Firefox a few years ago would kill my Mac battery in a couple hours, now it’s as good as safari for energy management. No reason not to use it as a daily driver now.

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This is solid advice. Learn the fundamentals, and maintain conversational knowledge of more cutting edge tech. As you get stronger in the fundamentals you’ll be able to speak intelligently about why you might choose to use some new fangled thing.

Not even close. Started a CS degree 7 years ago at 28 and am a director of engineering now, if it’s what you wan to do go for it. I will give a warning that the market isn’t amazing right now, and people getting into it just because they see the salaries is flooding the entry level positions. If you’re motivated and excited about building software you’ll be fine, but something to be aware of.

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No idea where they’re coming from, but people have been exchanging files on IRC files for year, why stop now? The obscurity of it is probably the only reason it’s still around, it will never get enough attention for traffic to overload the servers, and nobody will bother trying to hit them with lawsuits.

Libgen is great for popular books, but the above guide is amazing for finding basically anything else. I’ve often needed to load up IRC to find more obscure books.

As someone who can never find the right cable, I like using calibre’s content server. You start it up then open up the kindles built in browser and go to the listed address and download your books from there.

Torrentleech recently had open invites in the wake of rarbg shutting down, other sites will sporadically have openings randomly too. When these happen people will sometimes post to places like this to get the news out, but it can be a bit of luck to get in.