I'm still using my Galaxy S8 with only one problem: Verizon's voicemail app won't run on something this old. Every other app is fine. It figures that the only app that encourages me to upgrade is from the phone company.
I've been doing this for 30+ years and it seems like the push lately has been towards oversimplification on the user side, but at the cost of resources and hidden complexity on the backend.
As an Assembly Language programmer I'm used to programming with consideration towards resource consumption. Did using that extra register just cause a couple of extra PUSH and POP commands in the loop? What's the overhead on that?
But now some people just throw in a JavaScript framework for a single feature and don't even worry about how it works or the overhead as long as the frontend looks right.
The same is true with computing. We're abstracting containers inside of VMs on top of base operating systems which is adding so much more resource utilization to the mix (what's the carbon footprint on that?) with an extremely complex but hidden backend. Everything's great until you have to figure out why you're suddenly losing packets that pass through a virtualized router to linuxbridge or OVS to a Kubernetes pod inside a virtual machine. And if one of those processes fails along the way, BOOM! it's all gone. But that's OK; we'll just tear it down and rebuild it.
I get it. I understand the draw, and I see the benefits. IaC is awesome, and the speed with which things can be done is amazing. My concern is that I've seen a lot of people using these things who don't know what's going on under the hood, so they often make assumptions or mistakes that lead to surprises later.
I'm not sure what the answer is other than to understand what you're doing at every step of the way, and always try to choose the simplest route (but future-proofed).
I set up LinkWarden about a month ago for the first time and have been enjoying it. Thank you!
I do have some feature requests -- is GitHub the best place to submit those?
My worst feeling is "I tried that two years ago but couldn't get enough people interested, so I dropped it..."
My favorite exchange on ChatGPT (back in March):
**You**
Tell me a dad joke.
**ChatGPT**
Why did the tomato turn red?
Because it saw the salad dressing!
**You**
Can you explain to me why that joke is funny?
**ChatGPT**
Sure, I'd be happy to explain why that joke is considered funny!
The humor in this joke comes from a play on words and a bit of misdirection. The first part of the joke sets up an expectation that there will be a serious or logical explanation for why the tomato turned red. However, the punchline delivers a silly and unexpected answer that has nothing to do with the actual reason for the tomato's color change.
The play on words is in the phrase "saw the salad dressing." The word "saw" can be interpreted in two ways: as the past tense of "see" (as in, the tomato observed the dressing) or as a cutting tool (as in, the tomato was physically sliced by the dressing). This creates a bit of confusion and a humorous mental image, which is why the joke is often considered amusing. Additionally, the idea of a tomato being aware of salad dressing is absurd and adds to the silliness of the joke.
We went on a bit further with me pointing out that their murder take was distasteful, and it responded that humor is subjective.
We had fiber at our previous house for about six years, and it was great. The prices were lower, the speeds were greater, there were no limits... It's kind of funny, because it was a college town of about 200K people in the middle of nothing else.
Now I'm up in the suburbs of Chicago where a single town can have a 200K population, but fiber is nowhere on the horizon. Instead we get terrible service that's constantly showing packet loss with slow transfer rates. We do still have unlimited, but with these transfer rates it doesn't really matter. :)
As far as monitoring traffic goes, I guess it depends on how you're doing things. If your DNS requests are still hitting your ISP or aren't encrypted, then yeah, they might know. I don't know if they'll care, but of course not all illegal content is treated the same.
So basically a non-answer to your question, along with me saying I liked having fiber.
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I thought this was an article about the X Windows system based on the preview for the article. Boy are those two similar-looking.
Maybe they 'won', but I don't count a pyrrhic victory as winning. It will take years to recover.
Thank you. I hadn't considered the payment part. The cloud system that I manage is in education, so everyone pays in advance.
This makes sense, and I'll start with a lower number and ask it to go up later. It will take a couple of months to migrate everything from Linode anyhow, so I don't need them all at once.
I loved Reddit until I realized they were just going to do whatever they wanted and the community, apart from creating free content and work, didn't matter. But the lying about discussions with the app creator was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Suddenly they weren't just a bully, but they were a proven lying, dishonest bully. Everything that they say going forward will be suspect, so I decided to walk away. Who knows what they're doing with my data/content. I know what they're telling me. I don't know what's true.
I deleted most of my posts from my nearly 14-year history except for a handful that I think need to stay up and a couple of others that I'm testing something on. I log in every once in a while to leave any groups that might have unlocked since I was last there and delete those posts too.
I don't hate them. But they've lost my trust, and I don't see any way to regain it.
There could have been other, better solutions. The biggest problem right now is that the only tool in Steve Huffman's toolbox is a hammer.
I try to follow the Chicago Manual of Style, so for me it's Travis's. Generally that's the style guide used in fiction.
The Associated Press Stylebook just puts an apostrophe at the end of a proper noun ending with "s," however (although they will use an apostrophe-ess for common nouns, creating things like scissors's).