jethro_tell

lol, have my kids carry a phone or have more kids so the can be paired up.

That’s a wild thing to say out loud. And absolutely doesn’t solve the problem. Kids need to have their own friends and own social circles if you want to teach independence.

Wat? Why would there be a difference? It only takes an hour a day or less of social media with an algorithm designed to make you anxious to really affect your mental health, how would limiting available social media time to 8 hours help?

Just set the evil bit and they can block it at ingress

But, they have built up moats via generally unregulated anti-competitive behavior. Also of note, the ISPs are owned by the same class of people, they aren't routing around anything, they are taking our money and cashing checks.

Which would be praise worthy if it was a net neutrality stance, but it's not.

Paying a wage and being socially responsible with waste and such.

I've worked in both tech and construction. Never seen a tech worker go home and come back with the soles of their shoes resoled overnight because they didn't have a better option for work tomorrow.

Is that the best option? Generally no, it's probably not worth your time to do things that you don't specialize in. But at some point, you run out of hours to profit from the things you specialize in, and you still need something, so you figure it out. You do your oil changes, and fix your shoes and repair things even when they would generally considered 'totaled'. You miss work or at least hours on days when your late model car doesn't start. You take care of your own house repairs and yardwork, if your lucky enough to own something your landlord's yard and maintenance work more likely. And this is all off hours stuff because that's the option you have.

I've worked so much less in tech, yeah the hours can be long and oncall sucks. But I end up being able to redirect all my effort into the thing I'm specialized in and that I get paid the most to do. Which means I can pay to have my boots resoled, or just buy new ones, I take my (newer cars that always start) to the dealer every 6 months. I can pay a premium for delivery of food and staples, I can hire help around the house for anything from lawn care to tree trimming to roof repairs.

When I left the trades, 50 hours was generally required and 60 was becoming the norm. I'm not working any more in tech at work, but I work a lot lest to have a better life outside of work. It's just night and day.

yes, they have. It just costs a shit ton of money and is extremely difficult to get the suits to sign off on TWO full 'cloud services' bills. It generally doubles your cost and workload and increases your uptime by a couple hours/year, assuming you don't have bugs that affect one or the other cloud in your deployment stack.

It's basically a wash for almost all organizations for twice the cost and effort.

It's basically what leads to extended downtime almost every time. There are just some things in the stack that are still single points of failure, and when they fail it's a mess.

You might be counting out the value of government and military contracts that might not want to do business with a wild card.

SpaceX is killing it because the US government gives them a bunch of contracts, but if stability is slightly more important than cost or speed, amazon has a contender.

I am serious, mechanical watches are fascinating but they are much less accurate that a cheap quartz watch.

I’ve never heard the bring one or three, I’ve always just heard three. I think that exact saying implies that if you have two and one isn’t working out you’ll go crazy but if you have one you’ll be oblivious until it’s too late.

A well serviced rolex in 2026 with laser cut gears drifts +/- 15sec per day.

One with hand filed gears is going to be +/- a minute on a good day, and that’s what early navigation was using. I have watches with hand filed gears and they can be a bit rough.

Prior to that, it was dead reckoning, dragging a string every now and again to calculate speed and heading and the current and then guesstimating your location on a twice daily basis.

Those two wildly inaccurate systems mapped most of the world for us.

Two is one and one is none

You can definitely average two relatively accurate chronometers but you if you only have two it’s difficult to tell if one is way fast or way slow.

In a perfect world they drift less than a minute per day and you’re relatively close to the time with an average or just by picking one and knowing that you don’t have massive time skew.

I believe this saying was first made about compasses which also had mechanical failures. Having three lets you know which one failed. The same goes for mechanical watches, which can fail in inconsistent ways, slow one day and fast the next is problematic the same goes for a compass that is wildly off, how do you know which one of the two is off?

I hope not because I’ve been doing my US taxes on Linux for 15 years.

It’s probably a specific windows desktop app, probably TurboTax by intuit, the company that lobbies to make filing your taxes hard and to destroy any free simple government app to file taxes.

So, not sure why they’d complain about not being able to help shoot their foot off but we all have preferences. :shrug:

My sister was the same, she brought her machine over, I booted a Ubuntu disk and did the disk config in the install and then she set the rest of the stuff up and I haven’t heard from her about it for 5 years, other than that I check if she’s still using it now and again.