housepanther

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[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Learning how to learn is often one thing that is overlooked in our education system. I am disabled and there are certain things that I will struggle to learn and other things that come naturally to me. I am currently looking to change careers from doing IT support to web development. I found a great and free online, self-paced course called The Odin Project. Since software development is something totally foreign to me, I am taking the lessons in small chunks, usually 20 minutes at a time before I take a 5-10 minute break. I might say work for a total of an hour a day of new material. Then after I finish, I write a blog about what I learned. This helps to reinforce the material and keep it in my head.

Also, it sounds like you are trying to run before you have even learned to crawl. Game development will be challenging if you haven't even learned a language yet. If learning is going to be challenging, then structure is key. Why not start on something like The Odin Project which will provide that structure and is designed to take you from 0 computer experience to just about job ready. Once you learn a language and learn the skills and habits of development, then you can specialize by learning gaming development. I would love to be able to be a game dev and I have some really good ideas, but for me that would be overwhelming when the most code I have ever really written are basic Unix shell scripts.

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 39 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The only reason it would make sense to return to the moon is to establish a base for exploration of Mars. I go really back and forth on space exploration. On one hand it is a giant money pit. On another, the research that has come out of space exploration has been beneficial to life here on earth.

That's a good unit! The fuser assembly in that one is bulletproof. I won't recommend or buy anything except for Brother laser printers.

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I swear by Brother printers. They work well with open source software. Older ones are dumb as a rock and it's easy to find toner for them. They're also workhorses.

Musk cannot even pay for the office space that he is leasing. What makes anyone that he will pay for your legal bills? What shit crock.

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It would be incumbent on the insurance company to prove that you willfully circumvented the system. Given an accident serious enough, the Tesla's computer could be physically damaged to the point where no data could be retrieved.

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Nice!!!! That should piss off that petty tyrant old Musky.

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There should be a legal requirement to make documentation available for all unsupported Chromebooks to unlock the boot loader and allow for installing an alternative OS. Furthermore, they should be required to release engineering docs.

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

JFC! HP sucks. Just buy a Brother laser printer used and never worry about it because it's bulletproof and a workhorse.

The fediverse and the surge in open source has made the internet fun again. I haven't had this much fun with the internet since the mid to late 90s.

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the doom scrolling too!

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