u/latindiacritics

Call me antiquated, but I think GitHub is seriously the safer option for any project. And it irks me to see a lot of relatively cool projects be locked behind joining a Discord.

Homebrew is built off of FOSS. It always has been. Everything that has ever been put on your DS not by Nintendo is publicly available. Homebrew is built on this idea that we shouldn’t be restricted to what we’re allowed to have, but to whatever we want because it’s our device. That’s why sharing code always becomes such a big deal around this. So why should I have to ask permission to join a Discord to download a binary? Why can’t I build it myself to my preference? Why can’t I edit it? You’ve taken a bunch of open source libraries and made your creation fall in the same vein as downloading from Nintendo. I know what it is, but I don’t know what’s inside it.

Part of why I dislike it is that homebrew in and of itself is unsigned code. That’s why we’re here, that’s why we like it, and that’s why a Discord makes it dangerous. Homebrewed apps can run whatever call they want, and while most times I doubt it, there could always be something malicious there.

With a lot of these port projects hidden under Discord’s veil, these are just forks compiled down to the 3DS. Why would I want to join your Discord? And better yet, why would you want to hide it behind a Discord when other people can offer logs, contributions, issues, edge cases, all the things that can be publicly seen. People can contribute to that and make things roll along! I’m tired of open source forks becoming proprietary.

If you’re hiding AI usage, don’t bother. People who dislike AI can distance themselves from the project or replace AI code with their own, and people who are fine with it will use it anyways. To each their own, but at least let us see what’s going on.

Worse yet, when these projects get abandoned, who’s going to pick them up if the community enjoys them? That codebase isn’t available, so the project just becomes abandoned.

And lastly, why does a platform that’s begging for identification need to be where it’s sourced? Discord isn’t safe hosting, it’s just gatekeeping. Ban anyone you don’t enjoy from accessing it. Discord isn’t conducive to the sort of community I see homebrew being centered around.

Sorry for the whole rant and mods feel free to remove this if you want, but needing to join a Discord to download an app is ridiculous to me, and I get why it makes people upset.

I have a plan for saving money towards college that has steady employment at the moment (32/hrs a week at 19/hr), but I still am looking for a way to supplement that with something that can at least guarantee me and extra few dollars a week.

I’ve got a background in writing, some amateur programming, community voice acting/regular acting, etc. And I have a laptop with an Internet connection.

I’m just looking for a way I can use my skills to make a few extra dollars a week, even if I can do it at work too. I work nights at a hotel, so I have a lot of extra time when people are asleep.

**LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE**
 
* **Country**

USA
 
* **Budget**

$800 maximum

* **Are you open to refurbs/used options? **

Yes

* **Screen size**
 
Any
 
* **Weight limit**

 Any

* **Purpose**

Computer science school

* **Form factor**

Standard

* **Intended usage**

Light gaming, Godot editor, IDEs, virtualization, emulation up to the Wii  

* **Desired battery life**

No less than 3 hours  

* **Please list, in order of most important to least important, the priority between Size, Weight, Performance, Battery life**

Weight
Size
Performance
Battery life  

* **Info/Requirements**

1920x1080 resolution is preferred. Gaming not a priority, but programming absolutely is.

United States

$600-750

Open to refurbished options.

14-18” screen.

Any weight.

Purpose is primarily school, light 3D-based programming, multitasking.

Standard form factor.

Godot editor/light blender usage, IDEs, word processors, Dolphin emulator at worst are what I plan to run on here.

4 hour or more battery life. Outlets aren’t guaranteed.

In order from least to most important:
Size, weight, battery life, performance.

16GB of RAM is a recommend, however, if the laptop has DDR4 slots, I can strip down 32GB of DDR4-3200 from another broken laptop I have.
Asking here since I don’t know the ins and outs of buying a laptop. I’ve worked on a custom built PC but I can’t take it with me to my new place, so I’m selling to sacrifice that performance for portability.

I’ve always wanted to hear an apostolic explanation of the Comma Johanneum.

1 John 5:7 is a verse originating around 300AD that was spuriously added to later transcriptions of the Bible. But it only ended up appearing in later transcriptions like Codex Montfortianus. Desiderius Erasmus, compiler of the Greek, was even pressured by the Catholic Church to include it in the Greek New Testament despite not finding any actual basis for it.

7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

This verse is regularly used by those of Trinitarian faiths as a biblical proof that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are essentially the same deity. However, it’s considered outdated. Since it isn’t part of John’s real writings, it’s not actually biblical. Or scriptural, to that extent. It makes me wonder why, with errors such as Comma Johanneum, we still have the KJV in circulated church use. So I’ve always wanted to hear an authority speak on this verse.

Desperately seeking advice on this.

To sum up my situation, I’m nineteen and want to move to Newark by this time next year. By this time next year, I’ll have an Associate’s Degree, an A+ certification, probably Network+, and about $8-12k saved up for this possible move.

The issue is, I don’t know how I’m gonna find a place to live that will take me and a place to work that will take me moving all the way from the other side of the country.

I’m trying to research into what sort of jobs I could get, how to minimize rent, but I need out of my current home and Newark is a hard set goal for some personal reasons.

I plan to figure out school continuing once I’m out there. Most likely an online BA program that I can save money for

Anyways, there’s only so many numbers I can crunch. Any advice on doing a move like this? Is it possible?

I’m relatively young and working for Costco at the moment, but this is not where I want to be for the rest of my life. Unfortunately school and whatnot haven’t really taught me how to get a good job and look for the right things.

My ideal job is in tech or office work, data entry, help desk, things like that. I have access to getting things like an A+ certificate. If anyone who currently does any of these things can offer advice on how they got their first job and how they got moving, that would be amazing. My goal is to be able to move out to the New York area from where I currently am, and not just survive but actually be able to live there, even if it means 40-60 hour weeks.