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@stevenaleach@sigmoid.social @jon@vivaldi.net Yea definitely smartphones decreased the attention span.

@drgroftehauge @jon I’m talking about the increase the mobile phone use vs Desktop use.

Edit: I also believe a lot of people didn’t know it was a multi selection poll.

@MorpheusB@aus.social @jon@vivaldi.net I see. I get what you’re after now. It’s always better than mobile phone for sure. And most likely much more ergonomic than a laptop. I just hope the performance are good enough to your liking.

Gpu you don’t really need I suppose. So igpu would be sufficient. Maybe ideally with a fast amd 7040 series cpu and ddr5 would be blazing fast. Together with a fast m2 ssd indeed.

@MorpheusB@aus.social @jon@vivaldi.net ah I see. That sounds like a in between desktop and laptop kinda system. Sounds actually pretty cool.

What about your screen? Especially how do you bring that on eye level?

@MorpheusB@aus.social @jon@vivaldi.net and use the cloud for all the compute☁️? No thanks. Just give me a workstation already 🤣🤗

@stevenaleach@sigmoid.social @jon@vivaldi.net I also dislike the default mastodon character limit! Why? Because we are afraid of any arbitrary lengthy text? It’s the fediverse, not X or Facebook!

@stevenaleach @jon Definitely. The smartphone decreased the attention span, if only because of the “social media”.

We went from books to newspaper, to mainly online posts and blogs or articles. And now you see most people consume their news from small headlines alone, like on X.

And like you said, reading long in depth stories. Or news. Or other kind of material, only using a small screen on the phone isn’t the same. It’s so small, you get eye strain. Most people didn’t read this last line…

@jon@vivaldi.net sad to see android this high in the list. We are losing the desktop pc’s. I believe the desktop pc is undervalued! And should return to more households. It’s more powerful than a laptop or mobile. You can run Linux. And it’s also more ergonomic than looking down all day. Hehe

@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de Tatsächlich scheint die Migration einfach nicht gut verlaufen zu sein.

@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de “Der Artikel dazu den ich absolut nicht empfehlen kann”?

Nicht? Warum?

“sudo pg_dropcluster 16 main --stop” Damit soll Version 16 gestoppt werden. Und danach: “sudo pg_upgradecluster 14 main” (upgrade 14->16). Sie sollten Version 14 also nicht stoppen.
Wo genau ist also der Fehler aufgetreten?

@BentiGorlich@wehavecookies.social also the url seems to go to the image, rather than the post 🤨.

Anyway. Bonne soirée.

@melroy@kbin.melroy.org NSFW reply.

@Crunkle_Foreskin Sorry you said you are remote… Plan a INFORM meeting with him. Call it ‘coffee meeting’ or something. He will get it ;).

@Crunkle_Foreskin Thanks for following me. I also have a kbin account btw.

https://kbin.melroy.org/u/melroy (@melroy@kbin.melroy.org), if you wish to follow me as well on kbin. Sorry I replied from Mastodon. I’m also a developer of kbin.

@Crunkle_Foreskin I will point again to my 1.1 bullet. Try to show (eventually) you are not just a junior anymore. In such a way it won’t look bad to the senior developer(s). Hearing your story, I don’t really think you are junior or mid at all.

I hear a lot of passion in the profession from you.

@MNByChoice @Crunkle_Foreskin I fully agree, but the thing is… In each company you might encounter such a developer at least once… :)

@Crunkle_Foreskin can I ask how big the company is? Is it like 50 employees…? Or 150? Or 15000?

@Crunkle_Foreskin I first thought US actually, since they also have a cultural hierarchy. I never worked in the UK, but maybe this same kind of hierarchy exists in UK workforce as well?

Anyway, I’m from The Netherlands. And often the Dutch are very direct. Ask direct questions. Speak-up. Etc. Of course it also depends on the person, people who are very shy quickly remain silent.

I understand you are also afraid to lose your job if you are still in your probation period.

@Crunkle_Foreskin yea I notice this behavior very well. It’s not placement. In fact, very frustrating.

Maybe he is very busy, and doing all kind of stuff as the same time. Causing to lose focus and patience.

Some chit-chat might work… You also can just ask him DIRECTLY: Do you want to share something with me? (maybe there are other things going on? Maybe even not work related)… Or: Why don’t you think my concerns are invalid? And/or: Should I change my communication with you?..

@grmpyprogrammer @Crunkle_Foreskin I think “this is called senior dev” is unwilling, maybe not the lead developer per se.