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I hope at least the homework is good prep for the exams, otherwise if its grade value is marginal there's little point from the PoV of a student that just needs to pass the class to take it seriously

Yet empirically it does

You aren't getting to the exam stage without that degree though

Outlook is now basically an Electron app, they've deprecated the old desktop Outlook in favor of a port of the web app to desktop, so it's basically just Excel remaining.

It was all legal before China went and did retroactive legal changes

Wish I knew. I was at the same place at you at that age and it's basically destroyed me, 32 now and no better off

Like the other reply says, Linux already won on the server level where all the hype was 25 years ago. Now it's different but there's a lot of excitement still thaks to Valve's efforts to make gaming viable on Linux and to make ARM/x86 porting easier. Plus there's been a new wave of new users lately thanks to influencers recommending Linux in the wake of Windows 11's horribleness.

These skills are also useful for reproducible computational research

I disagree, AAA games started nosediving with the seventh generation 20 years ago and only recently have they started to tentatively show signs of recovery.

Same here. I'd love to get a full time coding job even if it meant a pay cut on hourly terms, but everything in my area pays much, much less and also I have a hard time even getting interviews. Guess I'll try to apply to this kind of role but full time, I think Amazon, Mistral and xAI are hiring.

"Deported" now seems to be an euphemism for being sent to a concentration camp in a random third world country, so I guess they have to use different language for actual deportations.

I generallu find it easier to get engagement in bluesky and fedi than x/twitter. I guess in X if you're not paying for the bluecheck you're soft shadow banned.

I wish Firefox OS had succeeded, my first ever app was for it, it was all so much simpler and so much more free than the locked down systems of both major mobile OSes.

I agree, It think Spain adopted the Euro too soon and we'd have weathered the GFC better if we still had control of our monetary policy at the time. And we didn't grow as much as we could have in the preceding boom phase.