Oh no, a cheap offer! 🙀

For me it’s simple.

Pseudo-OOP in C which takes dialog* as a forst argument? dialog_open_file

Otherwise - make it human readable

Seems so obvious now, thanks

What’s CP Chat? Im a bit afraid to type that into a search engine but it seems to be what I’m missing in my Copilot-assisted flow. It’s a great autocomplete but sometimes refactoring would be useful too.

They do, I really hear you. I don’t bother going to a doctor for the exhausting fatigue.

But with eyes not seeing well after 8 years of looking at a screen, you’re not an odd case, you’re the same as half of the society. It’s either short sightedness, far sightedness or astigmatism.

Oh, I see where the confusion comes from. Well, that’s another way to do it I guess.

The hot water is to kill bacteria, of course you remove the water before you put the jam in. I have apple jam from 2022 canned using this method and it still holds, no mold and good taste.

I’m wodnering what seems so odd in this procedure because that’s how I’ve been taught to do it

Wash it, pour boiling water over it, put hot jam or other preserves inside, it will hold all winter. Just make sure the lid is concaved when the jam cools down - that means it seals well.

Genius Scan. A shameful exception in my otherwise fully FOSS phone.

It scans multi-page documents with the camera, OCRs them, then uploads them automatically to Nextcloud (or manually to any other app, like Paperless).

Fucking always-on connectivity and security problems caused by it are the main reason why things can’t just work. You need to be updated or else.

I visited a friend not that long ago and he kept using Windows XP and The Bat and Opera around version 9. He knew every keyboard shortcut because he didn’t have to relearn every few years. Never got hacked, I just wonder when his bank stops working because of TLS incompatibilities.

I agree but at the same time cannot be bothered to go lower level than Python for my personal projects. It’s so damn convenient.

Not to “victim blame” because such unsafe junk should not be sold. But a $100 bike with amortized seat and spring suspension of wheels has no right to be durable. But an $100 simple bike with shimano gears or no gears can last for years.

I patched someone else’s program which was known for being slower when it’s used for a longer time. It was iterating over items in its window just to reach the last element, the more items the slower, it became snappy when i taught it to keep a pointer to the last element.

Not mind blowing, I know, but it was a popular program and this made life better for many people.

You make sure everything is backed up, up to date and secured, you diagnose hardware issues, to a degree - you diagnose software too.

Best part is that it’s engineering, not creative. If the software problem is hard, you open a support ticket with the vendor. If it’s hardware, you replace it. There’s no solving hard problems of thread concurrency (or whatever feels hard to you) under time pressure.

I did the same, sysadmin. Coding for work kills all passion. I still have to do it from time to time but it’s not nearly as bad as being a full time programmer.

For me at least, brushing teeth is highly uncomfortable and the brushing noise from inside my head makes it worse. Running water dampens the noise. I learned to turn off the tap most of the time but I leave it on for when I’m out of mental batteries.

Next to a stove, if im understanding correctly

Been there, done that, I hope you have a recent backup!

I started by getting shitty jobs like $10/hour that were not enough to sustain myself but good for building work experience and some nice comments in my profile. I can’t remember paying anything to Upwork but they were less agressive back then.

In about two months I got regular paying jobs.

I’ve had good luck with Upwork, moved two of my clients off Upwork. Worked with them for a few years after. One went out of business, one was paying a lot and demanding a lot, eventually I wasn’t able to keep up for personal reasons.

I also had a professional website and ran Google Ads (at a time it was still relevant), got many small gigs and one long-time client this way. I should mention I also wrote and sold a small software addon there, mostly as a way to acquire new clients - tried to make the support top-tier and lure clients into giving me other work.

After that, I haven’t been actively looking for more work and eventually shut the website down as the software became irrelevant and I had work by word of mouth.