It’s about as dangerous as using IE in the old days, or Edge in administrator mode.

The best place to start is talking to people you know and checking if they have the in with any good jobs. Then if that doesn’t work, apply directly for jobs you find by checking with individual companies, ideally speaking with the hiring manager first. Jobs listed on job boards are really difficult to get. You’re up against everyone, and they have filters that accidentally discard a lot of qualified candidates.

I wasn’t aware there was such a setting. Thanks

I just use a hand held padded velvet brush type thing, with some cleaning spray. You can actually wash them with soapy water and a rag if they’re really bad, just make sure to rinse all the soap off. They sell special spinner things that wash with a solution along the bottom, so you don’t accidentally get the labels wet, but those are more money than I wanted to spend. For records that I purchased new, I use the padded thing. For old vintage records I get at the thrift store, I rinse them with water and wipe them down along the grooves with a dusting rag, then just use the padded thing. I clean them every time I pull them out, before playing them. Some old records still pop every now and then, which I attribute to record damage, not anything wrong with my system. I kind of dig it, since it adds to the charm.

Have you cleaned the records? That’s where you will see the biggest improvement. Beyond that I can recommend a rubber record mat. You can pick one up on Amazon for $10-$20.

Nor do you want them. Windows 10 was pretty amazing when it was released, but now it’s essentially just adware and spyware. They’ve added no new features for the benefit of the consumer, and have added thousands of changes for their snooping and ad-serving.

Why are you using Windows for BG3? I’ve been using Pop!_OS and it runs perfectly.

If you’re a senior engineer, then you should have a team of juniors doing most of the coding. Your job is to architect, peer review, meet with stakeholders, etc… At least that has been my experience. Unless you are on one of those small teams with all senior engineers and then you have to do all of the above, and the coding too. I’ve had that experience as well.

Steam Deck runs on Arch, so 100% of your gaming was on Linux! I haven’t opened Windows for gaming in about a year. It’s rad!

Yup. That plus steal all your contacts and anything else they can get direct or indirect permissions for.

Definitely! I work at a computer 8-10 hours per day, 5 days a week. The last thing I want to do when I’m done working is sit at computer some more. I do almost all of my browsing on my phone. Firefox Mobile Nightly, plus NextDNS, plus Nord VPN, plus uBlock origin, plus a fake user agent string. I’m pretty secure on my phone.

“Here’s a website that you needed to install on your phone to see!”

You can help yourself a lot here by making commits every time you make a meaningful change. A feature doesn’t need to be complete to commit major checkpoints along the path to completion. That’s what feature branches are for. Commit often. It’ll help you think of messages, and it’ll help you recover in the case of catastrophe.

Thanks! That helps a lot.

Thanks for the response. Preview, as in a sample that gives you enough of the book to make a judgement on it?

There’s a bigger issue than your commit message if you don’t even know what you just coded and are committing.

What is the Kobo store experience like? I’ve been thinking about replacing my Kindle with one for a while now. But I often finish books in bed and download the next in the series without getting up. The idea of getting up in the middle of the night to side load stuff doesn’t sound very appealing, nor does having to always buy books ahead of time to have them ready. On that note, can you download demo books from the Kobo store to see if you like them before buying?

Newpipe. Newpipe. Newpipe!

Code comments are useful for browsing a script and understanding it at a glance. I shouldn’t have to scroll up and down across 700 lines of code to figure out what’s happening. It’s especially useful with intellisense, since I can just hover over a function and get a tooltip showing the comment, explaining what it does. It also helps when using functions imported from other files, since it’ll populate the comment showing me what parameters are needed and what each should be. Comments save time, and time is valuable.

Also free as in beer.