mvirts @ mvirts @lemmy.world

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That's the most difficult problem in hobby programming: finding a project. Most interesting things seem to complex to start.

The solution is to say f it I'm going to try. Right now I'm very slowly making progress learning Rust by writing a program to trade cryptocurrency. It took a while for me to even take my goals seriously as something I am capable of. It's half gambling and half skills development but 100% interesting enough that I have consistently come back to it. I've come to terms with the fact that the only money it will make me is if I get a better job by becoming a rust developer.

The Linux side of programming only really comes into play when you want to do networking, drivers, or esoteric filesystem intensive stuff. Windows and MacOS are capable of basically the same things. The main benefit of using Linux for development is that most open source projects are built by developers for development on Linux based systems, so getting dependencies has an easy one line command someone already figured out. For your situation I suspect the most important thing is how cool it feels when you use it. There's something about setting up an operating system the way you want that keeps me coming back for more.

If you ever need a reeally stupid way to sanitize deleted data without special privileges, just fill the disk up with some files then delete them. On Linux this is easy with cat and /dev/zero or urandom. Can't be sure it gets everything but it's better than doing nothing.

People are worried about losing skills to AI while all the skills have already been lost to Google and stack exchange 😅

🤣 same

To try and contribute! :P gotta start somewhere

Lol reading the source has trained me to try reading the documentation.

If it's good, it'll save hours or crawling through code.

has, they still work great and keep me sane

MSYS2 is my current choice for GNU/Windows

I think that's what he and those games are going for

Unfortunately building it was a disaster a few years ago, I should give it another go.

I am legit excited to install WINE Subsystem for Linux

Or how about KDE on ReactOS on WSL?

The possibilities are endless

Something something they do sometimes

This seems too complicated for me.

My first impression was that the hook is 'everything is an api' but the documentation is a list of how-to guides.

I probably didn't get far enough in to find the API reference.

I always wanted a car with a built in laser blaster. It's one firmware update away from accepting targeting commands

The best os

Maybe ipv6 DNS issues:

    

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.rebeltechalliance.org. 159  IN      CNAME   rebeltechalliance.org.
rebeltechalliance.org.  158     IN      A       136.243.169.53

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
rebeltechalliance.org.  159     IN      AAAA    2a10:e000:1::10


  

I'm not completely up to speed on ipv6 stuff but I can't get that AAAA address to resolve. If it is a valid address you may be running services only on ipv4 and the VPN could be using an ipv6 address where no programs are listening... I think?

Also if you run the whole host you may want to see if you need all of these services available or can block incoming connections to them.

    
21/tcp   open  ftp
25/tcp   open  smtp
26/tcp   open  rsftp
53/tcp   open  domain
80/tcp   open  http
106/tcp  open  pop3pw
110/tcp  open  pop3
143/tcp  open  imap
443/tcp  open  https
465/tcp  open  smtps
587/tcp  open  submission
993/tcp  open  imaps
995/tcp  open  pop3s
3306/tcp open  mysql
8443/tcp open  https-alt

  

Egui seems great to me so far, not super experienced with it yet though. I think you can get away with very little js using egui for rendering.

I'm guessing a noise maker, buzzer, beeper, or speaker.

Pretty sus :P

I would start by removing the graphics card if you have integrated graphics available (or disable the PCI port in your bios)

This reminds me of the kinds of issues I would get when setting up overclocking and getting just past the limit of stable operation. If you have overclocking set up definitely try disabling it.

If removing the GPU does nothing don't forget to check removing each ram stick separately, or make sure your bios runs a full memory check.

Can you do 3 for $24?

I had good results using the windows 11 disk management snap in to shrink my windows system partition while it was booted, may be worth a try.