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> I'm based in Russia...

This would be an immediate disqualification for any tech job I can think of.

PHP 8.5.4-0ubuntu1.5 (the fixed version for Ubuntu 26.04) has been downloadable for me via apt from security.ubuntu.com for about 30 minutes. Perhaps check to see that you're not using a different mirror?

> Where are you getting ceiling fans that don't squeak and/or hum? (Or perhaps, what are you doing to maintain them)

When I moved into my current home 22 years ago, I bought five Hunter ceiling fans from Home Depot and installed them in the bedrooms and living room. Each one cost maybe $100 or so. They've been used more or less daily since then (the one in the master bedroom runs at medium speed all night, every night), and they're still silent and wobble-free. Other than wiping dust off of the blades from time to time, I've done precisely nothing to them.

They don't have mobile apps (there was no such thing as a "mobile app" when I bought them) and they don't have remote controls, but they're pretty great.

> LLMs write better than vast majority of people at this point.

The vast majority of people are not good prose writers. Nor are LLMs.

My dude, you only need to put the registered trademark symbol after the first occurrence of the mark. You® don't® need® to® put® it® after® every® mention® of® Click®House®™™®™®™®™®™.

What in the blue fuck is going on with that awful, awful fade-in blur effect on the text? That's one of the worst things I think I've ever seen.

Lawmakers—contemporary and otherwise—have in fact decided many many times that the state can deprive you of your life as punishment for certain crimes.

> Your right to push back on that...

Human test passed. AIs make giant flashy mistakes. They don't fuck up basic grammar.

> Then why isn't it done more often?

Because it tends to require a lot of thought and effort along totally separate engineering pathways than most of the actual functional coding. Good UI design is not easy, and the skills to do it don't directly overlap with good coding skills. It's hard.

> I suspect part of the reason is that most gui frameworks are not really designed for making dense economical interfaces.

Don't blame the tooling for a broad failing of many developers. It's because constructing a genuinely dense and economical interface for most apps requires considerable time and effort, and frankly, most developers are crap at understanding how users other than themselves use applications. Those that aren't crap at it tend to have worked in large teams with dedicated UX people to help drag them away from their preconceptions.

I don't like assisting reddit's monetization/AI training machine by tying my browsing activity directly to an account identity. I would prefer to browse anonymously and make them work at least a little bit harder to compile my anonymous activity into a coherent single-user profile.

If that doesn't bother you, then good for you, and we have different feelings about privacy.

> I think you might want to download new anti-Texas talking points.

No need—the current ones are uploaded directly into my mailbox regularly by Randy Weber, my district rep.

Texas specifically has heavily politicized and demonized wind power, in spite of having massive successes with it prior to 2016 and being a leading producer of it. Solar isn't as bad, but is still seen as "leftist." The political landscape in TX is vastly more friendly to natural gas.

In other words, they are using gas turbines because the politicians are stupid.

Sounds like a poster child for LXC containerization with Proxmox — all the host-level management of a non-ephemeral VM (including snapshots!), without the every-machine-has-its-own-kernel overhead.