I'm so confused about the new line syntax. Why can't I just do a single new line and keep typing? Why does the previous line have to end with a double space?
It's weird, what is the benefit there?

Good joke.

You know what happens if a customer complains your website doesn't work in Chrome? A bug ticket is raised, goes to a developer and they fix the "bug" so it works again.

If the developer is good they'd also make sure their "fix" doesn't break the website for Firefox and Safari. But there are plenty of developers who only test Chrome and call it a day.

Chrome is the default browser nowadays, if it doesn't work in Chrome you have a problem. The developer might blame Google, but the user and management won't care.

end of A Realm Reborn

Google says that's roughly 120 hours, oof.

I've been playing video games for the last 27 years or so. If a game isn't starting to be fun in the first few hours it's usually not worth sticking with it. For example anyone saying "The game starts at max level!" totally missed the point in my opinion, if everything before that is shit, why have it at all?

Btw. if you do slog it through ARR, what happens if you make a new character to play a different class? Do you have to go through it again?

Sheesh. I heard FFXIV is really good later in the game. But you first have to get over a 60 hour bump or something?

I did try it out and barely lasted a few hours. So many boring cutscenes, so much running from NPC to NPC. And barely any combat, the quests were like "Run 3 minutes over there, kill 3 enemies, then run 3 minutes back to the NPC". It was tough :-/

Back in the day when the battery of my Samsung Galaxy S (The original one) went bad I bought a replacement off Amazon for 15 bucks or so. The new battery even had a higher capacity than the original one! Popped the cover off the back of the phone, old battery out, new in, cover back on, done. Phone was better than new afterwards.

DevOps is usually more backend or full stack (though in bigger companies it's its own job entirely).

Python is always a good start in that regard. But honestly, the basics for programming are pretty much the same across languages (with a few exceptions). So you could go with JavaScript, C#, Python, ... whatever beginner friendly language you prefer.

This course gets you started extremely fast (Python, but in your browser, so no need to install anything): https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python-3

Personally for a learning language and if you're using Windows I'd lean towards C# (With Visual Studio Community, it's free). It does give you a good idea of what data types, classes, etc. are and if you want to dive deeper you can transition to C++ afterwards to learn about memory management and pointers (but it's not a fun language to work with, in my personal opinion).

As for DevOps, you could do the first courses for Azure (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/microsoft-azure-fundamentals-describe-cloud-concepts/) or AWS (https://skillbuilder.aws/?dt=sec&sec=fdt).

If you have any questions, feel free to ask :)

But as OP said, they already failed several times. That's like telling someone who nearly drowned in the shallow end of a pool to go jump into the ocean.

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So what would be a good distro to look into for a novice and where should I look for a tutorial?

For me it feels like they do want to learn, but aren't comfortable yet as a day to day user. They want to use Linux, but struggle with commands and how to use it. Having a stable and easy to use system you can use each day without trouble would probably be a better start than telling them to fiddle with Arch. Give them an easy distro and when they want to learn more they can use the crappy old laptop and try to install Arch on there (while leaving their daily driver alone).

I think I learned the most when using Ubuntu for school, 90% of it was easy and straight forward. 10% of it was hell, like back in the day getting HDMI or audio to work. But because the 90% were there I just dug in and spent a dozen hours to troubleshoot the rest.

Please stop, he's already dead :(

The solution has been the same for the last 20 years: Use a password manager, do not reuse passwords. That's it, you're done.

Even if the Lemmy instance admin steals your password (which would be easy!) they can't do anything with it.

Control was cool, but at the same time a massive letdown. Like you run into cool SCP like stories and entities and then when the tiny sidequest is over in 5 minutes that's it, done. Some things you never even find out about later on, just like the writers had a cool idea, put the first few sentences there and then didn't know how to continue.

Felt like constantly getting blue balled, compared to just reading SCP posts.

I have the problem that every day I'm not at work it's a do nothing day :-/

No clue where people get all this motivation from.

So try having at least 3 different passwords for personal accounts/websites

That's an awful take. Grab a password manager and have a random password for every single account of yours. That way all you have to do is remember a single strong password and that's it. Instead of playing Russian roulette when one service you use gets hacked and someone gets a hold of your username / email and one of your 3 different passwords..