Its so strange, it feels like in the last 2 weeks there has been a marked increase of anti-Carney comments. While I'm not a fan of a number of things that the government has done recently this level of shift seems very artificial to me.

use have been hit the hardest in terms of price increases. And mini PCs aren’t a good replacement for the Pi in embedded

I mean, yeah I'm aware that LPDDR SDRAM chips are in short supply as a lot of the capacity was shifted for other types of SDRAM, but is it enough to allow for an entire SSD to be included at the same price? Its not like flash prices haven't also increased a ton.

I was also thinking that there are cooling systems (fans are expensive!), cases, etc. that add costs to mini PCs that mean they really shouldn't compete with SBC in price.

I don't get how they can justify this. I can get a proper mini PC with 16GB RAM and an 500GB NVME SSD for less than that.

Please stop shopping at places that treat you as if you are a criminal. Self checkouts are already customer hostile but essentially being treated as a potential shoplifter for using one should cause you to take your business elsewhere if at all feasible.

Do we know what percentage of visits are from not logged in visitors? I imagine that all the people that visit reddit through searches for information are not likely to be signing up for a account, so they will be losing a bunch of that traffic and ad revenue.

Putting all that community generated information behind a login screen is a massive loss even if you don't use the site regularly.

This is the thing that drives me absolutely nuts with how most people use LLMs at work. I'm fully capable of asking the LLM to create slop, I need others to actually check and ensure their documentation is useful and correct before communicating it with others.

The benchy website has a document about how to evaluate it.

Could be an issue with flow rate, is the issues are in areas with higher volumetric flow as shown in the slicer you might need to slow down your printing or increase your extrusion temperature for those areas.

We've learned that checks and balances only work as well as they are enforced.

You take on a fucking lot of responsibility, start giving demos, working with product managers, marketers, help teach people what is possible in the product and what isn’t. This isn’t a chill gig. It rarely is. It usually involves a fuck ton of effort and planning.

This is just part of jobs in general and if you had any indication it wouldn't be you were lied to. One of the early things I remember being told in engineering school is that you will have to be social and work on a team. As soon as a project requires more than a few people then you will be working on cross-functional teams and need to work together with a variety of people.

Often you will be underpaid compared to the effort you put in

You might be shocked to learn that employers do not pay for "effort", they pay for the (perceived) value you bring to the business. People that get paid well are value multipliers (or they play the game well enough to appear that they do). The people that work with them do more because they are there guiding things. If you don't bring that value, you tend to top out at "Senior" engineer titles and the pay that brings with it. I've had to have somewhat blunt conversations with people to explain that I've given them a poor performance review not because they haven't put in the hours, but because they aren't using their effort efficiently. Working overtime consistently is an indication of poor prioritization and delegation more than having too much work.

As someone that absolutely despises self-checkout I'd be happy if this was the case, but I don't believe this. I've had stores open up near me this year that only have self-checkout options.

I'm not doing labour for a company where I'm not getting a discount for it. I'd rather wait longer in line for a person to do it than to go through self-checkout out of principle. Plus all self-checkouts I've ever used are designed end up pissing me off because they are designed to be user hostile.

There is a good reason Mint is recommended as the no nonsense beginner distro. For someone more technical and willing to learn I might recommend Fedora.

One you get past those two distros you are pretty much in the realm where someone should be technical enough to choose their own distro and know what that means.