That’s solid advice. I think I have my identity wrapped up too much in my career, so when I dislike my job, I feel unsatisfied in life. I will try to see it as means to an end more than who I am.

I tried using VScode to play around with Golang. I had to quit coding to take care of something else. I hit save, and suddenly I have way fewer lines of code. WTF? Why did/would saving delete code? After much digging, it turns out because the all knowing VSCode thought because I had not yet referenced my variables, I never would, and since my code I wanted to save and continue later wouldn’t compile, it must be quelled. Off with its head!

Anyway, I decided to use vim instead. When I did :wq, the file was saved exactly as I had typed it.

I definitely have moments like this too. I have been reflecting more lately and trying to decide if the feeling is temporary or permanent. I have been pondering what else I would do. Are you considering a career change, and if so, what would you do instead? I don’t know if I could transition to something else without going back to school, and it would kill me a bit inside to take out more student loans.

The one asks how to do something. The other gives 13 steps of instructions. The 14th step is “??? I don’t know. This is where I got stuck too in the same way as OP.”

They give the example of “job” vs “occupation” but then talk about the headlines "Meghan and Harry are talking to Oprah. Here’s why they shouldn’t say too much” vs. “Are Meghan and Harry spilling royal tea to Oprah? Don’t bet on it.”

This doesn’t seem to fit the simple words narrative they just set up. To me, this is standard language vs. slang. The first one sounds like it may be objective and fact-based, and the second sounds like it was written by a gabby middle schooler.

I would likely not be interested in the content either way, but I would be far more likely to click on the drivel-free headline.

The problem is that we already value our land as much as Russia does, so we resist them taking it.

In US. politics, red refers to places with a (usually large) majority of Republican voters.

It’s also nice because I can charge my entire family’s phones all at once. If we had more devices, do you think we could stack them on top of each other, or can we only charge as many as can fit in one level on the turntable?

I think it’s if it produces both a thick gas cloud and Fruitloops. If it’s only one of those, it may still be good.

A lot of Lemmy users are here because we left reddit. However, it’s kind of an unspoken rule that we don’t really talk about it. People would rather focus on making Lemmy good by talking about things other than Reddit. I am sorry you had a bad experience at Reddit. I did too. But say “Goosfraba” and move on with enjoying a Reddit-less life. Welcome to Lemmy!

cough android

I used Pandora for a long time. I was relatively happy with it. I usually start with someone’s existing station and then thumbs down and thumbs up the various songs to fine tune it to what I like.

After years of hearing about Spotify, which I thought was a paid service, I found out it was free. I decided to give it a go. I created an account and signed in and picked a channel of what was popular on Spotify.

The very first song was one I didn’t like. I tried to skip it and couldn’t. I tried to “thumbs down” it, Pandora style, so it wouldn’t play that song again. No such feature. I looked for a way to never play music from that artist. I couldn’t. I left Spotify after less than one song.

With how aggressively they seem to shove music you don’t like in your face, I am not really surprised they aren’t doing well.

You are not the asshole. The purpose of that community is to have communication with humans. When a bot posts a question there, there is no reason to respond. It’s not a human asking, and the human that originally asked in another forum will never see the response. I blocked that spammy bot, and have enjoyed my feed way better since.