If you wear the right style respirator people might think, "that is one cool looking person!"

If Idiocracy is any indication, the Eternal OS might be capable of booting, but the people won't be able to do it.

Interesting. In my day we hired engineers to write code, not champion it. (They ask deep knowledge of C/C++, but it does not explicitly state the engineer is supposed to write code.)

I knowingly pick a new side project / fascination to focus on. I'm always forcing myself not to pickup side projects so I can actually finish something, but when struggling to motivate myself at all to get unstuck, I engage in the guilty pleasure of a new sideproject for a day or so to get going.

There is a reason Brawndo is in the picture.

Maybe you didn't get the hint.

... I just had to verify my age ...

No you did not. You chose to do so.

I have not used WhatsApp in 10+ years, Windows in 4+ years, Google services in 2+ years.

It is a choice, stop lying to yourself about having to accept things.

You just made me realize the Zoomers are actually much closer to making Warhammer 40k a reality. IT engineers are like Tech Priests to these Zoomers.

Also, fuck cancer. (Cancer vaccines may be next, the end of the article.)

I recently settled on https://organicmaps.app/ as my navigation app.

It's Open Source, uses OpenStreetMaps, works quite well on its own, and can (if downloaded through Google Play) even be used with Android Auto.

The only thing it misses, to my personal preference, is a live speedometer based off of GPS speed and local road speed limit indications.

Otherwise it fits the shift away from a proprietary software dominated market perfectly.

Or I don't know, "if it burns, we can destroy it".

You stopped at "mount stupid". Here's the rest:

Recently, a major ISP in the Netherlands was determined to be streaming metadata from within their customer's networks to Lifemote, a Turkish AI company.

Here's a report in Dutch: https://tweakers.net/...

This is just the latest one to get caught doing it, but determine how comfortable you are having your internal network exposed to a 3rd party.

I've used personal/non-ISP modems and routers for 25 years because I'm not comfortable with it it. At all... But hey, you do you.

I started using Le Chat a few weeks ago, also inspired by the Buy From EU initiative.

While I'm missing some creature comforts (memory, projects), the experience is good enough for me to switch. I've canceled my Chat GPT subscription because of it. Remember to export your data from OpenAI. It gives you a raw dump of all your conversations and customizations.

I may need to 'retune' my prompting because I was getting slightly better responses with o3 for coding. Also a warmer tone in conversation. But it wasn't enough to stop me from moving over.

"Normal people cosplay."

I was sorely lacking this definition in my vocabulary. Thank you for the correction.

The taste of tomatoes/ketchup is great.

The texture of tomatoes is horryfing and makes me shiver and gag.

They are not the same.

The glass is at 50% capacity.

My own father was harsh, complicated, difficult to deal with.

I always thought I'd do the opposite.

What I learned later on was to ask my own children what their day was like, what excited them, how I could help them when they needed it most... and then you need to listen. Even if they're asking silly things, things they have yet to learn, that's how you find that connect.

And to some extent I try to balance the discipline by thinking, if I drop dead tomorrow, will I have prepared them as best as I could to become their own person? Will I have done it in a way that they'll remember me fondly?

So far my kids have always said I am a great dad, all the same I ask myself if I could do better every day.

I think the question you started with here is the most important one though, how can you do great/better.

For anyone wondering what Microsoft actually said about Windows 10 being the last version: https://www.windowscentral.com/...

And no, they didn't it'd be the last Windows. They said it'd be the last traditional release before moving on to "Windows as a Service".

Nix (and more specifically, NixOS) made me switch to Linux as my daily driver.

I had been using Windows since 3.11 as my daily driver, MS DOS before that. This was for web browsing, gaming, and development. Linux was my sandbox on the side, and mostly server OS throughout the years.

Goes to show how powerful packagemanagers can be, it made me make the full switch after ~30 years. I love how my OS is now idempotent/declarative.