real-dino

I hear guitarists and bassists do this quite a bit during gigs.

I just did this last year. I just got my boat, which is also my home, and in terms of outgoing, it's very little. We are talking £1000 a year for license and insurance and £50 a month heating in the winter.

The problem I have is that companies will generally look for any excuse not to hire people. A year gap is a red flag, and you 'should' be perpetually 'grafting for money', and my skills (even though React, Redux and HTML haven't changed at all in the last year) are considered out of date.

Eventually I will find a job, and I'm not trying to hard. I worked on a sideproject during my time off to keep my skills active, and I'm not in a rush to back to work.

But in terms of what I got out of it, I went to a bunch of music festivals, started going to pubs and clubs a lot more, and started enjoying life a lot more.

It's also not enough for VSCode and Web Development. Opening VSCode on a medium sized Next.js project takes a good minute or so before Intellisense kicks in.

But I'm not willing to pay the prices on the UK website. I think an M3 Air with 32GB will be my next purchase.

I use a headtorch, and then end up staying awake for 2 hours after.

That's not how you control the narrative.

Seems like the powers that be are acting super quick to broadcast their version of the story...

Exact same happened with the GameStop fiasco.

Completely tangential:

I tried VMWire fusion to run multiple browsers to get tickets for Glastonbury.

Are virtual machines ever not slow?

Running 9 virtual machines on an M1 mac, did not work...

I needed to be able to take over at any point, to enter the credit card details etc if successful, so puppeteer would not have been a good solution.

I think I need to rent multiple devices just for the day it seems. Chrome offers multiple profiles so I had 9 browsers, but you only get 60 refreshes per minute n an IP address. I would need to redirect some of the chrome instances, and have the screen real estate to handle it.

I have some LiFePO4 batteries powering my laptop, and onboard electronics on my boat. They are very heavy, but have a super long life. Often forgotten, they are used a lot in automotive applications!

I feel the same, but won't ever accept non-remote, as I'd end up losing 2 hours a day, the money for lunch, and the transport money.

Companies that are non-remote are also more likely to have a toxic work culture.

And that also needs your colleagues to be in, which if they have a choice... they won't.

Canals, I use 4G for everything. Do market research and find the best provider. It's difficult but not impossible to web dev.

I'm in London at the moment, as are many boaters. It's a bit overcrowded here.

Diesel Engine. A bit diesel HR2 that I had to take apart once!

Not in a way where your main currency is GBP.

On a plastic boat, you don't have to black the hull, but things do break, engines need replacement oil, new filters. Painting, leaks in window frames, wifi subscriptions.

There is no way that figure is achievable outside a crazy initial investment which needs zero work, and even then, the work will pile up quicly.

I live on a boat... AMA