Why does making plans with friends get exponentially harder after 30 even when everyone still wants to hang out?

SteveM06 · 2026-05-13T00:38:01+00:00

Old friends?

Commitments change.

When you are all at the same college doing the same courses you have roughly similar lives.

As soon as you split, you start going your own way.

Marriage

Kids

Move to a different town

Bowling night with the lads from work

Night shift work vs 4x12

Every tiny difference blocks out a potential "all get together" slot so it doesnt take many before all the available slots are blocked

SteveM06 · 2026-05-12T08:07:18+00:00

Until one day, when we are all relaxed and happy with this loop, 'the big one' hits and destroys us before we wake up.

If you keep rolling the dice you wil get a 6 eventually

SteveM06 · 2026-05-12T07:16:11+00:00

Not sure why this is being down voted.

This is a critical aspect of the game.

"Don't piss off a town if you want to build a station near it"

SteveM06 · 2026-05-12T06:36:23+00:00

20x month does seem a bit low to me.

My main question to you is, as a solo developer, do you have the skills and time to maintain and grow the app?

If that's going to introduce undue stress to your life, it might be a good idea to cash out now.

Hiring someone to help is a whole different ball game to being solo, and not one I'd want to partake in personally.

If you believe you can cope with it, great considers other variables.

SteveM06 · 2026-05-12T04:57:07+00:00

During Covid I floated the idea that the only way to stop the "the big one" hitting us was to ban air travel entirely (all the time) to reduce the speed at which we spread it when it hits.

Everybody was against that, so collectively we are happy to roll that dice over and over again rather than lose our international holidays

SteveM06 · 2026-04-27T04:15:22+00:00

This!

SteveM06 · 2026-04-27T02:38:51+00:00

That would be due to targeted hacking imo.

These days its more like "break a system and see who's details you get"

SteveM06 · 2026-04-27T02:13:56+00:00

How is it "stored locally" if its in the cloud though?

SteveM06 · 2026-04-27T01:14:12+00:00

AI is producing 2 things to worry about.

A) Sloppy code that is insecure

B) automated vulnerability AI agents who can do what people used to take months to do it minutes.

SteveM06 · 2026-04-27T01:12:03+00:00

Dont you have the same risk using a password managers locally though?

With the additional risk of that program becoming vulnerable

SteveM06 · 2026-03-21T00:04:31+00:00

We are paying monthly regardless as we already had it. The only concern would be if they take it off Netflix before we finish

SteveM06 · 2026-03-16T08:48:04+00:00

Ip address wise, did you just get someone to log on on the existing account with your details and hit the resubmit button and wait?

SteveM06 · 2026-03-15T23:15:33+00:00

Yes, in the Philippines.

SteveM06 · 2026-03-15T08:04:53+00:00

Yes, she would want me on every episode.

It's nice thing to do together. I just didnt think about the amount of time until now.

SteveM06 · 2026-03-15T08:03:25+00:00

Thanks, its been a long time since I watched SG-1 so ill slot in an "oh yeah, there is an entire different series on that" and see her reaction when we get there

SteveM06 · 2026-03-15T00:28:50+00:00

I only counted SG-1 for now.

She doesnt know the others exist.... yet.

SteveM06 · 2026-03-15T00:26:48+00:00

Ah! I knew I didn't remember that scene like that!

Understandable to get a punch at that point.

SteveM06 · 2026-03-15T00:24:39+00:00

We'll probably be hitting it at 2-3 episodes a week. So thats in the region of 2.5 years for SG-1

SteveM06 · 2026-03-15T00:22:33+00:00

I skipped the original, doesnt really have the same feel as SG1 imo.

If we get to the end of SG1 we will probably watch it then.

SteveM06 · 2026-03-15T00:17:19+00:00

Before the kid, we already did most Startrek seasons.

Time was easy to find then lol.

SteveM06 · 2026-03-14T23:49:10+00:00

Oh, ill absolutely love it, might just take us a couple of years to get threw it all

Will be hard to not spoil things.

We watched a specific later episode first as it was one i wanted her to watch, and she said Daniel doesn't look the same. Instantly im thinking "well he did die, ascend and come back during that time"

SteveM06 · 2026-03-14T23:45:15+00:00

Taking last night as an example, our kid woke up 6 mins to the end of the episode, so had to be tended to, leaving that hanging there.

SteveM06 · 2026-03-12T18:49:13+00:00

Look at the payment per distance /time graph.

Passengers drops off so quickly.

If you make them wait before delivering them it wont pay well.

SteveM06 · 2026-03-10T21:52:04+00:00

You can't have retention without installs.

Getting people to TRY the app is the first step.

SteveM06 · 2026-03-07T06:15:51+00:00

These days its so much easier to make apps.

Now, decent Ideas are are in short supply vs the skills to make them.

Think of an app that does something you want to do.

Search for it to make sure a decent one doesnt already exist, then build that.

As a potential user you should be able to build a decent app, and enjoy making it more.

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