Of all the "problematic" web giants, Amazon is probably the one I have the hardest time avoiding just because the value proposition is a so much better. Sure I can find the same products on other website at a similar price, but it's harder to get my money back if there's a problem shipping times are generally much worse. I have Amazon Smile setup to contribute to the EFF, but I'm sure it probably doesn't really make up for it.
> I don't lose two hours a day due to the commute.
Realizing I was basically using an entire work day or even a little more per week just to commute was what made me put in the effort to move to remote work(pre-pandemic by a couple years). And once I started, I noticed the little niceties as you mentioned and it would take something drastic to get me back into an office again.
I wouldn't be super surprised to see Xcode for iPad, but I would guess it'd be super cut down, possibly only allowing iOS development in the strictest most Apple-approved only kind of way.
Starting with PHP and Visual Basic got me on the way to making cool stuff really fast, but I think they both made the leap to "real" programing languages later. With web development, I didn't really move on from PHP's "HTML with extra stuff" until I came across Ruby on Rails, and I'm not sure I ever really got past VB for high level GUI desktop stuff, but I was able to get into some lower level C in high school, but I've never really done desktop GUI programming since other than a little bit of Cocoa/Objective-C with earlier version of Mac OS X.
I got into wargaming a few years when I decided a needed a non-tech hobby. I guess I'm ultimately more a miniature painter than a gamer(though I do game with my miniatures) and I've found the painting very therapeutic.
>Nano does many things quicker and easier than vi. For example, search & replace.
There may be instances where Nano does something quicker but search and replace would seem to be a perfect example of the opposite where Nano has taken a quick one line thing in vi and turned it into a multistep process for simplicity.
This is exactly where died for me, when I went from being a buyer of their hardware to a potential source of monthly revenue and made it more difficult to get content I want as a result. They established a customer base and good will and once that was in place, the rent seeking started. At this point once a company that make a product I like goes public, it seems like a good tome to start looking for alternatives.
After the whole HBOMax debacle, I'm not sure if I trust Roku's side of the story and am wondering if the real issue isn't "Youtube TV won't give us a slice of their pie". I used to be a huge fan of Roku when they were the neutral streaming box that was open to all services, but the HBOMax nonsense last year soured me on them.
I'm guessing the tech's "static discharge" explanation would probably be more correctly described as discharging capacitors? I had a similar issue with an Asus u36sd laptop. I first realized it might the problem when I originally gave up on it(it already wasn't my primary daily driver, just a work bench laptop) and put in away for a bit and then it worked a few months later after being totally discharged and when the problem repeated, I was able to bring it back with a similar incantation of pressing and holding the power button with not power or battery attached. Luckily the capacitor causing the issue was a decent sized electrolytic of the through hole variety(even though it was surface mounted laying on its side hanging off the board) so it was relatively easy fix once I figured that out.
They also never fully went 64-bit on PPC, so there was never really a transition there, just some 64-bit machines that could do some slightly different things and I don't think there was ever a full 64-bit version of OS X for PPC. So there weren't any huge painful breaks.
I recently decided to get a Macbook Air over an iPad Pro(would have waited for the refresh for the iPad as it was already heavily rumored). I really wanted to want the iPad, but the software is still holding it back, and other than a tablet/convertable form factor I like and a few things it affords like being a decent color eReader, there's nothing that I can do exceptionally better on the iPad compared to a Mac, but several I can do on the Mac over the iPad.
So now I've got a MacBook Air I'm happy with, but my 6th gen iPad will soldier on doing the few things the form factor affords such as being my large color eReader for certain books and the occasional lazy from the bed web browsing while I rely on the Mac for anything heavier.
I like the colors and design, but needing a separate work/personal computer at the same desk at different times means I can't have a big display that's only usable by one computer. If they still had target display mode, I'd be very tempted to flip my M1 MacBook Air for one of these.
I wouldn't really compare pressure cooker pork butt to the smoker version, but it's great compared to the other common non-smoker variant, the crock pot(or slow cooker to be brand generic). For most meats, I don't want to go back to a slow cooker(except for certain sauces/marinades). The pressure cooker version is still tender, but retains more of a meat texture, rather than turning to mush as often happens with a slow cooker.
Once we do get back to "normal" I wonder how the job market will change for me, someone who switched to remote work prior to the pandemic and have no desire to go back to an office ever again. I've seen companies that have decided to just switch to remote on a permanent basis(or at least become more open to remote workers if the company itself doesn't go full remote) and I've seen lots of people who don't want to go back to the office after their taste of remote work. Will I see a wider variety of opportunities and open positions as more companies offer more remote roles, or will the market for remote work becomes squeezed as people decided they want to find new remote jobs rather than go back to the office. Of course it could also balance out I suppose.
Neat. I occasionally need to create disks for some of my old computers, and while there are USB drives for 3.5" disks, I have to get my Windows 98 PC to write 5 1/4" disks(it's the easiest to get talking to my modern infrastructure) and a Raspberry Pi would a be a bit easier to get out, especially since it'd be pretty easy to ssh into headlessly, so I don't have to get out the keyboard and monitor either.
I miss pre-Google+ Google Reader. It's social features(shared feeds and comments) make it the only social network I've really enjoyed using without any serious dislikes.
The 800XL is probably one of my favorite 8-bit computers aesthetically, and definitly my favorite amongst ones that I own(C64, CoCo2, Ti-99/4a), thought the Ti-99/4a is close second with that black and metal design, it's just missing some sleekness.
I had a recruiter dress up my (at the time) plain sysadmin resume as a .NET developer with sysadmin experience and I got blindsided by what the position I was interviewing for actually was when I got there. What a waste of everyone's time. And to this day it's always third party recruiters reaching out to me for positions I'd be "a great fit for", even though even though they're only loosely related to what I've I've done. I tried to avoid external recruiters for the most part these days.
If this passed, I'd find it amusing if the only phones for sale in Utah were just a couple of the cheapest Android phones with Utah special software loaded.
Hm, I've recently restored my Osborne 1 to working order, but without the games of other 8-bit computers of the 80's(though the Space Invaders knock off ain't half bad, especially for a computer that doesn't have a graphic mode), I can't really think of much to do with it as the bundled Wordstar and Supercalc aren't quite the draw they were nearly 40 years ago. Helping out with a port of this might be a neat way to make it useful one last time(assuming somebody made it useful with that tiny 5" screen in its first life).
I think VLC is probably the piece of software I've used continuously the longest, mostly because I've always taken it with me when ever I switched between Windows, Linux and Mac over the past probably 18 or 19 years I've been using it.
I just want something to stream movies from my file server to my TV and mobile devices in a way that's simple enough for the wife and kids to use, but Plex just kept shoving every damn other thing in front of my face. I finally went full Jellyfin last year when the Roku and iOS apps got official launches. There's still a rough spot here or there, but they're getting fewer.