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What an environmental tragedy! If only people would reuse/repair/recycle more, not less.

It's even worse than that though. Even if you chose to forego updates promising features or better security, it seems like this product's box should actually say "not guaranteed to continue working past arbitrary dates, even if the hardware is still fine!"

Some of my most well-adjusted friends have split parents, who were happy alone. A couple staying together, unhappily, "for the kids" seems much more toxic to me. But this is anecdata, YMMV.

I remember saving up to buy a second-hand 21" Trinitron monitor back in... 2002? Damn, that was the shit! I found that so cool! I still sometimes wonder if i should find a Trinitron somewhere, just for nostalgia's sake.

The fact that you'd meet many people in IT would be a turnoff for me, since i prefer a diverse friend group. But YMMV.

I'm not an expert and i haven't tried this, but i would think you could use the pass tool and encrypt the files to multiple gpg keys, and share those files using a git server which you control. That sounds like a rather easy homebrew password manager that supports shared logins, i would think.

Disclosure: happy user of pass, but haven't tried encrypting to multiple identities.

Soooo... you reimplemented GNU Make?

The thing that strikes me is that she used American date notation on the "coded" note -- AFAIK no Europeans put the month first. Probably a red herring though ;)

That would be a very interesting conclusion. It might turn out that actually, you don't Want (in the intrinsic sense) that 80h per week job, or that fancy expensive house. Perhaps a caravan in the woods is enough.

I might be misreading your subtext, but it sounds as if you're implying that ambition is a universal pro.

I encourage everyone in tech to read Unlocking the Clubhouse, by Margolis et al. It doesn't quite propose how to solve the problem, but it certainly teases out a number of contributing factors. I think in the case in point, the importance of being encouraged/discouraged depending on gender cannot be understated. Of course, to the individual involved it'll feel 'normal' since it has always been that way, but on a societal level it is blatantly obvious that children are moulded into gendered expectation patterns from literally the moment they're born. (As to that last assertion, there's a study floating around on how adults react to a baby crying then told the child is either male or female. Quite saddening.)

Literally read about the radioactivity craze of the early 20th century in A Short History of Nearly Everything. Entertaining read.

Dude (m/f), don't drive after donating blood. Go with a friend or take public transportation. You're a risk to others, too, especially if you don't donate regularly and don't know how you'll react.