I guess my lack of those relationships is part of the problem. I moved away from the people I’ve been friends with essentially my entire life and now see them like once or twice a year. It’s hard to make new friends at that same level of depth. I also have struggled to find a romantic relationship for the last 2.5 years or so despite being very successful beforehand. I’m probably missing some of the balance that those connections inherently bring.

I hope you are able to take some time and recover. Honestly I experienced some burnout at the end of my MS and my brain just turned to mush. I’m honestly struggling with AI as well because although I prefer writing everything myself, web searching sucks now, and it’s very compelling to have AI do stuff like scan codebases for you and write boilerplate, but it just makes me feel like shit every time I use it. At the very least though your advice makes me feel a lot less bad about going home and just chilling out after work.

Honestly this genuinely seems like it might be a good idea, do you have any recs? I dot occasionally watch the primeagen

My current use case right now is designing tiles and a set for a ttrpg campaign, so currently more the latter. As far as I’m aware though you can do some of the former it’s just that it’s not exactly the workflow you’d be used to. Precision isn’t the issue so much as having history I suppose. Just means you have to plan out your design a lot more ahead of time. I’ve tried some of the code based stuff like build123d since I’m a programmer and the like but frankly they never made much sense to me, although perhaps that’s the way it uses Python more than anything else. Admittedly I didn’t spent a whole lot of time on it though and I was pretty burned out at the time.

Used to use fusion 360, hate cloud, freecad is painful to use, been trying out plasticity and it seems pretty decent

Ah yes the programmer who knows lots about psychology with his PhD or PsyD wrote a book about something that makes no sense in this context (the use of the word neurotype unless that’s your doing) must surely know what he’s talking about. As everyone knows if you write a book then it’s true. Seems like you’re just using the book as a convenient way to prop up your bias and stereotypes. Truly I suggest some introspection on the things you’re saying. I’ll bet you have some image of what I look like in your mind and it’d probably be absolutely shattered were you to know what I do look like. Maybe go and actually meet some people who happen to like rust and realize that not everybody whose likes one programming language or another makes it their whole personality. This is like saying someone who prefers using hammers and nails over screws and screwdrivers has a different neurotype. Genuinely weird commentary from you.

I might try that, the only issue is having it pop up on the right display, since my main desktop monitor I set as the primary. Presumably will need to script that anyway

I’ll probably have to look at the docs but does xrandr assign something like a uuid to displays? I do remember having to set a display manually for one game for Wayland so it launched on the right monitor but I thought I had some issues with the numerical order moving around for some reason. Presumably I’d also want a kvm or something to start the pc from my living room as well and just plug or unplug from the tv itself?

There’s a “neurotype”… associated with liking a programming language? Are you some kind of nazi or something?

I’m not sure how that’s relevant lol and that’s extremely vague. Nor was my comment a joke. I can 100% say all the research I did do was out of curiosity and now cynicism or spite as you say. Nor are any of the poorly paid many roommate having PhD students that I know doing it for cynicism as you claim. So I implied that only someone who’s never done research would make such a baseless and ludicrous claim. That’s like all the career researchers have is curiosity and drive for discovery. In sure there are some driven by greed to patent something, or cynicism, or other personal gain but that’s far from the norm.

You’ve never done research before have you lol

I don’t know either dropout cured my depression! /s but it’s very much my sense of humour. Highly recommend game changer, and if you care for ttrpg actual play stuff starstruck odyssey is some of my favorite stuff.

Proud subscriber of dropout tv and they 100% deserve it. Everything else I mooch off someone else lol. But tbh the majority of stuff I watch are on dropout or Apple TV tbh.

Ah yes a programming language determines the mental state and acuity of the person using it. This might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read in my entire life. Are you sure you aren’t the one we need to test with such ludicrous ideas?

I have 32gb on my work laptop but that shit still feels like molasses because of all the background garbage from both windows and admin and also the fact that lunar lake single core speed is slow as hell. I do definitely use most of that ram though and honestly I’m not sure that it should considering about 50% of my work is in the cloud. Then again vscode also sucks and I can’t use anything else because my company is ass backwards about approving software. End rant.

Others would say it’s open source who gaf what happens with it, the codes probably already in the training data for llms anyway. Depends on your philosophy of open source. I’d rather have gpl than mit, but I’d rather use rust than c I guess so such is my opinion

Rust is the only reason I’m remotely interested in low level programming and potentially contributing to Linux. C and C++ are unreadable and vastly more confusing in terms of ecosystem to be worth dealing with for my own enjoyment. I don’t really understand the rust hate.

I fucking hate dudes like this. I’m someone who has “nerdy” interests and such and naturally they tend to be male dominated because people keep gatekeeping and being misogynistic for no reason. I’d love to have to partner with similar interests in this regard but it’s made harder by the fact that the men in the spaces are the way they are and it’s hard to engage in that way without making the person uncomfortable because there’s a precedent for all sorts of weird behavior. And then these same incels complain they are unsuccessful, well please stop ruining it for the rest of us as well. Even in a non dating context having a more diverse hobby means a more diverse experience.

True, but don’t they also sell a no os edition?

I don’t need hdr professionally. I do like having it though because I like to try to not tether myself to my desk when I can avoid it because I’m already stuck at desk jail at work for 8 hours every week day. Means I use my laptop screen a lot.