They already do this.

My banking app won’t let me use it if I have bitwarden from f-droid active. Play store is fine.

I use my dog’s name as password for my WiFi.

Ed&1e.78x!

We call him Eddie for short.

We’ve been married 12 years now. She still doesn’t have a clue.

I’ve got to go with Sophia Hapgood.

Yes, but now you get all the bad news streamed straight to you 24/7.

Previously you would have to pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV at the right time to hear about it.

I wonder if those DevOps cost $72M/h.

Otherwise I have an idea that might save AWS some money.

Back in these days you’d install your distribution and stay there until the next major release. There were no online software repositiories for updates.

And exploits were plentiful. It was an easier time if you were up for mischief.

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.

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.

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.

13 years. Married for 6.

First two years were mostly long-distance.

No, I guess I mean 6 plus. I didn’t have a big reason to upgrade after that one.

At the time they didn’t support any vector format like SVG (do they now?)

iPhones 2G-3GS had the same screen resolution, so having pixel perfect assets were no biggie.

4 & 4S had twice the resolution. Annoying to upscale all your graphics, but app layouts stayed the same.

5 & 5s had a little bit taller screen. Annoying, but layouts could stay mostly the same.

Then comes the 6 plus with a brand new resolution that natively wants assets at 3x the resolution. Older apps would be upscaled to 2208x1242 and then downscale to fit the 1920x1080 display. You pretty much wanted to tweak your app to support the native resolution instead of hitting that scaling thing.

The landscape is better now with SwiftUI.

I later got a 12 mini for ARKit, but I had pretty much lost interest in the platform by then. It mostly just sat in a drawer.

iOS 26? When did this happen?

I feel like it was just yesterday I was solving fractional scaling issues on the iPhone 6 pro on iOS 8.

Now I feel really out of the loop.

I live in a 50 year old house. All the breakers are 16A, so 220V x 16A = 3.5kW

The electric sauna does three-phase @ 400V. My energy tracker usually peaks around 9.5kW when it’s heating.

OP didn’t say anything about their financial situation, so we can only speculate.

Maybe they’re a landlord. Maybe they have a hedge fund. Maybe they’ve made good financial decisions in the past and have a big buffer saved up. Maybe they just sold their yacht and have a lot of cash burning in their pocket.

OP never said anything about being light on money.

It’s actually easier when you don’t have to plan your travel around your work schedule.