The pace of change is about every five years, and some elements are always in transition.

All in one turn key solutions are always one to two cycles behind, so may work great with the stuff I’m already replacing.

I think these are honest attempts to simplify, but by the time they have it sorted its obsolete. If I have to build modules anyway to work with new equipemnt, might as well just write all the code in my native language.

These also tend to be attempts at all in one devices, requiring you to use devices only compatible with those subsystems. I want to be able to use best tech from what ever manufacturer. New and fancy almost always means a command line interface, which again means coding.

20 years ago at a trade show, a new module based visual coding tool was introduced in my field which claimed “You’ll never need another programmer”.

Oddly enough, I still have a job.

The tools have gotten better, but I still write code every day because procedural programming is still the best way to do things.

It is just now reaching the point that we can do some small to medium scale projects with plug and play systems, but only with very specific equipment and configurations.

I’ve had this handle since '94, and I am not letting any of this bother me.

Others have said it better than I can, but how you see yourself as weird, and why it bothers the politicians it does, are not the same thing.

They live in a different world where conformity is king and being different is scorned.

Don’t let it ruffle you, none of this has anything at all to do with you, how you live your life, or how you perceive yourself.

Home office has a single ultra wide plus my laptop screen under it. Work on the big screen, YouTube and teams on the laptop.

At work I have an ultra wide with a 16:9 portrait display (turned 90 degrees) on the side. That leaves the big space for work, and the side one for teams, YouTube, and any documents I have to reference.

First time using a portrait display, and it is so much nicer for reading PDFs and the like.

TIL that both Voyager craft are still operating, simply amazing.

Ubisoft made splinter cell, farcry 2, ghost recon, and rocksmith. They did a lot of good things over the years. Problem is, they’ve changed.

That unfortunately is going to be app dependent as far as I know. Your phone can set if a given app will alert you, but for example facebook would have to filter which friend’s notifications get sent.

An app that let you manage notifications by user across multiple platforms would be amazing.

“I don’t want to hear from Jay today” would be an awesome checkbox.

In a documentary made during the 2016 election cycle Trump talks about how much better his PR team is because he doesn’t have to use traditional channels to reach his base, he can just tweet it when ever he wants to tell the world something.

He was very much using twitter as a primary communication channel from the begining, and this time around, he has both twitter and truth social as his basically his own.

Like that server in Mythic Quest, gather them in one place, unplug, and let them scream into the void.

We just need to compromise, arrays start at 0.5

A couple days ago, but I have a company issued remote managed windows laptop, and I get zero say in the matter.

At least once a month my system forces me to do a reboot for updates.

I can tell it to wait, but I can not tell it to stop.

I like Musking as a verb.

Now this is a Terminator reboot I’d watch