Most do. My social circle and family are spread out over the EU.

I had a SIL and FIL who don’t own, and are generally bad with money. I fear we’re going to have to take them in when they reach retirement.

Six-seven

I have an idea of how they could reduce the fish requirements.

How about using shared libraries instead of bundling everything in every snap all the times?

Amazingly it reduces RAM usage as well.

I’m developing an app as a side project, but testing can only happen meaningfully out in the field. I found a breaking bug yesterday, asked Claude to fix and deploy over remote session. I installed the update and continued ny testing session.

I sure wouldn’t want that to go away.

I remember when I bought my first-gen MacBook with a core duo and 512MB of RAM. The 512 would probably have been enough if I didn’t need Rosetta for half of my applications.

Probably good for a surfing machine if you need to be in the Apple ecosystem. I might get one if I need XCode for something in the future.

Yeah, but I’m not gonna go mug shopping until I’ve had my coffee

Same as I do every morning. A big mug of coffee and a big shit.

No amount of money would change that.

I work at a startup that classifies and extracts data from often very fuzzy sources.

We are encouraged to use agents for development. We use models in our services for things like pinpointing Coca-Cola* cans in YouTube videos. We offer our customers LLMs to discover how Coca-Cola and Pepsi are presented on YouTube.

*Soda scenario imaginary. I don’t want to dox my niche, but it’s similar enough problems that we solve.

When I’m overwhelmed I lay off alcohol and pastimes.

It stresses me a lot to have things undone. It even affects my sleep.

It helps to write down everything that needs doing, so that I can detach from thinking about it at night or over the weekend. The note will be there on my desk/fridge in the morning so I don’t forget. Check of the easiest things first to reduce the cognitive load of context-switching.

Actually…

I got married seven years ago. We could bring our own music to the ceremony, but it had to be on audio CD.

None of our modern computers have any optical drive, but we have an USB DVD burner. We just couldn’t get any modern system to complete a burn, it just kept failing halfway through.

After many hours I installed OS X on my MorphOS PowerBook G4 from 2005 to use the built-in drive and burn through iTunes.

It used to be a cakewalk. Now not so much.

We recently retired our color laser printer of ten years for an epson ecotank. I’m happy with it two months in, and only the black has depleted some 10% with the Mrs doing a couple of color copies daily.

Hobbit drinking songs.

You can drink your fancy ales. You can drink them by the flagon. But the only brew for the brave and true comes from the Green Dragon

I can never get past their cloudflare captchas. I guess I must be a bot.

I got drunk and bought a t-shirt on eBay.

It featured a rainbow unicorn with the text “HAIL SATAN”.

I got a new job in the last year. I think it was through LinkedIn, but might’ve been through indeed. (software engineer going on his second decade)

Posankka. Pig duck.

I don’t necessarily use condoms…

'member how your CRT would whine when messing up the refresh rate in XF86Config?

Or how you’d spend the next two hours staring at your kernel re-compiling because you forgot to build in support for your NE2000?

Peer pressure.

All the other kids calling you a windows lamer all day will set any 13-year old right. Appearances are important at that age.

I’ve been running Linux 30 years this fall.

There used to be sites where people did just that. They’ve shut down their comment sections because of bots. Also, you can find them by searching for that particular topic because spammy sites with better SEO drown it out.

I hate what the internet has become.