softfalcon

Sounds like a them problem.

The reasoning you describe seems somewhat self centered.

I'm not sure I want to worry too much about people who go through life assuming everyone else's statements are a direct commentary about themselves.

I was inclined to listen to your take… then you started talking about having 6 graphics cards in your computer and acting like that’s a normal thing that people do…

I'm not putting any inspection crews out of work.

Humans put the tool in the pipe and analyse the data. This isn't newfangled shiny tech, it's old stuff designed and maintained from a decade ago.

There's no fancy AI, no magical automated robots. Just humans using EM tools to scan pipes.

Understanding how computer architecture works is a hobby? Is unimportant?

I built and deployed embedded systems robotics that protect water and oil pipeline infrastructure that costs billions of dollars if there is a failure.

That is not a hobby, that’s a career.

The tools I built just helped fix the fresh water access for my entire city of 2 million people. Explain to me what’s more important than people having access to water.

I learned how to code assembly. Knowing it makes me a better developer.

It’s how I deeply understand what a RAM lookup vs having it already in a register means for optimization.

These are things you need to know if you want to work on high performance applications or in limited embedded systems.

So, yes, many of us need to and it’s important we keep teaching it to future students.

This is why I like fountain pens… I regularly write down the things that are important to me.

Things I need to do, ideas I want to ponder on, people I need to remember or get respond to.

Writing is learning. Writing is understanding.

I have so many conversations with people who are always telling me I’m “retro” or “old school” for doing this.

I don’t even bother explaining the psychology behind it anymore. I’ve got no time for the ignorance.

Sharing my small bit of wisdom about burn out:

Burn out isn’t caused by putting in too many hours at work. It’s a symptom of forcing yourself to do work you don’t align with.

Forcing yourself to care about KPI’s and goals you don’t give a hoot about will usually result in collapse.

That sounds very interesting to hear about!

What diminished the day-to-day difficulty for you? Is it because the ecosystem became more mature, or did you "crack the code" for how to interface with everything you needed from your phone? Is your use-case for a phone wildly different from that of a typical user?

It's really cool to hear that someone is successfully daily driving it and making this ecosystem work for them!

Except for a large part of Europe, the relative humidity is quite high. So, they're suffering more than most. I say this as someone who once lived in a desert and is well accustomed to 40-50 C summers.

Yeah, that's also a very good point. I imagine they're going to need to support that use case indefinitely. Hence their edge/IoT line of managed switches.

I agree with you that you can't rely on hydro alone to power your country. It also seems like you're trying to be reasonable and suggest that any new nuclear production in your country needs to be done as ethically and environmentally friendly as possible.

Your statement about "We can't be buying France's nuclear energy all the time" really stood out to me.

Are Swiss folks maybe acting a bit NIMBY by not allowing nuclear in their own country, but are fine with buying French nuclear power? It seems a tad hypocritical to be against nuclear, while simultaneously using it as long as it's "not in my country".

I tend to agree with you.

In my opinion, as long as the majority of their profits come from people continuing to buy the self-host devices, it is fairly unlikely they'll ever stop offering those devices. Why change a working business model?

Yes, subscription models are enticing for that recurring revenue... number must go up, right? /s

If a majority of your sales are not in subscription products though, I think it would be foolish for a business to blow off its own leg trying to chase that particular dragon.

Then again... businesses have made dumber calls in the past out of nowhere...

I have heard others say the same as you about Ubiquiti devices. I genuinely curious what bottlenecks you've hit.

I've only been using Ubiquiti as a pro-sumer, but it has held up well for my use case of Plex and little game servers.

I use a Synology NAS for my storage though, which is a slightly beefier mobile AMD chipset.

I'd be very interested to know what I should and shouldn't expect from my ARM based network stack though!

Yes, this is correct. When you put the CD into a regular player, a strikingly beautiful (but monotonous) woman’s voice would say:

“This CD is made for the Turbografx game system. Please place it into the CD drive on your Turbografx to play.”

My brother and I thought this was really cool when we were kids. We thought the CD player must “know” that it’s a game.