andioop

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[–] andioop@programming.dev 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I'd imagine that you graduate high school at 18 and choose to go to college for the next 4, meaning you graduate as a 22-year old. Add or subtract a year for birthdays that align oddly with the academic year.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

On one hand, you should probably indeed take personality quizzes claiming to be scientific online with a grain of salt and actually check if they have that kind of backing.

On another, they're fun. I am indeed the type of person who takes shitty online quizzes! (And their sometimes-higher-quality sibling, the academic survey. I really miss r/samplesize) And that doesn't necessarily make me an idiot. I do wonder how to let my fellow quiz takers know that there are a lot of claims to scientific validity out there that just are not true without being a buzzkill, or condescending to the ones who already know and still participate for fun—because I absolutely get wanting to combat pseudoscience and misinformation.

However, I didn't take this quiz myself, I found this in a post online and thought Programmer Humor subscribers would find it funny.

 
[–] andioop@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thanks for explaining, I didn't think you were insinuating that they were lying at all! I may have been overly influenced by another comment

[–] andioop@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

+1. I do believe the user you are replying to but I believe you too. People can have different experiences without lying or being disingenuous. I'm probably more tech-savvy than the average user but far below average for programming.dev or a Linux community. For me, Linux Just Works out of the box, but I admit I'm on a gaming-specific distro (Nobara, a Fedora derivative) and I'm only using it to be a gaming computer. Sometimes it opens a web browser. Art, music, programming, printing all happen somewhere else (my Mac).

 

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10 things that block your Happiness

  1. Self-hatred
  2. Not being able to let go of the past.
  3. Not being able to forgive yourself.
  4. Not being able to value who you are.
  5. Assuming RAID is backup.
  6. Not making backups.
  7. Not verifying backups and finding out restore time.
  8. Needing other people to validate you.
  9. Letting other people define who you are.
  10. Trying to be perfect and to please everyone.