Heck yeah…Just in time to make a push to finish my CS degree right at the height of the .com boom and Y2K cleanup. The world is my oyster. If I can reuse my current knowledge, maybe go join some startup that actually makes it.

My thought as well. At what point do international flights refuse to land on US airports because it’s too dangerous?

That’s basically what Musk and DOGE were trying to do earlier this year. So yeah that doesn’t seem very far fetched.

Remote, because my commute would be 140 miles round-trip again. Otherwise I mostly enjoy working in an office with people and I don’t mind going in every few months or so.

Remote is also nice because it actually makes it easier to collaborate with other developers when we can both be at our own keyboards and share screens.

I work well alone, but I spend a lot in time in calls, either work meetings or collaborating on code. I do enjoy the social aspect of that as well.

I use AI pretty much every day, but mostly as a search engine/SO replacement. I rarely let it write my code for me, since I’ve had overall poor results with that. Besides, I have to verify the code anyway. I do use it for simple refactoring or code generation like “create a c# class mapped to this table with entity framework”.

I don’t understand your response. They’re talking about SQL the language. To my knowledge, sqlite implements its own dialect of SQL. What am I missing?

Does that include services like health care, insurance, etc?

My fat ass: “a vault full of chicken breast?”

Looks like your Windows 11 update is almost complete. Or it could be fleas, bed bugs, or lice. I’m not a bugologist.

Would it count if they used one of these?

Entertaining! Well done. LGTM and ⛴️

Those lines are mostly comments, right? Right?

This is one of the reasons I prefer using ctrl-insert/shift-insert when it’s available. Unfortunately the Insert key seems to have disappeared from a lot of keyboards. Scroll lock sometimes works instead of ctrl-s and ctrl-q. I would be ok remapping ctrl-c to ctrl-break, but I still use ctrl-z to background a job. Would be great if terminals had a quick easy way to select your preference of Microsoft, unix, or CUA shortcuts.

I don’t mind that fishing exists and I understand many people enjoy it as a kind of zen. I personally would enjoy it more if it were more engaging.

You’re right, I could just choose to ignore it if it has nothing of value to me.

However, at least in ESO, tons of achievements and rewards are locked behind fishing activities. I could ignore their as well, but I would prefer if I could enjoy a more engaging fishing mini game (like their scrying is tedious but at least you’re actively doing something).

Good point! I suggest fishing spears if only to grief the players who are begging for spears as a melee weapon in ESO.

But more seriously: a spear mechanic at least would have an element of skill to aim at the fish and account for refraction - or something. Not just pure chance.

Anything that is 100% chance and just wasting time, with no meaningful way for the player to influence the odds. For example, how fishing is implemented in some MMOs like ESO: you can eat a buff food and use the correct bait for the water, but beyond that you’re just waiting in agony until the random timer dings. Then you do that 12 times before moving to the next hole, etc. “Waiting” isn’t an enjoyable mechanic.

That’s because it’s not 5G like some conspiracy theorists will have you believe, but a mundane Romulan war horse, instead.

Thank you for the advice. I did try to change the runtime a couple of times before, but I don’t know for sure if GE-Proton was one. I tried using Lutris again like I did before so I could select GE-proton, but this the installer would not even finish. Since I use GOG also, I decided to try the Heroic Launcher flatpak, and that installed Battle.net just fine. I’m now downloading WoW and I’ll keep you posted how that goes.

Edit: that worked! No noticeable issues so far.

That is exactly where I had to give up as well. It’s the bad file descriptor error.

I was just trying to get this working yesterday on Fedora 42. I have had it working before, with Lutris. All I did was use the configuration downloaded from the Lutris website. Basically it downloads and installs the Battle.net installer with Wine, so you will be running a custom Wine configuration for Battle.net. From there I was able to install and run World of Warcraft. That was about a year ago.

However, when I last tried it this week, I can install the Battle.net launcher fine, and I can log in, but it will keep giving me errors when I try to actually run it and I can never get to where I can actually install any games. The error is something about it going to sleep, but that’s about as far as I got.

Hopefully someone else can help.

• see if there’s literally anything else you can do to improve or polish what you just worked on
• set if there’s anyone else that might need help with their work or who you can mentor
• learn new things you can put on your resume it that will help you in your job
• learn stuff in general that isn’t directly work related, but maybe related to your next job/what you would like to work with