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A $200 smartphone isn’t enough for most people. They’ve been sold that ideology but all I see is people struggling with them constantly assuming that’s the best of the future in their hands.

What are you doing to your poor phones? Even my 15 year old’s SE is still mint.

I’m in the UK so I charge the shipping and handling to the buyer, sell on an offer day and there is no sales tax on private sales. Total cost to me is usually £1 to sell it.

Yes but that’s dishonest.

I’ve had no problems selling anything yet either. Usually goes within 6 hours here at a well inflated price.

I bought an iPhone 12 December 2019 and decided to swap it out for a 13 pro a couple of weeks back for the camera improvements. Apple accidentally refunded the entire AppleCare cost and I sold it for £190 less than I paid for it. So TCO was £16 a month.

This person gets it. As always if it’s a shit show, charge by the hour and get double time! If it’s easy charge by the job and spend two months getting paid to play solitaire!

I think that’s a separate point. It does include a template language because Go is “batteries included”.

You can write productive stuff without having to import any third party packages at all. Everything you need is properly supported by the core team and written to the same standard.

Yeah as always no one seems to have got the optimum apple ownership thing yet.

1. Buy the cheapest premium device plus one minor upgrade (more storage etc) as that has the lowest total depreciation.

2. Get AppleCare and pay up front

3. Sell it the moment the AppleCare runs out on eBay. Don’t part exchange it.

4. Your monthly TCO is the sticker price plus AppleCare minus the sale price all divided by the months you owned it.

Make sure all the costly events are someone else’s problem.

I’m running a whole stack of apple devices with little incidental cost if anything happens and lowest overall ownership.

Edit: keep one iphone back which isn’t yet entirely obsolete if you need a backup. Still got a working 6s here.

This is one reason I like Go. It’s exactly the opposite to Java in that respect.

Well the last dude I know who took LSD tried to call an ambulance for a pile of sacks of builders cement and pissed himself. YMMV on that one. There are probably more failures that are not romanticised and more successes that involved hard work.

I’ve spent enough time in fintech to know where this ends.

The interest in it is purely because of the vast problems it creates are opportunities to gain something. These are numerous compared to the roughly single benefit and the technology itself.

It’s yet another market created to manipulate arbitrary wealth tokens. The masters are different that is all.

If that happens I’m going to eat my mac mini for lunch.

There are some nasty escalation scenarios I’ve seen in that space. Cost increases as does workload backlogs and latency.

Eventually something breaks and causes an outage.

All leaks should be resolved lest you end up with floods.

I did always submit bug reports and patches. Most of the time some GitHub robot closes my ticket or PR after it is ignored for a month. That’s the new status quo: keep your ticket queue short by auto closing it.

That’s about right. I’ve got a dev who’s container just exits 0 ten times a day. He told me kubernetes takes care of it so it’s not a priority.

On this point I just deployed my first end to end ARM app. It’s a small aggregator but it’s written in Go on an M1 mac and deployed to graviton2 instance.

The killer is there was no friction at all and target is cheaper. It all just worked. Absolutely no issues at all.

The thing that scares intel is that they’re not special any more.