Jeezus that sucks.

Is stackoverflow banned too? If so, what's it like to code like it's the 80s again?

@inpothet what's wrong with systemd?

I was working a while ago on a script to change my entire environment from light to dark theme and vice versa. I got a barely working version and forgot about it, but it's a cool thing to do if you're into colorschemes and config files, since you'll have to edit a lot of them. For me, it implied coding in support for automatic colorscheme switching inside my vim, Emacs, urxvt and cmus config files.

It's fun to do if you're into this sort of stuff

Maybe "rub" it against your shirt so it gets warm

@Root I just realized it must suck tremendously to work at Epson's tech support

@sladuled the interns skipped the code review session that day

I don't get it. Looks centered to me

A G String? Wow, gradle can do quite a bit more than I was expecting

@c3ypt1c ... Theoretically. Nothing stops them from collecting that data anyway

@JKyll you must have superpowers to be able to tell how their coffee is structured

@SoulSkrix as it should be

Well, anyone using such a simple password is pretty much asking for this to happen

I couldn't agree more.

Also what the fuck is going on in the laptop industry to have them remove all the ports from every new model?
I prepare every single laptop that comes into the office, and for some inexplicable reason, every shiny new model we buy comes with less ports than the last one. The more expensive it is, the fewer ports it will have, which doesn't make sense at all.

For context, my personal laptop is a €650 Asus that I bought 4 years ago and it has every single port you could ask for (3 USBs, VGA, hdmi, Ethernet and even a freaking CD reader).
The new Lenovos we're buying at work come with 2 or 3 USB C ports at most, so good luck plugging stuff in to install Debian.

Just because they are prettier and more expensive, they make them less functional. It makes me so mad.

No. And stop putting the shift key to the left of the up arrow key. It drives me nuts

Hey, at least they got the logo right

I'm so hooked to this series I doubt I'll be able to sleep tonight

Ive had to reformat drives because the file system got corrupted after I unplugged it without unmounting it first. Other times, especially with FAT32 drives, the chances you write don't actually happen and you find yourself going back to your computer to do them again

@neodite Pretty much every sub €1500 laptop I've seen in the last year came with 8GB instead of 16

@daintycode that explains everything. Thank you

Username checks out

I don't get the exact meaning of that sentence. To be honest I would've done the same.

Someone care to explain what "ping me once" means? (other than "send me the text document the other person just wrote")

@jallman112 that's the good thing about invented languages. They actually make sense

@Pointer yes, that is the full sentence. However we (Spain) sometimes shorten it to simply "sudo", as in:

"Sudo de ir a esa fiesta"

Or simply:

- ¿Quieres poner dinero para el regalo?

+ Nah, yo sudo

On a more serious note, if you can do the entire process using only your keyboard, I would suggest you look into recording a keyboard macro with whatever software your OS supports

They're called interns where I come from

@jallman112 🎶 in PHP 🎶

@romangraef that actually sounds pretty cool. Where did you find it? Or did you write it yourself?

People from azure contacted us this morning to tell us they were rolling the update already (and thus servers would have to be rebooted). I have to say, the response has been much faster than I thought. I imagined Intel would still take a few days/weeks to test and release the patch to the public

@HoloDreamer Pretty good actually. I'm taking it seriously this time (already tried last year, but left it after a few weeks) and actually doing the "required" lessons every day.

I've been doing it consistently for the last 3 months, and I have to say, it is a slow process, but I'm learning a lot, and most importantly having a lot of fun doing it.

@saintograph I also heard there are no cats in counrty, and the streets are paved with cheese