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The fact I own a dual-core Thinkpad should signal a few things about me. I am considering buying a new laptop. What trends have people observed about Black Friday which may help me buy a laptop with a budget of $600?

I have been juggling a saas sideline for twenty years, alongside full time employment. My brain is getting tired. Those of you who have experienced the challenge of aging, how do you separate these concerns. Do you…

I have a small sideline which turns over £10-30k per annum and I use Xero. Does anyone know of a reasonably priced UK accountancy service to publish my annual limited company accounts?

I'm getting lost in the confusion of what Free tier means in the OpenAI API. I am teaching a class soon in a college using the OpenAI API and some sample code. Is it possible to test the API using Python without adding…

I wonder why Saas pricing models do not often charge the little guy? I am not a business and I am not a team. I will not make the leap to business prices but I would put my hand in my pocket for more features (which are…

I am pondering why I find it so hard to stop working on a project while I am not getting paid. I get paid by the hour during business hours to code. Why is there such a pull to code out of hours and how do others manage…

I think I have wasted too much time trying to get readthedocs epub files to work on my kindle. I have also found android epub apps slow or limited. How do you read the docs?

I have a tendency to overthink and be a little cheap. I wish I had paid for these subscriptions sooner; Dropbox Fastmail What software has simplified your life?

I have a few instances where I would like to store data, like a gas meter reading or my weight, on my phone and have the data saved on dropbox (csv?). I found one very pricey solution. Does anyone know of a simple…

I want to centralise my ssh private keys and config file but it feels wrong to put them on Gitlab or Github. Am I being oversensitive?

Why does ChatGPT give my students different answers to this prompt when asked at the same time? Answers ranged from 165 - 300,000.

I work in education part-time and am also a one man saas company. The education side uses enterprise Outlook with lots of restrictions on syncing etc. For my own work I use Google Calendar. Has anyone solved the…

I'm 50 and have a home but no mortgage. I work for myself and my income is good, but up and down. I am facing a few quiet months. What is your financial strategy for knowing when it is time to become an employee again?…

Is anyone using a Kindle Fire to ssh to their Cloud Servers? I have a side project and it is getting tiresome having to bring a laptop on holiday with me in case of a tech emergency. Any recommendations from personal…

I code with vscode on 4 different local machines, using about 20 different ssh connections to cloud vms/containers. Two of the local machines are corporate which I don't have admin access. Is there a secure solution…

I love reading books on my Kindle but I also like to buy computer/current affairs print magazines. Can anyone recommend a tablet, non-laptop experience, for reading magazine type materials? And also, any recommendations…

I work in IT and made some adjustments to my lifestyle. Here is my weight every Saturday over 18 months. I am surprised at the amount I still consume. Maybe more what, than how much. Main thing I have learned is that…

I worry more about loving money than making money. I am 50 and just paid my mortgage off. I have a year's worth of salary in savings. In 17 years I will get a UK state pension and then some. Does anyone coming from a…

I'm looking for a task app for android which can do this? Sync tasks from local storage to Dropbox in a text format. I have various issues with Google Keep and Dropbox Paper.

There is so much criticism of tech and the web by it's users. Has anyone made changes to their tech behaviours that have improved their life? I am curious to see what a better tech world may look like.

I was just sitting here ruminating on how companies own our identities and how this might change. How would you generate 8B usernames that were meaningful and not naff like 57:A7:45:F0:33:B9:77:C3@

This is the time of year for pondering and learning. I am pondering why during 10 years of helping grow/maintain a busy Saas infrastructure I spent a great deal of my free time building two sheds in my garden. They have…

Is Microsoft rejecting older CPUs a sales strategy or genuinely related to concerns over performance/cpu security? I have a decent iMac I can't update as Apple have killed support for the cpu. Now I have Microsoft…