Thank you! I’m already familiar with REST apis, since that’s what I work on normally, so hopefully the learning experience will be smooth. Where can I find the dev matrix chat?

First off, thank you for working on improving lemmy, it is greatly appreciated. How does one go about helping work on lemmy? I’m a software engineer myself, and I’m looking to provide help during down of my free time. I’m not the most familiar in Rust, but it’s on my summer bucket list

I have a shortcut that turns on my tv’s in the morning (Apple TV), switches them to Spotify, and plays a logo music playlist for me. It lets me have music playing throughout my house as I’m waking up making breakfast

I’m starting to try and learn it right now, and it really doesn’t seem that bad. To be fair I’m mostly going through books and documentation to make sure I understand the differences before I jump in. Learning some of the specific features of the language doesn’t seem too bad either

I take it more as “their opinion doesn’t matter to me since I’m still having fun”. I definitely get the magic leaving though, as I don’t play as grind heavy games as I used to. I enjoy more story driven games now though. As long as you still get your stuff done and don’t let it become an obsession, gaming is a valid hobby

Personally I think the soundtrack for HoS was better too. GoD’s theme is a banger of a song, and I love the etherealness of the soundtrack

There is a .sex domain I’m pretty sure. I saw some funny af ones when I was registering my own domain for my home lab

God there were certain subs that were just painful to use, even when interesting posts made it to the front page. The one I remember in particular was a mom made her kids a really cool Asian/Tokyo inspired cardboard fort, and you could tell it was really well done and probably made that kids week. Instead of the comments being about how cool the fort was, people were demeaning her saying “ah she’s probably a stay at home mom because she has all this free time”. Good lord, people on Reddit were miserable and couldn’t let other people have fun

Aight I’m going to have to get out of my lurking shell. Thankfully I’ve already commented more here in the last day and a half than I did on Reddit in months lol

I’ll probably contribute to the tech and programming communities since that’s my thing. Maybe generate some traction/discussion by posting articles I find fascinating

I don’t have any important data in my Linux I stand eon my pc, so I’m not really worried about losing data thankfully. I’m trying to find that Linux distro that feels comfortable for me. since I’m not planning on upgrading to windows 11, I have 2ish years to figure that out lol. I’m willing to give it a try though and see if I like it.

Server wise I’m pretty comfortable with Linux since I use it on a regular basis there. I need to lock down which distro I use though since half of my VMs are Ubuntu, and the other half are fedora lol. Makes it hard to standardize anything

Huh ok. Maybe I’ll check it out then. I was trying out OpenSUSE after fedora crashed and burned on me, but I haven’t been liking it that much. I’m willing to check out some other distros now to see what I like

I haven’t used any arch based distos yet, so I haven’t had any experience with that yet. The main ones I’ve used have been apt and dnf from fedora, and honestly both are pretty slow. I feel like I’ve had more packages available by default on apt than I have with dnf.

How is arch on a day to day basis? I’ve been curious about giving it a try, and I’m not too worried about it being technical, but I want something that is easy to maintain

Maybe I’ll give POP a try next. Apt is just so damn good. I can’t escape it lol

I was using Fedora for a bit, and I was really enjoying it even though I had a few quirks that were annoying (thanks Nvidia). Once 38 dropped though, the update broke my install, so I figured it was time to disto hop again and see what else is out there. I’m currently trying OpenSuse, but it’s just clunky enough that I’m not sure how I feel about it

Yeah that’s definitely fair. It could make it a pain trying to deal with impersonators as well now that discord has become massive

It’s one of those “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” kind of changes. It’s just a weird one to suddenly push onto a platform, especially when the previous solution is better in every single way

They are changing the way usernames are being handled. Instead of letting them be whatever you want with the identifying tag after it, they are requiring it to be a unique username