I just recently moved house, had to buy a fridge freezer for the first time, I went with the cheapest, dumbest Beko fridge they had, because all I want it to do is keep food cold. The delivery/installation man said that these models last for years and years, whereas the smart ones barely last 4, in his experience. He said he’s constantly replacing smart fridges, but the dumb ones are usually ancient when they get replaced. Happy with my decision there.

I’ll say it again, because I think the idea is a practical solution to the issue: electricity and water usage should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive it becomes.

This would actually incentivise companies to reduce their usage, to question if they actually need that new AI data centre that will eat up all the gains in renewable electricity production and require fossil fuel plants to continue running, it’ll reduce the crypto miners as well, and encourage everyone to try to reduce their usage.

The knock on effect of this is that electricity actually becomes cheaper for everyone.

Twice. Once at the end of Final Fantasy IX, realising who was monologuing the ending at what that meant.

Second one was at the end of What Remains of Edith Finch, pretty much for exactly the same reasons.

I use swag, which is a pre-configured nginx with hundreds of sample configs for a lot of docker apps. It also has certproxy installed for letsencrypt and some added security. Worth looking at, imho.

I was just thinking electricity should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive each Gw is. It’ll never happen, but if we wanted to tackle this issue, it’s what we should do.

I’ve been using Manjaro with Cinnamon for about a month now. It works great on an old Lenovo with 12gb ram. Probably going to stick with it when I build my desktop.

For Brits of a certain age: 0(1)81 811 8181

Yeah, it should be “fig 1”, “also fig 1, but the other half”.

All of the Ubi-art games were great, Rayman Legends, Valiant Hearts and Child of Light, all fantastic games. And then Ubisoft said they would only make open world games. Idiots.

Thanks very much for your advice. I’ve reworked my CV using Open Resume and updated it on all the job boards I’ve been using, hopefully that gets me further.

I’m also continuing to update my portfolio website and building out apps in different languages and frameworks to demonstrate my skills.

It just looks like the job market sucks at the mo and I just need to keep trudging through.

Thanks again.

Deleted my Plex account as soon as I got this email, using the account link in said email, so hopefully they see the connection.

The Evil Dead trilogy.

A younger friend of mine had started playing the Evil Dead game with some of his friends but had never seen the movies. I’d not watched them in years, so I invited him over to marathon them one weekend. We drank, ate pizza and did the whole trilogy, and we had an absolute blast. He loved how different each movie was, especially Heart of Darkness. How each one gets sillier than the last.

A few months later, Evil Dead Rise came out in the cinema, so we had to go see it. While this was much more a straight up horror movie (with a small amount of the Evil Dead silliness), I still enjoyed it (I find horror movies quite funny, like an emotional rollercoaster), but he was hiding behind his coat the whole time, terrified of what was happening on screen. That made it even funnier for me.

The tax isn’t the point. The point is to crash the economy so that the rich can buy up as much as possible as cheaply as possible, once more consolidating more wealth into their hands and robbing it from the rest of us. They don’t care if the price of eggs, or iPhones, or any other goods are going to increase, they have the funds to wait that out, but when the cost of ownership of land, property or corporations goes down, they can buy them up and control that wealth once it recovers.

They don’t care that you suffer. They just want to own all the stuff.

Edit: wow, 8 hours later and I’m already proven right: https://lemmy.nz/post/21369385

I use Qobuz, and I like it a lot. You can easily download music for offline listening, there’s a lot of high def on there, and from what information is known about how much streaming services pay back to record labels, Qobuz appears to be the biggest payer per stream.

The app is no frills, they only added auto generated playlists a year or so ago. Their recommendations are less tailored, but high quality if you’re wanting to explore outside your usual tastes.

Plus, it’s just music. No podcasts, no audiobooks, no games, no generative ai for some reason.

I’m over 20 years into my career, so I think I’m technically (and literally) a grey beard now. I always make time for junior devs if they need it or request it. Often I try to softly inspire them to a good solution, or challenge their thinking when I think they’re going down the wrong path or are creating too much work for themselves through over-engineering.

Pair programming is an invaluable learning tool for any team. It produces great results as you are both challenging each other while also quickly spotting those silly mistakes we all make.

Rubber Duck Debugging is also a fantastic way to solve issues quickly, as just talking through how you think the code works while reviewing it, you often spot the issue with almost no input from the person acting as the duck.

I’d also recommend doing code katas like codewars for any skill level, as solving problems that you wouldn’t usually come across in day to day work can lead to ways of thinking that you wouldn’t get otherwise. If you can, get more people on your team to do the same katas and then all talk through your solutions as a group. We would often use languages we were less familiar with to solve the kata in order to pick up new skills as well.

You never stop learning in this industry. There’s always new tech, new languages, and new ways to solve a problem that will make you a better programmer.

I mean, this isn’t that dissimilar to a Persona game: normal school kid by day, with requirements on time; superhero badass at night delving into the digital world to fight bad guys.

The Earth is spinning at around 1000 mph at the equator, orbiting the sun at 67,000 mph. The solar system moves at 450,000 mph around our galaxy, which in turn moves at 1,300,000 mph through the cosmos. If you can phase through things, falling through floors is exactly the least of your problems.

It looks like Bender in that Tales of Interest episode where he becomes human, overindulges and dies.

Look it’s simple, commission a Japanese band with a rudimentary understanding of English to write an album in English with no regard to time signature and release Vib Ribbon 2, god dammit!

Ball pythons are just so god damn cute, I love those puppy faces.