That’s what the second monitor is for
Non-meme answer: something light, like read the news headlines, check some emails. Basically, I don’t want to burn too many of my mental cycles while the cpu burns many.
I just let it happen in the background while I browse YouTube or the fedi.
the same!
Except when I see LLVM or Glibc compiling I just whip out the steamdeck lol.
I read the code I just wrote before finding out I have some issue meaning I’ll have to re-compile, 20 minutes in.
Edit: Oh shit, you likely mean not my own code. In that case I just read their code and pretend I know what’s going on.
Cheer the computer along every step and offer motivational speeches
The first and most important step is to go grab a cup of coffee. After I just waste time doing other stuff, like browsing
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To be fully effective with your time, go get a cup of coffee first, and then start the compiler. ;-)
Lol, compile times are usually like at least double that on the hardware I run 😂.
I just usually visit reddit, or in the last week or so, Lemmy. Sometimes I do code/script corrections, but rarely to be honest.
