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  • brandon@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlNeed advice on a one pc home
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    3 months ago

    Your gaming PC is going to be terribly inefficient and draw 10x as much power at idle as a workstation PC.

    Is this really true? Modern components have fairly robust power saving capabilities. Just because it’s got a 750W power supply doesn’t mean it’s drawing 750W all the time.



  • Why do they not care?

    Because, for many of them, they don’t have any reason to. In other words, privilege. Copyleft licensing is a subversive, anti-establishment thing, and software engineers are predominantly people who benefit from the established power structures. Middle/upper class white men (I’m included in that category, by the way). There’s basically no pressure for them to rock the boat.

    And why would they avoid GPL

    Because many of them are “libertarian” ideologues who have a myopic focus on negative liberty (as opposed to the positive variety).




  • brandon@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities?
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    4 months ago

    The unfortunate reality is that a significant proportion of software engineers (and other IT folks) are either laissez-faire “libertarians” who are ideologically opposed to the restrictions in the GPL, or “apolitical” tech-bros who are mostly just interested in their six figure paychecks and fancy toys.

    To these folks, the MIT/BSD licenses have fewer restrictions, and are therefore more free, and are therefore more better.




  • brandon@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlBeing Forced to Say Goodbye
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    5 months ago

    Please be careful when copying anything that could be considered your employer’s intellectual property (almost certainly anything you built as an employee falls into this category) off of that employer’s systems.

    And definitely be even more careful about using one employer’s IP for a new employer (neither company would be pleased to discover this).










  • brandon@lemmy.mltoProgramming@beehaw.orgHow to host my projects
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    2 years ago

    .NET core is supported on Linux. There is some stuff that won’t work on Linux, like WPF, but it doesn’t sound like you’re using that.

    If you are searching specifically for “.NET hosting” you are bound to come across a bunch of Windows results, so I wouldn’t recommend that.

    Any Linux virtual server provider will work just fine, provided they support a Linux distribution that runs the .NET core runtime, (which includes all the major ones). I’d avoid AWS or Azure. Those are a good way to run up a big bill pretty quick, and their service offerings are quite complicated.

    A $5 vm from the likes of Linode, Digital Ocean, Vultr, etc, will get you started just fine. Typically the costs won’t be able to “spiral out of control”–you’ll be allocated a set amount of CPU, memory, disk, and network usage.

    You will have to configure the web server & .net yourself.

    I am assuming from your post that you don’t have a lot of experience with Linux. You can try setting it all up from home too if you have an old PC or laptop lying around (either for practice, or to self-host long term). Download a linux distribution and give setting up a server a shot.


  • It depends, and there’s a lot of variation obviously, but,

    A frontend developer writes the stuff that runs on the client,

    A backend developer writes the stuff that runs on the server (it can be repetitive–any programming can be, but it certainly needn’t be. It’s not always as flashy as frontend but there are still some exciting challenges),

    And finally, a full stack developer does whatever the company wants, and damn it, they had better enjoy it too.