SpotWX is what I use for accurate weather and the ability to quickly check several different models. I learned about it in my avalanche course and it’s been great albeit with a subpar UI

Roll your own with a mini-PC?

The rich absolutely refusing to acknowledge their privileges that aided in making them richer or the sheer luck involved makes me absolutely sick

The folks at the vineyard are pretty nice too! Guy had a programming background but decided to get into wine

I’m SaaS solutioning / sales and yeah, the shit is flying off the shelves at the enterprise level. AI is powerful and here to stay, what we have to worry about is HOW it’s being used. We desperately need regulation in the space especially as it relates to lending, insurance, and healthcare

For me the pieces that didn’t work were all the customizations I had with gnome shell namely around “quake-style” terminal, cursors/themes, and some app panels like tailscale. I’ve been able to resolve 90% of those issues but it took some time and was frustrating but that comes with using anything new

Ehh, I loved Gnome with the bottom panel hidden and tiling manager installed via gnome shell extensions. KDE just feels like it hasn’t substantially changed in ~15 years and just feels dated and like a halfway attempt at recreating Aero. I’ve moved over to Cosmic and I yearn for my gnome days but it’s getting better with each release.

It also significantly speeds up the flow of traffic and eases congestion. Right on red is one of the best things the US has done in regards to easing congestion - now if only we’d invest in more public transit specifically trains/lightrail so they would be more viable. For example, I was just in Atlanta and the time difference between getting an Uber from the airport to my hotel was maybe 10 minutes. Here in Denver that difference was almost an hour which is unacceptable, I and most others can’t just absorb an extra hour or two into their commute

Better than Deloitte or PwC from a culture perspective. But they’ve been pushing so much offshore in recent years that their reputation is taking a hit (granted, the candidate in this scenario IS that overseas resource). At least it wasn’t KPMG

Has anyone kept up with the original PinePhone / what the most up to date ditros are for it? I have one laying around and would love to get something newer on there as I currently have a very old build of Mobian. Much like the author, I’m really not liking the direction Google has been heading and the experience gets more miserable by the day

A better, free-er alternative to figma would be something like Penpot which works pretty well and is easy to self-host.

If you’re a half-decent developer AND can talk to people there are still lots of jobs. Roles that are pure coding have been shipped to Poland, India, and the Philippines. People forget that coding is only like 40% of a software project

Kinda hope it uses my code. It’s so terrible there’s no doubt it will make the resulting code from the model worse even if the impact is miniscule

Self-hosted Gitlab is the answer - I really don’t trust any cloud platform especially when they start to get opinionated like this

And apparently junior devs are clamoring to eavesdrop on how senior devs are prompting the LLM and that’s a problem. I can see the problem of being in an open office plan and having a ton of folks talking over another but the solution is just cubicles and not this face hugger microphone

People often forget compute is cheaper than dev hours and unless you’re operating at hyper scale, optimization is often not needed. Most are writing internal programs used by a few thousand people at most

UT2K4 and Quake 3 Arena were my favorite - shit, UT2K4’s linux support is part of what got my interested in Linux (that and not wanting to pay for windows)

Shit, I set up my agents to only run in a sandboxed workspace, only suggest edits via merge requests that have to be manually approved by an actual person, and only connects to copies of databases. And that’s just for my personal projects on my home server. Anyone not taking similar steps in a professional setting should be fired immediately

Have you used a portable AC made in the last decade? They’re quiet / on par with central AC these days. I have a Midea one and unless it’s on full-blast, it’s hardly noticeable beyond the sound of air moving

Has a balcony; $200 is too much…