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  • LazerFX@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldThanks
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    11 days ago

    I was home taught in the UK. Have a real love for learning that’s kick-started me into a career in computing that I’ve kept going for over two decades. Can’t stop, won’t stop reading, learning and improving. The number of colleagues I’ve had who just want a TL;DR on a new tech, software, plugin or system is too many. It’s our job to understand it, so we can build something so that others don’t have to. If you don’t want to understand, you’re in the wrong job role.



  • LazerFX@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTea Time
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    11 days ago

    Coffee isn’t a tea, as you don’t boil it. If you boil it, you burn the coffee! That’s an extraction - you can steep it, but it’s better if you just push the water through at high pressure (which will royally screw up a tea).

    Ah, pedantry in pedantry. So - now for Lemmy to tell me what I’ve gotten wrong :⁠-⁠D










  • LazerFX@sh.itjust.workstoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon pirates a game
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    27 days ago

    And that’s how you use things, which is fair enough. I prefer to have an organised, ready-to-go access to commonly required resources that I can view at a glance. I have things like e-mail, calendar, various (multiple) messaging and social media resources open at all times. I also have documents and reference materials that are regularly accessed open. Books and long-form reading materials stay open at the position I’m at. Further to that, if I’m researching something it may take time for my thoughts and desires to coalesce; during that time, the primary research tabs stay open in their own group. I may have somewhere between 3 - 6 things I’m researching at a time, with varying numbers of tabs. Then there’s note-taking, coding, gaming and rewards sites. Sure, some I use as ‘bookmarks’, but not that many - most are things that are in long-term progress and use.


  • LazerFX@sh.itjust.workstoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon pirates a game
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    27 days ago

    10? Try (currently) 98 across 9 windows, 2 desktops. Firefox just dies. Chrome works, but Edge (thanks to its more agressive backgrounder) handles it fine. Reopens windows after reboot/shutdown better too. And that number goes up if I’m researching something - I’ve been upwards of 200 across 3 or 4 desktops in the past, easily.






  • Holy shit… An old Medion laptop in the wild! I got one of those at Aldi in the UK about… I dunno, 20 years ago? A long time ago. 4 years in, the cooler packed in and it started overheating. They RMA’d it and fitted a whole new cooler and motherboard.

    The shape looks the same to me, too… Nice little laptop.