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Information Technology major with a focus on cyber security and digital forensics at the University of North Texas.

Currently webmaster for the Cyber Security Club at UNT.

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Yeah, do people really want no supervision on employees handling their PII or other sensitive info? I think I would be upset if I found out my info was not even being attempted to be protected while in an employees possession.

Valve Steam Deck 5 years ago

They take a bigger cut then most other digital store fronts and they have a history of using the loyalty of fans to do unpaid work such as translations and perform the majority of moderation on Steam.

There's a big difference between a personal cell phone that you use every day of your life and might be your only computer and is advertised as such and an entertainment console.

That said I agree and think Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft should have to open up their platforms for side loading.

Paint.net is still one of the very first things I install on a fresh Windows install. It's simple to use but provides enough depth if you want it without feeling overwhelming on opening. Gimps interface has come a long way but it's still not as user friendly as paint.net I feel.

My thoughts exactly, if you're holding yourself to commit every single day your commits are probably not meaningful or are so broken up that reading your repos history is a nightmare.

Just because you can commit every day means absolutely nothing if the commits are garbage.

That's kinda what a C# .NET winforms project is. The WYSIWYG editor is pretty easy and the basics are pretty well documented for all the premade widgets that I feel like anyone who just needs to make a one off util program won't have much trouble.

Had a similar experience with gunpla. I put together a few model kits as a kid and liked it up until it was time to paint, glue and apply decals so I assumed model making outside of Lego was not for me.

Fast forward to mid twenties and someone on a podcast mentions how fun gunpla is because it's model making but it is only as complicated as you want to make it. So I bought a basic RX-78 for about $10 on Amazon and found it to be an incredibly relaxing hobby. I've now got my roommate into it and we're looking at putting together a portable painting booth so we can try our hand at custom paint jobs.

If the idea of assembling mecha that do not require glue, paint, and minimal stickers (i actually don't bother unless it's a larger one) sounds appealing it's worth picking up an HG set on Amazon and some snips (there's some $10 starter sets of tools out there that are decent).

Personally I would recommend Brother every time for a printer. They're not fancy but they are well built and don't require you to install a software suite. Roommate and I are still using the same laser printer from college. It's not wireless but if we really wanted to we could attach a pi and setup a printer pool but for now a long cable serves us just fine for the few times we need to print.

Excel is much more limited in the browser compared to the desktop app.

Conditional formatting for example can not use formulas in the online version.

The browser version is good but it's not at the same level as the desktop or even Google sheets yet.

But those aren't free necessarily and they're detached from one another. The thing that's attractive about Reddit is:

1. It's free 2. It's all under one site so it's easier for people to find a new community to join 3. You only need one account and it doesn't require an email address so if you have a one off woodworking question you can ask it without having to register on a new forum

Websites are great for displaying information but they are not ideal for discussion

They spent their time working on a project that they enjoyed, successfully completed, and ended up with 40 customers. I would not call that a waste of time at all. Even if it dies off in 6 months it's a great learning experience and the kind of thing that's great to talk about with a hiring manager.

It actually was a major issue for Valve with TF2. It used to be you could run the game headless and have it join a server to idle farm items for you. In college my roommate and I each bought about 3 copies of the game then ran them headless in VMs to try and farm hats. Never got anything super great sadly.

If you've ever put your resume up on a site like indeed, monster, etc. Then it's definitely been scooped up and put in a billion different job search engines.

But maybe you're fortunate enough to have avoided that mess.

Thats kinda of what Mastodon is isn't? People are free to spin up their own communities with their own rules.

Everyone complains about Twitter but when alternatives are presented that gives them the power to do what they are asking for no one wants to try them.

You can pause patreon campaigns. If you're open about your work life balance and how you need to take a month off from the project I think most people will understand that.