I’d also bring in the ripple effect of this. We know there’s not enough children being born.
There’s not going to be a workforce to pay our pensions when we get old. I’m less likely to spend my money on a dependant, when I should be buying property as a commodity so that I can have means to live at old age.
Well… last time I bought a commodore I got the full schematic of the computer in the box. And the user manual taught me programming.
I didn’t know how to operate it when I bought it, but I learned fast.
If you’re coming from a feature phone - it’s great!
If you’re coming from a modern smartphone, you probably won’t be happy with it as a daily driver.
I’m voting with my feet, but carrying two devices.
Maemo on the N900 was close, but MeeGo on the N9 was there. The Ovi store even had the hot apps of the era.
Fuck Microsoft for killing that dream.
Oh wait, you said modern.
What’s next? Soon you won’t be allowed to call it baby oil unless it’s made from real babies.
On a more serious note, I did order a “flexi” burger at Max by mistake. I thought it was a gateway burger with one patty replaced by halloumi. All I got was veg.
I flipped in 1997, so any software I might have missed since those days are probably not around anymore.
Windows 95 was pretty shitty in comparison to Linux, and a lot of software broke with NT 4.0
It was an easy choice at the time. Linux was the operating system for this new fancy thing called the internet. Software development turned into a career, and Linux is just a very nice stack for building backends and infrastructure.
I do have an old ThinkPad around running windows 10. I’ve only used it three times in the past five years: To unbrick an Android phone, to set the MMSI on a marine radio, and to update the maps on my car’s satnav.
Choices are getting fewer and fewer. I went with OpenSUSE a couple of years back.
I have a Xiaomi Mi A2 that I ran ubuntu touch on. The camera didn’t work, and it was based on ubuntu 16.04. They’ve dropped support for it now. It was not ready to be a daily driver.
I should be getting a poco x3 nfc in the mail tomorrow. It should have excellent support on both postmarketos and ubuntu touch. I don’t expect it to be a daily driver, but I can’t get the idea out of my head. I don’t like where iOS and Android are headed.
ubports have continued maintaining it. It was based on 16.04 for the longest tie, but they’ve made good leaps in the last two years.
GPT has been quite hit and miss for me, but Claude is usually quite solid.
It needs micromanaging, otherwise it will do bad design decisions and go off on unrelated side quests. When micromanaged it’ll get you to that MVP very fast.
The trap is that you need to be able to find the errors it makes, or at least call them out immediately. Trying to have co-pilot fix it’s own mistakes is usually a neverending prompt-cycle.
It can summarise big code bases fast, and find how things fit together a lot faster than me. It’s been very useful when being thrown in head first into a new project.
They do scan and try all ports.
I have a tiny VPS as reverse proxy with SSL termination for my fiddling. That one has a wireguard network to my hardware at home to which it forwards some hosts.
The tiny VPS is definitely the bottleneck in the equation, and if I were to have loads of traffic I’d probably go with cloudflare or -front in front of it.
Demoscene stuff!
https://www.pouet.net/ and https://scenestream.net/demovibes/
Both are still kicking like it’s 2000 even though there are modern alternatives like https://demozoo.org/ and https://hypr.website/
He’s all Finnish. His mother tongue just happens to be a (official) minority language.
Even a broken clock is right two times per day.
I’m a software engineer. I also do programming as a hobby.
Programming as a job can be draining, but I find that autonomy makes it enjoyable. If I’m just checking off tickets that I don’t care about, I’d have very little motivation to so so. If I can plan the road map and start at the end where my work makes the most impact, then I’m a lot more passionate about doing so.
It’s been a while since I meddled with FreeBSD. It shouldn’t be hard - it’s just a web stack with some command line ffmpeg. I think the only thing that might be a challenge is hardware encoding.
There are sweet docker images, but I guess they might require virtualization on FreeBSD.
Plex bad. Jellyfin good.
I had a 4G modem with a web interface many years ago. It was flaky and would often hang. I just had a raspberry pi on my network pinging some known address, if it failed for long enough it’d replay the commands to restart the web interface.
If I’d have the same problem today I’d probably have home assistant power cycle the router with a smart plug.
You guys have your own basement?