Job market seems terrible right now, especially if you're just starting out. Had a friend that applied to ~100 jobs in tech, and a majority of them didn't even reply back.
But the same can be said about bad HR as well. How many hiring teams have no idea what a candidate is supposed to be doing?
They do have some matchmaking, at least for hourglass and really early on in your voyages. But those get disregarded as soon as the player pool in your region dries off. Sea of Thieves has had some player retention issues, and the Steam data suggests that the game has been bleeding players for the past 2-3 years. Of course, there are still players on Gamepass and MS store, but I'm expecting those markets have had the same decline.
My crew and I have been put in fights against streamers, day one players, and other sweats when we were just playing casually. It's fun though, and the feeling you get when you beat those kinds of crews is amazing. However, when you lose, it's really annoying because you can't just hop back into the action (as I mentioned above, 30 mins of resupplying). Rare could have made some really nice game modes like Arena, for example using the Sea Dogs Tavern as a TDM point (i.e., a sort of king of the hill, or capture the flag), 4-5 smaller ships against a bigger crew manning the Black Pearl, and perhaps more to pack in a rotating game mode. That would have solved some of the issues the PvP community is facing, and adventure mode would have been a bit fresher.
Regardless, I wouldn't worry too much about this if you're just starting out. You'll learn lots of things from crews that have been sailing the seas for longer :D If you're having trouble though and you're from Europe, we have a discord of chill people that play during the weekends. We'll gladly give you a hand :)
Got me a dedicated crew I play with, for the past 3-4 years or so. The game has been stale for us for a while this year, but it seems it's getting better.
PvP problems have been getting better lately, with hitreg fixes and server side hit confirmation, but the community can definitely be toxic sometimes. Most old school players that enjoyed PvP were somewhat pushed out by Rare when they removed Arena and shifted the focus a bit away from fighting to PvE. This led to many players being a bit bitter about the new direction of the game, and being toxic in adventure. Hourglass maybe fixed this a bit, but it is very annoying to sink and have to spend 30 more minutes getting supplies to fight again. This, paired with Rare catering the PvE aspect a lot more lately (plus a really dry 2023 in terms of content) led to many (sort of young) players going in adventure with the intention to troll others.
Safer Seas maybe fixed this, but it also signals to every player now that you can't be that new if you're in High Seas, which made a lot of players I know change their mentality from "see what they're up to" to "shoot them if they approach". Gone are the days when you would see a ship and just approach them and say "hey buddy, need help figuring things out?" haha
Long story short, it is a really nice game that will keep you entertained for thousands of hours. Don't run away from fights, and keep in mind that the booty is not yours until you sell it :D The game has its fair share of bugs, and sometimes you will lose a fight just because of server issues, but don't let that discourage you from playing. If you need any help, I'm sure a lot of us here can try to offer a hand :)
Wow, some of the comments on that article saying Google should have made Android closed source are mindboggling. They realize they never would have had their current worldwide marketshare if they did that, no?
But maybe if they did, we would have had more people working on true linux phones 🤔 I'm a bit torn on this one haha.
The Framework 13 inch model should be plenty, especially if you want to dev on the go. Much more lightweight and smaller, and you can connect it to external monitors if the screen size is not big enough. Also, you shouldn't have issues running Linux on either laptops.
Instead of going for the 16 version, I would use the extra 900-1000 euros (that's the amount I saw I could save between the two almost maxed-out models) to make a dedicated server or mini-cluster to run your workloads. Deploy Kubernetes or Proxmox on it, and you'll also get some more practice on it outside work if you want to run stuff for your home lab. That is only if you don't want to game on your laptop, but I'd still put that money aside to make a desktop.
Cheats nowadays don't even need to run on your machine. You can get a second computer that is connected to your computer via a capture card, analyze your video feed with an AI and send mouse commands wirelessly from it (mimicking the signal for your USB receiver).
These anti-cheats are nothing more than privacy invasion, and any game maker that believes they have the upper hand on people that want to cheat are very wrong.
Opening up anti-cheat support for Linux would at least make them more creative at finding these people from their behaviour, and not from analysing everything that's running in the background.
It's amazing that Linux gaming is becoming a thing that's better sometimes than Windows gaming (minus the getting banned part in some games). I also like that AMD is making some big pushes on open source drivers, plus their ROCm open-source alternative to CUDA.
What a stupid article. It's like saying "stop using electric vehicles because you can't use gas stations".
I don't understand why he's so adamant about this? It's not like Wayland had about 20 years of extra time to develop like X11. People keep working on it, and it takes time to polish things.
If I understand correctly, this would just provide the binary for paru without really making it accessible to the user, no?
In the end, I just decided to copy all my dotfiles to /home/user and running an additional script after reboot.
For some reason, if you try to arch-chroot and install it tries to build everything as root (even after providing "-u user" to arch-chroot).
The card reader should work, but the fingerprint sensor might not. However, looking ath the Ubuntu link you've sent, the only thing not working properly would be the GSM system? I doubt you need that, though.
I can't seem to find more details regarding the fingerprint sensor manufacturer here... I've previously had issues with Goodix, which only makes it's drivers available on Windows. However, some people managed to reverse engineer the drivers and made some available on Linux. You can see if your device is supported here, but you will need to know the hardware ID of the sensor first.
As for Microsoft Pluton, isn't it just TPM? If I'm not mistaken, I heard some time ago that it could be disabled in the BIOS. Don't take my word on that though.
You shouldn't have any issue running Linux on ThinkPads. The recommended requirements for Fedora would be:
2GHz quad core processor
4GB System Memory
20GB unallocated drive space
The only issues one would face in general with laptops are drivers. For example, some laptops have fingerprint sensors, which don't always have a Linux driver counterpart if they're built with Windows use in mind. Since your laptop doesn't have any extra things, it should work just fine.
Mate, if it interferes with your well-being so much, you definitely need to get a second opinion. It could be what the other poster mentioned, but you can't know until someone else takes a look.
Further more, the doctor should have given you some better advice on how to handle it.
Job market seems terrible right now, especially if you're just starting out. Had a friend that applied to ~100 jobs in tech, and a majority of them didn't even reply back.
But the same can be said about bad HR as well. How many hiring teams have no idea what a candidate is supposed to be doing?