The dumb thing about that quote is that it doesn't have to be an either/or situation. Engineers want to solve these problems by nature; if there were no voices from the top, we'd be getting AI to help us write better code, and trying to make AI write better code fast. For whatever reason the C-suites can't just let things follow their natural course which would already result in wins for them, they have to spew the narrative that our jobs are completely changing so they can justify getting rid of them

I think a lot of Pixel devices came with a promo where your photos don't count toward your drive space. That's also the case for me

some of us don't have friends, or at least none reliable enough to trust with an offsite backup machine 😂

I picked up a 10a for $250 USD over the summer. It was just a month or 2 before the Pixel 11 models came out so probably Google was liquidating the older model inventory. It's my first GrapheneOS phone and I'm pretty satisfied so far. But I do wish Graphene was available for more brands

There are different attitudes of engineers. Some are more results-oriented and see the code as just a means to an end. It's difficult to get good at programming and AI makes it so you don't really have to, so they gladly accept it as a way to build things faster.

And then there's me on the exact opposite end of that spectrum. I don't care much at all for the end result except that it's what allows me to get to do programming. I like the puzzle and figuring out how to make it all work line-by-line. AI takes away all of the fun part and it does it so terribly.

Up til now both types of programmers got along decently well because building things correctly and quickly have usually taken similar paths. But with the advent of AI we're now quite at odds with each other, and it's been quite a pain for me.

My software dev colleagues don't do it and they're getting paid. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest to hear that a bunch of students wouldn't, lol

It sounds like OP is already self-hosting and wants an external backup solution?

I'm also in that boat and use rsync.net. It's been reliable enough and pretty cheap. Borgmatic runs a nightly job to sync to a local + remote repo

Sorry if I'm daft but what's the pihole blocking? The "Live on LG channels"?

I have an LG OLED but I don't use the TV OS

The other day I saw a guy struggle for 2+ mins trying to scan his membership card on his phone to activate a gas pump. Meanwhile cars were lining up behind him, he was super flustered and eventually he had to pull around to the back of the line to try again. Have fun with your phone apps but that shit ain't for me, I'll just be an old dude carrying my cards around

The whole point of adopting this hard-charging management style was to get employees to innovate faster and catch up to competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the all-consuming battle over AI. Instead, Meta has been falling farther and farther behind.

Falling behind in what exactly? The race to the bottom?

If you've been on that version for a year and a half, probably nothing major is broken. And with software these days, that's invaluable 😂

I just randomly tried KDE recently and made the swap from Linux Mint to Kubuntu a week ago. Definitely agree on the polish factor, everything just feels great with KDE and I've been pretty happy