Let’s not fall for it, folks. Today it’s the easy tasks—things you don’t mind giving up.
But tomorrow? It will be your entire job.
That’s the trajectory. Let’s stay sharp.
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That’s the trajectory. Let’s stay sharp.
The "let AI do the boring bits" pitch sounds appealing—because it's easier to accept. But let's be real: the goal isn't just the dull stuff. It's everything.
It's surprising how many still think AI is harmless. Sigh...
If you have no money you will go into overdraft and that’s about it, you basically have a problem and the bank will keep nagging about that overdraft if you don’t have an agreement.
The goal is to use the “credit” of the credit card for 30 days as a convenience. The implicit expectation is that it will be paid in full at the end of the month.
In countries like US and South America (e.g.) many people see credit card as free money (that they don’t have), so when the end of the month comes they simply don’t have the money to pay the balance or pay very little of it. The consequence is what we all know: high interest on the balance which keeps snowballing.
I know in south america banks even have interface for payment in instalments etc. Here in Europe, at least my bank they don’t have have such feature, I guess it’s just not meant to be used and abused they way it happens in other places.
This is my view at least.
Decided to fix it myself. While handling the screen and disconnecting cables I managed to damage Face ID sensor permanently.
Decided to take advantage and replace battery. In the process of removing the battery cable managed to damage it in such a way that cable now keeps disconnecting itself.
While trying to disconnect the battery cables by removing the parts near charging connector I managed to pull it a bit strongly and damage the charging connector that is connected to the logic board.
Even if I manage to repair the phone to the state it was (incl face id) with a professional it will cost as much as another phone.
With the experience above I decided I will think twice next time before trying to repair devices myself.
Update: typos.
I was looking for the same, the above helped me to get an idea about the net income.
The time you have to spend maintaining it can amount to a lot. In my case, the machine would always feel sort of unstable with random freezes, etc. You just never really know 100% what's going on behind the scenes, it could be the wrong kext, or the wrong graphics card, or the wrong os patch, the wrong iso used, etc.
If you have plenty of time to play with it, I would say go for it. But if you just need your machine to do work and cannot afford having a computer that may suddenly stop working (and requiring a lot of time to get it going again), just save your time/money and buy an actual apple device.
The idea of having a fast and custom made computer running macOS is pretty enticing, but it's a lot more time consuming/intricate than one would like to admit.
Dutch directness at its finest.
When one cannot be polite, soft spoken, considerate, or just lacks tact, one can always go the Dutch way. Why bother?
You're going to experience the dutch directness firsthand.
I cannot complain about what I get here for that money, though.
I think people coming from a "sunny", southern countries (like me) would mostly have other things to get used to rather than tax itself.
Mac > Hackintosh > Linux. but....
In the end I found out it was far worse having to deal with the crappy alpha version apps for linux than fixing the hackintosh. If you are used to the quality of mac apps you will certainly miss them once on linux. I did.
This was until the day the Hackintosh died with an unknown freaky kernel issue and I made the best decision I ever made: bought a second-hand quad core mac mini.
I never want to hear about hackintoshes ever since.
In Brazil this practice is also pretty common.
The more untrustworthy/incompetent/reckless the government is handling taxpayers' money, the more often one sees this kind of behaviour.
Great deal nonetheless, especially when considering the bit where he mentioned being much faster that version 1, which is considerably slow if you ask me.
"Washington Post journalists were given rare permission by the tribe to visit the Awá reserve."
That's part of the problem.
The need for instant gratification is a constant for those affected by major depression. This may come across as "messy" when in reality severely depressed people would skip anything that does not directly improve their mood.
As despair takes over and one cannot find light at the end of the tunnel, the search for this light or simply giving up becomes the main thing whereas everything else becomes irrelevant.
I'm no psychologist but could not help noticing this kind of behaviour over the years in many cases of depression, suicides, etc.
That is precisely the same feeling you get when you move to a quieter town: "nothing goes on here while 'everything is going on' somewhere else".
This feeling of 'nothing doing' pushes me to do stuff, be it a hobby, reading, etc. I think the idea is pretty much associated to the 'time is money' or the 'time is flying, we're getting older, take advantage of your time' sort of thoughts.
A nice point made in the article is the fact that many people just can't stand live in peace with their own thoughts. Indeed.
Along the years I have come to admire more and more those who take what they do know and put the effort into just that: building something.
The idea of purpose is key here.
Once you have a purpose, a goal, finding the right tool for the job is no longer that difficult and you will suddenly realise that a lot the languages/frameworks people have been evangelising to you may make no sense at all.
"If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll