licensing and charge money to use it under a comersial license. The problem is now no one uses your software because there are endless amounts of more permis
193.
by jdnenej 7y ago
You can not make money selling software to people who have $0 budget to buy it. Sell software to enterprises and give it away for free for OSS side projects.
194.
by jdnenej 7y ago
If we are factoring in imaginary future tech then someone could invent carbon neutral trains
195.
by jdnenej 7y ago
Software costs nothing to replicate. It's more advantageous to give hobbyists your software for free since they will not pay for any software and you can at least use them to make your software more popular.
196.
by jdnenej 7y ago
That does nothing about the fact that flying is destroying our environment and emits greenhouse gas emissions 2 orders of magnitude over the same trip by train.
197.
by jdnenej 7y ago
"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make"
198.
by jdnenej 7y ago
IP theft does not exist. IP is an invalid concept and can not exist in a free society.
199.
by jdnenej 7y ago
Fit in your pocket
200.
by jdnenej 7y ago
Most raw meat smells disgusting.
201.
by jdnenej 7y ago
The thing is if you always sit a year or 2 behind the cutting edge you still get to treat yourself because every upgrade is a huge jump in technology from what you had before. Unless you are comparing yourself to others it really doesn&#x27
202.
by jdnenej 7y ago
If I continued with uni I would have had to learn all the stuff I learned in the years of working full time as a developer. I'm not convinced you learn any faster at uni than you do on the job. Uni seems like a good way to get started
203.
by jdnenej 7y ago
I did one year of uni and found it to be too slow paced and overly pedantic about meaningless rubbish. I decided to just apply for a job since I already know programming pretty well and I got the job and things have been going pretty well e
204.
by jdnenej 7y ago
It's a really nasty dark pattern. Most users won't realise they have to disconnect from the internet to sign up and will fall for Microsoft's trap.
205.
by jdnenej 7y ago
You can with encryption and not using face unlock.
206.
by jdnenej 7y ago
There is none. Microplastics are in absolutely everything now. They recently found plastic in falling snow.
207.
by jdnenej 7y ago
Stallman has a post about how he refuses to use the word they because it's not traditionally correct English and has choses to invent his own word "per" to refer to someone without specifying gender. This seems acceptable to
208.
by jdnenej 7y ago
The person he told it to reported him so clearly it wasn't received as a joke.
209.
by jdnenej 7y ago
I attempted to repair a coffee machine that had a short that left a black burn on the PCB. Replaced the parts around it and it still wouldn't turn on. Likely the power surge destroyed a lot of things.
210.
by jdnenej 7y ago
I have seen videos of people buying in batches of broken game consoles and replacing USB connectors and charge controllers since they often break and are not too hard to replace with the right tools. I also spoke to someone from Russia who

More ›