I’m not surprised, but now I have to look for it. We’ve remained unseen by Society for the last 40 years. It’s kind of surreal to see the stuff with GenX references right now.

If, like me, you took it on faith (at the age of 23) that social security will be gone by the time I retire, you have been saving and investingcas much as possible. Then you can get by on low-end work.

Remember, jobs don’t really give you prestige. A job is a job. The issue is whether it can help you pay your bills or not.

Note that Social Security is slated to not have enough money for full payments 3 years before I’m due to enroll (for full payments). You’d think I’d have earned Millions with my precognitive skills.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, I didn’t want to retire yet, but like my father before me, the choice was not mine. I saved enough that I should be able to actually retire and survive on part-time low income jobs. Unless the market crashes for a year straight cuz after that I got to start selling stocks.

It’s what I use, but I heard it was bought by a shady company a couple years ago. I’m afraid to check. It is or was one of the most secure and verifi3d provider around and resides outside the 5 and 14 eyes network.

I just had a surreal vision of Trump sending the whole state of Minnesota to Norway and Sweden.

It would be a good short, for sure. Not enough there for a full length movie, IMHO.

I’m sure there will soon be some sort of zoomer sees “office space” for the first time YouTube videos. They’ll then realize GenX “gets it” or something.

Truth. Same with benzinga and Yahoo finance. Most are actually adverse for gold in disguise.

Huh. Maybe I will have a shot at getting a job… Oh, wait, I have 35 years experience, am over 50 and have been unemployed for 16 months. Never mind.

I gave up the humiliating shit show called a job search 3 months ago, and frankly my last job killed any interest in software development anyway.

It’s all idiots telling professionals they’re wrong and incompetent while blaming them for the ongoing production failures we solved and explained every month for a year but still can’t get the code past review because “it does too much”. 30 fucking lines of code “does too much”. Pompous morons.

We’re a threat of competence, and they’re excising us relentlessly. I will laugh bitterly as I watch the soon to be torrent of fiascos and lamentations these idiots spout while still finding a way to blame software engineers.

Not huge. I have a bluetti AC200L and 1000 watts of mismatched panels. It’s plugged into the wall socket and switche to grid power at 40% of capacity.

Router and modem plus NAS average a continuous 70 watt draw. The fridge is the biggest draw as it turns on regularly and uses about 80 watts, and runs a defrost cycle for 40 minutes at 300 watts.

None of it will matter. That said, short term FUBAR can be mitigated. I have a semi-portable solar setup that currently runs my internet, NAS, Fridge and to some degree, the A/C.

To prep for the serious mess, I have to get Faraday bags for my server, drives, and solar generator and have enough time to bag everything before the EMP hits.

I have survival guides in book form as well as on the NAS, and I work the land enough to bring the soil into balance and build its fertility, plus feed the bees so they’ll be there when I need them.

Well… Yeah. Who do you think is buying AI for the corps? Kinda my point.

Don’t panic, we have options if it’s bad.

Seems like it could go there, but for now i believe this is primarily for the corporate and commercial customers. They rightfully need to keep up with or exceed their competitors. The aspect that decides if they are turning into Windows is how they implement, not what they implement.

Yes. Like most things, genAI is not evil. It is now it is used (or made available) that makes it evil.

I’m on board with making it easy to use and integrate GenAI as long as I have full control of which model I use and how it is used and there are no behind the curtain shenanigans.