Perfect explanation. This kind of thing shows why tech giants are giants and why selfhosted is a niche. People like paying for convenience.

No one deserves to be treated like that. The fact that there are people that righteously believe people deserve to be treated like that is part of our problems as a society.

Unsolicited advice is asshole-behavior, like it or not.

This is such a weird article. Electron is not for making http requests, it’s for rendering web pages. Nothing within curl can render web pages. I’m not saying you should be using electron necessarily, but this is just so obviously wrong, what is the author thinking?

And (almost) any programming language has a built-in primitive for making http requests (possibly even using libcurl internally), why would I switch to a command line call if I can just do the http call directly with that primitive?

I guess they meant “beyond repair if you don’t have access to a live boot USB or the means to create one”. Gotta remember who this warning is meant for. For those kind of users, “beyond repair” might technically be true.

You missed the “m8”

I always think… Just imagine how much less boring (and dangerous!) life becomes if you quit your boring job.

Obviously people choose boring rather than live in peril. But that means life doesn’t have to be boring. It’s still a choice. You just have to risk.

The truth also is, boring is kinda nice. Just not aaaall the time.

I think the best way to get better at programming is to

1. Write programs that you actually want to make
2. Whenever you run into a hard part, first try to do it yourself
   1. Once you succeed or fail, research the problem and see how others solved it
   2. Always look up words/concepts you don’t understand while researching and don’t stop until you understand
3. Repeat

If you like, you can also just read some books or scour some programming related communities for general info, without some specific goal. However, most people don’t have the motivation to do that, because they don’t know what that information is good for yet. That’s why, for most people in my opinion, it’s better to just try to do something and then learn (better) ways of doing what you want, because then you actually immediately get what it’s good for and why you’d need it.