Ya, show that to anyone who’s actually lived under communism.

Man, I got a red dragon from micro center, and it’s not amazing, but it’s very good for my first mechanical. I miss some keystrokes once in a while, but the Bluetooth doesn’t fail and I share it between 2 PCs. Best $50 I’ve spent on keyboards.

I actually wanted to see how Graphene works so I was going to install it on my old pixel 3a, but it’s no longer maintained. You know where I can get the last release images for the 3a?

I’ll only mention it because I haven’t seen it yet, I just installed endeavor os and it’s been pretty Great

I have no paper credentials, but I was a licensed educator, so at least it shows I can get credentials if I worked at it.

I started at a local community college party time, then transferred to my current role. Both bosses are the type like, “I can teach anyone IT, but it’s hard to teach soft skills.” Turns out they can’t really teach IT either and I’m left to getting knowledge from my team and outside sources.

I am taking some azure fundamentals courses right now though, so I’m going that legit certs will make me more hireable

To speak to your points, I started with about 1 year ago in a new career in IT. We initially were coming in one day a week and this has moved to two days.

First, when we moved to two days, I have it about 6 weeks, then started crunching numbers. By the sole metric of closing tickets… My team as a whole is more productive in the office. I didn’t break down exactly who was more of less productive, but I have my ideas. I’m willing to bet that I work better at home, but it’s a moot point as the team is better on site.

As far as learning new skills, even at one day a week, I’ve caught up to the rest of my team and have surpassed them technically. Again, it’s IT and I’ve always had a strong interest, whereas I see some of the team probably view it as “just work” I’m actually enjoying the work. Again, it’s a second career so maybe maturity is in play here too, but even the younger guys who were hired after me are growing very quickly.

You’re absolutely right about networking. I felt so isolated when I started. It wasn’t until I learned a few people a few steps above where I was that I learned who is a good resource, and who I can trust. Once I got my head around that, I think people actually see the work in doing and redirect me for it. If I were 100% wfh I don’t think I would be having as good a time.

Just my experience

Dude, this 100%. The touch screen was janky on Windows, and non existent in all Linux distros I tried. Endeavor worked perfectly without any set up. I couldn’t believe it.

Honestly, I installed it on my windows PC recently, and I found it really clunky. And it sounds like there’s no dark mode?

I do IT for a living, and for as big of a removed Office is, it does work pretty damn good… When it’s working. I felt like I went back in time a decade when I was working with Calc.

I’m not trying to fight, but I’m genuinely curious, do you only use Writer? Have you worked with Word lately to compare how they’ve changed? Thanks

Holy shit, I installed it on my Lenovo tablet laptop, and everything works out the box… Even the gyroscope! I couldn’t believe it. It’s the first arch based I’ve tried and I think I’m hooked.

To note, I think I tried like 8 other distros before finding endeavor.

I’ve used ai in general a few years ago as a companion till for writing seo optimized articles. It was ok at that time, and would do maybe 30% of the work I needed, but I would still have to go back in and make major edits or it would only pop out a sentence at a time so I would be contently prompting it.

My wife is a full time writer for a company and she uses it all the time to create emails and speeches. She says the leaks and bounds in actual usability is pretty insane. Like, one prompt can give her an entire speech.

I agree with this 100%. I’ve actually found that one distro can work out the box with my hardware, and another distro is impossible to use. I think it’s important to try out a few and see what appeals to you. Example, elementary os is pretty nice, but it almost seems vacant because it tries to mimic Mac. Zorin os is also really nice, but there’s something about it that just feels off. I recently installed endeavor os on a tablet PC, and everything is working out the box. I can’t believe how easy it was, and I’ve been using Linux on and off since 2004.

Man, I remember as a kid we had a box of bulbs for when inevitably one burnt out each month or so. Now, I have a drawer with a bunch of led bulbs I’ll never use because they don’t burn out!

I work for an Irish company and I believe 2 months is the norm. That said, I’m in the US and don’t have to follow those rules.

I recently got into home roasting and it’s been awesome. I have a bio light that runs on wood, and I just knocked down a couple trees on my property, so infinite free heat source that I can use outdoors. I also prefer a bit of an uneven roast as well cause it gives you a bit of a black and tan flavor.

Ya, I got hit with a $100 fee because I didn’t replace the specialty lightbulb above the stove that burnt out 4 years ago.

I can’t check right now, but I know for certain I had at least 13 years

$74usd/month for 100mbps up and down with a static ip

I scanned the comments way too long to find this. I’m still sporting my MI fit 2 that’s like…8 years old or something. I’m going to have to look at gadget bridge though, first time in hearing about it. Thanks!