Devices became ever more locked down for developers. Between bootloaders that can’t be unlocked and drivers that have to be reverse engineered it’s just too hard to develop custom roms now.

There were always some devices like that but now it’s most of them

Land with a view is still available at possibly reasonable prices! You just have to be willing to be VEEEEEERY rural with the nearest tiny town being 30+ out and nearest real city 1hr+

You really can’t glean the information just by looking at it if you’ve literally never seen one before in your life. It’s hard to Envision if you’re just used to it, like I said I was a little slow to read it but I still know how I’m just not used to it so it’s no longer instant . But I also can understand that if you’ve literally never seen one in your life and never had it mentioned to you you would really have no way to know what the difference between the big or the small hand was.

Now if you did sit and stare at it for long enough you could eventually figure it out as the hands moved but most people aren’t going to sit there and stare at a clock for 10min to try and figure it out.

At the end of the day even mundane things can be a skill, and I do agree that there is a substantial lack of critical thinking as the generations go on it was a problem already in my generation much less these latest ones. All That No Child Left Behind and standardized testing crap really destroyed schools hard it went from critical thinking to just memorize the answer or skip the question if you don’t know, asking questions became bad and unfortunately that’s going to follow you into adulthood

There is many reasons it happened but not being able to read analog clocks was not one of them. I’m sorry that it upsets you so much that I don’t agree but I feel like there’s a better way to express it than what you chose.

I genuinely don’t know where I would even find an analog clock anymore outside of school and I haven’t been in school for more than 20 years. genuinely do not remember the last time I’ve seen an analog clock, and I work in a lot of public government offices who are usually pretty far behind the times but even they use digital clocks. to the point that I just went to look had a picture of one and it actually takes me a second to read now.

I don’t understand why people are so obsessed on holding on to knowledge that is not relevant to your daily life, digital clocks are objectively better at the task of telling the time and it’s what exists everywhere in life now I don’t really fault anyone for not being able to read an analog.

If I had to Hazard a guess I guess it’s probably just a lack of empathy? Or maybe that’s not quite the correct word but inability to put yourself in another’s place. They can’t Envision someone not having knowledge that they have unless that person is stupid.

You know it’s funny I actually find that I like the esoteric Flags more . They just stick in my head as unique and I’m never wondering whether I do update or upgrade or anything else that might sound right. It’s Syu, always has been :)

Sounds more likely that AUR fucked you. Which isn’t pacman. I’ve often found people who hate “pacman” usually just hosed their system with the AUR

Pacman is the best for the simple fact that it’s simple. APT, DNF etc get into the weeds with complex scripts trying to update databases and other nonsense that has caused apt/dpkg to obliterate systems for me too often (over like 10 years)

but pacman is about as close as possible to “unzip in place and go home” I’ve never had the actual pacman itself break a system. And the only broken update I’ve had is the stupid grub one which I solved by switching to systemdboot. On top of that even IF you somehow obliterated an arch system it’s trivial to chroot in, use a statically built pacman, then reinstall all system packages with a single command.

I unironically use arch in critical production systems as i genuinely find it to be more reliable. Slap on some filesystem snapshots as a just in case for any bugs from updates (never had to use) and I have a system that is so much easier to use and i feel more confident doing updates

Anyone who genuinely thought that privacy was going to be perfect was an idiot. But they’re going to be better than Gmail and they are. The only way to achieve any type of true privacy would be to start up your own Data Center , run your own email , and then be the one that’s dealing with the government knocking on your door. Have fun with that.

Put frankly privacy on the internet does not exist and anyone that thinks it’s achievable on the modern internet is honestly an idiot. We can only select the least shitty option there is no good option. And the problem is even that is a moving Target I’m not going to keep changing my email provider every couple years to whatever the new current popular privacy option is.

Ah yes be toxic to annoy people who are toxic. No irony there

All 3 users of systems that don’t support 64bit will be devastated. Once they finish loading the news anyway

That is definitely one of the crowds but there are also people like me that just are sick and tired of dealing with python, node, ruby depends. The install process for services has only continued to become increasingly more convoluted over the years. And then you show me an option where I can literally just slap down a compose.yml and hit “docker compose up - d” and be done? Fuck yeah I’m using that

Only $1000? Most basic falling apart apartments are almost $2k in many states from what I’ve seen

Downloading the torrent so i can seed it on 2.5Gb fiber

Also WA state, I saw the writing on the wall years ago and started investing to get as offgrid as i could. I’m entirely electric independent with solar and battery now, switched everything to as efficient as i could sources (heatpump on anything i can like hot water) working on rainwater collection and filtering atm. Have the filtering and just using it on the city water just need to setup the collection of rainwater

Vibe coding is useful for super basic bash scripting and that’s about it. Even that it will mess up but usually in a suler easily fixed way

Lifepo4 is pretty much the one type you can safely leave unattended, it’s very very hard to get them to burn and even when they do it’s mostly smoke. Lithium is the big flame/boom one. The trade off is less energy density compared with lithium but for home storage thats less of an issue. The batteries i shared even feature fire suppression systems (basically an automatically deployed fire ratardant foam internally) for additional protection.

Building a little box of insulation around the batteries using some foam board panels and a water heater blanket with some water pipe heating tape you can get at most hardware stores would be the cheap easy way and should help with the colder month temps. And is easily picked uo and set aside in warmer weather

https://a.co/d/c6MX9uj

Because it’s seen as a primary factor in the “male loneliest” issue. Not only are we trying to get noticed in a sea of options but now we have to fight it being assumed we are just gonna molest them which making meeting people and trying to get connect extremely difficult. Frustration turns that into a crash out about how your not like that

I can highly recommend These batteries for home level power i have 6 of them and they make my offgrid life possible. Rated for 6000 deep discharges (or 16 years of literally daily deep discharge) they have a standard charge range of 5°C to 70°C naturally if you are in a cold latitude an even mildly insulted shed would be ideal to justify stay above that 5c mark.

If your sun is limited especially in winter consider giving east/west vertical panel orientation a shot. And that same site with the batteries has great deals on palettes of solar panels if you just need more in general.

If you aren’t already using 48V for inverters make the switch, much more efficient and long term cheaper. Put your panels into as large of a series string as your inverter will allow before parallel. Higher voltage incurs less resistance losses and it can be a pretty significant loss. Had an inverter die on me and had to drop to an older inverter while waiting for the replacement. It didn’t support the higher voltage as the newer one so had to drop from 320v to 80v ( from one string of 8 to pairs of 2 in parallel) ended up losing almost a full 1kW of peak potential