It’s probably the number one reason I can’t convince friends to move over, I know they would bawk at how it makes them do that on every device

Oh don’t worry, you can just pay <<cloud provider>> 30x what you were your infra team before, or if that’s too expensive just pay a consulting form 10x what you would have before. Then they can go dine on steaks while they have the same infra guy you had hired before doing the same stuff just now in “teh cloud”, but making less money

I feel like there is a lost art of DBAs, where in their mystical knowledge rests how to make perfect cheap and scalable databases, and business cast them away because “Why not pay Google twice that amount?”

It’s happened a few times in my career where people tell me I’ll be obsolete, but it’s always been some company hyping their new product and suits frothing at the prospect of not having to pay me anymore.

So far they’re like 0 for 8 or so.

Now I will say the goalposts move. What I’m doing now is for sure not what I was doing 10 years ago. I’m definitely heavier in devops and infra than where I was before (ironic because they said we’d never have to worry about that stuff again if we moved to the cloud). AI is still basically machine learning, just in a while loop, so I’ve spent time learning that. So, in a way, yes we’re obsolete in the sense that if I was the same engineer I was 10 years ago I wouldn’t be worth nearly this much, I had to grow and evolve with technology.

Iowa tried to do this and the pro-life governor literally said “we’re in an obesity epidemic, we can’t consciously give away free food to kids”

there’s a really good OSS app that looks comparable… I can’t remember the name though. Too bad if it’s not hosted for thousands a month that companies don’t see value in it.

you’re right, I had that backwards

“Right to work” was one of those moments I realized how corrupt America is. Something that sounds so positive, even Europeans have been confused by it. “You have the right to work. You get to work, and you should say thank you for that. We also have the right to fire you for any reason, because if you get to work then we get to fire you”

One of those things that’s like “that can’t possibly be legal right?”, then you remember, we’re in America. Land of the “free” some terms and restrictions may apply

Ah that AI hype train is still rolling I see. Funny they said the exact same thing 24 months ago.

I have a feeling it’ll happen to us right around the same time Tesla self driving fully leaves beta.

It’s called “vocal minority”. If you pander to the vocal minority, the silent majority is going to eventually get pissed about it.

Republicans finding that out all across the board. Not to detract from the school board but how many sleepy democrats woke the fuck up when Roe was repealed? They finally pandered enough to the extremists the majority is pissed.

Since I consider non-free software to be unethical and antisocial, I think it would be wrong for me to recommend it to others.

OpenBSD does not contain non-free software (though I am not sure whether it contains any non-free firmware blobs). However, its ports system does suggest non-free programs, or at least so I was told when I looked for some BSD variant that I could recommend. I therefore exercise my freedom of speech by not including OpenBSD in the list of systems that I recommend to the public.

my god. Yeah, he’s technically correct, but he’s so self righteous about it. I think of PopOS, probably the best OS I’ve ever used. However when you open the shop, he would just pass out because they shock recommend discord and others.

But that’s what people want. If you open the shop and don’t see the discord app, people would be frustrated. It’s there because people use it. Hell I use it. But according to him even the act of just suggesting something closed source, even if people want it, is … “unethical”?

Like dude, I love OSS a lot, more than the average, but just suggesting a download, (probably because it’s by the most popular), I think is a far cry from “unethical”.

What was it I saw recently… There was a FOSS podcast player that is completely open and available, but it was demonized because you could (optionally) add the apples/itunes feed. Like reading an RSS feed from apple made it not “FOSS”

That’s where I eyeroll hard. Ffs, having the option to use something proprietary does not closed source make. It was one part of one area of the app, that was like, a dropdown selection.

God damnit.

You have to go out of your way to be a hateful bigot. You have to try and go out and be hateful.

It’s so much harder than just not caring. Not caring is so much easier. Who cares that they’re having a drag show? Who cares that they’re doing their thing. It’s not hurting you. Just let people live their lives. People get so worked up over something they could solve by just not thinking about it. Boggles my mind.

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Tandoor is great for self hosting your recipes. It’s not a for repo of recipes though, but thought I should mentioned what I view as the best hosting for them. They’re stored in markdown internally

It definitely is a thing! I hope to see renewables to over more and more. Even financially now it makes more sense, they’re cheaper and their price is more stable than fossil fuels. I’m lucky to be in an area where 100% of my electricity comes from renewables too. Hope it catches on more and more!

If you can, adding a lvl 2 charger is 100% a worthwhile investment. If you can’t I understand though

Honestly I bought an EV, and I don’t think I’ll go back at all. I haven’t had any downsides, it’s been all around a more convenient car

Not to mention there is no admin anymore, it’s essentially a sudo style with it popping up asking are you sure.

This though really reeks of their son dragged and dropped their old files onto a new computer and didn’t set the NTFS permissions, and purposely set them up as a non admin so they wouldn’t bother them with “I got a new virus”. When I have an elderly relative ask for me to set up their computer I don’t give them admin rights