Unless this thing is dirt cheap (it won’t be), that sounds awful. Just skip it.

If you want some good channels:

History:

• The Operations Room - (My favorite video)
• Drachinifel
• Forgotten Weapons
• The Fat Electrician

More recent stuff:

• Perun
• Blinkov’s Battlegrounds
• Covert Cabal
• What’s Going On With Shipping
• Real Life Lore

It’s also just the fact that some games are better than others. For every Factorio and Hollow Knight, there are a hundred other games that aren’t as good that significantly less people buy.

I’m happy it didn’t start with a 10 paragraph story vaguely related to the article.

Most news articles can be a paragraph or two.

am a developer with a few big projects under my belt

I’ve got quite a bit of experience with Linux and I manage a home server, but that probably doesn’t differentiate me much

It 100% does if you target small companies. Think 5-30 man shows where ‘IT department’ is a luxurious dream. In that company you wear many hats and having IT/devops experience as a programmer is a big deal. You will instantly be one of the most experienced people in the small company when wearing the IT hat.

If it’s so hard for fresh CS graduates to get jobs, why would any other option be different?

As you are already in the workforce, stay in it. After having a job for the last year (?) and the option of what to do with the next four years of your life. You can either have 5 years of experience, or you can have 1 year of experience.

Notice how I didn’t mention your degree? A degree is a minor point after you get your first job.

You are WAY better off keeping that job than going to college. You know what is more desirable than someone with one year of experience? Someone with five years of experience. Plus, you won’t have a house payment worth of debt on the other end.

That is highly board dependent. The MS auto-delivered BIOS updates for my work computer just…go. I only realize they happen when I’m greeted by a lengthy BIOS update bar when I try to start my computer for the day.

Everything the poster above experienced is common. For example, Windows Updates fuck with your BIOS without warning to ‘streamline the update experience’. You don’t get any special prompt, they just do it.

I never understood why anyone picks Oracle at this point. There are so many alternative options that are vastly cheaper, much easier to maintain, and aren’t owned by a company that has a habit of suing their customers.