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I don't know if the author will see this or not. The RF shielding probably didn't get wet. It just looks like that. I have a TI-83 Plus Silver Edition which sports a semi-transparent case. I'm the original owner. I never got a drop of liquid on it. And the RF shield in mine looks exactly like yours. It has since the day I bought it.

Pardon me while I go add Optimus Prime to my corporate letterhead.

Sometimes I wonder if the long interview process isn't a psychological game. Maybe they think they can leverage sunk cost fallacy against you just so they can low-ball you. Yeah, the pay might not be great, but if you walk away now, you'll have wasted 9 weeks of effort! You can't give up now. You're invested. ;-)

I've recently started using devcontainers for some of my projects. VSCode makes using them pretty seamless and convenient. I'd be shocked if Codespaces on Github didn't have first class support for devcontainers by the time it becomes available for individual users. It seems like a logical extention of their utility.

This company doesn't understand public relations. Rather than countering bad PR with good PR, they decided to double down, cutting off their nose to spite their face.

Looks like it's open source only.

That's very true. I just wish there was a middle ground. I'd pay for a service that just runs a managed version of Gitea. Something similar to installing WordPress or a PHP bulletin board system to an old-fashioned web host. Hell, I could probably do just that if there was a super low end version of these types of services that will run with just PHP and Apache.

EDIT: Oh my god. I think I understand Sqlite and Fossil a little better now.

That's true. But I use VSCode every day. FWIW, I tried the de-Microsofted version and it worked well for almost a year. But then the plugin store split happened and it just made life more difficult than sucking it up and going back to vanilla VSCode. So I'd be a huge hypocrite if I said Github is a step too far.

I'm sure the tools are out there. But I'm at a point where I have more money than time for this. I empathize with the self-hosting ethos. I want a more decentralized internet. But I don't enjoy the setup and maintenance. I have previous little free time. I even spend much of it writing software, because I enjoy that. I don't enjoy being a sysadmim or my own personal devops.

I think I realized that in college when a friend tried to get me to run Gentoo as my first linux distro. I never made it to a desktop! I still run linux as my daily driver today, but I'm currently using Pop!_OS after having used Ubuntu since college. Because when I'm using my daily driver computer, I want to use it, not maintain it.

I'm so tired of this argument. I want to host stuff myself. Really, I do. But I really don't have enough time in the day to do it.

I set up a blog this weekend using Hugo, Ansible, and Github Actions to host it on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. It "only" took two days, but I'm exhausted and I don't actually have any content yet.

I host Plex and TiddlyWiki at home on my Raspberry Pi. I used docker and traefik. Sometimes it still has weird issues and I have to reboot it. It was another project that "only" took a weekend and left me exhausted.

So let's say I don't want to self host, but I don't want to use Github. What are my options? I used to use Bitbucket, but I moved to Github a few years ago to consolidate my accounts. I liked Bitbucket, but people give you weird looks when you give them a Bitbucket URL. It's not as seamlessly supported in apps that can automatically understand Github urls. Confluence kept buying other products and tacking them on. And they kept trying to upsell me.

Then there's Gitlab. I'm going to have to get used to it because my employer is transitioning to it, away from Github. This article mentions developers having short memories. I remember when Gitlab decidedly said they'll do business with anyone back when people were shaming tech companies for helping and cooperating with ICE a few years ago. That left a bad taste in my mouth.

There's Sourcehut. But I have friends with beef with the guy who made it and I don't want to support him.

I can't help but feel like Github is probably the lesser evil here. Honestly, I'd pay for a service if I believed in it. It's important to me that I'm the customer, not the product. That's why I switched from Gmail to ProtonMail a few years ago. I have their top tier paid account because I believe in them and I want to get what I pay for.

Sorry, I don't really have a point. I'm just tired of this argument. I'd self host in a second if I could do it quickly, easily, and reliably. But I don't think I can.

If you like the style of the blog, there's a theme available for Hugo and a Go-based clone available for self-hosting. Links in the project README.

Best Friends charms for nerds.

Someone with a CNC router or a laser cutter and a Python script or something could probably make some cash by selling these on Etsy.