I always thought of Macs as not a good value before, but nowadays for laptops at least they seem to be relatively good.

I still find them annoyingly unintuitive, but that’s probably due to lack of experience. At least they come with some (old) version of bash and support standard stuff like ssh out of the box from my understanding.

“Don’t reccommend channel” from the options next to the video.

Not in my experience. Once their clients budgets get cut by funding cuts due to reality and they notice it doesn’t do anything of benefit (on the clients side), they will be all “client first”.

He probably found himself on the bottom 5% performers after losing the company billions if dollaroos with the dumb VR investing. He just didn’t want to be let go.

Surely you meant someone like John Stuart.

Check those in to source control and it kind of takes care of that (except passwords/secrets or configs which have them).

You are more optimistic than the maintainers of those older projects that have started to ban LLM generated bug reports. They tend to be a waste of time for the maintainers (e.g.: cURL project).

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At least they ran trials. I feel the federal gov’t would just buy the shit with our taxes.

It does actually, but against an invading army. There are reports of Russian fighters having trouble executing orders because the “enemy” also spoke Russian in some instances of the Ukraine/Russia war.

When there is a common language, the people sent to fight might notice there is more in common between them and the people on the other side than with the people in power that sent them there to die if needed.

If we go by personal experience, we recently had the time of several people wasted troubleshooting an issue for a very well known commercial Java app server. The AI overview hallucinated a fake system property for addressing an issue we had.

The person that proposed the change neglected to mention they got it from AI until someone noticed the setting did not appear anywhere in the official system properties documented by the vendor. Now their personal reputation is that they should not be trusted and they seem lazy on top of it because they could not use their eyes to read a one page document.

Technical specs don’t capture the bugs, edge cases and workarounds needed for technical subjects like software.

They actually do sell peel and stick “stainless steel” covers which should work well on a fridge since it has no parts that get hot in the front and sides.

I remember reading an article about how those programs would increase your speed if you shared more files. Sharing “My Documents” was the only logical action to take…

Luckily it was just school essays and the like, but that was dumb.

Big brain time was using limewire to download limewore pro to get the blue download bar and (provably faked) 7KBps speed instead of 6KBps.

Just one?

Steamy.stuff.avi.exe is done downloading.

I only had an older iPhone (which I liked for the most part), but it was announced to not be getting security and related updates soon (what apple calls vintage at this point) so there wasn’t much of an ecosystem once I got a different phone and exporting my pictures to my NAS, new phone, desktop and laptop made more sense.

I supposed I could lose everything if all of those burn in a house fire, but since I always have my phone on me, I’d imagine there would be more pressing matters like not burning to death myself.

Edit: I also have some stuff at my relatives, but their internet sucks, so I only sync family and more important pics there.

Forgot about that yes, heard of horror stories of people being locked out of gmail, google support being useless and losing so much time and money migrating accounts manually by having to visit banks and the like.

Whichever one you go with, don’t expose it to the internet directly or use their offerings. They are a big target and just don’t get enough security.

One reason I would give is that apple and google makes it incredibly hard to leave. I had to use some third party script (and give it my credentials or token…) Just to export pictures with the exif metadata from iOS. Even Google’s obnoxious “select a few thousand pics at a time” was easier (Google takeout puts the metadata separately, so it was also not an option).

Another reason is that big tech companies are complacent with kidnappings and oppressors and don’t want to give them money.

I could see apple breaking the tool or throwing their legal team around in the future if it keeps some people on their platform, why not leave while you can more easily.

I used them for Christmas lights with that sundown condition (+just a time trigger for off at night).

Also came in handy for a light switch that was unfortunately on the wrong side from a table, now its just uses a motion sensor when someone walks to the kitchen and tells a third reality smart switch (screws on top of regular switch, so it works with any light type (e.g. fluorescent)) and is renter friendly.

Bonus points for no lag at all compared to crappy cloud dependent garbage and no need for apps for each device manufacturer. Just look if it is home assistant compatible and no cloud before buying devices since it us a lot harder or impossible in some cases to de-cloud them later.

Edit: plus same motion sensor concept to link several lights on the living room (those are just dimmable smart lights on table and floor lamps). Makes the place look cozy and feel well illuminated vs the usual single light with a wall switch. Aquara Wireless clicker to toggle between dim percentages. Its awesome (third reality or other home assistant friendly brand would work, I just already had this one).