It's not inconvenient truth, it's white noise for the rest of the world

Have you met people?

Amazing, this way I could restrict network access with normal tools like firejail instead of fiddling with Flatpak. I've never heard of this tool before: https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/

Wrists pain, then back pain, then ass pain, all before my legs are properly tired

I got a cheapest Android smart TV and never connected it to the internet. On HDMI1 there is Amazon Firestick for the occasional Netflix use. On HDMI2 there is Kodi for every day watching. Because of how modern TVs work, both these extra boxes can be steered with the TV remote.

If I were to guess, your dad uses mobile devices with an app and you used a web browser? We're second class citizens now for not using the corporate-approved tracking device

Which model is that? I tried several ones that were complete trash, then Mixtrail appeared and starting giving answers that are very basic but mostly factually correct. But none of these are even close to ChatGPT that I can rely on with writing scripts.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather not give them my data and money if there was an alternative. But for tech stuff we're not there yet.

Remember when COVID has been used by them to encourage or enforce cashless payments? That was scary.

I've had good luck with Upwork, moved two of my clients off Upwork. Worked with them for a few years after. One went out of business, one was paying a lot and demanding a lot, eventually I wasn't able to keep up for personal reasons.

I also had a professional website and ran Google Ads (at a time it was still relevant), got many small gigs and one long-time client this way. I should mention I also wrote and sold a small software addon there, mostly as a way to acquire new clients - tried to make the support top-tier and lure clients into giving me other work.

After that, I haven't been actively looking for more work and eventually shut the website down as the software became irrelevant and I had work by word of mouth.

Yeah, Windows and hosting are a tough match. But you have native Photoshop and Autocad.

I got a LED bulb before it was cool, the thing is immortal and also barely gets warm. Made in my country, not by some planned failure corporation. I wish it was still possible to buy from them, butirt's not

Very little content here. But I'm glad the crowd is more diverse than on Mastodon