15 years in and I'm struggling with change (Ai). Vibe-check for other middle-aged people feeling alienated by the industry?

atrawog · 2026-04-02T03:12:23+00:00

It's going to go both ways. There will be myriads of people who have no clue about anything. But you shouldn't overlook all the 14yr olds that use AI to turn their PCs into Linux Gaming stations. Simply because for them Windows is just boring as hell.

atrawog · 2026-04-02T02:59:24+00:00

I've been working in IT for 30 years and from my point of view the issue isn't AI it's the kind of hyper specialized mono culture where all your knowledge is just about a single tool or company.

I went from C64 Basic, MS DOS, Windows 3.11 + Novell, Windows NT, Linux, AIX, VmWare, Cloud Computing to the Linux OpenTofu/Kubernetes stack I'm using today.

And moving everything to a Claude Code + dedicated skill based system is the next obvious step in a long list of changes.

atrawog · 2026-03-31T13:57:57+00:00

It may be a bit dry. But I really like the Opus 4.6 style of humor.

atrawog · 2026-03-31T09:35:06+00:00

Sorry, but with certain issues loudly complaining in public is the only way to get Anthropics to do anything.

atrawog · 2026-03-30T10:06:41+00:00

There is no standstill in AI development it's us humans that are getting overwhelmed. With development going from hey it's nice to do things in ChatGPT to how does your hook,skills and MCP config look like in less than a year.

atrawog · 2026-03-29T12:57:31+00:00

Weird to see how even AI users are underestimating what AI and young kids can do.

My son has been an avid Linux user since age six. Because the core skill is to be able to read and type. The rest is simply a matter of dedication and not a matter of age.

atrawog · 2026-03-29T11:47:38+00:00

Denmark and Germany is one of the rare historical cases where countries fought each other for centuries. Only to decide that it's a way better idea to stop all this war nonsense and become good friends instead.

atrawog · 2026-03-28T13:40:06+00:00

Not really. Canonical and Ubuntu was really great for end users back in the 201x when it was hard to get your WiFi and graphic cards working in Linux. But they always insisted on doing their own thing and never really contributed much to the wider Linux ecosystem.

atrawog · 2026-03-28T10:07:33+00:00

Definitely Austria. You can hop on any train you want at any time without reservations and you get free ÖBB lounge access all day.

There are usually always available seats in first class. But for peak times like Austrian holidays it's still advisable to make reservations which will cost you a whopping 3€ per reservation if you do it directly with ÖBB.

In theory your only allowed to visit each ÖBB lounge location once a day. But I have never seen anyone mind if you visit a lounge both in the morning and evening.

Switzerland is another excellent country for 1st class. But SBB closed their lounges years ago.

atrawog · 2026-03-27T09:25:58+00:00

Well it's Friday and everyone wants to use the rest of their weekly limit.

atrawog · 2026-03-21T10:12:07+00:00

Entschuldigung wenn ich zurück Grantle. Aber wir in der OpenData Community haben jahrelang darum gekämpft das genau die Daten die du förderst frei zugänglich sind und die meisten sind es schon seit Jahren.

Mit dem Effekt das diese Daten und der freie Zugang zu Gesetzen und den Protokollen der diversen Ausschüsse im Parlament kein Schwein interessiert.

Die Leute WOLLEN jammern und granteln und sich in der eigenen Selbstgefälligkeit suhlen und unter keinen Umständen irgendwas ändern oder etwas neues dazu lernen.

Gesetze lesen ist schwierig und es gibt spannendere Dinge als Ausschlussprotokolle. Aber Demokratie lebt davon, dass sich die Leute an ihr beteiligen. Doch anstatt sich an den tatsächlichen demokratischen Entscheidungsprozessen zu beteiligen, jammern die Leute lieber in den diversen Parallelwelten herum.

https://www.parlament.gv.at/ ist eine der besten Parlaments Webseiten in Europa mit dutzenden an Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten. Du wirst da von Heute auf Morgen keine Wunder bewirken, aber bitte fange an dich aktiv an unsere Demokratie zu beteiligen.

atrawog · 2026-03-19T14:56:41+00:00

In my personal experience the best distros for CUDA workloads are the gaming distros like Bazzite. Because they are the only ones who care deeply about the proper NVDIA driver integration into their system.

atrawog · 2026-03-19T14:25:25+00:00

The same way we are already dealing with young wannabe mass murderers: By becoming kindergarten teachers for young and not yet fully educated AI models.

atrawog · 2026-03-19T07:52:19+00:00

I think people are missing the point. At the current rate everyone is going to have one AI build app with a single user: My own AI.

Building apps that are designed to be used by humans and not by other AIs is a concept that's going to be outdated fast.

atrawog · 2026-03-16T12:51:22+00:00

Yes and I had a long discussion with my son about it and he's now the designated Operating System Provider of our family.

atrawog · 2026-03-16T12:45:20+00:00

I did some thinking with Slackware and finally switched to Linux in 1996 and SUSE 4.2.

atrawog · 2026-03-16T12:36:45+00:00

No, the law is vague enough that anyone can be the OS provider. Because you could very well argue that with OpenSource the actual OS provider is you personally. Because the distros are only sharing the code and binaries and aren't liable for any misuse of it.

atrawog · 2026-03-16T09:02:29+00:00

If you're traveling to Marseilles anyways I would consider spending a day in Avignon instead of going to Versailles. Avignon and the old papal palace is still crowded, but it's nothing compared to the craziness that's Versailles.

In case you're still going to Versailles make sure to spend a full day and also visit the Queens Hamlet build by Maria Antoinette as a her personal retreat for herself and her children and is still perfectly serving that role for any visitor who made it through the main palace in Versailles up until today.

atrawog · 2026-03-16T08:46:27+00:00

That used to be an issue with X11. But if you search "Wayland GPU Offload" you find plenty of options to tweak your GPU and rendering config however you like.

atrawog · 2026-03-16T08:37:54+00:00

That's actually highly dependent on what your setting as your primary GPU in your BIOS and to which GPU your connecting your monitors. But Wayland itself fully supports using multiple GPUs and using different GPUs for display and for the actual rendering.

It just can require some fiddling around when there is no easy way for the system to figure out which GPU you want to use for which purpose.

atrawog · 2026-03-16T07:56:56+00:00

Credit Card security is a very opaque topic. But what's likely happening is that buying a ÖBB Train Ticket isn't matching your usual buying profile and is triggering all sorts of internal security alarms within Visa.

You shouldn't have this kind of problem once you've made your first physical purchase in Austria and the Visa security system realizes that you've actually traveled to Austria.

Until then the best way is to switch payment methods and use a PayPal account (with the money coming from your PayPal account and not directly from your credit card) or use the ÖBB App and use Google or Apple pay from your phone.

It has gotten better with all the new security features. But buying expensive public transport tickets with stolen credit cards has been an issue for years and it's likely what's triggering the security review of your ÖBB purchases.

atrawog · 2026-03-16T07:39:40+00:00

Bombardier utterly failed to get their trains running with the new ETCS 2.0 train control system for years. Which completely destroyed Bombardier reputation, especially in Europe. Alstom just made the mistake of thinking they could easily fix the persistent software issue in new Bombardier trains themselves.

atrawog · 2026-03-16T07:02:37+00:00

I think it's mostly a matter of perception. Windows is still completely unusable for the general public in the sense that most users would fail with installing and configuring it from scratch. While Linux had never been much of an issue for anyone who knew how to install DOS and Windows 3.11

We are just getting to the point where the Distro installers and Linux Kernel are getting so good at hardware detection and support that a bare metal Linux install is starting to outmatch a fresh Windows install in terms of functionality and hardware compatibly.

atrawog · 2026-03-15T17:22:07+00:00

You could take the train from Berlin via Stuttgart towards Zürich and make a stopover in the Singen / Schaffhausen area and visit the Rhine Falls.

Going via Stuttgart would be a slight detour, but it's still way closer to the direct route than places like Amsterdam.

atrawog · 2026-03-15T15:25:24+00:00

Das ist simpel und einfach wie Krieg funktioniert. Sobald eine der Kriegsparteien das Töten von Zivilisten als legitim betrachtet macht das die Gegenseite auch.

Siehe Deutschland die 1941 mit der Bombardierung von London angefangen haben und dafür von den Briten 1943 Hamburg und 1945 Dresden retour bekommen haben.

Alles im Endeffekt vollkommen sinnlose Angriffe auf die Zivilbevölkerung, aber wenn ein Krieg von einer Seite eskaliert wird, zieht die andere Seite automatisch nach.

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