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I've been trying to get an open source OS since about 2020. I've been using one since probably 2022, and wishing I knew people who used them since I started. In the last week or so, I may have inspired 2 seperate parties to start using them, after I think inspiring no one. for the previous 4 ish years. uhh..."Gradually and then suddenly"?...errrr.....What has changed?

One can stream from a mobile device to youtube, and one will get more viewers on the 'live feed' that's like shorts, or from the shorts feed. It appears youtube doesn't like it when one changes the aspect ratio to mimic that of a phone in order to pop up in these feeds. Is it more complex than this?

After (far far far too many) hours of 'research', and testing (and using for 1 purpose and several measurements), I have decided that Multimeters are like...umm vehicles? There is no perfect one. Okay, say you spend hundreds or thousands on a multimeter. You could easily damage it...then was it the right one? How are you going to get it repaired/repair it? This leads to the ever changing list of multimeters/brands/companies. because there so many different markets for them....because they are a (or the) general purpose electrical tool. I still do not have a multimeter (the one I had seemed damaged on arrival), and I still want one, or two? Do I need 2? I currently want one to test a small vehicles battery pack's cells. That is the pressure. I'd get a 30 dollar one, but I'm wondering if the 80 volt limit is going to cause me problems now or in the future. Greenlee's seem interesting. Some are manufactured in Taiwon? I'd love to get one manufactured in Taiwon. Some of these are US manufactured...which I'm not a fan of currently (happy to expand more on a diff thread). Fluke. I don't want a fluke cause i'm a noob. I think I'll break it. Also I'd prefer one less exposed to a Chinese supply chain. As I prefer with many products (especially technical). What about you? What's your experience with multimeters? What do you use? What do you like/not like, and why?

The TLDR of BTC payments for businesses (I think), is that liquid transactions are like 10X cheaper than BTC on-chain transactions, and Lightning transactions are like 100x cheaper (or something).

Does anyone have media resources for understanding the technology and tactics of the Russia/Ukraine war? Struggling to find anything, and all this drone business seems both important and interesting. Thanks!

Took a break from software for a month to work on hardware, and coming back to it is painful. Forget where I was in my project (that was already a hassle, but I thought I had figured it out), and seeing the 'community' is a reminder of how it seems like a mish mash of people speaking languages based on stacks that pretend each other doesn't exist if they don't share a stack. obvs this is just feels, but blargh...not a great vibe.

Can open source operating systems win without winning gaming? people don't switch, and most people start when they're kids with games no? msoft keeps huge market share primarily because of gaming. or am I missing something?

I don't understand why youtube, sats.stream, twitch, etc don't have native screen record software. Why is this not a thing? Technical reasons, political, or just no one has built it or thought to build it yet? Odd that this functionality hasn't made it to the streaming world yet.

I'm finding it very difficult to learn Nix at the same time as learning another computer language. Nix seems to have to be learned first, but what would one do with it if one isn't technically astute? If one is learning another computer language as their first language they are constantly interrupted figuring out errors caused by using nix, sifting through minimal documentation, and a lack of tutorials. I was learning some different testing things in python, and now all of a sudden I'm considering how to package things in nix simply so that I can get my python to run. It actually does seem to make sense if one is trying to understand computing from the ground up, but nonsensical for those that are simply looking to build apps and outsource lower level things.

predictions on when wiki.nixos will have a dark mode?

I'm 82% through my intermediate level coding textbook (pretty sure it's intermediate) and there's still no mention of "SDKS". How recent is this term. Trying to get recent (aka relevent) textbooks in coding is more difficult than any other skill I've acquired I think. So "SDKS" are my new "Abstraction". Pretty much everything (if not everything) you see, or the average person sees on a computer screen is an "Abstraction" coders will say things like 'then you can abstract it out', and you'll hear about abstraction everywhere, but it's kind of meaningless in that everything is. It's used colloquially in specific contexts to communicate something, but it almost always means 'write some code to do a thing'. Only recently am I starting to understand it in the context of code...and it's always used in a "this is the way to not deal with some other BS" context. So yea, SDK's I get in theory, and I expect I'll be using one specifically soon for my project. It's simply "A software development kit"....but to be frank there's a reasonable chance it's simply an "uncompleted distribution" (or package). It could simply be a "UD", or "UP". But the culture has run with "SDK". Software still moves more quickly than anything I've seen. #dev #python #nix

#askdevs Comprehensive guide/s comparing lower level programming languages? A search is yielding nothing good.

#asknostr is there a service that holds all your lightning payments while your node is offline, and then puts them through when it comes online?

one of the oddities i've experienced when talking code with non python devs is them talking about functions, and me having to restructure things slightly in my head because in python there's mostly 'names', similar to function, but there's no functions I know of.

my new (recycled?) working theory is that the reason there are so many terrible coding resources is because the demand for good coders is so high people just try to throw spaghetti at the wall to solve the problem. A more simple solution to me seems to hire people sooner, for less money. If failing at this - I'd imagine you're in the wrong place, or not making enough offers. #code

I want to find an event that was popular like 36 or so hours ago, but I'm not sure how. Ideas? #asknostr

The technology labor market right now is inverted? When in historical economics have we needed a great deal more 'senior' people than 'junior' people. It's not the same as having an 'unskilled' labor market. It's having a 'less skilled' labor market. I'd love to understand why instead of hiring a 'senior engineer' at $120,000+ or whatever people don't hire 2 'junior engineers' at like $20,000 each. I bet those 2 junior engineers would more than make up for the 'senior engineer'. This isn't to denigrate 10x philosophy. This is to say that these technology companies actually DON'T need human capital, or their managers don't have (or haven't shifted) their perspective such that they could simply apply '2 heads are better than 1' philosophy. Am I missing the mark? Or are companies mostly run right now by faux elitists who use the 'I don't have time to train' philosophy to ignore emerging talent. It seems like there's great waste right now and I'm looking for ways to transform it to productivity. #asknostr #dev