I don't have a college degree and yet I just got a junior developer position at a company. I'm probably not the best to give you this advice or am misunderstanding what you're trying to achieve but as somebody who has changed between professions, I can say it's feasible.
I went from tech support to translation and now to programming. Being self-taught shouldn't stop you from trying to get a job in a field you're interested in. Sure, a degree might be something a lot of employers look for in a person, but if you can prove you can do the job, then go ahead for it.
I wanted to use Yakuake but it's for KDE and didn't want to install a complete DE just to use its dropdown terminal. Guake is a fairly good alternative, but I'm having an issue with it that it somehow makes title bars and top menus unclickable, which forces me to terminate it every now and then start it again.
This article has been really informative and has given me context on what the hell is the problem with pipenv in people's opinion, which I have been wondering about for a while, I'll check out Poetry soon. Reading all the context, however, has reminded me that people are mainly assholes and now I feel I need to stop using social media completely, and the Internet for that matter.
> Protonmail compromises their users data without their knowledge and charges each user a monthly subscription fee. Therefore we felt morally justified compromising Protonmail’s data without their knowledge and charging them a fee for it’s return.
> If they decline again we will [...] sell [all customer data] in bulk to the highest bidder on the darknet
Funny that their moral sense tells them to compromise Protonmail's data because it "charges each user a monthly subscription fee", but it ignores the fact that they might affect users' private information if they release it to the public. Even if they're not lying about the hacking, what's really bullshit is their belief that they're doing the right thing.