I can’t think of any windows specific games I’ve payed for the last two years.

Yep then it will be the next twitter/Facebook/ect.

Flash drives and periodic transfers.

Peertube, Bookwyrm, Lemmy, Mastodon in that order. Theres a ton out there I haven’t tried.

Theres a ton of lemmy servers in Cali, but just no official one. Its all just one offs (I support one).

10 yesterday. We are too small for temp rules.

We get 10ish posts here a day… I guess if you want less activity here good job you win. I hate these temp rules in communities.

Ember seems like it’s getting support. Rust has native hooks. C++ is still being supported. It’s in a good place.

Unfortunately most front ends don’t use wasm.

0. Mail in ballot for every single election.

Ive heard some people locally take at most 30 mins.

I literally got my current job by meeting an old co-worker at a book store and letting him know I was looking after our previous company got shut down. I did happen to have the right skills, but my local area was flooded with software developers in an area that really didnt need that many. But I got the job.

Networking (AKA meeting people) is a good way to get jobs.

While skill and experience matter, networking is often the catalyst that connects you with the right opportunities. In a way, it’s like investing in your social capital—often as valuable as any degree or certification.

College actually helps with both skill and networking at the same time.

Htop or top

I set it up for a few days and it just keeps piling up. I’ve kinda given up on self hosting. It’s just not worth the hassle at least not now.

Oh excellent I didn’t see that thanks!

I’ve tried misskey and for some reason posts don’t come through. Closest I got was bookwyrm which seems to workish, but it doesn’t have lists /hashtags like Mastodon does.

I make a useful thing at work. I make it public as a library. Everyone profits. Thats about it.

The only hard part is to make sure work is ok with me open sourcing whatever im building out. Sometimes Ill need to sanitize a couple of things, but thats about it.

Software Developer. I try to get at least one thing done a day at work. Low hanging fruit first. A day may be a feature request, a meeting to go over new features/bugs in a system. I do maybe 4 hours of actual coding a day. But I do save the entity I work for literal millions/hours a year automating some of their workflows. I open source a large part of the work I do, which is supported by my employer, so thats nice.

I am pretty blessed honestly. Its a good gig.

I have an old mac mini that was a server for a good 4-ish years.

The good:

1. They are pretty good at sticking in a closet and forgetting about them.
2. Specs are always on the decent side and some of the older models are easy to upgrade.
3. Power is ok. It sips power
4. It can run for years without issues. I still have two mac minis I used for CI/CD jobs, thin clients, etc…
5. Its a cheap mac. If you need mac for something, like building custom mac specific applications, then its a decent little machine.

The bad:

1. CPU is usually lacking compared to any computer of the same price range.
2. MAC OS. Its good at desktop but as a server, it just doesn’t have the same options/ease of use as a good linux box. You can get around that by dual booting, but its just another headache. Docker/VMs are also an option, but the RAM/CPU usage would take a hit.
3. The newer the model, the harder it is to upgrade.

I would use it as a specialty server if you have something you do automatically only macs can do. Or as a thin client/vm box.

I used to use it as a CI/CD box before github actions was a thing. If you happen to have one, sure set it up for fun. If you dont and are looking at buying one, I would suggest a cheap dell desktop or (depending on what you want to host) a pi 5 or thin client and throw linux on it.

I learned terraform and that helped. But I started in on and ansable/chef.

Heh yeah the AWS ones are just product placement and a tiny bit of configuration soup later on.