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  • Same. People age quite differently. I didn’t start puberty until I was 16. I didn’t get attracted to girls until I was 17. Much later than my friends.

    I got a job at a pizza shop when I was 20, and I made friends with the 15+16yo employees there, I got along much better with them than people my own age. I can see how that’s was potentially creepy, looking back on it, but it seemed normal enough at the time, those people were my good friends.

    I matured very slowly. I didn’t graduate uni until I was 29. I’m now 39, physically I look like I’m 30, mentally and psychologically I feel like I’m 30.


  • As others have said, tidying and cleaning are quite different things. Most cleaners will come to do the latter. If your house is untidy, it makes their job harder.

    You can get a person in to tidy up for you, but it’s usually a different person than the cleaner, and that requires much more input from yourself “Where does this go? Where do you want this? Do these clothes need to be folded or washed? Is this trash or not?”.

    Anyway. Yes I’ve definitely been guilty of tidying the whole house before our cleaner comes.





  • I get how this could be interpreted as offensive, but I think it is just poorly worded.

    This option is for if you are using a legacy version of Linux such as 2.6.x (eg, on an old RedHat distro that your business systems are designed to be run on).

    This enables a compatibility mode so the old kernels don’t complain.


  • Kind of. Think of the RAM allowance as a “maximum” limit, not a reserved allocation. The VM host might have 64 GB RAM, and perhaps allows 20 VMS running in it at once. Each VM can allocate up to a max of 8GB from that host. Not everyone is running their VM at the same time, even if they are, not everyone would be running at their limit of 8GB of memory. If it does happen that 20 users are trying to use 8GB at the same time on one host, then it’s the same as anytime an OS runs low on RAM, it would start paging out to disk, everything would slow down for everyone. If that happens too many times, they could shuffle some users’ VMs around to balance the loads across hosts.


  • Can someone explain to me why it always seems like everyone on lemmy are in one of these two categories:

    1: “I remember my first computer used ferro-magnetic beads that we glued to lengths of string. We could store nearly 10 bytes in one string”.

    2: “My first computer was an old iPad that only had 64GB storage, couldn’t even store my photo album.”

    It’s like everyone is aged either 89 or 19, nobody in between.




  • I’ve read recounts of dreams like this before (or perhaps it was iterations of yourself telling it in each case).

    And there is the famous Reddit story about the guy to saw the glitching lamp that is very similar.

    I too have had this experience myself. When I was around 20, I had a dream where I packed up my stuff and got in my car and moved from my hometown to the nearby larger city. I was living out of my car or staying with friends initially, but after a few months I found a job and started renting my own place. While working part time I started studying for a qualification at the technical college. At that college I met an amazing girl and we started dating. A few months later she moved into my place. I saved enough money to buy a better car, and I sold my old car. I would go driving on the weekends along scenic rural roads. My girlfriend and I got engaged. I got a new job, but it meant we had to move to a different city where we didn’t know anyone. We got married, we had two children (a boy and a girl). My wife disappeared one day, without a trace. Nobody ever worked out what happened to her. Just vanished. So I was raising my children as a single parent. We went on a trip back to my hometown to visit my parents. I went into my old room, layed on my old bed and went to sleep. That night I had a dream where I really needed to pee, but couldn’t find a toilet. I know how those dreams sometimes end, so I forced myself to wake up, I ran to the bathroom and used the toilet. When I got back to bed I felt weirdly empty. My memories of my kids, of my wife, my job, were fading fast. I couldn’t remember their faces. I couldn’t remember where I work. It was like a dream. And then I realised it actually was all a dream. I’d lived around 6 years of my life in the dream, but in reality it was just a couple of hours sleep.

    For the next week I was trying to disentangle memories of my life that were real from those from the dream. It hasn’t had any lasting effects on me. I don’t remember much of it anymore, only the parts I recounted above.




  • The term Display Manager is a vestige of the use of X11.

    X11 is a Server/Client protocol.

    When a user logs in to an XServer, they are given an Xsession. The user can use that Xsession to create one or more X11 Displays (they are just IDs). The X11 Display ID is passed to the X11 client application (that’s what the XDISPLAY environment variable is for). The client apps render their content to that Display ID. This whole thing allows for more than one user to be able to use a single operating system on a single XServer at the same time.

    All of that is pretty cumbersome for a user to do themselves in their terminal, that’s what Display Managers are for. They:

    • Start the XServer if it isn’t started yet
    • Provide a method (eg, login with username and password), to start a new XSession.
    • Use that XSession to create an empty X11 Display.
    • Look up which is your configured default DE or WM
    • Launch the DE or WM with the right parameters, passing it the new XSession and XDisplay

    If you’re using Wayland, then the architecture is very different. The Display Manager then simply operates as a login screen.





  • See, at my job it’s the other way around. I am responsible for:

    • Solution architecture
    • Cloud architecture development
    • Cloud infrastructure design and implementation
    • Data model specification
    • Database schema design
    • Database administration
    • Data cleaning and data review
    • ETL
    • Server administration
    • Web framework developer
    • Frontend developer
    • Backend API developer
    • Mobile app developer
    • Documentation author
    • Troubleshooting
    • Maintenance

    Also I have involvement in: Stakeholder engagement, user education and training, project management.

    I do the work equivalent of around 3 full-time engineers. So to keep it simple, we call my position just “senior software engineer”. I like your idea of disambiguation to better communicate exactly what you do, but I don’t know what you’d call me.