No, no, long answer is fine, it’s linuxmemes community.

I didn’t think it was possible to invent a worse format than .gif for moving pictures.

Congratulations!

Are you using that huge-ass TV next to the laptop as your second display?

Huh, I actually forgot cat is used to join several files together. Last time I needed to concatenate two files, I did

{ cat file1 ; cat file2 ; } > output

But the most valid case is when I want to unpack .gz or .xz archive but do not want to delete the original file, as xz -d will do by default. So I naturally do

cat input.img.xz | xz -d > output.img

I’ve heard rumours that xz has a special option to not delete the original file, but I know no one brave enough to search through the xz manpage.

You simply sign a corporate contract and pay a corporate fee, and MICROS~1 will sign any shitty broken and backdoored bootloader that you send to them with zero quality control, and it was like that with Windows drivers for years.

Sappy roban

I guess you just need to know the right people. The whiteboard interview process has been broken for many years, yet no one wants to fix it, because it favors companies and gives recruiters plausible deniability. For me it was either getting hired on the spot after submitting CV and meeting the project manager, or rounds of useless interviews with 100% rejection at the end.

You’ll be a middle software developer in six months, switching jobs at this point will get your salary increase by 30%

I guess it depends on the location. In Ukraine you could probably change jobs every six months and still have people wishing to hire you.

The education can be very hit or miss. The best way to learn is to work on an actual embedded project, as a junior or whatever, but you need to have at least some skill, so - hobby projects.

Universities with CS programs tend to teach generic programming and algorithms, but no skills how to assemble your own robot. If you choose some practical courses in a trade school it would be better, but again, many commercial courses stop being useful after first two months, because teaching people is less profitable than actually working, so the teachers do it by the book.

I’ve never met a poor embedded software developer, it’s an awesome choice if you have skills for it.
Especially if you can solder and use multimeter even on a beginner level, and a special bonus if you can design circuit boards. These skills need sonething around one-two weeks to get to a basic level.

More like garbage dispenser.

Pro C++ coders don’t use delete, they call abort()

But does it support SPI on Pi 5? Does it run on OrangePi or NanoPi?

It does run many Windows applications using Wine, although not all of them.

If there was a viable Windows Lite

But there is, and it’s called Linux Mint.

Rest of your lake, rest of your salt, it’s all down below.

Not when you are forced to use dial-up internet when all your online friends had Ethernet or optic cable for years. That was the state of civilization between '90s and 2000.

How did this happen? We need to rename the place immediately!

When USSR ended, Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus were in very similar situation, politically and economically. Belarus got Lukashenko from the very beginning, he immediately bought off police and squashed all dissent. Ukraine had a wannabe dictator Yanukovich, bur kicked him out.

Russia got a big window of opportunity between Yeltsin and Putin, they could totally do their own Maidan, plus storming Kremlin is a historical Russian tradition.

No one cared.

They got a taste of Europe and civilized world, the young people got tech jobs with lots of money. Instead of fixing their own government, they mostly emigrated, and now formed a diaspora instead of learning the language and blabbering about mysterious Russian soul and wanking on WW2 photos.

One of Putin’s fears is that Ukraine showed a clear scenario how to depose a dictator.

Justice for the 5.25" floppy disk! It had an actual hole inside, which would fit your finger! You could see it’s a disk and not a weird shaped square box, and you could hear it’s rotating.