Since you’re saying “pieces of software” and not specifically apps I will mention Node.js, the programming framework for javascript apps that run outside of a browser. You can develop websites and services or standalone apps that just run locally. There’s a whole universe of free packages people have created for it.
OnShape for designing 3d objects. I’ve been using it for 3 or 4 years, after outgrowing TinkerCad (which is also good and beginner-friendly, but limited). It’s an online app, nothing to download or install. The free version is fast and full-featured. The only difference between it and the paid version is that in the free version your designs are all public. So if I were doing 3d design for business I probably would use software that resides on my computer. But as a hobbyist IDGAF.
In-person tabletop RPGs. My group have been playing 1st Edition AD&D and a compact, modernized version of D&D Basic/Expert called Old School Essentials.
If cyberterrorists really want to know who’s gonna be late to my D&D game and what food we’re having, I guess there’s no way we’re gonna stop 'em. I blame Kamala’s weak campaign.
When you “have” to keep making new versions to satisfy market “demand” in the “free” market.
This brings back a college memory - one dorm I lived in was so boring I once drew a crowd of 5 while playing solitaire in the common room. It happened another time when I was making a Halloween costume by drawing a giant Jack of Hearts on a bed sheet with markers, holding the actual card up in my hand as a guide - but that one was more understandable.
In other stunning news, researchers find people who like sports spend more time watching it than playing it.
I’m about to switch from Windows back to Ubuntu, which I ran for a year or two but I missed Photoshop and Visual Studio. I’ve been using VSCode for dev work for a while and it’s fine, and I can live with Gimp. I haven’t used Office in years (Google docs & sheets are great). So I really don’t expect to miss anything this time.
Two video terms: Variable Refresh Rate and Low Framerate Compensation (adjusting the refresh rate for the framerate of a slower video source). Both pertain mostly in gaming and entertainment software.
CUA is Common User Access, which just means standards such as universally implementing Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V for copy/paste in apps. Linux devs do tend to follow common conventions, they just aren’t as strictly enforced as when a corporation has near-total control over the software.
I don’t even know wtf Stripe is, but by all means boycott the company because you don’t like what the CEO did. Fuck the employees who might get laid off as a result, the important thing is to feel like avenging angels and lash out at a CEO. Brilliant!
One thing I really do hate is a download page with a giant green DOWNLOAD button that’s just an ad link, and the thing I went there to download is a tiny text link.
I imagine it’s like me trying to watch a TV show with commercials after 20 years of Netflix. Holy crap, I don’t know how I ever grew up with all that noise.
LOL yeah I actually understand that last part LOL (former web dev, retired). Sites jinking around while the ads load and I’ve already started reading the content are super annoying.
If pi-hole blocks all ads how does the web look? Do pages have a lot of blank areas on them or what?
On the upside, people who sometimes wonder if the person arguing with them is a high school sophomore won’t have to wonder anymore.
Same question. I kinda hoped it would be here, but many lemmy communities are just reddit with a better UI. Lots of good links in this thread tho!
Basically just to have enough free time to make my cousin a 3d-printed version of this laser-guided pizza cutter as a joke gift.
First part is what I was thinking - have the sensitive data on a server for the laptop to access. Of course an unscrupulous user can always save any data they want. But it’s totally normal for companies to give temp employees access to their internal data. Their standard method of protection is to make the person sign an NDA. The threat of expensive legal action deters most people from violating it.
SOMEONE SET UP US THE BOMB.
Create a function that goes into an infinite loop. Then test that function.