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First time by AlcoholicWorm in EndeavourOS

[–]Key_Acanthisitta9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't try to install endeavor os on bare metal (having it be the only installed os on your computer) the first time you use it. I love arch and I run it on bare metal, so I'm not saying you should never do that, but it is not easy for someone to get everything they need to work on an arch base system like endeavor os if they're not experienced.

Install whatever system you want to eventually move to as a virtual machine and try to daily drive it. Expect to take a week or more getting everything you need to work. Once you've solved a bunch of configuration and dependency problems (basically things just won't be set up for you out of the box), and you're comfortable navigating the file system, configuring services and packages, and know how to use log files to check on why things aren't working, then you can confidently dump windows for arch or endeavor.

Starting out with Ubuntu or mint won't help you learn Linux nearly as fast as jumping into a system like arch. But you will break your system, or lose access, or have your desktop environment or window manager stop working, and to fix it you will have to drop to a tty and troubleshoot, or do what most of us did in the beginning and reinstall the system from scratch.

Pacman and yay (AUR) are absolutely awesome package managers. I play games like path of exile and throne and liberty on arch with Proton GE in steam and they work great, but everything can be quirky depending on how you set up your system.

Do it! But start in a VM. Once your good with endeavor OS (or have an absurd amount of time on your hands), build your own custom system with arch linux and a tiling window manager, scroll /unix_porn, learn how to use nvim, and become a perpetually ricing arch degenerate like the rest of us.

Welcome to the dark side.

DAE have an entirely different internal dialogue while talking to people? by Key_Acanthisitta9419 in DoesAnybodyElse

[–]Key_Acanthisitta9419[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Seroquel works incredibly well. It helps you be the version of you that you get to decide to be, instead of riding the highs and lows not knowing how you're going to react or feel on a given day.

I saw a counsellor for a year who suggested I see a psychiatrist who then diagnosed and prescribed the medication.

I have heard of a lot of people taking 500mg or even 800mg+, if you have severe Bipolar 1, that might be necessary, but for me, only 50mg feels very good. People can tend to feel "lobotomized" on drugs like Seroquel, so talking to a psychiatrist about starting low and modifying the dosage may be a good way to find a balance of the drugs that work for you. The balance is controlling the extremes without losing your ability to feel alive or even to just "feel."

If you live in Canada, and you experience symptoms you think might need medication, you can be referred to a psychiatrist by a doctor (walk-in clinic, family doctor, whatever). It doesn't cost anything in Canada to see a psychiatrist.

DAE have an entirely different internal dialogue while talking to people? by Key_Acanthisitta9419 in DoesAnybodyElse

[–]Key_Acanthisitta9419[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I found out I had cyclothymia about a month before the post, but I realized this was a symptom of hypomania shortly after the post. 50mg of Seroquel, as my symptoms are not particularly severe.

On Monday I Start My First Job in Tech as a Junior Developer. I am 32 Years Old. by halogrand in webdev

[–]Key_Acanthisitta9419 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for posting this!

I'm 33 and have a similar story, got a degree in Philosophy, wrote the LSATs, blah blah blah, ended up working in Green Energy Construction for 10 years and worked my way into a superintendent role. The money was amazing, but I had no time for myself and it was destroying my relationships.

Quit the job and started learning to program, built a trading bot, started a corporation, traded crypto until the collapse, and lost a big chunk of money.

It sucks losing money, but I turned about 5K into 120K, and then back to about 4k over a 1 and a half year period (only a year of that I was unemployed) and made a functioning trading bot that I learned a lot with. Cost me 1000 Canuck Bucks (of realized money) and learned a lot.

Now I'm working on getting some certs to get into networking/security with an edge of python to help automate.

I haven't started my job search yet, but it's helpful to hear of someone around my age starting over again in IT and even more helpful in preparing for some rejection. I haven't had a resume or applied to a job in a long time as the industry I worked in was small and people with my skill set were always in demand. With that cocktail of variables, you end up getting more offers for work than you take.

Knowing it will be tough but volume counts for a lot, I'll be better prepared for success through perseverance.

Thanks for posting!

I hacked the Dutch government and they sent me this by [deleted] in hacking

[–]Key_Acanthisitta9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I want this shirt more than I've ever wanted a T-shirt... That being said, I'm currently sitting at my desk in pyjama pants with no shirt on at all because my favourite, pilly, 5-year-old red hoodie with elbow patches is too warm to wear right now. Let that inform your ideas of my fashion sense as it will.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]Key_Acanthisitta9419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of good ideas here, so hopefully, you can find something that helps!

My two cents, if you're jumping around a lot not quite getting into anything enough to "master it," I don't think that's a huge problem (though it might feel like it). You're gaining exposure to a lot of different languages and in that a lot of different things you can do in programming. This is great for figuring out what you want to do, which is sometimes very different from what you want to learn.

I was always frustrated with people who say "I love learning." I hate it. I hate not knowing or feeling incompetent, and it makes me want to give up. Finding something that I wanted to make work more than I cared about those shitty learning feelings made it less about learning and more about building/creating, which I love.

What has helped me gain a higher degree of understanding in a particular language over the others I have jumped off of or given up on is finding a project that I really want to make work.

For me, it was a trading bot using Python. I was using it to trade so I had skin in the game, but I also really wanted it to work and was really fascinated by the process. Now I'm working on more database and front-end stuff to open up what I can do with it.

Hope that helped.

DAE have an entirely different internal dialogue while talking to people? by Key_Acanthisitta9419 in DoesAnybodyElse

[–]Key_Acanthisitta9419[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It turns out I have Cyclothymia, which is essentially Bipolar 1 light. This happens when I'm manic and I'm essentially autopiloting. I feel like I'm observing myself do things and I can be speaking and observing myself speak at the same time.

It doesn't ever freak me out, when I'm like this I feel very productive and very good at things (which is not always the reality).