I've been calling myself a programmer. That's mostly what I do anyways

Devil's advocate:

Have you guys ever considered that the information these companies are making off of you just isn't that valuable? Your phone number, email, house address, skin color, sexuality, height, gender, fashion, job, and friends are not secrets. Anybody can know these things about you. We're on the Internet and web-based companies want to interact with people, if you don't like that go to a different website. But you'll never have a privacy agnostic internet experience because PEOPLE KNOW THINGS ABOUT EACHOTHER. That's one of the things about being people.

I remember reading somewhere (years ago, too lazy to find a source) that Google might take in $30/year off of a single Google user. That's absolutely pennies, that's not worth anything. Google only works because of their scale, and I bet a tiny drop in user activity of like 10% would destroy them. Most tech companies are just trying to make up more things to base promises on for their investors, those companies have no real value, they're all basically theoretical. So who cares? Just use them while you need it and if they fizzle out then all the data they had on us is worthless if not gone and the opensource community will step up like it always does.

Futurama styled arm brace smart phones. My phone is always with me and smart watches are kinda really lame. An arm brace with a touch screen I can pull off and use would be awesome.

That's kind of a bummer

Why is there always someone named McCarthy involved in US foreign affairs

Some of y'all have no appreciation for independent app developers

I'll take my downvote now

Put you on the no-fly list

Oh yeah and it's also less to type. Good idea!

Edit: here's the change https://github.com/danhab99/idk/blob/main/idk.go#L13

Yeah I know about that article.... Then again... I'm lazy

I had problems with my bookshelf because when I switch to Linux too.

I had static, audio drop off, volume issues, bad quality.

If you want good sound off of Linux then you have to develop a deep intimate understanding of pulse audio and ALSA. It's very hard to share the problems that you're having with audio on web forums, so there's not much help you can get here. I spent good month or two kicking pulse audio until it worked, you might have to go through the same.

I'm assuming you're talking about some individual VPC that you're paying for and not using. If you don't do anything with it in a week then just shut it down after downloading a disk image.

I've met senior programmers who still have to look at their keyboard. How many years do you have to type before you can put out 40 words a min?

This

I've run Linux on a bunch of different kinds of laptops and the only time that ever actually looks "good" is on a ThinkPad.

IDK what shitoverflow gets out of being so fucking toxic. I asked one dumb question and I'm basically banned from posting on the website.

It feels like they're trying to be a sort of "wikipedia" of every programming problem and solution. The problem is that eventually everything will be posted, and everyone will be banned from the website.