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Valid point, I did exactly that before getting on to omarchy on the laptop and cachyos on the pc. Ran my own arch config for about 2 years but got tired of maintaining. Plus wanted a bit more developer centric ready dotfiles and omarchy is doing that really well.

I understand what you mean and I've tried a few but haven't found something that's out of the box geared to dev the way Omarchy is, hence kept at it. Will keep an eye out in general for alternatives as much as I love Omarchy.

but isn't this open source? where is the capitalist marketing angle coming in with the distro? minus the automatic basecamp setup which is one command uninstall away, no?

you can take the distro and leave the person's views out.

interesting - how have you managed to deal with those? especially the fuzzy brain syndrome? has it also affected how performance and reporting is perceived by the managers? since moving goalposts and unclear agendas would also mean that it would affect performance in reports and project reviews

Since the face is smiling, maybe there can be a bit of leeway for their response times :p

I guess another way to think about lead time in open source might be to gauge the overall project health: more active and engaged community that is. What do you think??

yea totally, in fact I felt these smaller creators have a great aesthetic to their videos - much slower than your usual heavily edited videos :)

Interesting read, I noticed the mention of very high cycle times, can an AI manager really speed up spotting issues with the quality a human engineering manager can? Or is the point that this makes the job much easier as opposed to replacing the EMs?

Thinking about causation versus correlation is crucial!

Makes me wonder, how often do people realize this only after making expensive decisions?

Would be interesting to hear stories from people who have experienced this first hand

any specifics on the marketing activities that you know of? blogs and seo does take time but pr campaigns etc and influencer campaigns can help fastrack that

One way that works moderately well is to mark certain topics as not interested when they are presented and like and watch the other topics for a longer time.

I've used the above to keep my YT landing page relatively clear of things I'm not interested in.

Once in a while it will suggest you a highly popular or interesting off topic item, but yea that is once in a while.

Basically what I'm saying is that we need to train their algorithm to our tastes through watching and marking things as not interested, don't show me this channel etc.

an email client that looks nice - apparently quite popular in youtuber land too lol

was thinking of trying thunderbird - have you tried apple mail app or superhuman as well by any chance?

that's a whole different story too - storage is still manageable but taking up huge chunks of RAM means the daily usage can get affected easily.

Might not exactly be very low level but I really liked the learn c programming by dr. chuck youtube course on freecodecamp youtube

every single time lol - windows 11 in my laptop doesn't and things work well but windows 10 in my older pc does this shit every time.

oh yea also, snap is weirdly slow - almost pulling my hair situation often with apps via snap

I'm just on the edge about to take the leap with Fedora, 40 comes highly recommended for development, machine learning and gaming too in fact which fits my use case perfectly!

Probably going to try going with it over this weekend, fingers crossed!

Ideally I'd like to give at least 2-3 months of use to any OS before discarding it, so yea :)

awesome, arch is way smoother and snappier, just that I was spending more time on playing around that I'd like I guess

yea I'm noticing windows throwing crap over my dual boot setup as well, its a sad state! since also game time to time, I'm still using dual boot

this seems to be the experience of most people with Ubuntu, it works, doesn't break all of a sudden and you still get relatively latest updates

looks okay to me boss

I can suggest 2 things to try, been in similar shoes as yours.

1. Try to look into open source contributions or building a project of your own, start to finish - a project that actually has some real world utility.

This will hopefully get you from a learner to builder mindset and help you showcase something strong and valuable in your portfolio as well.

2. Start attending networking meetups wherever you can - physical meetups and online, both count here.

A strong network is what will really help you land jobs or internships at least - don't shy away from internships or taking a salary cut for the short term.

Whatever salary you get today will not be the salary you will have in a year from now or 2 years from now.

Short term salary cut to get you in the job market is worth the trade - people who get job offers usually are the ones who are already in one(or do not need a new job right away)

The goal is to get you building valuable things and at the same time get in touch with people in the industry while also showcasing your skills as fast as possible - a higher salary will just hinder the speed - get started imo

great book indeed - had a listen to the audiobook :)

this is what I started with - the thinking is exactly that - the overlap will help not start from 0 when I pick the other thing

living the esoteric life that tends to evade us

gem of an advice!

great advice mate! appreciate it

Great point - seems like gotta give up on a few things