If a business wants a particular outfit to be worn then they should provide the uniforms in their dollar.

Because why should self proclaimed billionaires face consequences for their actions and statements. /sigh

Approach programming with the same seriousness that you’d expect a programmer to approach your field with. You say yourself you just want it to “do the thing, conventions be damned”.

Well how would you feel if someone entered your lab or whatever and treated the tools of your trade that way?

Cause that’s worked out so well for Britain 🤪

50s. Getting back to one’s 30s you’re still old enough for people to take you seriously, but the creaking bones and exhaustion hasn’t really started creeping in yet.

“Oh thank you for letting us know so we can verify that all five have been opened up. Wouldn’t want to miss one”

To people acting like everyone ends up in debt on purpose, feel lucky that you’ve not had financial disaster strike. Means can change in an instant, and what you thought was a huge safety net can be gone to a bad accident or hospital stay as quick as you can blink.

Finally. Took them long enough.

Keep in mind, the last PowerPC (G5) chipset used was 64bit, and all Intel chips used after late 2006 were 64bit.

Did they live through the same pandemic I did? Because I distinctly remembering that “simple” advice apparently being too confusing for a huge portion of the population.

The advice these days on computer security is simple too: Use a password manager and let it make a unique password for every site and don’t tell anyone your password.

Of course in the tech world we immediately have a lot of sites that make that impossible, frequently starting with the ones that should be the most secure, your banks and your phone.

The reality is that we need laws that force them to either to continue to offer affordable support or publish all the specs and documentation when they drop support. Vendors shouldn’t be allowed to do otherwise.

But I can binge streaming services and then cancel without multiple hundred dollar fees. And I can use the same app for Uber no matter what city I’m in.

So… I get things aren’t paradise but let’s be clear they’re still largely covering a lot of folks needs.