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I do. Only for leisure. And I take a Pixel 6A running LineageOS when I do which has nothing sensitive on it.

That's really mostly so that I don't lose my iPhone which I actually care about.

This is just the same problem in JSON, another loose schema’ed mess. Got my fair share of problems with that at the moment as well.

Not if I amble around the office with a chair leg making menacing grunts they won't.

Feds is not an attack vector that concerns me. My coworkers or kids changing my wallpaper or getting access to my kit is.

I think we need to burn this whole thing down and rethink it at this point. A huge amount of the total operational cost of our business is working around weird YAML problems and helm charts.

Had one a while back where quoted strings containing padded numbers in were used for something. "01" fine ... "05" fine, "06" fine, "07" fine, "08" kaboom. 01-07 were treated as strings and 08 was suddenly being treated as octal, which it's not and exploded.

I've disabled unlock with Apple Watch and bought a touch ID magic keyboard. This is a far better solution!

It was neat for a couple of days until I was walking out of the room and my mac unlocked itself.

Mine doesn't do that at all (M1 14" MBP). Are you on an M1 macbook or an Intel one out of interest?

I still like XML and XSD. People look at me these days like I'm insane. But in this case a partially loaded XML document would not parse let alone pass schema validation.

Again vindicated. YAML needs to go away. It is misery. I'd rather have XSLT than Helm templates.

I would not assume that Hashicorp products necessarily meet the design goals if I'm honest. Consul and vagrant have been absolute shits and vault adds more complexity and unreliability to the problem domain and has a net negative ROI. I like the idea of their products but the reality is very different.

I am personally using it to leverage vast amounts of cash off people and using that to do stuff I actually give a crap about. The difference between me and you is that I have come to terms with this being purely an earner, which there is nothing wrong with.

You can make sensible assumptions that result in engineering gains though. Step around the problems not through them.

For example I have learned that the first step to reliability is removing as many hashicorp products from your stack as possible though. Appears I am not the only one.

I had a weird dream last night that my M1 MacBook Pro had a 5 1/4” floppy drive still. No idea why or what brought that on but to wake up and read this was refreshing :)

So Elon didn't pay himself for the API they are using? :)

These are the adverts I want: discovery in scope of what I am doing i.e music, entertainment and apps. Literally Apple deliver those cleanly.

What I don't want is scams, noise, garbage and malware which is what the alternative ecosystems are full of.

They haven't paid their AWS bill apparently. Related?

Glad I didn't buy one. If I had bought one and it did that to me I'd actually sabotage our AWS spend on purpose just to punish Bezos.

I don't get ads on iOS, macOS or iPadOS. Literally none.

The only revenue stream they have in that space is in-app ads (I don't have any of those apps) and the app store, which is basically an advertising portal to find tools so I expect it there.

Google and Microsoft shovel it down you and bug you constantly about upsells and third party trash.

There is no way a Pi with GPIO should be anywhere near any industrial equipment.

I have worked in the industry and it has been a mix of in-house and hired cabinet chimps.

If you have the time and money to work out how to interface a Pi to GPIO and write a software front end, you have the time and money to buy a PLC and integrate that with a COTS HMI front end.

Well it's not really though. You just buy it from Farnell or RS here in the UK and it arrives the next day. I mean you literally just buy an Omron PLC and the ethernet board and RTFM much like you have to do with the Pi.

Your point about the cost is right but you have to ask where the cost is: some guy spending two months working out how to interface a Pi to something or this being canned and your ask being process modelling. At the same time that guy is then upskilled in fairly generic automation which can be used at other levels across the business. It's very easy to write off unproductive uses of employee time.

Brompton is a success but I'm not sure why. The bikes are by far the most horrible thing I've ridden other than the Sinclair A-bike. I'd rather walk.

I worry about this. It compromises the brand if they are willing to cheap out on automation hardware at this level. What else are they cheaping out on?

Point being there's almost absolutely no reason why they should have used a raspberry Pi in this environment. They have poor power management, EMI resilience, terrible enclosures as a rule and are somewhat prone to fucking out spontaneously with things like SD corruption. Your warranty and service options are basically the trash can. If a station goes down, what happens to your line? The entire cost-benefit analysis is probably wrong here. If it were me I'd buy one of the cheap Lenovo industrial mini PCs and get 5y NBD warranty, actually tested Ubuntu support, without all the other issues and buy an extra one.

They have the cash sitting around to do this properly.

Incidentally also none of this is really special. We were doing exactly this with recycled PC desktops 25 years ago running stuff in VB6 on windows NT on much larger and higher revenue and audit-heavy engineering lines.

The software is a separate issue. Buying that in is usually expensive and problem-ridden.

Nailed it. Microsoft forced me to Google through bugs. Google forced me to Apple through advertising and privacy violations. Microsoft and Google are now doing very well at keeping me in Apple's ecosystem.

I periodically use an android device or sample windows just to see if it got any better and, no, it's a veritable shit show. They had good, mature products and screwed them up by selling out as adware companies.

The entire of Google is dying. Starting with search, the moment you turn off your adblocker you will see why. It's literally a complete crapfest of badly moderated advertising and ranking manipulation. Then there's the default Android experience which literally shovels garbage down you with the Google app and via a version of Chrome with no ad blocking capability. The www is unusable unless you install another browser. Then all their immature web based apps propositions which people are finally tiring of due to the bugginess and being almost completely unusable if you're offline. Then the invasive tracking and privacy issues. You can tell how bad it's getting because nearly all my searches suggest autocomple with "reddit" on the end because people are more likely to get human generated results. And of course the ramped up YT advertising recently.

It's a classic death spiral.

They don't have a product other than crap search and invasive data collection.

I remember these days. I spent a lot of time buying GPUs and eating ramen. Unreal Tournament 99 on a Voodoo 3 3000 was the peak for me.

Now I have an Intel iGPU and don’t care. And I can afford to eat better :)

Er we pretty much have in a lot of places.

I am behind the idea of this needing to be destroyed. It's not that the technology is inherently bad or useless but in the wrong hands, of which there are many, it can cause a vast array of problems in society.

Point being you can resize the window to where it’s comfortable rather than have a narrow column forced upon you.

The second one is absolute shit on my 27" 5k display though. The first one is not.

The point is that sure you can punch yourself in the balls, complain it hurts then call for the regulators to provide a mechanism for you to stop punching yourself in the balls.

Or you could just stop punching yourself in the balls i.e. use WiFi and FGS just pay $3 for some storage rather than coming up with a wobbly straw man.

My experience is fairly vast. I use iOS for music/video/photography (iPad Pro), and support 11 other iOS devices (excluding watches, homepods) across my family who range from biochemical engineers to students to children to retirees to software engineers. That use case NEVER comes up these days in my experience unless you're hurting yourself.

I haven't had that happen in the 10 years I've had iOS devices.

Last time I plugged anything in other than for charging was an iPod. Even my DSLR talks to the phone via WiFi.

The reason they went with Lightning was because the other option was Micro-USB at the time. Lightning is so so so much more robust than that awful USB connector and can be inserted any way round. Bring on 2015 and USB-C appeared which Apple jumped on pretty quickly with their MacBooks.

The iPhone is an outlier because due to the insane number of devices out there, if you change it now everyone's Lightning accessories are dead in the water. But it doesn't really matter now. Only thing Lightning gets used for most users is charging and it works fine for that and people have cables and chargers already floating around. This isn't a big deal really. They ship a USB-C to Lightning cable with the last 2 iPhones I bought and all my chargers are USB-C.