God that game saying “Find Nathan Gould” over and over.

I think I saw this season of Westworld.

Thanks for the tips. I did some got training a few months ago but hadn’t considered using it for Linux configs.

That is good advice.

Thank you for your advice. I will take it. As a beginner, I’ll start with Mint.

Would your reccomend any other secure distro for the future?

Thanks for the reply. I’m fairy average Joe. I’ll mainly use this machine for downloading files and general browsing. I don’t have any personal files or accounts on that device.

I’m mainly concerned with neglecting to enable (or disabling) something critical or accidentally downloading something malicious (although this hasn’t happened for many many years).

Thanks!

Thanks!

Thanks. I take it that software centre is like a Linux app store?

Doddle = easy Jiffie = quick

Marines quite: “It might be quick, but it ain’t easy.”

I forget the name of it but there is a little known agreement that means digital services aren’t taxed. Example, I can offshore workers who connect to a server in the EU and performs work.

It covers things like Netflix streaming to EU customers without Netflix being taxed.

If you think about it this is a little odd. After all, goods are taxed when imported, why not digital services?

The EU is often criticised for having no digital leader. Switching that tax free hose off might resolve that.

Thanks for that. I’ll move this up the list.

I’ve been flip flopping between JavaScript vs python and landed on JavaScript as it has some libraries I’d like to experiment with.

I’ve written a few lines of python code but just basic training stuff. Hopefully there are some transferable skills from learning JavaScript.

Thank you for the reply.

I’ll do just that. Thanks for the reply!

Ahh yes, I should maybe have posted this somewhere else now I think about it.

For me, I find the barriers to entry are quite high but if you can get a good training vid that covers the building blocks then it’s easy to learn more.

School would be a good place for that initial learning.

The discussion of nuclear power, much like the discussion of communism, is met with entrenched positions on Lemmy.

Break them up!

Ahh yes the: we can’t have self signed certificates for security reasons but also can’t open up the environment to the web, and we dont have our own CA server, trifecta.

Solution: awkward, manual, certificate import process from a 3rd party vendor.

I do this:

1. Tell myself I’m not going to do it. What ever it is, I’m not going to do it.

2. Do the bare minimum thing like: open up a word document, turn on a tap to wash dishes, take something out of a box.

3. By commencing the task I’ll usually default into doing the next part like reading the document, washing a dish, sorting something out.

Additional tips:

• Break big things into small chunks.
• Dont get overloaded. If your a room do it one draw at a time so you can stop when ever. Getting trapped in a “I can’t sleep until this is finished” task is a trap.
• Lists to keep track.

P.S. I was in recruitment 13 years ago and once thought about throwing myself down the stairs to get out of work. I did that job for 2x years and used it to move to a better industry.

You can make change in your life.

Good luck, we’re all counting on you :)

Yes, no one seems to raise this anymore. AI to me has always been something akin to computer sentience.

Things like ‘self healing’ systems are being badeged as AI when they’re little more than an application load balancer.

What was the behind the scenes deal on this? I remember it happening but not the details