I guess I always thought of myself as someone who never gives up. It's a blessing and a curse, I've achieved all my goals in life so far but I can be perceived as someone who is not very empathetic - because I tend to expect others to have the same attitude and don't give them the support they need.

Hopefully on the whole people can understand things from my perspective - but I'm too self reliant to care what others think most of the time..

Can we start with my neighbour's house please? Preferably between 10pm - 8am on Friday and Saturday nights.

Embedded programmer here: C/C++ is not going away any time soon. Rust just isn't ready yet (on microcontrollers anyway)

I checked, no juggling on the list, my job is still safe

Zed is totally open source, and the AI "features" are optional. When you set it up - at least when I did - it's one checkbox to disable. I don't remember about the telemetry you will have to have a look, I'm usually ok with that myself.

I came from VSCode and haven't found anything I miss. I especially don't miss the poor performance of VSCode, Zed is extremely lightweight!

That information about text editors is out of date - we now have Zed. Just ignore the "AI integration" bs, it's entirely optional

It's not apartheid - it's much worse

Our lighting setup (rented accommodation) is a hodge-podge of mixed fittings, including fluorescent tubes and halogen. All of the actual screw (and Edison) fittings have led bulbs in though.

Part of me wishes for the good old days of cheap incandescent bulbs though. The decent LED bulbs are still 10x the price we used to pay for incandescent, so we buy "cheap" ones (4x the price) which don't last any longer than the old tech. Of course you can't get incandescent bulbs anymore..

From an Android developer perspective, this is a big PIA. Most of my apps are open source and distributed outside of the Play Store, to ordinary users who are savvy and motivated enough to check "Unknown sources" but wouldn't know what developer mode or ADB is, never mind a custom rom.

I looked at the requirements, I will have to register EVERY app with Google if I want anyone to be able to install it apart from myself. It's just crazy but it's that or give up.

I like the stats - 14 million ads and malicious web requests blocked today!

I tried that (tailscale -> pi-hole) but experienced terrible lag and drop-outs while surfing on mobile, probably due to the raspberry pi being overloaded or more likely my son playing Fortnite and saturating the connection

Outside of coding I don't find it that useful..