I mean, for me personally money was only part of the equation considering I was willing to put myself in debt. I could have better job security doing a trade job if money was the only factor. I also found computers inheritly interesting and the job was in high demand at the time. It all has backfired now though, despite developing a passion for tech and software overtime. I honestly SHOULD have done something only for the money instead of finding the best of both worlds, but hindsight is 20/20 I suppose

Ah yes, it's safety that makes newer cars expensive you see. Not the wireless key-fobs, power seats, built in ipad to replace the perfectly fine knobs and buttons, autonomous driving features...

Guess we need to use capitalism to destroy capitalism like that jREG skit

The government is shutdown, people are starving, flights are being cancelled, inflation is being suffocating, and people are being kidnapped at the streets. So obviously, the name of a new football stadium is DEFINITELY what he should be focusing on. Fucking hell

I have it working on Ubuntu 25.10 and it worked out of the box for me. So I'm not sure if they added the drivers for experimental releases of Ubuntu or I had them unknowingly installed somehow. Therefore, no idea what to tell you other than try Ubuntu 25.10?

Huh, I actually didn't know that, point taken. I didn't know China had elections in general

This is why I keep my phone in a spot for me to physically get up to turn off the alarm so that morning me can't just "rest your eyes"

What's a backbone?

You don't even need to say something, just become a "security risk" to them by using uBlock Origin to block their trackers. In other words, how I personally got banned. Anyway, welcome to Lemmy!

You could also run Google Play Services for essential apps like for your bank account as an example under a "work profile" using Shelter to isolate them into their own environment. However, I'm not sure how well that's going to work after the app verification update since Shelter won't ever be on Google Play, but Shelter will be evaluated as admin in that environment alongside Google Play Services. So, who knows?

You're so right. That's why I graduated with a degree in computer science with a 3.58 GPA whilst carrying my teams on projects and worked my ass off to apply to many jobs and internships during my education as well as learning additional skills not being taught to me on the side...only to be met with nothing but rejection after rejection without so much as an internview. Guess I should just work at Walmart for $14/hr because I'm a talentless hack that will never amount to anything. $70,000 well spent!

I was banned from Reddit as a "security precaution" which I assume means they didn't like the fact that my browser was always security hardened thus they couldn't track me to feed me ads.

I was already considering leaving for Lemmy, but when they straight up banned me for doing nothing wrong other than protect my privacy, that was the final straw. Mind you, I didn't even use Reddit that frequently anyway, which made me all the more baffled by their sudden decision with no warnings at all.