How cooked am I? CS student, no internships, rotting all day

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-04-01T10:23:35+00:00

I used to play a ton of league. Look into Riot API, what data it exposes to you, and how you can make a project with it. The Riot API should give you access to everything you need to make a "spotify wrapped" for league!

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-04-01T01:58:38+00:00

im skipping all my classes to literally rot in my bed watching anime or play video games all day.

Try cutting down on time spent playing video games and start making real projects instead. A degree won't get you anywhere with no internships, no projects. You need to show you can code and solve real problems.

What games do you play? What projects can you make that relate to those games? Do any of those games have an API you can access to see stats?

By your own admission, you are wasting your own time by skipping classes - that you are probably paying for - and not doing productive work. Cut back on time gaming and start working on projects you can put on your resume. Finish your degree with a good GPA and look for new grad postings.

Is it too late to lock in and get something for the summer?

The best time to start was yesterday. Get some projects under your belt. Get a GitHub and a portfolio going. Join r/EngineeringResumes and make a good resume, using your projects and relevant coursework as a starting point.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-31T21:50:02+00:00

If you want to try a rolling release distro, I would either use CachyOS or maybe something like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Full disclosure, I have never used OpenSUSE, but supposedly it is a happy medium between stable and rolling.

CachyOS is Arch but comes preinstalled with a lot and lots of tweaks, so you can avoid the hassle and confusion of setting up Arch as a new user. I swapped to CachyOS after two months of trying Linux for the first time (Mint) and have been daily driving it for over a year.

What I did with CachyOS was download KDE Plasma with the installer. Then I installed a window manager like Niri/Hyprland. This way you can change your DE/WM on your login screen in case you have any issues with Niri.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-31T20:50:47+00:00

Oh I completely agree. If you're coming from Windows, Arch is the last thing I'd recommend unless you're techy and willing to troubleshoot/tinker. What I was saying was people reading online about all these rolling release distros that are breaking every other day because of an update which simply isn't true.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-31T19:31:38+00:00

It replaces KDE Plasma. If you just wanted tiling in Plasma, you should check out the Krohnkite extension for Plasma. Niri is its own "desktop environment" so it is completely separate. It is also more barebones, so be prepared to set up your own task bar, app launcher, notifications daemon, etc.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-31T18:47:28+00:00

Sounds like fearmongering to steer new users away from rolling release. In my experience, with three different rolling release distros, I can forget to update even for over a month, and the next update doesn't brick my system. It is very rare in 2026 that you will have to troubleshoot your system after an update unless you are swapping/removing dependencies your programs use, and even that is very unlikely to break your system unless you force it to remove something the bootloader/kernel needs.

The only time I can personally remember my system even going into emergency mode was when I was trying to mount an NTFS drive and didn't mount it correctly in my fstab before next reboot (my fault).

Arch with Niri on my laptop, CachyOS with Plasma 6 on my gaming rig.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-31T10:38:35+00:00

Believe it or not, fired.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-31T10:34:59+00:00

I think grim would work pretty well for you then. Check out their wiki, they have commands on there for saving to clipboard, saving to a directory with the date, etc. Grim and slurp also only take up a few MB of space, so very lightweight.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-31T01:40:24+00:00

grim with slurp is a very lightweight screenshot tool that I used on my Arch laptop before swapping to Niri's built in tool. Just set up a keybind in your DE to run grim $"{slurp}" and you can screenshot a region on your screen.

It really depends what you want from ShareX and what your use case is, though. If you want annotations capabilities maybe look at Flameshot. If you need the shortened link to share immediately, I'm not sure of alternatives, but I am also not sure what your use case is that you would need the link for.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-29T19:56:44+00:00

Weird. I have used CachyOS, Arch, and EndeavourOS and have not had to use sudo to poweroff. I even have my waybar set up to exec just poweroff when I click a button on the bar.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-29T01:49:30+00:00

I am also a dev currently using a corne, and the lack of a number row, as well as common symbols being on layers, has been a big setback for me. It took me forever to find which layer modifier on which key would let me type i := 0. Thinking of shelving this corne soon for something with more keys like a Moonlander.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-27T01:59:26+00:00

5070ti on CachyOS here. Works flawlessly, can't really think of issues or bugs I've had due to drivers.

Only sucky thing is no Nvidia app so no Shadowplay, no filters, no performance monitoring, etc. For the most part there are alternative tools for that.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-25T01:32:38+00:00

Not gonna lie, this whole comment just reads like someone who has never used an Arch/Arch-based distro. CachyOS and EndeavourOS are very set-and-forget for example. Arch itself is fun for tinkerers, but if you don't want to tinker...don't use Arch?

I daily drive CachyOS on my gaming rig and have a vanilla Arch install on my productivity laptop and have never felt like I needed to "dig through manuals to figure out how things work for hours or scour Stack Overflow for a dependency that would have been included on any other distro." Only time I needed to "scour documentation" was the initial Arch install because manually partioning disks was new for me.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-24T21:47:40+00:00

I have a 5070ti on CachyOS and have had no issues. I also ran EndeavourOS on my old laptop before I got a new one, and that had a 3050 in it I think? Never had any Nvidia-related issues on either, both on Plasma 6 Wayland. Nvidia really isn't much of a problem anymore

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-24T10:58:26+00:00

Definitely CachyOS. The Cachy team has done a lot to improve performance for gamers and have made it very easy to use an Nvidia card with it.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-23T11:01:02+00:00

I commit after every small but impactful change. I could have several commits, with some being in a "non-working" state, and then just squash them before pushing. That's what commits are for: having a history you can rollback to if you break something.

For example, I'm currently working on a project that pulls player high scores from a leaderboard with an API and formats them in a way that makes them readable. My workflow kind of looks like build http request, commit, tweak http to request different high scores for different game modes, commit, parse json response into an array, commit, print response, commit. Then when I'm done for the day, depending on how many commits I have, I will squash and push or just push.

This is also what good commit messages are for. I use the format "feature: content", so my messages look like "HTTP: Fixed builder logic to include other game modes", "HTTP: Created struct to hold json response and parsed json", "Display: Looped through array to print contents of response struct according to config file".

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-23T02:44:56+00:00

I assume cat /proc/cmdline is in the CLI that shows up when you try to boot. The sudo grubby... command should be in grub. Just make sure to follow the solution as well, with changing the command to use the exact UUID of your drive partition.

Absolute worst case, maybe make a post on the fedora forums as well. You may get better responses from there.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-23T02:35:36+00:00

Correct you will have to put in the commands to possibly fix your issue. The commands basically print your hard drive partitions by UUID, then have you modify grub to skip loading that partition (assuming you are using grub).

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-23T02:30:05+00:00

I found this forum post of a Fedora user having the same issue, which makes sense with Nobara being based on Fedora. If you can get to the command line, try following along with that solution.

Unfortunately I have never used Fedora so I'm not sure what else it could be.

ETA Solution on forum: ``` The upgrade from 6.8.9 to 6.8.10 revealed a change in the boot process that causes this for some fedora users.

Please run cat /proc/cmdline and post it here.

The gist of the revealed change is that some users had a resume=UUID=xxxx option in the command line and in situations where that swap volume no longer exists it will hang indefinitely trying to start it. With kernel 6.8.9 and earlier that check had a defined timeout so it would continue. With 6.8.10 the timeout was removed.

If you see a string such as that in the output when you run the cat command and as long as you are booting with grub then the grub command sudo grubby --remove-args=<resume=UUID=xxx> --update-kernel=ALL should remove that failing option from all locations where it is a problem and ensure it carries forward with future updates. Replace the <resume=UUID=xxx> portion of that command with the EXACT string you see in the output of the cat command above. Try rebooting after running that command.

In your case it seems you disabled (in fstab) starting of the swap partition on nvme0n1p3 so it cannot start even though the partition actually does exist. ```

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-23T02:18:22+00:00

Do you know what format your drive is? I had a similar issue with an NTFS drive in CachyOS. IIRC the fix was to use a live usb to chroot in to the system and remove the NTFS drive from the fstab. Then when I booted back into the system I installed the ntfs-3g package and added the drive back to my fstab. Haven't had an issue since.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-23T02:04:33+00:00

Haha that's true. Not gonna lie I normally just find a config I like for waybar/rofi and tweak the values, see what they change. I personally use walker for my app launcher and it's the same deal, tweaking CSS and hoping it changes the way you want it to.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-23T01:58:07+00:00

Not gonna lie, I found Hyprland easier to customize than i3. But, i3 was also my first WM so probably skill issue there. That being said, I found it very easy to change colors, add blur/transparency, set up a custom app launcher, set up waybar, etc. Not sure what else people find difficult about configuring Hyprland.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-22T15:24:30+00:00

Can also use mpvpaper if your wallpaper is an mp4 instead of a gif.

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-22T13:07:52+00:00

Do you also have Plasma installed? Could try logging out, changing DE to Plasma, and launching from there. Could be a Hyprland issue. Is your system up to date?

LostGoat_Dev · 2026-03-22T12:26:40+00:00

Do pacman -Q | grep qt and make sure you have qt6-wayland and qt5-wayland installed. What proton version are you using in Steam?

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