i started in a similar fashion (but through IT instead of electrical engineering) and i’ve also left the world of professional software engineering a couple of months ago, but not because of the bad code bases.

it feels like bad/spaghetti code with bad practices are more common than not and i’ve always wondered if the relatively intense level of gatekeeping in the software engineering field is a manifestation of a false mass belief that an engineering degree will automatically result in better code.

I suspect that this is the story for most Linux users; windows failing at a critical need

windows doesn’t show linux partitions correctly.

did you have it setup to ask you which operating system you wanted to boot and do you still see it?

in 2002 when my windows me computer start looping on the blue screen of death, with all of my college papers/essays/tests/assignments trapped in it.

the recovery media refused to work because i had upgraded the computer several times and i couldn’t afford the $180 windows xp cd. so i bought a linux magazine for $5 that included a copy of mandrake linux installation media and used paper printouts from my college’s computer labs to help me rescue my work from the computer.

sand is merely tiny rocks; they’re one in the same. lol

it reached an absurd level in austin texas well before trump became a thing; they show up to gay bars to entrap men into breaking the law with the intention of citing enough legal violations to justify shutting down the bar permanently. it’s so bad that the bars have responded by hiring off duty police because they have a chance of recognizing officers in plainclothes.

vim should make yaml editing easier and you’re familiarity with vi should help a lot.

are you using a graphical editor to edit the file?

will nano or vim work?

and it was disregarded to make facts seem baseless; so it bared repeating.

sealioning is a thing

i guess i just don’t like the fact that i’ve paid more than five-star-restaurant for my soup when there are clearly other groups that can afford more and there’s leverage that can be used to everyone’s mutual benefit.

these come from observations at the time of the reddit blackout diaspora and from watching lemmings accidentally share this information with everyone on lemmy; i’m not willing to be sealioned to look it up for you.

xmodmap was meant to work with x11 so it shouldn’t be a surprise that it doesn’t work very well w wayland.

instead, you’ll want to use a combination of libinput and evdev along w gnome/kde tools or input-remapper/wlr-inputremapper if you’re not using either.

They’ve developed mobile apps; got Google to prioritize search results for them; and their user bases are motivated & organized enough to share & curate lists of other lemmy users.

They’ve gone well beyond what other instances do and that usually suggests that someone’s getting paid to make it all happen.

Are they in the same situation as you?

.world and .ee must be benefitting financially from your work; are they helping at all?

i’ve seen 2 such examples: one on solar and another using piezoelectrics along with the wind

i used to be one of those maintainers. it was my job to build server and container images so i had to spend a lot of time with the company’s internal distro maintainers and it always blew me away how much work they had to do.

HEAVY emphasis on the words “labor of love” … should be getting paid for this and i know for a fact that people who do this professionally make around $200k a year for doing it becuase i worked with them for up until a couple weeks ago at old-silicon.

i’ve always been in awe of people who do this; it goes well beyond linux from scratch and they’ll never get rewarded for doing it… it’s purely a labor of love.