Keep struggling to be better than I was.

The suggestion I have heard is to have the remote machine connect to the machine on a schedule and pull the backups onto itself. Then your local machine doesn't have direct access to the backups, making it harder to compromise the backups if hacked. But this also assumes the backup machine is locked down and isolated so it is lower risk than the local machine.

I think more important than which distro to choose is you setting up remote access for yourself. Tailscale and maybe rust desk or something would be a good idea. Or if you want to go further a vpn connection to a KVM device, some of them support being able to wire into the power button so you have full control. I would also have their account info in your password manager. Then you don't need them to remember anything because you can do it when needed.

Part of me is bothered by those explanations, but if I had to explain GitHub to a tech illiterate grandparent with that much screen space I don't know if I would do much better.

I think that is a literal storyline in Belgarath the Sorcerer. The wizard, Belgarath, spends thousands of years monitoring and manipulating various family lines. One of those is a line of dryads who are tiny and all female. He was "forced" to mate with them or they would kill him with bows, but he didn't really complain about it. He is able to avoid these "conflicts" in the future after discovering chocolate makes them orgasm.

Some times you don't think about how weird this shit gets until you explain it to someone else.

It also makes sense if they are on calling the entire computer "the hard drive" like grandma and the fans kicked on.

They are loosing to Sony so they have to find new ways of competing for business. You know, how it's supposed to work.

Wish it worked that way more often.

They are, but it's literally a single pixel video resolution and a really low frame rate.

I have worked as a driver helper in the past. This pay makes sense. It's a demanding job mentally and physically. With the pay being good it also means people work really hard to get that job and really hard to keep it. Congratulations to them.

The most rational explanation I have heard is that they are just well dressed hoarders. Acquiring more wealthy is an attempt to smother the bad feelings with the pleasure of "success". But the pleasure of success is fleeting and the goal posts move every time. So they keep chasing "success" and hoarding wealth to make the bad feelings go away. But that will never heal their emotional issues, so they will never stop.

Many times the best way to respond to strong emotions is to just sit with it. Sit and do nothing but experience it. Don't try to "solve the problem", don't shove it down.

Having read the article it sounds like Pat is more complaining that Intel would have been positioned to milk the AI cow if the previous CEOs weren't fucking idiots.

Which you can probably afford to do with the money you save working from here me.

Gotta meet the customer where they are, not where you would like them to be. Most people don't want to learn a new thing.

No, he is being attacked because he publicly contradicted Trump. If do anything Trump perceives as "making him look bad", he will attack you.

Funny how tools are useful. But a person who is a tool is not.

To be fair, if our AI was as capable as his AI vibe coding would be viable.

Makes sense. In a small community everyone knows each other and can rely on trust/reputation to keep things fair.

If I read it correctly, he used a LLM to help him write Python for a hobby project. I think this falls into an open minded, "who cares?". Come back when he used it for something intended for public or commercial use.

I don't appreciate this slander against data. If anything the LLMs are like the holo deck. Can be entertaining/useful but buggy as shit and require stupid amounts of power to operate.