This is great! Thank you.
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I understand the new fangled 2 comes with real switches for the F key strip?
However, they've been caught a couple of times doing naughty things:
https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect
Combine that with a CEO who had a my way or die reputation for not admitting something's wrong and you've got a browser I removed from my system. Trust is huge and makes me wonder what else is happening in the background nobody has caught.
Vivaldi's got all kinds of tweaks exposed you'd need to dig into flags for. I like that. I think my biggest gripe is dragging and dropping links out doesn't work. Pretty small potatoes.
Daily driver is still Firefox + uMatrix + uBlock Origin and hoping for Mozilla email + calendaring at some point soon (take my money!).
Basically use somebody else's maps, at the extreme end you can opt out of find my phone, and just don't manually use any Google services at all.
If you liked the Psion you might like its successor the Gemini from Planet Computers (https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/gemini-pda-1). Same awesome keyboard.
One area that was a disappointment is really doesn't like x-ray machines (or maybe the other bits in the scanning process — magnets?). I asked for hand inspection at LHR, they refused, and putting it through the scanner corrupted what was stored in memory. Only upside is doing something again is usually quicker and better than the first time.
I was using Brave until this story came out and switched over to Vivaldi for the stuff that absolutely demands the Blink engine.
Point one, if they _repeatedly_ continue to do this kind of thing, what kind of stuff are they also getting away with? Or what's the next big surprise around the corner?
The second point is I really no prefer Vivaldi as things like sync work (it's been broken for a long time in Brave) and there's more exposed in the prefs for techie types who like to tinker with that kind of thing.
Firefox continues to be the every day browser and it keeps getting better as time goes on (another +1 for take my money for email, calendar, file storage, etc.).
Obviously vim isn't particularly mobile friendly. Any ideas on how to view/edit from afar?
Never fails.
In reality it's crap, no FUSE, some GUI programs simply don't run, upgrades can trash your install, sporadic development attention from Google, and my 2015 MBP is an order of magnitude faster (wish I'd sprung for the 16Gb version though).
The new MBP without a touchbar would be a great replacement but the Book 3 has caught my attention. Love to hear stories from Mac->Windows refugees.
Is he allowed books (defining your scope of 'printed')? They'd be so much better than printing a web site.
Becoming a Google Apps consultant might be a good route and get him going quickly. Knowing how to take a company's workflow into Docs, Sheets, etc., is as much methodology as it is tech and code. If he's got good people skills, can see flow at a higher level, this requires very little to get started. The docs are pretty decent but I don't know how many pages this will take to print https://developers.google.com/apps-script/overview
For something more technical, perhaps take a look at the django project's docs. https://www.djangoproject.com/start/
It's going to take some work to get things set up and there's a lot of stuff that's going to be scary new.
But with minimal tweaking it offers a really decent admin interface that's relatively easy to customize and apply input rules, just like an Access database.
Python is relatively easy for BASIC programmers to pick up and loops, decision logic, that kind of thing is directly translatable with very little learning.
I got started professionally with dBase back in the dark ages, jumping from amateur BASIC on a Commodore PET. If he's inquisitive, hungry, determined, and willing to put in the hours there's a journey to getting current again.
Good luck to your dad and I hope you get some useful advice from this thread.
Without TCP/IP you're back to running dual wg and ovpn services and pretty much where we are with ip4 vs. 6. One is 'better' but the other works everywhere.
There's a whole product placement sales team that monetises brands who like to see their products being handled by the good guy. Hero saves the world with 0.3 seconds left on his shining Galaxy S20, maker logo in prominence.
Piss that brand off? You might not see revenue from them for a couple of seasons. Or ever. Oh dear.
There is also logo and other IP/copyright enforcement. Why is made-up-spy-agency's logo over the Apple logo on what's obviously a three generation old MacBook? Because somebody didn't have the budget to factor it in.
In a lot of cities you can't even include buildings in b roll without legal clearance.
It's fascinating when you dig in, the amount of payola for this kind of thing is really interesting (and thinking how to monetise it…).
I still code, I still keep up, but I get to do that because it's fun and interesting, not because if I don't do it then I can't eat or have a roof over my head. There's a huge happiness difference in wanting to do it and needing to do it.
If like simplifying difficult concepts and explaining them to people you might want to look at a Sales Engineer role. There's a really great YC graduated bootcamp called Flockjay (https://flockjay.com/ and also read through https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18727360 from a few weeks ago). I've been lucky enough to be accepted for the inaugural batch of students. The whole process with them and the first classes have been so much better than I expected. DM me if you've got any questions.
So for me it's a Samsung Pro Chromebook as a daily driver and a 2015 Macbook Pro for development and graphics work.
How are things six months forward? Any better to completely working vs. 'closer and it'll be done soon'?