[-] js10@reddthat.com 39 points 4 months ago

Perl scripters call ourselves "Superior"

[-] js10@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

So you're just going to call me out like that, huh?

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I'm looking for advice on a privacy friendly fitness tracker. One that doesn't require storing my personal data on a third party site, where I can sync the data locally using an open source program. I do have a PineTime but it doesn't really track metrics and I question the accuracy of the heat rate monitor. FitBit is owned by google, and I don't want an Apple Watch. Any recommendations?

[-] js10@reddthat.com 9 points 8 months ago

Reported: "I'm in this picture and I don't like it"

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I've been a software engineer for 10 years now but want to work with Linux more in a professional setting (not to mention the number of layoffs in the the dev industry has me thinking a backup plan might be a good idea). I have been using Linux exclusively on my personal machine for about 15 years now so I'm not too worried about passing the LFCS but I'm wondering of its worth it. What kind of job opportunities would it open for me? Should I focus more on dev ops? Security? Straight SysAdmin?

[-] js10@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

I'm excited to see what Scott Lawrence can do with the team, Its going to be damn hard to out coach the financial issues USA Rugby has, but he knows the landscape of the sport in the US so I think he can pull it off. Plus I was a bit RATL fan so I'll always be a fan of his.

[-] js10@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

I had a very similar thing happen to me. The oddity was that I had just signed an offer letter with another company the week before and I gave my two weeks notice to my boss, but that message hadn't traveled up the pipe yet. So my one-on-one with a director was basically

Director: "Half you team was let go, but your job is safe!" Me: "Cool. You know I'm leaving next week, right?" Director: awkward blank stares

I really wish I had been laid off. Saved someone else their job and I would have gladly taken that severance pay on the way out the door.

[-] js10@reddthat.com 29 points 11 months ago

So, you should ask yourself, with every decision you make "is this good for the company?"

[-] js10@reddthat.com 21 points 11 months ago

This was just a "team restructuring" but I was scanning the invite list to see if there was a name missing.

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It was to talk about "team restructuring"

[-] js10@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the detailed answer and pointing me towards the Mr. Chromebox tooling. I picked up the used Acer CB3 for $30 and was able to install the custom UEFI firmware and then install Gallium OS without too much hassle. Like you said, not a fancy machine, but hard to beat that price.

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submitted 11 months ago by js10@reddthat.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm looking at picking up a used chromebook for my kid to use after installing a Linux OS on it. So I have two questions that are very related:

Which would be a better one to get: Lenovo S330 or Acer CB3-431. Is one going to be easier to get the OS to run on?

The other question is which distro is going to work the easiest? I have been running Linux exclusively for over a decade on my person computer (Fedora currently) and my phone (PinePhonePro with Debian (well, Mobian anyways)) so I'm very comfortable with Linux in general, but haven't played with this kind of hardware before so I'm not sure what the limitations will be.

[-] js10@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

I fell in love with Gnome 3 when it first came out and havent looked back. I dont miss a taskbar because I just use the keyboard shortcuts to move between workspaces and alt+tab to switch programs. Gnome seems to be more efficient the less you use the mouse which is my preferred M.O. anyways.

[-] js10@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

I started daily driving a PinePhone with Mobian over two years ago, upgraded to a PinePhonePro when they first came out, and then I finally got my Librem5 about a month ago. They have come a long way. The core functions you'd expect from a phone work; calls, texts (SMS and MMS), camera (pictures and video), email, web browsing, all that works perfectly fine on my Librem5. However, I understand they are not for everyone. While there are things like twitter and mastodon clients for Linux you are not going to get a banking app for a Linux phone (for example). I just use the browser for those kinds of things though.

[-] js10@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

Back in college my CS 201 class was on C programing and needed to use the Linux machines in the lab for the class. They were running CentOS. That was my first time using Linux. After that I starting playing around with different distros (Ubuntu and Debian mostly). Then I took a "system administration" class that was really "Linux 101" that was taught by the departments sys-admin who is a Linux Evangelist and they showed me the light. Havent owned a windows or Mac machine since (about 20 years ago now)

[-] js10@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Been on Fedora for about 8 years now. No plans on switching my main PC any time soon although now that Bookworm is released I may switch my home server to Debian.

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