Nyanix

Thank you!

This interaction made my day, love this place

I moved from Google Podcasts (which is pretty good) to AntennaPod, which is FOSS and honestly, pretty damn solid

She certainly is <3 celebrating 10 years this year

It's funny, she's become more of a Linux evangelist than me, she really went all in.

I've been on Manjaro for 3 years, honestly love it, it's treated me great for gaming and given me so little to have to fix that my wife has also been running it for 2 years.

Realistically, it doesn't make sense for folks to be using bleeding edge distros like Arch for a server anyway. LTS of Debian or even Ubuntu are definitely the right answer

I feel a bit of both ways, on one hand, I love having a familiar universe that I can throws hours into and making it my sort of gaming home base (FFXIV). But when I play something else, I get nervous about them being huge or time demanding. I've been enjoying finding and binging through shorter games that I can knock out in a couple days, experiencing other worlds and stories, but not having to commit substantial life to them.

There's an amazing amount of trying to make games "worth it" by adding tons of side content, and my ADHD ass can't ignore it...So when a game doesn't do that, like Singularity, Remember Me, or even Alan Wake, I love it. A nice, linear, intentional story with none of the "help my farm from the rats" bs.

One issue is that Microsoft makes so much on data collection, that they actually pay manufacturers to put Windows on there, it's one of the methods used to try to keep stock computer prices low. While this is scummy and anticompetitive, it helps the consumer and gives me a chuckle that installing Windows inherently decreased the worth of a computer.

Infinity was my absolute favorite, I shall watch this app with great interest 😁 lemme (Lemmy?) know if you need any additional testers

Thank you so much for your thought out response! I've been encouraged to give Rust another shot, and I'll certainly be taking this advice to heart.
One thing that I've noticed in many careers is that the ability to break things down is a mark of expertise, to know what things can be broken down to, and I'm hoping going through something as granular as Rust will help expose what many of those things are. It's what made Javascript oddly frustrating, is that granularity felt less like providing me with options, and more like riddling me with extra hurdles.
I'm excited to take another crack at it (as if I need another time sink, lol), and hopefully some day I can help contribute something of worth.

I wish I could come up with a reply that could properly state how thankful I am and how amazing and thorough of a response this is. Thank you so much for really pulling it apart and addressing each part of it.
I will admit, that when I started my journey, it was because someone had told me "You really only need to know some HTML & CSS for a web job" and figured "I've done that since I was a kid in the days of PHPBB, this is my way out of [insert dead-end job]." Coding wasn't ever my goal, so now that I'm in a career and living less stressfully, I'm thinking of trying it again from the mindset of a hobby.

I love the idea of Rust, and I hear many people like it, and it seems much closer to the grindstone like you were talking about. I've started learning it a few times, but that was when it was newer and most of the training for it was for already-established developers, not for folks that were new to development, so it'd be neat to see what's out there now. You can bet I'll be doing some searching after this. I agree that the constantly moving nature of web development and having to treat each library as its own language was likely a large part of my downfall. I did aim to focus predominantly on Javascript since that was the core of all of it, but I still struggled quite a bit with that. I also got hooked on that C-based syntax, and struggled whenever I toyed with Python.

You've inspired me, I want to try Rust again. I can't say I'd heard of ADHD Shadowing, but I did some quick research, and I think once I have some learning under my belt here, that could really help when actually trying to sit down and write code out.
Also, who's the madman that decided to make a language without looping or re-assignable variables? lol

Thank you for being the encouragement that I needed, helping me through what things I could be doing better, and pointing out what kinds of concepts I should be prioritizing to gain a fuller understanding. I see a pretty full course at https://www.programiz.com/rust that I'm thinking I'm going to start going through from the ground up and see if I can take a new perspective on coding with.

If I could ask one more question of you...
When I last programmed anything, I determined that I did not enjoy it, that it was frustrating, and that I just wanted it to work. I want to shift my perspective and see it in a new light. Would you mind telling me what aspects of it that you like and what keeps you going when it is frustrating?

Thank you again for everything ♥