Blemgo

"working in the LLM server farms makes you wish for a nuclear winter."

I mean, that's the empiric method. Often theories are easier proven by showing the impossibility of how the inverse of a theory is true, because it is easier to prove a theory via failure to disprove it than to directly prove it. Thus disproving (or failing to disprove) free will is most likely easier than directly proving free will.

I do get that one wants to be careful when it comes to viruses, but just outright not believing others without doing your own research is just as harmful as blindly believing in something. If you don't have precautions against websites running malicious code (e.g. ublock origin), you're already treading on dangerous ground regardless. Doubly so if you don't make snapshots.

If you really want to be paranoid you can also click the link inside a USB image, or a sandbox. I would however advise doing research on winehq.org if you are running Linux, since it's generally a good resource for running Windows apps.

May I ask what made you ditch your IT career?

I'm in an IT career as well (admin work), relatively a newcomer (finished my apprenticeship 1-2 years ago), but honestly I've already considering whether this is right for me. Don't get me wrong, I love the work itself, just knowing that so many companies underfunding their IT department and thus causing more stress for it makes me question whether this is something I want to subject myself to.

That makes more sense. Thanks!

I guess the clip for (un)fastening it would make it a bit more recognizable for me.

What's up with the sink plug thing?

Also, if anyone wants to learn writing code, they should first ask themselves what engine they want to use. C# and python seem to be the most sensible stuff. If someone's interested in Godot, then I can recommend the free course by GDQuest. It does teach some few basics for scripting, and their paid courses are very good thanks to their inbuilt practices and encouragement for experimentation. It does cost quite a bit and is still in Beta however.

If understanding the logic of programming is a struggle, then Scratch is a great tool for understanding it.

Ist ja auch irgendwie klar, wenn du praktisch ein thematisches Einkaufszentrum mit Eintrittspreis machst. Wahrscheinlich hätte das ganze wesentlich besser funktioniert, wenn die für die Attraktionen separat verlangt hätten. Dann wäre es wahrscheinlich ein besser Hangout-Spot für SciFi Fans und ähnlichen geworden.

I'm not sure I really agree with the reasoning on why HL:Ep3 was never developed. Sure, Valve game usually revolves around some game-changing mechanics, but at the same time, Episode 3 was more than just a game, but a sendoff of a big franchise, at least for a time, and a promise to their fans: that 3 episodes are made.

I think that this was one of the signs of the cracks forming in the game developing sector of Valve. It's been well known that the dev team within Valve has slowly developed to a more toxic environment where veterans vetoed a lof of stuff from newer employees, leading to stagnation and developers getting silently shunned for working on projects like TF2 because it wasn't considered "profitable", when there still was, and is, a sizeable community revolving it.

I would have said playing it safe and making a sort of "best of" of popular mechanics used in the previous games would've been the best choice, because that would be the best possible sendoff for the series of episodes. After all, at that point people mainly wanted a conclusion to the story arc, a moment of "this was the HL2 era, thank you for playing", rather than something completely new.

Ah, seems to be right, my bad.

Also, to correct myself a bit more: it was Europe's biggest datacenter.

If memory serves right, one of Germany's datacenters went up in flames a few years ago because they had wooden flooring and no adequate fire suppression systems.

EDIT: it was in France, and Europe's biggest datacenter.

While I agree that dd can be easily used, it still is a dumb command (as in its only purpose is to write and nothing else), which can result in some issues regarding validating the integrity of the installation, at least for a beginner.

Furthermore, it can be disastrous if you don't pay attention to what you type in, as it will happily overwrite anything you type in.

Also, I don't think that dd alone should be used as a backup, as it might result in inconsistent backups. The best simple backup system, no matter whether you are a beginner or an expert, are snapshots, and maybe using dd to backup those to an external drive to be sure.

I agree that once learning how to use dd programs like BalenaEtcher sort of become more clutter than anything else.

Still, something I would always prefer over dd is Ventoy, simply because not only allows me to easily make an ISO bootable, but allow multiple ISOs to be easily bootable on the same USB stick. I hope it never becomes abandonware.