The full story is this is on a Debian VM with only 16gb assigned to it with no swap. The host is Windows 11 Pro with 128gb of RAM, so I'm thinking that's where my brain was when I disabled swap.

I have a couple other Debian machines that suffer from random crashes that are likely caused by a missing swap too.

For some reason, I didn't realize swap was so important.

@atheist What, you're too poor to have bigagytes of RAM?

@antigermanist In an artsy way, maybe. But if you can still enjoy it, then why not?

That said, most people watching videos at 2x are doing it on websites so they can skip the artificial padding so the uploader can run ads. Most modern movies are paced well enough that watching them faster is really only needed if you really want to watch it but don't have a time limit.

@antigermanist The tempo is a core part of any song, so any changes in speed would affect your experience with it. But if you want to hear it faster for whatever reason, then go ahead.

@antigermanist To fit more videos into your day. Or just to listen to it faster. Or to speed up intentionally slow delivery that enables them to hit 10 minutes. Except for music, I don't see a reason not to do it.

Why not do it? is my question.

I don't see the point in wasting time if you're able to do it faster. I'm also not interested in spending 10 minutes to hear the 2 actual minutes worth of information contained in the video.

I also skip integrated ads.

I prefer 2024-12-06.

@Demolishun I had a short lived co-worker get irritated because I used a ternary operator.

I don't get it. If it compiles and it works and I don't understand it, I look up why it works. I don't just throw my hands up and whine until the question goes away.

@Lensflare What that really means is the people reviewing the code and/or management aren't familiar with them.

If you're going to put your time into something, why not put everything you can into it? You're wasting your time otherwise.

Oh you have 12 months until you even have to think about it.

We have 90 days before we need to start.

Guy, 1993 was yesterday.

@jestdotty No insult meant toward you. But I have endless contempt to those that would put me on the street just because I don't conform to some half baked trend.

@jestdotty I'm not terribly interested in what the psychology behind it is called. I'm just pleased as punch that my way of life is less likely to be threatened by RNG machines and that I can tell everyone that's argued with me about it that I was right.

@jestdotty Because my job has been directly threatened by higher ups telling me that I'll be replaced by people that use AI. It doesn't matter that it causes me more work and is a huge liability.

I have grown tired of people threatening my way of life because of fads, trends, and arbitrary diktats they cling to like religion.

All while people like me pop their collars, noses a mile high in the air, gleefully shouting "I told you so".

I can happily say I can still use my brain and have improved my skills in the meantime.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK

I don't have friends, so it's easy.

I've been told they're important, but they always turn into sources of stress and liability. Maybe it's the area I live in or something to do with my upbringing that attracts those kinds of people. I don't know. I'm old enough that it's not something that bugs be anymore.

I am friendly with coworkers, but they and I cease to exist when they leave the office, so calling them friends would be too much.

I've had to do everything myself for 10 years so I've had to get good at almost everything. But if I had to pick the thing I'm best at it would be backend web stuff and desktop development. Design is definitely not my strong suit.

Learning flex will help with your frustration.

Not trying to memorize the entire css3 spec will also help.

Memorize the stuff you actually use all the time and make notes about the rest.

@lorentz It has all the env variables set up so you can do VS related things, where a normal console doesn't. Other than that, the experience is the same.

I much prefer Rider and Clion over anything Visual Studio.

I thought Mastodon already killed it. Surely this one will take...

@retoor I have no idea what they are using. Nor do I particularly care.

What I do know is that it slows me down with the nonsense it suggests. No code "AI" has ever been anything other than a hindrance for me and I am sick of it being pushed on me. I will never use it willingly, so please stop trying.

I also don't like that at random my proprietary code is being scanned into some unaccountable commercial Skynet monster without proper authorization or compensation because the company that I bought my IDE from has jumped onto a gimmick train.

@jestdotty You'd be better served by finding a Discord server or a forum where you communicate with people that can help you understand this stuff.

I'm glad I never offloaded the use of my brain to fancy RNG machines.

Imagine how much better you would be at this if you hadn't either.

@Ranchonyx https://youtube.com/watch/...

It's technically possible, which is the best kind of possible.

Debian with Mate is very clean and to the point. I use VirtualBox on seamless mode and it it works like a charm.

@Ranchonyx If anything I want to do it to see if it can be done. I really want to know if it is fast enough to work as the GUI of a game doing it like that.

@Ranchonyx I've started building an electron application and I'm finding that js, maybe more specifically node, is not that bad.

I really wanted to be able to use c# but I need a webview that works on arm64. I tried a dozen different things and electron was the only thing that worked.

It's not as efficient as other languages or frameworks, but being able to build an application with an interface written in a language everyone knows opens up tremendous possibilities and speeds up delivery by a huge amount.

Now, if I could use electron as the interface to a c# application, then I think I'd really like that.

Reject the push and make this person adhere to the application structure. If you don't stop this now it will cause you tremendous headaches later.

@retoor Well, there are people with the attitude that people are not necessary and they are doing all they can to make as many of them as disposable as possible. AI is only one of the tools they are using to do it.