I can’t get anything cheaper than that because it’s a price I got when the reseller started business and as long as I don’t switch, I get that price.

Good for you that you can get better, but coax still has its place until internet providers up their game, but I won’t hold my breath.

I still use coax because I buy internet from a reseller third party and this is what they have. I have 400/50 for 35$, which is a lot cheaper yhan the competitors. No reason for me to change.

I bet my hand to the fire that Bill Gates didn’t eat avocado toast and made coffee at home and that’s why he is a billionaire today.

And it is still true today. Windows has the lion share of the market because we were raised with Windows and the vast majority of people don’t want to learn a new OS.

The IT paradox :

-“Why am I paying for IT? everything runs fine”

-“Why am I paying for IT? nothing works”

Yeah but these pesky workers cut into profits because you have to pay them.

Not really. If I play a game until 21:30, I am too stimulated to go to bed at 21:45.

If I browse Lemmy, I can fall asleep with my phone in my hand at 20:00.

I’ve been with my partner for 13 years and I’d say you still change a lot between 34 and 43, as you put it. The difference is that as we get older, we are usually more accepting of all the little things we used to find annoying.

I find that my core values are stronger, but everything else is less annoying overall. It makes accepting that your partner is changing a lot easier to deal with, so long as their changes aren’t in contradiction with your core values.

I totally agree with you then.

It is already just another work. Electronics and software development has never that accessible before.

Grandma can pick up an Arduino, a few components and create a fully automated garden if she so choose, without having prior experience.

Engineers are people like everyone else and some people have no qualms fucking over other people for money.

LLM don’t know that they are wrong. It just mimics how we talk, but there is no conscious choice behind the words used.

It just tries to predict which word to use next, trained on a ungodly amount of data.

Let’s be real. A company comes in and offer you a life changing, fuck you money that covers the rest of your life.

Very few people can resist that, me included.

I always use stdint.h so that my types are compatible across any mcu. And it makes the data type easily known instead of guessing an i t size

In embedded, if you are to the point that you need to optimize the bools to reduce the footprint, you fucked up sizing your mcu.

You talk about vibecoding buddy, you think they SSH into anything?

True conservatism in action.

I ought to try heroic launcher. I had mitigated results with Lutris and I don’t know if it’s caused by i3wm or not.

I don’t watch the guy and even I know this is bullshit. Instead of saying dumb things, just say nothing.

“The demonstration is trivial and left to the reader” or any variation of that. Fuck you, do the fucking demonstration.

Got this so much in my engineering courses.