I use vscode because I do a lot of embedded.

Used to be that you had to jump through some hoops to make it work - make your own makefiles and stuff. Now, all the major vendors of MCUs are starting to develop vscode plugins as their “IDE” instead of those horrible ultramodified eclipse installs.

For me it’s stfu

See Heise for example, they have their own instance for their news posts. It’s great.

I was very confused when the screen faded to black when Isobel was downed - I thought I could just get her back up

Had the a52 5g before. It did become quite sluggish over time - and wasn’t smooth even to start with.

That’s not caused by user bloat - it was just as slow when I reset it before selling it.

Now I have a xiaomi 13 and it does everything basically instantly

Yeah, same here. My 1080ti still performs more than adequately enough.

That’s also a thing about all this gpu pricing - things are starting just to become ‘enough’, without the need to upgrade like you did before.

Same thing happened to phones, and then high end phones got expensive as fuck. I mean I had a Galaxy note 2 I bought for 400 bucks back in the day and that was already expensive.

You can’t really compare an 8800gt to a 1070 to a 4080.

8800gt was just another era, the 1070 is the 70 series from a time where they had the ti and the titan, and the 4080 is the top gpu other than the 4090.

If you wanted to compare to the 10 series, a better match for the 4080 would be the 1080ti, which I own, and paid like 750 for back in 2017.

Sure, they’re on the money grabbing train now, and the 4080 should realistically be around 20% cheaper - around 800 bucks, to be fair.

Thing is though, if you just want gaming, a 4070 or 4060 is enough. They did gimp the VRAM though, which is not too great. If those cards came standard with 16gb of VRAM, they’d be all good.

For remote backup, always keep your data in multiple ‘importance levels’. There’s replaceable, irreplaceable and very important.

Replaceable is non-niche movies and all kinds of other things that are commonly available, data not ‘exclusive to you’. Irreplaceable is data that is (probably) only owned by you - photos, videos, source code, documents and so on. Very important are the few documents you really can’t afford to lose. Security keys, banking info and so on.

I don’t bother backing up replaceable data - I keep one local and one off site backup for the irreplaceable data and very important data (1tb hetzner storage box is enough for me), and I keep a few encrypted physical usb sticks and sd cards strewn around at my parents and at work for the irreplaceable data that periodically get updated.

If you lost all your devices right now, what files would you miss? That’s what you should back up.

At that point, it’s not FOSS, just OSS. Free means that it also uses a license that is ‘Free’ - as RMS would put it ‘libre’. So -, you can - under stipulations, do whatever you want with the Source code.

Im fairly sure they manage because they have so many subscriptions from people that barely use it.

They basically pay out per song played - and server costs are also largely dependent on active users. So they balance out a very active person that might incur 15$ in cost with 5 inactive people that incur not even a dollar.

Definitely. I assume the actual cost for the cable is <10$, but engineering work gets very expensive very fast if you’re small scale.

I’m interested in something - say you got an order for 1 million units, what’s the price per unit you could offer?

Edit: just looked at the DIY option - seems right now you’re just using off the shelf parts, which is fine. Clever use of them, even. Main part seems to be ‘present usb device - once the usb device gets removed, lock down the PC’. So, you specifically just need some usb device with a cord that attaches magnetically - and securely enough that it doesn’t disconnect randomly, with some mechanical way to fix it to yourself. So yeah, at million scale, seems you could definitely sell it for 10 bucks a piece.

Meh, the best programmers are probably somewhere in the middle.

This also depends on what kind of work you’re doing.

Writing some frontend with lots of Boilerplate? That’s lots of lines.

Writing efficient code that for example runs on embedded systems? That’s different. My entire master’s thesis code project on an embedded system consisted of around 600 lines of C code, and it did exactly what it should, efficiently.

A better metric to that effect would be the git activity graph. People that do important changes don’t commit 20 times a day - they push a commit usually once a day tops to once every 2 weeks

If you’re looking for a free self hosted server - I have been using the oracle cloud free tier for months - especially their Arm based server, and I’m more than happy.

However, if you end up going that route have some kind of backup strategy set up, and set it up in a way where you can reproduce the server easily, as they reserve the right to suddenly take it offline.

I’m using a hetzner storage box for backup - which I also use for my personal automated backup with borg.

To me, the main thing about writing on a phone is the lack of well, a physical, full size keyboard. There are some foldable keyboards you can get that connect over Bluetooth if you want to go for long writing sessions. Otherwise, phones work just fine, with portrait mode as well.

Your phone can play music just like an mp3 player can.

Your phone doesn’t have an e-ink screen.

That’s the whole reason.