In know what you guys are thinking. “But you are posting in the Fediverse on a phone with GrapheneOS flashed via the command line in a Debian based distro!”
I know I know! But truth be told I don’t know what the hell I’m doing! I WISH I could be one of the greats who preaches the gospel of “Just install Linux” and who didn’t constantly ponder flashing stock android again. However its not that simple.
I’m a power user at best! Half the time I’m copying and pasting commands into the terminal. I try to smile when the Battle.Net launcher fails and buggs out through Lutris and tell myself “Its OK! Who needs to play WoW anyway! I’ll just replay Half Life again!” But in reality there’s a part of me that wants to just restart into my dual boot windows 11 partition with my tail between my legs.
I’m not worthy to be on Lemmy! DONT LOOK AT ME! (I’d type a crying Emoji, but my Foss degoogled keyboard doesn’t have Emojis)
Yeah I get paid to program with Google and some AI hand holding sprinkled in. I feel like most of us are frauds
Exactly the same. I’ve been a “developer” for decades, often using a new language for a single project, then never touching it again for years, until I’ve forgotten the basic syntax. I’m an expert in nothing.
Stack Overflow, random Indian YouTubers, Google and now AI have been essential throughout my career.
You only need to know enough. Know what you want to achieve and the rough steps for how to get there, and somebody or something can fill in the blanks.