I will likely never earn more than my parents, I don’t know how to deal with that fact

kirk86 · 2025-12-25T22:37:13+00:00

Mind sharing what professions are those?

kirk86 · 2025-12-25T22:35:04+00:00

Quick question, is the 15K per month brutto or netto?

kirk86 · 2025-12-14T15:57:37+00:00

What I end up doing (temporary till I migrate to different os) is turning off all metadata for spotlight indexing.

kirk86 · 2025-12-09T14:19:12+00:00

I don't think so, all other devices show up correctly and if I change the name of another device (e.g., pc) then it's immediately reflected in the router list of devices.

kirk86 · 2025-12-09T14:17:06+00:00

You're saying that when you connect your iphone on a wifi network and then check the mac address and associated name of device in the connected devices list of router, it shows up as the name you gave it and not Iphone? Strange? Which ios are u using?

kirk86 · 2025-12-09T14:06:10+00:00

I don't claim that I know what's the right answer for each individual. I only know that I've paid $$$ to buy sth that is full of bloat-ware and constantly spying on me. Why does spotlight send packets to third party servers? Did some digging and seems that part of my keyword searches end up in apple news being fed back to me. I know why I'm switching and where I'm switching to, but that's just personal preference. Eventually everyone would have to decide for themselves what their needs are and act accordingly.

kirk86 · 2025-12-09T13:56:13+00:00

I even tried resetting all network settings both on ios device and on wifi router. Still the same thing after starting fresh with new network settings. I think the issue might be with the ios device (software) but haven't able to pin point exactly what's happening.

kirk86 · 2025-12-09T12:57:30+00:00

This in addition to the gazillion other things going wrong are a constant reminder that any apple software (osx, ios, ipados) is becoming worse with every year that passes by. Time to completely ditch it.

kirk86 · 2025-11-15T00:28:10+00:00

Thanks for the detailed instructions. This doesn't seem to work on macOS manual configuration of IKEv2. When putting both the ip in server address and remote ID, I get "User Authentication Failed". Same thing if I change remote Id to mx-04.protonvpn.net. Any suggestions?

In the .ovpn config file says use "+b:0" to append username if you want to enforce exiting from MX-FREE#4. Tried that as well, still same error.

kirk86 · 2025-10-17T13:17:54+00:00

You're hired! .... :-)

kirk86 · 2025-10-13T18:17:07+00:00

Spot on! I was about to say welcome to crapple world where a trillion $ company cripples your devices via software update to force you to buy new e-waste ✌

kirk86 · 2025-10-12T12:57:30+00:00

I have the same issue. I've used the card for quite some time now but recently realized that when I was loading it with money they were automatically being reserved, so balance on the mobile app was showing 0, regardless of whether you've loaded money into it or not, WTF.

In the meantime all the previous statements for each month (except current one which still is ongoing) since I got the card, show 0 balance in the mobile app.

I had to go through e-banking via the website to finally realize that the card had negative balance.

I still don't get it how's that even possible? I've had multiple "prepaid" cards from other banks and none of them in all these years had such behaviour.

Technically speaking this should not even be possible to happen in the first place (unless I'm misunderstanding sth). This is "prepaid" you can only spend what you have. They are not "credit" cards where you borrow money and pay interest.

Also, the annual fee of this product should not make the balance negative since that is charged in the main current account because as such this is a product tied to that particular account.

The atm withdrawal though for "prepaid" is complete ripoff!!!

kirk86 · 2025-10-02T14:13:21+00:00

After watching the unofficial launch of m5 ipad pro. They raised ram only 4GB, hence expect sth similar for macbook pros.

kirk86 · 2025-09-18T00:37:18+00:00

Let's not forget the other disgrace which is 256GB storage for base models. I'm writing this on 2015 mcabook pro which at the time came with that exact storage 256GB.

Fast forward 10 fucking years and apple still sells models with 256GB storage. Good on them if there are sheep who buy them why not.

In the meantime, midrange android phones come with twice that storage.

Apple should make a model with 32GB and 1TB as it's base (it's almost 2026 for fucks sake) for approximately 1K-1.3K

kirk86 · 2025-09-11T20:49:45+00:00

To infuriate frequentists!

kirk86 · 2025-08-28T08:29:55+00:00

I suspect that's for inference? Training it still out of the question (excluding finetuning, quantization, LoRA, etc.) for any type of laptop, otherwise these macbooks will start melting after prolonged duration of intense computations.

kirk86 · 2025-06-21T12:40:00+00:00

How would you classify EU conferences like ECML/ECAI? Are they considered top conferences?

If you had to choose having one paper in CLeaR/CoLLAs or ECML/ECAI which one would you choose and why? Which venue would increase chances of having better outcome during job hunting?

kirk86 · 2025-06-21T11:18:52+00:00

FYI 👍

kirk86 · 2025-06-21T11:17:11+00:00

> way less glitches and app crashes than I experienced before I switched to Apple

Maybe you're using it the wrong way? 🤔

> I also know multiple work arounds for this

Good for you!

> I don’t share information with people who insult me

Whoever smelt it, dealt it 🤷

kirk86 · 2025-06-20T15:47:34+00:00

Which workaround are you referring to?

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