First off:

Good luck! You’ll get through this ❤️

I’m not claiming I went through a situation like your sentence implies in that extreme, my advice comes from a bit less drastic situation - and I’ll assume no safety net.

The hard truth: you are broke. Not in the future, right now. Treat your money like it. If you can’t pay rent in a few months time you can’t now. Same for all other invoices.

Reason: shit has hit the fan already. Now you’re standing there and wondering which the biggest piece will be to hit you.

If you start with that today then you’ll stretch the time out overall.

Your job is threfold: priority one: reduce spending to near zero. Short term survival beats anything. Including and especially credit score and the likes. The details depend on your situation, laws and standards.

The second is even harder: What can you do to increase cash income? This is a shitty situation and your reaction most likely is “well, yes. Of course dumb fuck what do you think I’m doing??”.

I can fully emphasize if it is. That said: I’m not only talking about applications. Use your social circle to ask for help, both money and job. Reach out to former colleagues or school friends. Use everything and everyone you have in your environment.

The last part is the easiest but very annoying: read your local laws and statutes. What social security structures exist? What are eviction regulations? What about late payment terms? Re education sponsorship? And so on. Most countries have at least something but it’s often hidden in highly formal bullshit. Get your shovel and dig through legalese. And if you can’t do that: the second point automatically applies here as well.

Bambu was the one company I oped to be wrong about when first seeing them. But their communication smelled “we are your future” from the beginning. :(

You miss the consumption pattern behind streaming though: I don’t want (and literally can’t afford to) …

• buy 1000 child song albums but still want to have kids around to enjoy their flavor of the month music
• Explore music on the side: I can’t buy every new album to listen to it on my own terms and I’m not music head enough to hunt and research music, instead I use streaming as a discovery mechanism on the side, sometimes just jumping into stuff ice never even seen.
• Afford the integration time: a single streaming service can easily be used for everyone in my household and customized without any overhead. A five year should be able to choose their music and I can’t so that id they need an app (no phones) or get accustomed to different interfaces.

This is not intended to take away from your core point: (direct) purchase is a better way of giving money to artists, second only to direct donations (i can’t talk about concerts because of the whole venue discussions I’ve heard on the side).

Now comes the tough part:

On paper it’s straight forward for me: just donate like 10 or 20 bucks a month to your personal flavor of the month - but … To whom? I just checked, today alone were 20 artists played.

The shitty thing is, and I’m sharing this to perhaps shame me into acting: this is quite easily solvable, but I just don’t invest the energy needed to figure it out for me.

Sorry for the long rant style, tldr is:

I have no use for owning albums, streaming provide a true value for me and I’m (realizing after writing this) obviously too cheap, stupid and lazy to give bak.

What a shit “but both sides” article.

“Bambu said they didn’t do something wrong so we must take that into consideration”.

It’s one of the most transparent and plump “I want to hold my users hostage” in a long time.

I fundamentally disagree on your conclusion.

Codeberg is a non profit under German law. There won’t be openai “non profit but not really” bullshit.

And your point about CI Integration ins good example: There is no “free” CI. GitHub lets you pay with their vendor lock-in and your data.

If that’s okay with you, that’s okay with me - but as a programming community as a whole ,especially FOSS side, this needs to go away.

The best case for me is that GitHub dies and its death is a wake-up call to decouple collaboration layers in a way that keeps them modular enough to not again rub into “too big or integrated to fail”.

And yes, I’m aware that this is 2/3 day dreaming. But that’s my best case association anyway :D

Orwell is a child of his time though. If I recall correctly he went to Spain to report on the conflict (civil war) and was so shocked(?) that he volunteered to fight against the literal Nazis. Then getting told “put down your weapons” is the context I read into this quote.

Or to take your example: it’s about someone telling you to not fight back instead of helping safe others.

While I agree with you in times of peace and between individuals it’s more nuanced: when physically under attack your options shrink.

This is the part where this quote holds true in my opinion: When you’re confronted with a situation that already turned violent. Or, worse for me personally, I’d there is no shared common value system.

How do you mediate with someone who not only is willing to kill but has the conviction that it’s the only right thing to do?

And I don’t mean that as a rhetorical question, I have no idea … And my own moral compass is fucked up by now and spinning in circles.

Oh common it’s not like there’s an org for mountains of code. A codeberg.org basically.

Or a method to forge jo own code repos just like that, just for dev. A … forgejo.dev … No that would be crazy. Let’s rather stick with Microsoft - after all, nothing they ever touched was bad for their user base, ever.

Can’t tell you about the first half of your question as I’m not familiar with the American doctrine.

And before someone jumps into discussions: I’m relying knowledge, not conviction - if you have more insights, please add them. But if you try to convince me that it’s wrong or try to point out inherent inconsistencies: you’ll add nothing for me - preaching to the choir and so on …

the second part is actually straight forward: Jews in the Bible didn’t believe in JC either - by definition.

The reason why the Jewish faith has a special role for Christians lies in the old testament, not the new one: they are “God’s chosen people” and everything resolves around then bring pampered by God, both in the positive sense as the favorite but also in the negative sense as the one’s who receive the stick more.

Speculation part: This unique position is very present to all Christians, but especially the more fundamental ones. Combine this with a history of mistreatment, where jews were blamed for everything that went wrong in your neighborhood and you have a good mix of the enduring, suffering chosen ones.

Note: Israel as state is then a completely different discussion.

My association: Anti corruption batch from Trump.

I mean from a marketing standpoint it makes sense to profit from the AI fatigue but I don’t have any illusion that Spotify acts in good faith.

In terms of automation n8n is the closest you’ll ever get that is at least partially FOSS.

But for client based I’m having good experience with Goose https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose

The project recently moved to the AI arm of the Linux foundation.

It’s a mix of terminal helper and agent orchestrator. I’m not yet too deep but the mix of recipes and skills seems to work pretty well!

Thanks for the addition! Edited to make it more clear: there part also referred only to the time before you’ve connected.

(edit: all of below stuff is only for not being on the same network. After that it gets … messy)

Oh boy! First: Thank you - I thought to briefly validate my knowledge and understanding before answering and went down a rabbit hole :D this is my current grasp, happy to be corrected!

First: Most is actually not even distro agnostic but also OS agnostic:

Most modern wifi devices when you tell them to “connect to WiFi” radiates, literally, what it can do and what kind of connection it wants. E.g. im a wifi device with WPA3 capabilities and this is my Mac address to answer me.

OS specific is the question if your Mac address gets scrambled or not. For both iwd and networkmanager, which both support it, have it turned off by default. There is a big advantage to being able to be recognizable on friendly networks after all.

Now comes the part I wasn’t aware:

Even your hostname is often still broadcasted publicly! This happens during the DHCP handshake - and many devices don’t support apparently existing standards to address this gap. It’s all about securing the first frames where devices align on communication standards, encryption way, etc. This seems to still be quite public.

Android was easier (and iOS seems to be the same but I didn’t bother with that more): Same as Linux but more aggressive by default: Mac scrambling all the time while searching for networks ,DHCP uses obscure strings as hostnames, etc.

Fun fact: even those have stable max addresses once connected. Again, getting the same DHCP lease and being able to whitelist or recognized by the network seems to have more upsights than I was aware of.

You have two paths from my perspective.

The one with less chance of success: convince them:

Look up tech developments from the youth time of your parents.

I’ve been through a couple of decades by now and yes, jobs vanish - but rarely instantly and rarely without a very VERY clear shift.

My parents for example still saw people lighting the gas lights in the streets when they were young. But gas lights vanished more and more, its clear that this job will be gone.

The job as driver is “dead” since oder a decade by now and lorry drivers are searched more today than in the last two years where I’m at.

But most likely you won’t convince them with “you’re wrong”. Instead you can go a different route: CS not as “programmer” but as “master of the machine the people who will make other people’s job obsolete”. The ones who understand the magic of the silicone rock.

In short: you’re not studying to become a programmer like so many other fools, you’re studying to make them obsolete, to be the part of the future who’s coming out on top.

The coal industry was dying but the smart ones jumped onto oil, or some other bullshit like it. In short: figure out what your parents believe the future will look like and spotlight the CS part in their world view. Change your own perspective to whatever theirs is, make them feel understood and seen - and he’ll them from this viewport to see why it’s the right choice for you.

Keep in mind that they’re doing this because they care for you! Never forget that :)

That’s sich a Mac answer it’s unbelievable.

Describing “A project aimed to be agnostic of it’s environment” as a design mistake and not a inherent flaw of the OS is… Just wow.

Remember in this thread it’s about the pro and con of Macos as interference hardware. This is a major flaw which comes baked into the hardware. I tested it and find it an unacceptable limitation. It’s important for others to know.

To state “containerization is the issue” though… Just wow.

Depends what you want to do… For example I didn’t get python whisper in a container to run on Mac in any way that can be called “performance” and I don’t want my dev workflow to optimize for an OS I despise :D

“here’s someone who fucked up big time. We report it and there are these consequences”.

This isn’t even about war performance at all?

Ha that’s fair!

Wish you a lot of fun with your new machine when you’ll have it!

For the price of the Asus rog I’d get 12 years of a pro subscription to any of the big companies.

And I don’t have that kind of cash at hand anyway…

The problem is that this is one of the few use cases where I can afford the (dangerous and unreliable) cloud service but I’m far away from being able to do so self hosted.

I’m actually using LLMs quote a lot to counter some of my brains more weird bugs working-as-intended features. But this is way beyond what I could locally do.

For anyone in a similar shoe: you can mix local and remote quite well though, using local for everything that works out and remote for everything else. I.e speech to text and email analysis is done on my local server while bigger sets are done on the CLI with remote providers.

The problem is the other side:

The seller has a huge interest to not deal with too much fiat exchange. There’s always fees and market risks associated.

The USD historically was very stable compared to the rest. That in combination with the huge purchasing and military power the US represented while being reliable as a trading partner pushed the US dollar into focus.

The USA then spent a lot of time, energy, money and lifes (mostly others) in ensuring this dominance.

Think of it like a language: a Spanish and a German work together in English - not because it’s impossible for them to learn each others language but because the overhead is too big.

Specifically to your example: no one wants to sell anything to Russia in rubles.

Imagine this scenario:

Hey, I’ll pay you 100 YC (your currency).

Oh since we agreed on the price a few days ago it’s only worth 80YC.

Oh now it’s 120 YC but no one else will take the currency I’m paying you in except me.

Oh now it’s worth 10 YC but we signed the contract, hurray!!