I got a job as a software engineer and I live in one of the major cities in the US pretty comfortably.

(I was high school valedictorian, objectively average in college, and am maybe the high end of average in my career. My high school set a pretty low bar.)

Yes that’s the meme.

My god, I hadn’t even noticed that autocorrected to “Tab”. Fixed it, thanks for the call out.

Software Engineer:

Make a junk email for junk signups and accounts, if you can. Don’t accept the cookies. If the product you’re using is free, the information you enter is what’s being sold to someone else.

Ctrl+Shift+T reopens the tab you just accidentally closed.

Really liked the trailer, added to my wish list. Looks very amusing, I love that type of writing humor.

Canoes also have crossbars every 4 feet or so to keep them reasonably structurally sound. So those are very in your way.

I like some of their songs. Despise others. They have changed sound so much over the years that I’d be surprised if that wasn’t the answer everyone gave.

Man you must be fun at parties.

Maroon 5.

They have adapted to the times in ways no one could have expected.

pol·i·tics

noun

the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.

I have their duffel pack 2, I’ve had it since 2018 or 2019? Great for a gym-going office worker who packs lunch, doubles as a good personal item for flights. Love that bag.

If you happen to care, what you were doing with the program Rufus was creating a “bootable media”. Think back in the day when you had to buy a Windows CD and insert that to install or update Windows. This is kind of the evolution of that. An operating system installer can be loaded into a thumb drive (some utilities even let you put many on one drive, and then you can choose between them) and then you tell your computer to read from the USB drive first (which you did via the BIOS boot menu configuration) and instead of booting up your installed Windows, it gives you the option of installing whatever is on your USB drive.

This is fortunately often a pretty painless process, creating the USB boot loaders isn’t hard, and virtually every single Linux distro out there can be installed in this way.

Glad you’re enjoying Mint, and excellent choice for a new Linux user. If you like it, you’ll never need to change to anything else.

Welcome!

My understanding of rsync was that it was pretty painfully slow.

I give it a few months before the Community tier servers’ data is dumped and sold to an AI model company.

Jesus. I can’t find an affordable apartment in Boston but “Blue grounds” is listing fucking 372 of them on Airbnb…

EDIT: so Blueground is the biggest property holder in almost every city? Or one of the top 5 in the places it isn’t #1. What the hell?

SSX Tricky will forever hold a special place in my heart.

I don’t work in the dark. I work during the day, when my employment hours are. When it’s dark I’m not working anymore.

Senior dev and I like dark mode because I also like my retinas.

This is a shit meme, dude.

210k.

Condos in my area, part of Greater Boston, are going for $1.1mil at least, usually more in the $1.4mil range.

Even if I could somehow scrounge together 20% down that’s monthly payments of over $7k at today’s interest rates. After taxes 210 is more like 126, which is monthly a little over $10k. If I’m not saving anything for retirement and basically barely holding together the rest of my expenses and hoping to God nothing happens to my car, my body, my dog, my cat, or the condo, then I could afford the monthly payments.

Now imagine if I had jumped into that situation and then gotten laid off, like I was.

EDIT: it’s worth clarifying that in big cities, the points talked about in this article are still true, just scaled up. Adults in their late 20s/early 30s working in tech are easily making 150k+. College grads in Computer Science are getting 6 figures easily. Making $200k was the high end of average but nothing unheard of.

And the prices here adjust to that, happily.