I can’t wait for the technology to get basic enough where I can roll my own self hosted instance of it without it taking months. Because I can see a way it’s doable without a centralized service to get around that. But for mass consumer level, I can see that becoming true. But this can be applied to every bit of software currently. All of it can be ran by you, if you have time. Hell I’ve got my own cloud (hosted at my home ) music streaming service.

I heard one maintainer said it was costing them extra time to sift through the hundreds of garbage pull requests they’ve become flooded with, and when they try to discuss the pull with its writer, they can’t because it’s very obvious they have no idea what they’re doing.

Given the problems Boeing have had with the software in their commercial fleet and Starliner….. are they sure?

yeah I have a weird wifi dongle that runs the driver via dkms. It was a pain for years, because with every major driver update I had to reinstall it. But the last time I installed it, the repo I found had an autoinstaller, so now it gets automatically gets added when the kernel updates. what a life saver.

Love ncmpcpp. I use it even when running a DE.

I kind of have to opposite but a similar problem. I'm diagnosed autistic, so while I am great at self teaching, I also tend to hyperfocus. This lead me to be a kind of one trick pony, but I'm really good at that one thing. And I think my lack of diversification is killing me. I just don't have broad enough knowledge to cover a full position. That and well...I'm awkward in interviews, with the no eye contact, reciprocating responses, and tendency to ramble.

Ok, I no longer feel bad for breaking my projects up into multiple modules per project...

Going down the rabbit hole of links in that article,I'm going to try to run the oldest known version of DOS that recently surfaced on the internet archive in a AltairZ80 emulator. Sounds like a fun little project.

Yeah I was going to say, I’ve done similar for clients with regards to competitor pricing

Same, but with nano.

The only time I've used ChatGPT is when a Japanese client tried to force me to use it (even though he hired me BECAUSE he couldn't do it himself with the help of it. It's really not my style. It insures doing my least favorite parts of programming : debugging someone else's work and finishing someone else's code. Its solutions were wonky, and not human, if that makes any sense.So I tried it to give the jerk lip service and just did it my way. I've been doing that task for ten years, how are you going to tell me how to do it? I've got my own prebuilt libraries that I use, that I don't have to debug. Why do I need a bot to generate it for me?

This is the second time I've seen Bazzite mentioned, and it really peaks my interest. I'm definitely going to have give it a try the next time I change distros.

Such an amazing resource

Oh you can. But my autistic brain is really good at pattern detection. And LLM generated code just doesn’t feel human. I can’t explain it other than it has the same vibe and formatting as examples in a textbook.

Also, lazy vibe coders. You can literally see the boundaries of chunks of code where they move from prompt to prompt. It’s like gluing newspaper articles together.

Still have issues with Wayland in gaming. It’s why I don’t use it yet