definitely better when guided properly. Its like the old art of searching, if you gave it a good search query it would find what you were looking for. Same goes for AI now, how you prompt it makes all the difference…
I was handed a project someone vibe coded with Claude and it took me hours just to get it running to discover it was missing the entire interface and all the queries were for sqlite while the DB to setup for it was…
I got significantly more work accomplished when I worked remotely. There was tons of work I could not do from the office as people needed the systems I need to work on and could only be done out of hours/remotely. When…
> So it's not like I have nothing to share after 30 years of experience in the industry, I just have nobody to share it with. seriously. it kills me to have so much knowledge and expertise that few people appear to care…
I did something similar but made the batteries and solar priority, solar charges battery and wall power only used to top off as needed, otherwise always running on batteries The Drok DC-DC did not work for my minipc…
spam/phishing/malicious calls do not come from individuals. How about they start with preventing caller ID spoofing/requiring proper caller ID? the spam calls come from call farms that rotate numbers. they should be…
this just happened to me and seriously pisses me off, I never wanted or asked for any account on some site I happened to visit that has absolutely nothing to do with my amazon account I do not care if they own it now,…
reminds me of the college scene in the movie Tomorrowland where all the teachers going on and on about about the things that would end us and when she asked "Can we fix it?" and teacher is like "What?" "I get things are…
this is why I am building a communications software that has no concept of accounts, devices can connect and keys are generated on device and blind to relaying/directing server/network. people can only connect directly…
yes, it is possible depending on timing (if a card is authorized but captured later in the day or the authorization was less than the capture, this is why gas pumps do auth for $100 and hold that for days till it…
US does not always have those proper card safety features (you can use debit cards without pin and online use does not require pin) and banks will fight tooth and nail not to give back overdraft fees (as the overdraft…
misuse is not what I mean, I am talking about if your card is stolen and someone runs up a bunch of purchases before it gets caught, that money is gone from your account and any fees from overdrafts are the account…
with a debit card your cash is gone from your bank account in that moment, even if you get it back later (hopefully). With a credit card they are not able to drain your bank account, the risks are entirely on the cc…
solar only runs during the day and when it is not cloudy, wind farms can run constantly with low weather impact multiple energy sources are what is important to make up for where solar falls short. sure solar is…
I managed to get this combo going not too long ago with my musl rust app but I found that even after it all was compiled and loading the lib it did not function properly because the library I loaded still depended on…
I was having issues recently with my Pixel phone hanging/freezing/going stupid, it was Nova. I changed to Lawnchair yesterday after learning this and works much better and my battery is no longer draining for no…
I want to see USA recover from the abuser that is separating us from our friends and trying to beat us into silence/compliance like abusive people do I never realized there was so many people that enjoy watching their…
I have been trying to figure out why my phone has beep going stupid and laggy with the launcher lately, now I know why
I find Google is still really good at finding things for maps/navigation (and I contribute greatly to maps with pictures/reviews), but even that has become a problem with results of places that do not exist (and reviews…
AI has made it significantly easier to find exactly the answers I was looking for without all the BS designed to trick me into clicking something I never wanted/is completely useless, but I will still jump to DuckDuckGo…
the iPhone still does bluetooth transmissions/pings even in airplane mode (the find my device thing) and no way to disable the only way to disable any transmissions is to turn off the device
usually lan devices do not talk to the router unless they need a resource outside your lan network you can however isolate with vlans and a vlan capable switch, then it would be on the router to isolate traffic between…
I have been using vscodium for years, hasn't disappointed until recently (rust analyzer wont pickup changes, not sure if rust or vscode issue). I tried zed once, but just didn't do the basics I needed at the time. I'll…
I have been running Deb 13 on my primary workstation for a couple months, just as stable as Debian 12 I was running for years on my primary. I am able to do all of my programming work, virtual win/mac for compiling and…
I stopped using Windows over 15 years ago and moved to Ubuntu that was running all the servers. Unfortunately Ubuntu decided to do the same garbage trying to shove their pro crap down my throat, made it impossible to…
definitely better when guided properly. Its like the old art of searching, if you gave it a good search query it would find what you were looking for. Same goes for AI now, how you prompt it makes all the difference…
I was handed a project someone vibe coded with Claude and it took me hours just to get it running to discover it was missing the entire interface and all the queries were for sqlite while the DB to setup for it was…
I got significantly more work accomplished when I worked remotely. There was tons of work I could not do from the office as people needed the systems I need to work on and could only be done out of hours/remotely. When…
> So it's not like I have nothing to share after 30 years of experience in the industry, I just have nobody to share it with. seriously. it kills me to have so much knowledge and expertise that few people appear to care…
I did something similar but made the batteries and solar priority, solar charges battery and wall power only used to top off as needed, otherwise always running on batteries The Drok DC-DC did not work for my minipc…
spam/phishing/malicious calls do not come from individuals. How about they start with preventing caller ID spoofing/requiring proper caller ID? the spam calls come from call farms that rotate numbers. they should be…
this just happened to me and seriously pisses me off, I never wanted or asked for any account on some site I happened to visit that has absolutely nothing to do with my amazon account I do not care if they own it now,…
reminds me of the college scene in the movie Tomorrowland where all the teachers going on and on about about the things that would end us and when she asked "Can we fix it?" and teacher is like "What?" "I get things are…
this is why I am building a communications software that has no concept of accounts, devices can connect and keys are generated on device and blind to relaying/directing server/network. people can only connect directly…
yes, it is possible depending on timing (if a card is authorized but captured later in the day or the authorization was less than the capture, this is why gas pumps do auth for $100 and hold that for days till it…
US does not always have those proper card safety features (you can use debit cards without pin and online use does not require pin) and banks will fight tooth and nail not to give back overdraft fees (as the overdraft…
misuse is not what I mean, I am talking about if your card is stolen and someone runs up a bunch of purchases before it gets caught, that money is gone from your account and any fees from overdrafts are the account…
with a debit card your cash is gone from your bank account in that moment, even if you get it back later (hopefully). With a credit card they are not able to drain your bank account, the risks are entirely on the cc…
solar only runs during the day and when it is not cloudy, wind farms can run constantly with low weather impact multiple energy sources are what is important to make up for where solar falls short. sure solar is…
I managed to get this combo going not too long ago with my musl rust app but I found that even after it all was compiled and loading the lib it did not function properly because the library I loaded still depended on…
I was having issues recently with my Pixel phone hanging/freezing/going stupid, it was Nova. I changed to Lawnchair yesterday after learning this and works much better and my battery is no longer draining for no…
I want to see USA recover from the abuser that is separating us from our friends and trying to beat us into silence/compliance like abusive people do I never realized there was so many people that enjoy watching their…
I have been trying to figure out why my phone has beep going stupid and laggy with the launcher lately, now I know why
I find Google is still really good at finding things for maps/navigation (and I contribute greatly to maps with pictures/reviews), but even that has become a problem with results of places that do not exist (and reviews…
AI has made it significantly easier to find exactly the answers I was looking for without all the BS designed to trick me into clicking something I never wanted/is completely useless, but I will still jump to DuckDuckGo…
the iPhone still does bluetooth transmissions/pings even in airplane mode (the find my device thing) and no way to disable the only way to disable any transmissions is to turn off the device
usually lan devices do not talk to the router unless they need a resource outside your lan network you can however isolate with vlans and a vlan capable switch, then it would be on the router to isolate traffic between…
I have been using vscodium for years, hasn't disappointed until recently (rust analyzer wont pickup changes, not sure if rust or vscode issue). I tried zed once, but just didn't do the basics I needed at the time. I'll…
I have been running Deb 13 on my primary workstation for a couple months, just as stable as Debian 12 I was running for years on my primary. I am able to do all of my programming work, virtual win/mac for compiling and…
I stopped using Windows over 15 years ago and moved to Ubuntu that was running all the servers. Unfortunately Ubuntu decided to do the same garbage trying to shove their pro crap down my throat, made it impossible to…