danisth

joined 1 year ago
[–] danisth@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

Firefox a few years ago would kill my Mac battery in a couple hours, now it’s as good as safari for energy management. No reason not to use it as a daily driver now.

[–] danisth@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

volkswaGENITALIA

[–] danisth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is solid advice. Learn the fundamentals, and maintain conversational knowledge of more cutting edge tech. As you get stronger in the fundamentals you’ll be able to speak intelligently about why you might choose to use some new fangled thing.

[–] danisth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not even close. Started a CS degree 7 years ago and am a director of engineering now, if it’s what you wan to do go for it. I will give a warning that the market isn’t amazing right now, and people getting into it just because they see the salaries is flooding the entry level positions. If you’re motivated and excited about building software you’ll be fine, but something to be aware of.

[–] danisth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No idea where they're coming from, but people have been exchanging files on IRC files for year, why stop now? The obscurity of it is probably the only reason it's still around, it will never get enough attention for traffic to overload the servers, and nobody will bother trying to hit them with lawsuits.

[–] danisth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The iOS app I was using (DarkRed) was working until a few hours ago. Now my feed is empty so goodbye Reddit on my phone.

[–] danisth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He’s been around long enough that he doesn’t need to cater to the typical YouTube algorithm gaming that most channels do these days. But it’s a good point, I’d you do t know about him it’s be easy to miss.

[–] danisth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It’s a different approach from Every Frame, but Thomas Flight scratches the same itch for film analysis.

Also a quick shoutout to a local urbanism channel with cool niche topics, About Here is pretty great.

[–] danisth@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I didn’t think I’d ever feel passionately about heat pumps, but thanks to his channel I’ll happily try to convince anyone I talk to that they need to switch to one.

[–] danisth@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Libgen is great for popular books, but the above guide is amazing for finding basically anything else. I’ve often needed to load up IRC to find more obscure books.

[–] danisth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve been following Lemmy and the fediverse in general for a while so I’m excited about this new energy. Like others have said, my reason for leaving Reddit specifically are:

  • I won’t ever use the official app, fuck ads and bad U
  • it sounds like old Reddit is going away, and I can’t stand new Reddit
  • a platform more resilient to this type of changes is appealing
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