@donkulator No matter how pressed for time I am - I always read the script. Always! Especially if it's run as root.

@IHateForALiving What a cute little kitten!

XFCE - (Xubuntu's default UI is decent)

@jestdotty I find this to be true in Linux. But the alternative is losing your freedom/privacy.

Nice variable names bro.

@iceb They got laxed apparently.

It's always done right by me. :-)

Of course, I don't fuck with frameworks so... I guess you could say my experience isn't the typical one.

I'd try Xubuntu - it's lighter weight. If that isn't light enough for you, maybe try Puppy Linux?

"You don't need AOL to use the Internet! You can use any dialup provider with any browser you want."

I've worked with people who code like this. I have no patience for it. I'm a programming perfectionist and I expect nothing less from others.

This is what updates should look like IMO...

Edit: Also add to the list - 1 remote developer that can't login via VPN.

@Grumm

That helps. But the point remains that it's not cool to reboot someone else's computer without asking them. In fact - no one should be doing anything without the user's knowledge / permission.

Disclosure: I'm a hard-core Linux user - I use exclusively Linux for work, personal and entertainment. I still need to support it for my users and certain applications that require it.

All the fucking time man.

That sucks majorly. I would suggest checking in your work frequently - so that you don't go off in some different direction from development. It's happened to me before - not with git but just working on shared files with a bunch of other dudes.

That's cool.

It made my life easier too. I can ask it to write examples of how to do something and paste it into my code. Although you still need to be a good programmer - 1. to know what pieces to ask for 2. to recognize if the things it produces won't work, and why.

It works especially good if you're looking for something that's kind of specific and combines 2 or more different topics in some way that's a bit too specific to find an example for on SO or github.

Or use it to write micro-components.

eg: Print 'Hi' only mon-fri 8am-5pm:

from datetime import datetime

now = datetime.now()

day_of_week = now.weekday()

hour = now.hour

if day_of_week >= 0 and day_of_week <= 4 and hour >= 7 and hour < 18:

print('Hi')

Then put whatever you want in place of the print statement.

What the hell's in your tea dude?

Glad it worked out.

That's just not right.

@Sid2006 Same here (the 75% thing).

7?

andddd... to also write on the side, all the things I wanted to have for myself but didn't have time to do or was too lazy to do outside of work hours.

Personally, I see it being a big time saver. I don't feel threatened by it. I've always had a reputation in the industry for being "that guy" you call when no one else can figure it out. It's not a brag - a curse. To me it always meant that if I needed help with something there weren't many people to turn to. But now, I have ChatGPT.

Another example, write a command line weather app that uses unicode characters to express the weather condition (eg rainy unicode char, sunny unicode, etc...) 10 seconds later... done. Why? Because my Ubuntu XFCE task bar weather app is shitty and often was 10 or more degrees off and I wanted better.

I had a similar thing happen - not as harrowing as your story sounds but it was a convenience to have ChatGPT write a mock of something I wanted to have - an Edge extension for script injections.

Why? Just for fun - because I wanted one and didn't want some big bloated project from some app store. Now I have it. :-)

Well anyways I searched around the documentation - no working examples (examples, but they didn't work). Stack overflow - pretty much the same. A lot of different ways to do a thing - none of which worked. ChatGPT - got it right on the first try.

I've been using it to write things to integrate into my shit at work andddd...

That's good dude! What's it do?

@netikras Not doing autoremove. I lost an nvidia driver that way.

@happygimp0 Well, here's what happened - the updates indicated they were a bunch of nvidia* repo entries that were no longer needed. Now, I just assumed that they were being uninstalled because newer versions had been installed. It made sense as this happens every time my kernel gets updated. I guess this was not the case. Nothing like this has happened to me before and I use only Linux - at home and work (I'm the only one) for many years.

Somebody fucked up.

That is a very! very! good idea - coming from someone who just got dicked over by some similar fuckery.

Well, I like it - as the name suggests. :-)

As a language JS is not that bad. With a zillion frameworks, package managers and multilayered dependencies, well ... you know where that goes.

Besides, be lucky you're not in the parallel universe where <script language="VBScript"> won over <script language="JavaScript"> - or C or fortran - yuck!

Fuck, at that point you might be better off writing something from scratch. It never ceases to surprise me how good something can come out if it's completely written anew.