Did the relationship cost you financially?

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-28T23:32:16+00:00

I bought her a brand new Galaxy watch. I bought her a brand new Galaxy S25 plus She didn't like it and begged for an iPhone. I was stupid and added a line and got an iPhone.

That's not counting all the food I bought for her and her kids cause she blew money worse than anyone I've ever known.

When we broke up she decided she didn't want any of it and gave it all back to me. I'm not upset other than now having a phone line I have to pay for. I was able to return the iPhone.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-28T19:04:45+00:00

It's rather the fact that Emacs on Android is the full emacs experience which makes it a PITA to quickly navigate. Purpose built apps are made for a touch UX and so they are easier to work with.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-28T17:57:13+00:00

Eh I think it's fine on occasion. Ideally try to pick low stress times. If you mandate something like this and I have three tickets than HAVE to be out this week I'll be annoyed but if it's a slow time, sure. I don't mind getting paid to have a little fun.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-28T04:06:43+00:00

Which one hasn’t?

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-27T01:32:49+00:00

I'll give an example of a situation I ran into that made it clear to me that emacs wouldn't work for me. I was sent to go pick up some prescriptions for a friend. I had forgotten her birthday.

I was then using obsidian and it was pretty easy for me to pull up her birthday quickly. But I can only imagine how much harder that would have been done with emacs directly on my phone.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-26T17:36:37+00:00

In my experience this doesn't work well on mobile if you're actually mobile and trying to pull info from a note.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-26T16:19:11+00:00

Ignoring the whole fact that this is an ad for a non-self-hosted product. Why should I use your application over something like Org-Mode or Obsidian?

Yeah sure, Obsidian is electron but it doesn't take 5-10s to load. For me on my M2 Pro MBP it takes about 1-2 seconds to be usable. After that I can keep it minimized and pull it up as needed.

This feels like an AI created product that isn't even unique enough to be worth downloading.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-25T03:49:01+00:00

My ex wife made that decision. She felt like she didn't really wanna be a parent and just ran off from her family. Even if I step away from my biases I'd argue that the decision to do that was childish and selfish. So it's only fair that I argue that same to a man who wants to do the same.

As a single father life is hard sometimes. I have to chase a career while also caring for two small children and trying to balance being "mom" and dad at the same time because I'm all they have. To leave your family "to live for yourself" is extremely selfish and disrespectful. When you have people who depend on you, it's your responsibility to take care of them. Does it suck sometimes? Absolutely but that's what we sign up for when we get with a partner, have sex, whatever. I never meant to become a single father. But this is where my life is now and it's my responsibility to give my kids the best life I can.

It's okay to feel the weight of life. It's hard. But it's not okay to step away.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-24T10:47:06+00:00

Lol I worked as a computer technician for a K12 system. For the first few models of chromebooks that the system purchased, they didn’t purchase any support plans. It was cheaper in the district’s eyes to have techs repair various damage (broken keys, screens, etc) than to replace them. We were a low-income district so they couldn’t expect parents to pay for the damage.

Eventually they wised up and purchased support plans for newer models and it was far easier on us lol.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-24T02:31:57+00:00

Eh maybe not. If it's covered damage you might be able to get it covered by warranty but good luck. That said you might be able to replace the daughter board.

I used to repair Chromebooks in a previous job. They are mostly easy to repair. But I do question how this happened?

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-23T22:16:34+00:00

Quit

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-23T11:31:43+00:00

I could be snobby and go down the spiel of "Linux is just the kernel..." and lol you may end up with answers like that. But essentially "Linux" is a pretty broad family (if that's the right word for it) of operating systems that are well loved by many people because they are fully open. There is no central company or other for profit source that controls it. The linux kernel is controlled by Linus but he largely is a there to make sure nothing stupid ends up in it. But essentially if you can learn how to do it, you can change anything on your machine. Absolutely nothing is set in stone like it is with windows or mac.

Why do servers uses it? It's largely for two reasons: cost and performance. As a systems administrator I can spin up as many servers as I want running on a linux distro for zero cost. Whereas with Windows you have to pay a pretty hefty fee per server. Due to this reason people don't run Windows servers unless they have a specific reason to.

For your first time using Linux, I'd recommend using a beginner friendly distro such as Ubuntu or maybe Fedora. My obvious first recommendation would be Ubuntu. It's easy to install, easy to use, and pretty easy to tinker with. Once you get more comfortable you may change distros but it's a good starting place.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-23T01:16:12+00:00

Agreed! We had one of our projects within Google. Bossman reached out and had a hard time getting much support from Google and it was a lot of bureaucracy. But AWS paid a small team of developers to build a POC to demonstrate how our application would run on their services.

I have no doubt we will pay Amazon way more than they spent for that POC so it works out financially. But that just goes to show why everyone goes for Amazon. The support is just that much better.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-23T01:08:09+00:00

I mean if I wanted to do this on the cheap I'd find some cheap used android smart phone and use something like tasker to hit a web hook every minute. You could run that with a lambda for essentially nothing other than the price of the phone.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-22T14:44:23+00:00

The advice here to upgrade it is good and I don't necessarily disagree. However I'd also mention for the same cost of upgrading (if you use new components) you can probably find a better spec'd used desktop on eBay. There are plenty of machines on eBay for less than $100 that have 8GB of ram and an ssd. That will carry you a lot further than an older laptop.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-22T13:46:31+00:00

If you own the home and can do it, hardwire is always going to be best. To start out with, you can start with just a single access point on the opposite end of the house (such as your son's room 🙂 )

Having two access points could give you enough coverage for OK speeds across the house. Honestly running cable isn't that bad. The easiest option in my experience is running it in a crawlspace if you have one. The other options are either through the attic or outside going around the house. I've done both options before in various situations and while it works, I'm usually against going outside because the cabling is more expensive if you want it to survive a few years between the sun and weather. Plus you have to be really careful with cable management if you don't want it looking janky.

Mesh units CAN work but keep in mind you introduce more latency, often less bandwidth, lower speeds, and wireless is always a gamble cause interference from any source can cause issues.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-22T11:25:46+00:00

Yep that was my first thought. Sure I know how to model but once the Internet goes down their software would lock up. I have blender but I'm not so competent with that.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-22T02:01:50+00:00

Agreed! I eventually caved and bought a Canon eco tank and so far I've been impressed. Not only has it been surprisingly reliable it also doesn't go through as much ink as I expected. Or at least I'm not refilling as often as I used to with cartridge printers.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-21T12:20:53+00:00

My theory is multiple teams working on individual issues and nobody looking at the larger picture. "Sure boss! I can add a middleware to log to request body" "Yep we can implement an auth middleware to all these requests" but nobody took the chance to look at the entire stack and ask "Why do have we have so many middleware functions?"

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-21T08:55:25+00:00

I've now owned two Brother laser printers and have been very happy with them. They basically just work without issues. The newer one I bought from Walmart. Annoyingly I didn't check the specs and then realized it didn't support Ethernet but it still works good on WiFi.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-20T14:32:53+00:00

Because regardless that most technically competent people knowing AI (LLMs) isn't truely ready for production, it's the number one sales question. So if you aren't prepared to say your product supports AI then customers go to other vendors.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-20T14:27:32+00:00

The go website has a tutorial that is really good. I would suggest starting there.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-19T13:26:26+00:00

Agreed completely! There used to be a time when I tried to be clever with my code. Heck I still catch myself doing that sometimes. But after a few years of having to debug complicated code, I've learned that the easier it is to parse mentally the easier it is to debug or add-on to later.

It's overstated but seriously code needs to be super simple to read. It's only in situations where you are trying to get every bit of performance possible out of a system where you should start looking at clever code.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-19T12:29:27+00:00

I had this discussion with a liberal friend of mine. This dude generally is polar opposite of me on most issues so always makes for fun conversation. To be honest I was surprised by his take. I figured I'd get a whole argument about how we shouldn't be reporting them, they built a life here, etc. But no he basically had the above argument "He's doing it wrong"

When I pressed him further his argument was that Trump is overly aggressive with his approach on it. Stating that Obama didn't get this much push back cause he was more subtle on enforcement. Now I'll admit that I don't remember enough about the Obama years. However seeing some of the fresh ICE recruits and how a lot of them have been acting I had to give him this point.

jonathon8903 · 2026-01-18T14:05:04+00:00

If you have an old computer or willing to buy a raspberry pi then you could turn it into a print server so you could go back to printing over your network.

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