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Fuck AI, but fuck this guy too.

shrugs in PRUSA

There’s nothing wrong with looking things up, and it teaches future you what to do/how things work.

That said, troubleshooting is a skill that can be applied to anything. It’s mostly just eliminating variables and patience sometimes, but even professionals still look stuff up regularly. All that reading and research helps you build a foundation to help inform your troubleshooting though.

Also, +1 for man! If you need to know more about a command in the terminal, just type “man” (short for manual) then whatever the command is and you’ll be presented with documentation regarding the command!

We, I mean, I was just going to Wall Street to do a business, ok?

First of all, a trench coat is a type of rain jacket, and second of all, I did. This was in highschool, so I wasn’t exactly a little kid, but the type of outwear I do or don’t wear is nobody’s goddamned business but mine. Going after a kid because you don’t like their coat is fucking stupid.

I got in trouble for wearing a trenchcoat while it was raining shortly after the whole columbine thing. There are some absolute morons working in schools.

It’s a rain coat, asshole.

It’s raining.

Do the fucking math!

It depends on where you publish it: In the United States, the truth is a complete defense to libel suits, so you wouldn’t get in any trouble. This, of course, assumes that you can prove the contents of the book and have not signed any NDAs that would prohibit such a book.

Never.

Seems like something that you should sue over, but that’s easier said than done for most folks. If you want to try and help maintain your privacy, use a virtual device or a “burner” that’s only used to access what’s necessary and for nothing else. Keep them off unless you actively need them and deny all unnecessary permissions. It’s not perfect but it’s less bad than giving them even more information to datamine for profit at your expense.

I even did it over a VPN! I’m shitposting all willy-nilly and not even England can stop me!

The world is a big place and disconnecting gives you a huge boost in privacy. It’s not all black-and-white, but I agree that the surveillance state has become very pervasive.

Wow, the UK sounds like an awful place.

I mean, it kinda still does, but even if they did eventually invade, it wouldn’t necessarily make China the only game in town. There are already other fabrication plants going up around the globe, an invasion would definitely accelerate their development.

If Taiwan gets invaded they’ll just blow their chip fabs, they’ve said as much multiple times and presumably have a plan in place to do it at a moment’s notice. If that’s what China is after I don’t know that an invasion is going to work even if they succeed. It could deny future chip production to other countries though.

I did: Got a free ride pretty much so why not? I ended up getting multiple degrees in part just because they sounded interesting (I was also working 1-4 jobs depending on the time though, so some of it was part time).

I have not ruled out going back sometime in the future if the opportunity presents itself.

They can both be great, I don’t think I can pick a favorite.

Could be people just aren’t upvoting it, could be all the upvotes did not properly sync, or it could also be a crosspost from a different community or magazine that got the comment spillover but again, without people actually upvoting all of the crossposts.

Find a job you actually like!

Nope, I don’t have one.