Backblaze was solid. If it’s only one computer you get an unlimited account and you’re set

Cara Nicole. She does a good job at explaining finance and budgeting to the layman, I liked her because I found that what she said more or less aligned with what I’ve found to be true, so I think she’s sending out smart ways of managing money to people. Plus she does fun videos about things like giving financial audits to Michael Scott and breaking down people’s wish lists. Idk I always enjoy her videos.

https://youtube.com/@thefinancialfreedomgirl

Don’t forget one of our largest cities is currently on fire because of our own man made climate change that we are (I believe) the number one cause of, but those same leaders are telling us to shrug and say “who knows why”

Oh I know, it’s just that they said they’re removing moderation for “free speech” and then remove one of the ways you can express themselves. Just hypocritical.

Just making it clear that it wasn’t about freedom of expression or speech. True freedom of speech would mean keeping these even if it made other people uncomfortable.

6 months of all of your expenses in a high yield savings is number one. Good times are great, take it from me though, tomorrow they can stop and you’ll be back to zero income, when that happens you’ll be happy you have that savings.

After that, investing. Very easy to get into, if you don’t want to get in right now you can just put the money in CDs and then swap it over to the market later. Not individual stocks, I’m talking index funds and ETFs, things that track the overall market, not a specific company. Then just set it and forget it. Don’t check it daily or weekly, just let it sit and make you more money.

Treat investing as just another expense, that has the lowest priority. As Warren Buffet says, pay yourself first. So first pay your bills, then your savings, then with what ever is left as the other commenters said, set aside X amount for fun play money (and it’s good to have a number for this, that number can spiral if you don’t control it, all of a sudden you just spent 2 grand on a GPU you didn’t need), and then put in your Y amount into investing. When times are good it is good to set everything you can for the future. You’ll be happy when times aren’t so good.

As someone who works in corporate America this is 10000% true. Giant corporations are hugely bloated, inefficient, slow, and stupid. I honestly can’t believe they are somehow the best way to do things in groups of people. I have never had less work to do than working in a huge corporation.

It’s no surprise that indie games can compete with them. Working in startups compared to huge corporations, I did more code and we got more done in shorter amounts of time vs big corps. There’s no red tape, there’s no committees or directors or people you have to please. There’s no political games, you just do your work. As simple as that. You come in, you code for 7-8 hours, you push your feature, and you go home.

In a megacorp you come in, you get 5 minutes for coffee before 3 people are pinging you on slack for some stupid downstream thing they didn’t read the manual on or was never documented, and then you have 5 hours of meetings, lunch, 2 hours of ad hoc meetings, and then Shirley has to swing by to ask you to take another HR training. So you get maybe 20 minutes of coding done in a day.

For you engineers who have never coded in a megacorp - As an example, most megacorps have an ID service (usually named after a comic book character). This is usually a real service deployed somewhere that nobody maintains anymore, but it’s where you get your… IDs from. Really wrap your head around that. It’s a microservice who is in charge of returning Guid.NewGuid(). Then they get pulled into meetings because the ID service doesn’t support this or that, they never thought of this case or that case, how can we upgrade off the old ID service to the new one. In a startup, you’re calling Guid.NewGuid()

hatred, anger, fear.

Yup I have. However, in a weird way I’m becoming more grateful for what I have, and my family/friends. I did realize I had become very dependent on new media and new things, and this is surprisingly making me a bit less materialistic.

Movies are shittier, so why am I spending money on them. New games are shittier, why am I paying day one prices? I can wait a few months for the new graphics card when it’s cheaper, or any hardware. It’s funny, I’m actually paying less now than I ever have, my budgets are low, and it’s all thanks to them being so greedy and demanding.

But do they have COLORS?

that’s what I’m worried about for mine, they’ve become addicted to the slop

how would you recommend pitching it? I know all the sweet unix/linux things, and freedom and such, but how would you pitch it in a way that your parents would care about?

Phew, and here I thought they let AI out of pandora’s box too early. Good thing we’re ready for it as a society!

If I’m reading your link right, they are using user agents. Granted there’s a lot. Maybe you could whitelist user agents you approve of? Or one of the commenters had a list that you could block. Nginx would be able to handle that.

Say McDonalds to continue

Apple killed it’s last version in August 2023 because it didn’t respect privacy. Where there’s object detection there’s csam detection. Which hey I think is good, and I wouldn’t expect an announcement about it. I just see how they did this, and this is exactly how I’d roll out a privacy focused csam detector if I was going to do it

From August 2023, they killed the non privacy focused one: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/

Reading between the lines, I guarantee they’re doing the same thing for CSAM protection. I think sex offenders caused this to happen, I believe they found out that they were using photos to host that horrid stuff, and apple can’t just ignore it, so I think we have them to thank

I was just looking at requirements and all I saw was windows

Stayed in my home town, commute to the small city 30 minutes away working as an insurance agent. Married, appears to have kids. Super for them. It sounds like my nightmare, I moved 2000 miles away and work in tech, but I guess his life sounds fun.

It’s officially piqued my interest and I may spin up a server, but it looks like it HAS to be Windows and it requires a GPU… Which is expensive. Either at home or virtually that’s a costy server