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trust me I hate Linkedin as much as the next person. research what you need to do in order to be a contractor (i.e. taxes being a big thing to remember) and just deal with the bullshit that’s linkedin. You’re there just to have clients find you. Don’t use it as a search to find people because like I previously said and you pointed out they’re not going to openly admit they fucked up and trust me even when you do get on a call with them or email exchange in a funny way they still won’t openly admit they fucked up and will continue to tip toe around the fact. It’s almost comical.

like it or not Linkedin unfortunately. Prior to what I do now I was just a regular consultant dev and decided to pivot to essentially being a sort of “digital janitor”. I had an existing client base but those clients were smart enough to not even bother with leveraging LLMs for their work, they already had a solid team of developers. Some work I got via client referrals but most was honestly just posting comments/small blogs on Linkedin and arguing with tech bros. Tech Bro posts their usual BS AI slop, I’d reply saying how idiotic and wrong they were, other companies took notice and figured “ok we’re in a bind, this guy seems to know what he’s talking about, lets get on a call with him”

Remember most of these AI tech bros are out of work middle management wannabes so get in their threads and call them out. Many small dev houses and startups are currently trying to snuff out LLM fires but are afraid to admit they fucked up due to investors, clients, and what have you so they’re not going to out right post jobs stating they need help with it. you have to let them know you’re out there. Post on linkedin, cold email places, etc. Also highlight the fact you do code review on your resume. This is one skillset that is massively in demand right now because of LLMs. Not everyone can do it and do it well but it’s something that isn’t that difficult to get good at. You pretty much have to be willing to become a freelancer/consultant and take on several clients at once and then build your reputation. After awhile if you’re good at it you won’t need to advertise your services anymore as word will spread and clients will be beating down your door hoping you can save them. I’ve been booked solid for almost the past year. And it’s not hard work at all either, dare I say doing what I do now is 10x easier than just doing regular dev work because the vast majority of issues are all the same. Client leverages AI for an end to end build, it doesn’t scale, way too many exploits, a series of #TODOS that the LLM claimed were complete but weren’t even started and the “vibe coder” behind it all didn’t know any better. it’s the same song and dance with each company. You’ll eventually end up doing maybe 3 to 4 hours of work a day just reviewing code and writing reports and then fuck off and play a videogame or something.

Honestly the best thing that’s ever happened to me in my career is the AI bubble. not because it’s a good thing, it’s a god damn horrible thing, and because it sucks I’m making money now fixing other companies reliance on it. that’s it. Without that I’d probably be unemployed right now.

Now i’m just saving pretty much everything I make because I need to finish before the bubble bursts. I’ve essentially entered myself into a race that I NEED to win very soon.

easily bypassed though. literally just refresh your browser a few times and it’ll stop asking you for 2FA.

it’s because with Archinstall it tells you what to do/setup as opposed to the user having to utilize something like the Arch Wiki to set it up. So it acts almost like any other distro install. It walks you through the process.

I would suggest when you decide to give Arch a go for the first time to start out with something like CachyOS to get your legs under you so you can easily understand it. That being said Arch is painfully easy to install now thanks to Archinstall but going the CachyOS route it’ll install the packages you need and then you can understand what you do and don’t need when it comes time to install regular Arch. Otherwise you might just install Arch and then wonder why some stuff doesn’t work because you didn’t install certain packages.

wouldn’t it be beneficial for these workers to go back to their home countries so they’re safe and continue to work for Google? Places like Google or Amazon you don’t need to be in the office. Shit I know devs that work at Amazon that absolutely 100% don’t need to be in an amazon office because A. they don’t have their own desks. B. most are on call anyways. And C. most just end up sleeping or eating there instead of working.

do you? or do your Democratic Reps just spout bullshit? so Ro Khanna threatening prosecution and jail time is just a nothing burger?

how’s that rage bait? your own rep Ro Khanna threatened Bondi with jailtime and prosecution if the full files aren’t release, they’re not being released.

Christ on a cracker grow up.

ok so go arrest Bondi like you said you were gonna but you actually won’t.

Heaven forbid a Democrat actually does what they say they’re going to do.

oh look David Blaine does magic for rapist pedophiles.

same. I looked at the under $12 for example and I own most of it.

there’s nothing there that makes me want to pull out my wallet. MAYBE Jurassic World Evolution 2. maybe. I’m just not seeing anything that I really want.

if you like vim navigation there’s Qutebrowser. I use that as my daily driver and I love it. will never use another browser again.

start with Mint, get your legs under you, after a couple weeks or so if you want to explore try something else. it’s as easy as that.

the beginning of Halo 2 is so good. This right here probably being my favourite level in the entire franchise other than the entirety of Reach.

about 1 or 2 times a year, consistently, Windows for whatever reason would kill my wifi on my system. uninstalling and reinstalling drivers wouldn’t work, hard resetting wouldn’t work, nothing. Just randomly disabled my wifi and looking online the ONLY solution was a complete reinstall of the OS. I don’t know why it did this, but it was an annual thing for me to have to reinstall the OS just to get wifi working again.

I had enough. decided to try a live usb of Linux Mint and I liked it so I installed it on my system. after 2 weeks I switched to CachyOS and now i’m on NixOS.

it’s not though. I just tried it and you can’t highlight text and then scroll through fonts. you still need to know specifically what font you want or know all the fonts installed on your system. Unlike photoshop where you can highlight text and then scroll through the fonts you have installed which will change the highlighted text to whatever font on the fly. Gimp still to this day doesn’t do that.

if this improves how gimp handles fonts I’d use it.

now that is one VERY controversial and brave opinion. I admire you for it.

I mean hell the US was originally founded on this

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”