I've genuinely never gotten any flack about the whole imessage vs sms thing, but I've also thrown in the towel for one particular reason: OS updates. Most Android manufacturers only give you 2 major versions, maybe 3 in the best case. With Samsung being the only one I know of giving you 4. iPhone supports major OS version updates for a lot longer than most any android phone.
Back in October the company contracting me decided to terminate my contract. I then got picked up by a different contract, through the same agency, with the same company, just with a different role and at a different campus, with a pay bump. It's been a weird year.
To be fair I used the word "should", as in I believe that it would be best practice, at least from the perspective of user experience, to operate below the OS. If that were the case, input switching wouldn't be dependent on the speed or reliability of the OS. As you point out, it's not strictly necessary if the OS is responsive enough and reliable enough to begin with.
The speed and reliability of the OS. I should be able to change inputs even if the TV OS is unresponsive, which is not uncommon on some smart TVs. If the smart TVs you're using are fast enough and reliable enough that you aren't having issues then I don't think there would be any benefit to you.
I don't see how this changes anything. At every non-tech job I've ever had there was no salary negotiation, I either took what was offered or I didn't get the job.
One thing I hate is when things like input switching are part of the TV OS. It can turn something that should be fast and easy into something slow and glitchy.
Maybe this says more about the devs I've worked with than devs as a whole, but most devs I've personally met know next to nothing about servers, and wouldn't be able to set one up if you asked them.
I made my career using google search and it has changed pretty significantly from the early 2010s. There was a point where it would seemingly scour the entire web for whatever string of text I entered, but now it tries so hard to give me what it thinks I'm looking for that I very often get results that are completely irrelevant. I'm still usually able to find what I'm looking for eventually, but it takes a lot more work on my part.
I'm from the US. While there are certainly people that use it, I don't personally know anyone that uses Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram, etc... as their primary method of text communication. Nearly everyone I personally know uses iMessage or SMS, with a smaller subset using Facebook messenger.
Their initial installation and setup documentation was what I found difficult. Having very little experience setting up boot partitions and file systems at the time, the instructions were quite vague. I wound up having to go outside the Arch install wiki in order to figure out what to do.
Purely in regards to the initial install of the OS. I wound up having to go outside the Arch install wiki to other sources to figure out what to do. It seemed written for someone who already had a pretty thorough understanding of setting up partitions and file systems.
I struggled quite a bit with Arch. I found the documentation quite confusing and it seemed incomplete, and getting support was quite difficult. Manjaro provided a very easy way to try Arch. If the process to install Arch had been easier, I wouldn't have bothered even looking for any derivatives of it.
I use one for two reasons. One is that it puts a layer between my purchase and my bank. Any fraudulent purchases can be dealt with before any money is taken from my account. The second is for the rewards and the ability to build credit.
I started using hover after they sponsored a podcast I like. They've been pretty pleasant to work with but I only use it for my podcast. Not sure what they're like to deal with as a business hosting a production website.
I was 19 at the time and had only recently entered the workforce. I lost my part time, minimum wage job that year. Otherwise I didn't notice any significant impact on my life or the lives of my family and friends. At the time it seemed like people were overreacting. I remember being baffled that they had declared a recession. It was only years later that I even understood how bad it was.
I don't know enough about economics to have any clue how this is going to shake down.
I can expect anyone who has a cell phone to be able to receive SMS. When I first started using a cell phone in 2007, that's all that was available. Or at least, it's all I knew that was available. Every phone I've owned since then has had the capability to use SMS, and I've never had a need to use anything else. So I don't see why I'd bother with something like Signal or WhatsApp, when there's no guarantee that the person I want to talk to will have it, and they don't offer anything I need that SMS/MMS doesn't already provide.
I could rant for a long time about notifications. I spend a lot of time curating them. I have them outright disabled on most apps on my phone. I don't allow any desktop notifications on my PC. I've dealt with facebook notifications for a long time. One of the most annoying things about facebook notifications is that I will get notified when other people reply to a thread that I've replied to, even when they aren't replying to me directly. But if I turn notifications off, I don't get any for direct replies to me.
There are very few things I want to be notified of. Mainly I want to be notified when a person has directly interacted with me or with something I've said. I setup an instagram account forever ago and tried to set it up so I only got those types of notifications, but it would give me a notification to essentially just open the app. I couldn't turn that off, so I just disabled notifications entirely. Now I don't even open the app anymore.
I'm part of a team that uses basecamp to communicate, and I constantly have to unsubscribe from new threads where all of the replies are "ok" or thumbs up emoji or whatever. It's annoying, but nowhere near as bad as the "band" app we used before that. That app had the worst notification experience I've ever had. It would give you notifications for all kinds of things that were completely irrelevant to anything. It's the only app I've bothered to review.
I wonder about the option of having an unlocked dedicated development machine that has no or very limited access to network resources but minimal security software in addition to a locked down laptop for email, slack/teams, etc...
I'm in this age group and I also have no intention of leaving my hometown. I've lived here my whole life, and I've never been away for longer than a week or two. Everyone and everything I know and love is here. I have a decent job and a comfortable life, though I probably won't ever be able to afford a single family home in the area.
I was hoping to buy a new car this year but frankly, there's nothing wrong with my 2012 Nissan Altima right now. I'm going to wait and hope that this craziness subsides soon.
I also had no degree and wound up working for a small software company as an IT "intern" which quickly lead to being their sole IT person. That company was also a complete shit-show, but had I not worked there I wouldn't have gained the skills that lead to my current role, which is the best job I've had yet.
Another option if you don't mind running your own server is Mesh Central. It's open source as well. I've personally met the developer and he's a very knowledgeable and likeable person, if that means anything.
I don't know what to tell you. Only going off my own experience. Maybe things have changed since Kaby Lake. Most of my systems are Kaby Lake or older. I only have the one comet lake Dell and at this point can't actually recall how it shipped since I've reinstalled the OS several times at this point.