Y'all know what I do fer a livin'

Reminded me of Quint from Jaws!

Don't know if this will help assuage your fears: https://www.techradar.com/news/mullvads-no-log-policy-proven-after-police-raid

I've used Mullvad for years, and from what I know, they store almost nothing -- only your randomly generated account number. If you are paying using an anonymous method that's even less to go on.

Endless Sky for me

Am I one of the few who just doesn't use AI at all? I don't have to generate tons of code for work at the moment and brand new projects that I've been given are small--meaning I wouldn't necessarily use it to generate starter boilerplate. I have coworkers that love copilot or spend much longer prompting ChatGPT than they would if they wrote code themselves. A majority of my time is spent modelling the problem, gathering rejuirements, researching others' solutions online (likely this step could be better AI-assisted?), not actually implementing a solution in code.

Anyway, I'm not super anti-AI in software development, and I see where it could be useful. Maybe it just isn't for me yet. The current hype around it as well as the attitude of big-tech exceptionalism ("AI can salve all our problems") feels a bit like a bubble, at least regarding the current generation of LLMs and ML

Feel exactly this... Sometimes you just still want one randomly. But 99.999% of the time do not think about it at all anymore

*sigh can't have any fun in the DOT I guess

• I turned my old desktop into a home server, which let me cancel some streaming services.. and I set up an rpi4 as a kodi server.
• Signed up for Firefox Relay (had a holiday sale) to have email masks and a proxy phone number, which should help with spam & marketing crap.
• Stopped using Reddit in favor of lemmy (which I hope to contribute to this year)
• Gonna have to find a replacement for mint, since it's dying this month

My thoughts exactly. DRM has rone way off the deep end

That is amazing! Now, I need to see about using weather satellites to explain the bugs in my code at work...

I booted up that system and after waiting an hour or so for Windows Update to finish

... 🙄

Crazy workstation though -- wish I had need for all that power so I could justify buying one to play with

Overwatch 2 (unranked) on PS5 (mostly a way to hang with my brother who lives in another country)

And also MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries on my Linux laptop

"graphical user interfaces make easy tasks easy, while command line interfaces make difficult tasks possible"

• William E. Shotts Jr., The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction

It has taken me a long time to get comfortable using a Linux CLI (definitely not as familiar with windows cmd prompt/powershell), and I know that if I log into a box anywhere, If it has sh or bash or some variant of those shells, I'll be able to get by.

Now, on my home server, moving & renaming a bunch of media files has me really wishing I had a DE installed there to Ctrl + click/Drag-n-drop...

Also, I love using VScodium/Code as an IDE bc of its configurability & rich plugin ecosystem -- but recently I had some performance hiccups with extensions not playing nice together and started (again) down the masochistic path of configuring neovim to use as an "IDE"...