They do want to call me. I had a significant decrease in spam calls after I started doing this instead of my actual number, including calls from companies I’ve definitely never given my number to, as well as straight up scammers.
However, you have a good point about tracking.
I just give them my old landline number that’s been disconnected for years since I just use my cell phone now
Ditto “aliens”, if we interpret it as “extraterrestrials that have been to Earth”.
This is an important distinction.
100% chance there is extraterrestrial life out there somewhere
0% chance any of it has come to visit
There are cables in the windows side but not the Linux side, which also seems like an odd choice for a human to make to me.
A Homestuck post in the wild in 2025?
Go to book stores and retro game stores. And the library. Some libraries have movies, music, and videogames in addition to books.
I suppose my setup already has “Xcode command line tools” installed, so gcc works as expected. It’s been a while but IIRC the process for installing the command line tools is pretty self explanatory.
I remember WSL being a whole process to setup, but it’s been a while, and as you might guess, I’m a lot more familiar with Mac than Windows.
What I do know is I had to support a Python project on all 3 OSes and Windows was by far the hardest to get working. We were deliberately not using WSL for that scenario.
Mac is very similar to Linux in that it comes with bash (these days zsh) and a lot of the command line tools you’d expect on Linux, including gcc and python3 installed by default. You’ll want them to have a decent text editor with code coloring. Sublime is what I was taught to use in university.
Windows is more difficult. The command line is very different (it inherits from DOS instead of Unix like both Mac and Linux). It doesn’t come with Python pre-installed. I’ve generally installed git-bash when working on Windows. There are some Python libraries that work fine on both Mac and Linux but have issues on Windows.
You could look into VSCode which is a decent IDE that works on all platforms. Of course, an IDE can be a bit of an information overload for a beginner, especially something like VSCode that’s constantly pushing AI features and plug-ins.
I think the one I have is the BP60NB10 LG Slim Portable. It looks like prices are at around $100-$130 for it online now though, I think they are not made anymore. I got mine up at a local computer store a long time ago.
I strongly recommend this webpage: https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19634
I’d just try to understand why they feel that way to make sure you aren’t missing anything.
Is it the pay cut? 20% sounds pretty significant to me but 2% isn’t, but in the end if you are making enough to live the way you want that’s all you need.
Is it the career path options? That can be more complicated, but if there’s nothing you would want from “climbing the ladder” that’s up to you.
There are some external/portable USB blu ray drives that work with MakeMKV and cost like $30.
I have set up WireGuard manually running on a home server. It’s not that hard to set up IMO but that definitely depends on your experience level.
Other than that I’d second Tailscale which is similar but easier to set up
Backend programming is almost all Linux. I have two computer science degrees and have only ever used Windows for gaming.
I’ve always liked those magnetic levitating globes!
(You can also find magnetic levitating <insert TV show prop here> for a variety of tv shows and video games)
I think for the Mac icons here I like the 2001 variant.
Unless something has changed, Amazon Music only offers low quality mp3 downloads, and sometimes even includes audio watermarks.
It peaked in 2006
This is why I use CloudFlare. They block the worst and cache for me to reduce the load of the rest. It’s not 100% but it does help.
On bazzite it’s “ujust update”