Hi! I use FreeBSD as a daily driver.

I browse the web, code, and game on it. Works great for me.

My current wishlist is for FreeBSD to have a more robust process supervision system (Dinit I’m looking at you) and for pkg to include some kind of declarative way to build.

It’s great, I love it, join devil Linux.

Thankfully it’s bad enough now that a plurality of young people can’t own property.

My wife and I just had our first, we both make engineer salaries, we can’t afford a home.

Now, to be clear, that’s a good thing; private property is theft. I myself don’t have any interest in home ownership but the fact that even we can’t hopefully ensures that the working class is sufficiently poor enough not be lulled back into complacency.

The bourgeois won’t give up capital without a, literal, fight and the proletariat need to be sufficiently desperate to take it by force.

It’s always refreshing to read something that I can be 100% sure was not written by an AI.

Absolutely goated. There’s just something about it that feels good. I think it’s the fact the it feels a bit like writing Unix pipelines but in reverse. You can visualize data move through your program like pipes.

I too am interested in this. I work at a sort of intersection between traditional backend systems and industrial controls so I see a lot of Java/C# and a lot of Ladder Logic and SFC.

SFC in particular is as close to visual programming as I’ve seen be feasible and one can accomplish quite a bit with it.

I wonder how feasible it would be to develop a visual programming language that worked a bit like stringing together blocks that worked like pure functions where each block was, internally, just a function written in some language. Like some unholy marriage of SFC and Scratch.

PS: What keyboard are you using for the Thorpe character?

Oh come on we know how this works. Age verification is a prelude to digital ID and that “totally optional user field” is a prelude to something not optional. The current incarnation of that PR is optional and user controlled but it leaves us open to more and more.

Never give them an inch

So I actually got my BS CompSci from WGU so I probably fall in this category. Did 2.5 years at community college for a math associates, ran out of money and joined the military, then finished the degree online in my last year in. I suppose all together it came out to about 4 years and it’s accredited so {shrug}

I have mixed feelings about the degree, it got me the job I have now working as a Linux Sysadmin for a robotics company and working towards a role with the robotics Dev team but the education was thin.

Strictly speaking, if you did all the supplemental material you were given the classes were actually dense as hell but the problem was it was way easier to cram for each test.

That being said, I know a lot of CS grads that don’t know what an array is so honestly I think I’m on the side of “maybe cramming all your education into 4 years is worse than just slowly picking at it over a lifetime”.

I think I’d like to see a system like that. Like IT certs but not complete shit.