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The banking app has no password or 2FA prompt before opening? Even if the 2FA has to come from Authenticator/Authy/etc , that should atleast have a password on it. What am I missing here?

I agree, I've been amazed watching people release after release upgrading to newer versions of Windows and office, when what they used them for functionally didnt change. I could never make sense of how people didnt see it for what it is, and accepted the continuous costs. But hey, I guess that's capitalism, and people are captured by it. If it has a new shine, and everyone else is doing it, let's all jump over the cliff's edge.

This is a great comment. I still reminisce about some rock solid TUI apps because they were extremely user friendly and productive. The moment the GUI came along and the mouse became part of the picture, plus the focus on looking pretty, effective interactions went out the window.

I appreciate your comments. I find it interesting though, that from that article that has one mention of relationships ("His belief in the importance of shared understanding is evident in his studies of friendship, where he described the harmony of goodwill and love between individuals."), amongst many others, this is what stuck with you ;)

This seems quite apt for how I'm feeling the last few years. Thank you for this, I will look into it

wow. what a thread.

This seems to be the same thing, question asked in 2010...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4554271/how-to-avoid-exc...

surely,after fixing all the dependencies, and getting borg running again, you would've been able to access your backups?

Unlike some of the negative comments seen, I'd like to extend my gratitude to the developers for this work!

I've recently decided to review my backup scheme, and have been looking at btrfs.

Anyone out there doing a btrfs+borg combo? What is your scheme?

I've found this as an example, but it's quite a bit more intense than what I need... https://mutschler.dev/stuff/backup/

I feel you. In one of my jobs, despite the output being different, I eventually realised that management perceived the guys who bitch the most, as the most hard working. In reality, their bitching was a fascade to allow them slack. Quietly working through tough situations made it seem like all was well, even easy. The loud guys got all the attention, and praise; "wow, after all of that pain, you perservered, here is a nice bonus for you" :facepalm

Like most of you, I myself have been investigating how to sleep better for quite a number of years.

The problem with most of what I read here is that you're (which is what I did too) using anecdotal reports to experiment on yourself to come up with something that you feel works for you.

I eventually stumbled on a podcast by Andrew Huberman (Neuroscientist/ophthalmology at Stanford) where he shares details of their research. Just a couple of items from my notes (and there are much more)

  - The quality of light during sunrise, as perceived through your eyes, sets off a "count down timer" of sorts in your brain
  - The quality of light during sunset, reduces the sensitivity to light you encounter after sunset
  - Your eye's structure is such that light coming from above enters the eye different from light coming from below.
  - - Which is why in the morning you want to go outside to allow the sun light from above to enter, and, 
  - - in the evening to switch off the ceiling lights and instead use lamps that are set low.
  - The old story about "don't use screens and bright lights in the evening" is true to some extent, but there is more to this
  - - Candle light ; I've decided to go to the extreme, and switch to candle light at 9pm, set at desk or floor height
  - - - I use this time to perform activities that dont require a lot of light (tidying, dishes, clothes, etc)
  - circadian rhythms are key
  - - when you eat and exercise is a way to set your clock
  ...

It just goes on and on with details that I would've taken a lifetime to find.

I'd suggest you start at ep1 as it sets you up with some understanding of how your brain works, ep2 & 3 is all about sleep ep 4 - goes into finding your temp minimum, jetlag, sleeplessness

I'm sure beyond ep4 [4] the topic of sleep will come up again, as it is the #1 thing that determines the quality of everything else in your life.

  [1] Podcast https://hubermanlab.com/category/podcast-episodes/
  [2] Notes https://podcastnotes.org/category/huberman-lab/
  [3] Transcripts https://github.com/lord-denning/Huberman-Lab-Podcast-Transcripts
  [4] Search 'sleep' https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=sleep+site%3Ahubermanlab.com%2F

I've myself at one point wanted to understand where time is spent, and, more importantly lost. Meaning, spent on unplanned distractions.

I've tried various software mechanisms, but it always ended up being too tedious.

Would love to see the hardware device in a small portable format!

Well said.

It seems to me those who came first, benefited the most. At the cost of everyone who follows. (if you think longer term). Eg; open land, develop it, live a grand life from the large profits. Subsequent years will have the property market determine the financial benefits from those who come and go. But then eventually, the natural loss starts to become a problem. And then everyone suffers. Everyone who is still around. This is just another kind of debt, just like "kicking the can down the road" wrt finance/national debt/money printing is.

Not only can those much further into the future not "benefit" (financially) from the ability to "cheaply" obtain undeveloped land, but they also sit with the problems due to the natural resources having been depleted (development of land does not only negatively affect tree...)

The whole concept of land ownership as it is, imho , is a problem.

I truly appreciate creators who consider offline first and privacy. Thank you.

"No one but you ... has access to your docs. Not even ... Hush Docs"

The gripe I have with statements like these, which these days everyone seems to make, is that I wouldn't know, and cannot prove that this is true. I just have to take your word for it.

How do we solve, in general, across software, this one problem?

Awesome! Except, how do I trial run it before buying? (without having to checkout code and running an emulator...)

Love it, please do an android version!

Thank you for this suggestion, this definitely looks like something I'd enjoy.

"...the myst caught in the treetop. I've never seen or felt anything like it!" " I felt as if I've been released from my body" "sense of knowledge more than human"

Return to _silence_. Without the distraction of others and the world, ie isolation. And in there, after the mind-chatter waned, he found _himself_

I've very recently had similar amazing experiences in the wilderness of mountains where it felt like I was beginning to melt away into it all. Very peculiar! Something I want to go back to... --

Just did a quick search for philosophy around this movie, the theme of existentialism comes up among others. http://www.philfilms.utm.edu/1/razors.htm

I'll have to spend some more time here :-D --

Renunciation. Yes, that's a tough one. "renunciation of material desires and prejudices, represented by a state of disinterest and detachment from material life, and has the purpose of spending one's life in peaceful, love-inspired, simple spiritual life"

In my own struggles with existentialism, I find the deeper I go into spirituality, the more I naturally experience "disinterest and detachment from material life". It just happens. What's most interesting to me, is as this happens, also the world seems to fight back, like it wants to pull me in again, not just the struggle with worldly desires, but things like these out-of-the-blue amazing "opportunities" arrive, that when looked at, is just a very polished way to try and pull me back into the world!

Life is amazing indeed.

>>But it does make you feel as if you need to be all-in

Hmm, this is a bigger point than I think you make it out to be. (?)

It's something that's pained me for a long time too. I'll ramble a bit...

I think part of the problem, in my case at least, is that the world programmed me to think that I need to be all-in.

"All-in" to me means I have to get the Lexus yacht and the Garmin smart marine watch, and all the _stuff_ that comes with that, if I want to partake in this activity. If I want to enjoy its pleasures.

"All-in" to me also means that this activity (in this modern form) and its ecosystem and community has been structured (by that massive industrialized complex) such that if I don't go all-in, then it wouldn't work. The real action happens when you go all-in.

From another angle, if I had the luck of realizing that I can do sailing with a simple Hobie Cat, with a friend, on the local lake. I'd still have to overcome this very difficult impression left on me by the marketers of the Lexus + Garmin + Goodies that a simple Hobie Cat wouldn't be good enough to bring a very broad smile to my face. They would want me to sit with the all-in image in my head. They would want to suppress the simple option.

-- which then is where we can look at your other statement: >>>The velocity of relevance seems to have altered significantly.

You cannot just go all-in today and be set. you need to do it every year, "new" updates, upgrades, all sold by the same marketers in such a way that the previous models just seem not usable anymore.

-- Reading again, I also see >>>it does make you feel you see, thats what they want!

>>>it does make you feel as if you need to be all-in

so they want to create the idea that being behind, being a noob (the "perpetual state" as you put it) is a bad thing. Or maybe rather, they know humans (as PG says were in the old days required to overcome noobness to survive) so it's built into us. marketers exploit this to get you to buy again and again.

------- which brings us to philosophy. The stuff I've come to realize sit even underneath the above statements.

See, philosophers tells us that happiness already exists inside us. Right now. Right here. Inside.

If you could be made to believe it is outside, then you could be told 'one of the things' out there might be the one for you. Which implies, you'd have to try out a lot of stuff to hopefully find it between the options. Which gives you the idea that if you get something, and it doesn't work, you just gotta try something else. But what you don't know, the trick, is that none of it will fulfill.

Also, problem for a capitalist world is that, if you know happiness is inside, then you have no reason to seek it outside of you. If you're not seeking it outside, and you feel it inside, you won't be open to suggestions of products that might fulfill this suggested feeling of emptiness. Which means they can't sell you anything, and thus not take your money.

So, ask yourself then, how much of how our society is built, its structures, how we're educated, deliberately avoids helping you to find the happiness inside, and deliberately pushes you to seek for it outside of yourself.

- being a noob i think then is not something we should seek in all cases. when learning , yes definately.

but ito happiness, being in the moment and enjoying it as it is, is all you need. no noobness attitude.

---- ok, ramble done. I may've gone way beyond your comment, but you triggered something, and I enjoyed it , thanks!

It appears to me that much of your complaint is based on the flawed assumption that the software "industry" is filled with engineers. ("Industry" because in software what appears to be production of something new, is really just a re-invention or re-creation of what's been done before - and unfortunately rarely an improvement)

For example, how many authors on medium proclaim themselves "Senior Software Engineers" but when you dig find they've got maybe 5 years experience doing web development, with no CS or engineering education. Maybe stuff like a 36hr "Web Development Bootcamp". Do people really not understand the definition of an engineer anymore?

From there they progress into the deeper parts of software. And create the atrocities to be found in the npm registry, which become dependencies of dependencies of dependencies that results in nightmares everytime one needs to navigate to a website.

If it would've been possible to see the background and education of the numerous critics here, what may we find? If I (the developer as described by the OP) am surrounded by people like me, and the world filled with people who think like me, and create things at a similar cognitive level as my peers, would I not misjudge the collective level of quality that I perceive to be acceptable? Smells like confirmation bias to me? Maybe a few others. Dunning-Kruger anyone?

In their defense, the marketing campaigns created by large corporations to turn the supply-demand (cost of employment) of employees in their favor, has I think been a big part of the problem. First the programmers, then the "Data Scientists", etc - the amount of disappointment and student debt being created as these people eventually realise they've been sold something that they're not suited for!

If we cannot critically look at our industry and admit our flaws, we cannot move forward as a collective.