Jamie

Linux Journey is a good one for the basics. But I would agree with the other commentors here, and say the best thing you can do for yourself is to just use it day to day.

I once heard something about learning other languages. Your brain has two methods of learning, one is the academic, and another is practical. When you learn something purely academic, your brain isn't prioritizing it as much, but if you're doing it daily, and you need to be able to do it, then your brain goes "oh man, I better pick this up quick" and starts kicking more of your subconscious power into learning it. I think using the command line is going to be a similar deal.

Man, seeing people putting in effort from r/transcribersofreddit always reminded me about how many good people are in the world. It's a shame they won't be able to keep going, and even more of a shame that Reddit doesn't care about blind people using their platform.

No, they're going to arrest him, but he shot himself twice in the back of the head and fell 5 stories before they could move in with the cuffs.

It's not just the operating systems, it's also the way software is developed now. Those old windows applications were probably written in C++, which is only lightly abstracted over C, which is about as close as you're going to get to machine code without going into Assembly.

These days, you might have several layers of abstraction before you get to the assembly level. And those abstractions are probably also abstracted by third party libraries which might be chained to even more libraries, causing even more code to need to load and run. Then all of that might not ultimately even be machine code, it might be in a language like C# or Java where they're in an intermediate language that needs to be JIT compiled by a runtime, which also needs to be loaded and ran, before it can be executed. Then, that application might provide another layer of abstraction and run something in a browser-like instance, ala anything Electron based.

As shit as it is, they probably just made a tool to mass send this notice to any sub privated within the last X days. I doubt they'll follow up with action on a tiny sub.

I just hope a lot of the bigger instances can do something to withstand the massive hit they're going to take from the user influx. I've heard some users have to wait ages to post on them, then you have folks like me on our own instances not able to see swathes of comments because federation is backed up.

I really like this platform, but those issues will turn a lot of people off.

I freaked out for a moment, then remembered I used SSO.

That's correct, they're the same datatypes the server uses all over. Though, I don't think keeping it up to date would be that bad unless they seriously change things around all at once. Particularly if you encapsulate the data well for the end library user.

My project is making wrapper libraries around all of the types and implementing things based on that.

I've been working with the rust version of the API, and I can't really say I'm surprised. It's going to be sensitive to any fluctuation in type, and they probably don't want to inflate API versions every time they make a small change.

At least the compiler will tell you really quickly what's wrong and where to get it fixed. For most people, API wrappers will probably handle updating for the changes anyway.

Unfortunately, from what I'm seeing in a lot of subs, it's working. You do have protests from places like r/aww and r/pics doing the John Oliver thing, and r/Steam posting about literal steam. But it seems like on the large, threats of people losing their ability to give Reddit free labor is working to get subs back open.

Edit: r/pics changed, they've chosen total anarchy.

I've done my share of high up administration in game communities, I can attest based on that the amount of entitlement people feel like they have from a group doing something for free or nearly nothing.

I say focus your time on the people worth your time. Don't let toxic folks get to you, or you'll just burn out.

Definitely keep searching and find someone who accepts your hobby, even if maybe they don't partake themselves. I'm 30 and still play video games, though admittedly my career and hobbies eat into a lot of my play time, I don't see myself stopping.