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Same, also bought an LG TV to replace our aging 2 decade old TV. Nothing says you have to run the TV's setup. Use an external device for streaming, preferably running Linux and you have full control and no Ads or telemetry.

We have a smart TV on the way. We do not plan to run the setup, it won't have Internet access. We plan to do what we've done for over a decade now, connect our Kubuntu laptop in the entertainment center to it and select it as the default input device. And occasionally watch OTA TV shows. So we will use it as ... a monitor and plain TV, that happens to have far better video and sound quality than our old TV.

That's what my wife and I sleep for, 7 hours. 8 and we wake up with a headache.

Retired software developer and my wife suggested the same and it worked. As a veteran I also believe it mostly fixed my sleep apnea episodes that I never sought formal diagnosis for before. We also do 5 mg melatonin now which helps. The magnesium oxide at bedtime is great though.

If AI is generating better code than you can, that does say a lot. I've tried various AI's available and outside of being a better Google or a fast reference for Stack Overflow; LLM's do not generate better code nor better running code.

So we should treat it the same way we treat high school which is taxpayer funded to ensure as many people as possible get one

There are no college graduates I've interviewed in the last two decades, whose quality of output suggests to me college is something the tax payer should be on the hook for.

The purpose of a college degree is NOT a job

I agree, I think the purpose of college is supposed to teach students how to learn and the importance of commitment to lifelong self-learning. The output quality of graduates the past two or three decades suggests to me that doesn't seem to actually happen very much.

Self study can only go so far

I retired last year after a career as a software engineer for several decades, 99.99% self-taught. I'm not unique. I've known many others who did the same.

Studying in a university has the advantage of learning from experts

Whether they are experts is something I highly doubt when thinking about all the graduates I interviewed and worked with over the years. In my experience, the better software engineers came from the self-taught route.

being surrounded by people that are also learning from experts

Homogenized learning produces likewise results; the quality of the result is highly subjective and debatable.

I'm the opposite, I feel more depressed when the government controls our lives instead of hard working people who've proven themselves in the marketplace.

Wife does the shopping, I'm partially disabled, can't stand long. She enjoys getting out and treats herself to a hot dog and/or a desert and likes to sample the free taste test tables. She has made some enduring buying decisions based on those taste tests, they do work.

Agreed. We have two Costco's within 6 minutes driving distance, my wife visits them once a week, like Walmart and Whole Foods. We also shop regularly on Amazon. We don't buy weeks of food at a time.

I tend to think of veterans and their sacrifices manning those battleships, fighter jets and battlefields so that companies like Costco can exist.

We are probably fortunate, we live 5 minutes from one Costco, 6 minutes from a second one and 17 minutes from a third. My wife visits Costco every week, Walmart every week often on different days, etc. We buy from Amazon online frequently. Sometimes an item is cheaper at one place than another, comparison shopping, sometimes cheaper online, sometimes cheaper in the store.

It all works, though the article mentions public stores and references military commissaries as an example. We can shop at the commissary if we want. We don't because the other stores I mentioned above cover all our needs better at a better price point.

I do not think the article's author understands the subject matter as well as they think they do and with the many political references to the current New York mayor; it may just be disguised political messaging article.

Screwdrivers and nails are deterministic, AI is probabilistic. That is a significant distinction and why your analogy fails.

I enjoyed Deus Ex: Mankind Divided but even it had too many cut scenes, come to think of it, so did Metro Exodus.

I ran it on a 5 meg Tandy, 1 meg permanent on the motherboard and 4 I added.

We keep our TV dumb, have a laptop behind it running Kubuntu Linux. Stream in everything in Chrome. Use an Air Mouse and wireless keyboard sometimes. Works great.

My selfhosted email has been dual stack for close to a year and my eyeball estimate of the logs is around 10% of the traffic is IPv6.

But my TP-Link router blocks by default inbound IPv6 connections

I selfhost web and email over my Wireguard VPN using a free VPS (at OCI but I did it with AWS Lightsail too, though it wasn't free but cheap). This can work for you too or you can use easier to configure solutions like Tailscale. This way, your home isn't exposed directly to the Internet.

Agreed. I jumped on the .NET bandwagon in 2000 and was on it for several years but ended up going back to Java by 2005.

It came several years later, after Microsoft was legally barred

That is an eloquent way of re-writing the history of Microsoft stealing Java and not being allowed to get away with it.

I just got my projects up to JDK 21 a few months ago. Working on trying to get one upgraded to JDK 25 now and now they're talking about delivering JDK 28 in less than a year from now. How are you supposed to keep up with these rapid updates?

Social media platforms rise and fall like ancient empires sped up a thousand times. Yet email endures.

I do use Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and Proton mail for various things but I also run my own email server for some things (mostly personal), which I've done since the mid-late 1990's and plan to continue doing so. Because I control it and I feel that gives me a small bit of power compared to the trillion dollar companies.

I'm on Kubuntu and I install VS Code using Microsoft's repo and Chrome using Google's repo. Also I do Wine and Docker using their own repos. I can't imagine VS Code or even Chrome being put into the mainstream Kubuntu/Ubuntu repos nor why such a burden should ever be shifted to Canonical.

On the other hand, with the “safe and modern” uint8_t prototype, the function call gets more complicated, as you need to add a type cast

To me, that is a feature, not an issue.

AI is nothing like religion. People behave similarly to AI when debating their favorite sports team, or for Java coders, Checked vs Runtime exceptions.

Religion is about faith and what people feel and sense as much as believe.

I retired last year but I too had to use a Mac for a year. It was the first and last time I ever used a Mac. I hated it. So many quirky behaviors, window controls on the wrong side, just wow I had a whole list I could have articulated last year but thankfully it's a distant memory now.

The average Joe? My wife has used Linux since the mid-2000's. Her career was in Sales, far removed from anything technical. She loves Linux compared to Windows, her new laptop came with Windows and she bugged my for months to upgrade it to Linux, which I did recently. She doesn't use the terminal at all. Kubuntu, btw.

$330k/year

For a traditional software engineer? I retired last year after 3 decades and my salary was about the same as it was in the early 2000's at the last company I was at. Maybe I should have negotiated more but I thought only FAANG paid traditional pre-AI engineers more than $250K.

fallback to running when the system comes online.

That isn't something I'd want to happen, it sounds like it creates a potential queue of scripts that will flood the system on start, if it works the way you described.

I prefer the deterministic behavior of cron, the script will run when it is specified to run, as you said earlier, as long as the system is running; and as I stated in a separate comment, it will run @reboot if I need it to run then.

With @hourly I lose this control and multiple machines could potentially trigger backups at the same time

Then don't use @hourly, use staggered times, it's very easy.