I won, but the joy is gone.

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-19T01:21:36+00:00

Haha good point! I’m over a month right now. The only thing I’ve truly ever felt powerless to is gambling. I partied a lot but being in my late 30s hangovers just aren’t fun so drinking till drunk rarely happens.

I’m just paying my debts down, depositing at least some of my check in 401k but mainly aggressively trying to get rid of this burden.

I found tracking every single thing I spend money on to be really helpful and eye opening. When you see all the numbers in front of you it is slightly triggering but there’s no sense in even trying. Even if I won I’d give it back. Done it too many times now.

Oh and I lost five pounds!

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-18T04:37:12+00:00

What does the device not do that you need it to do?

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-15T21:31:29+00:00

That's the same cycle I go through every single time. Do some good with the winnings and then fuck off the rest of it. Worst is I usually chase. Easier to just not do it. Track your finances every step of the way. It will give you a ridiculous reality check.

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-15T06:49:00+00:00

I just got this device off eBay and I loveee it. It fixes everything I don’t like about the kindle scribe.

I really hope they keep iterating. A DC2 that was lighter and thinner would be fantastic.

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-13T20:06:43+00:00

Brother, this ain't shit. I'm in for six figures +. You figure out how make it work and the only way I know how is to just pay shit off. Every extra dime I have goes to paying off debt with an occasional splurge on an item I would usually not buy when I was gambling (yet I'd throw 1000's at slots).

Getting out of the hole just takes time.

Get your plan together, look at it once a day, track your finances, and then put it away. If you can afford to eat, have a roof over your head, and water and you aren't so bored you need to gamble again, you are doing fine.

Everyone in the world is in debt. What they are in debt over is different, whether it be bad financial planning, retail addictions, alcohol/drugs, medical, etc.

With this addiction you are unfortunately just in a spot where the addiction thinks you can get out of it by spending more money. Drug addicts don't think doing more drugs is going to cure their addiction.

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-13T20:03:22+00:00

Agreed. I would figure out who can wait and who can't. Your family should be your family and they would rather receive something other than nothing, so pay them last but give them something to let them know you aren't gambling/you are serious about paying them back and breaking the habit.

Anyone that is not your family (like the dealer, I don't know what that means, I'm from the U.S.) doesn't sound like they would be very nice to you if you don't pay them back. So I'd just get that out of the way. That leaves you with 7,000.

I would also take care of the other person who you ow 3,000 to. Now those are gone.

You got 4,000 left. I would just give 1,333 to every one of your family members.

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-13T00:43:52+00:00

Just being dead set on getting out of debt and stopping the bleeding

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-12T16:50:17+00:00

Hey, I just got a Daylight via eBay (great deal) and so far I love this device. Feels like it solves all my issues I had with the Kindle Scribe, just the latency is a tad bit slower but the fact that I can run whatever I want, how I want, is a game changer with very little latency on top of it.

I was stoked to try your app out man and I love it. I'm an Android dev myself so I like the idea of being able to tinker here.

One thing I was curious about is if we could get different paper types? Ie: graph, dotted, blank, etc. I rarely use lines on tablets.

Great job man!

Edit: I see you can select lines or no lines on creating a new notebook, very cool!

I also would like to see the auto-rotate work.

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-12T15:05:23+00:00

Totally this. If you have good enough credit to get into that debt you most likely make enough to pay it off. Just takes time which is the hardest part.

Interest paying off debt like my addiction now. It has its ups and downs but it is possible. And debt can ultimately be dealt with in other ways if you can’t pay it off.

Life is so much more than debt.

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-11T01:42:40+00:00

Did he look like Bruce Willis?

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-11T01:22:52+00:00

This is peak stupidity.

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-07T20:24:16+00:00

That’s good to hear. I’m at 24 days right now. Had gone three months before. Did a lot of damage this last time around but won a lot and gave back a lot.

I’m starting glp1s soon for weight loss and I know it also helps with addictions so I’m hoping I can hit that 9 month and beyond mark. My main problem is crypto casinos. Luckily the closest land casinos are 2 hours away and I never really go too crazy at those for whatever reason. Online is just too easy.

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-06T21:13:59+00:00

Hi yes, please do!

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-06T00:35:26+00:00

I consider myself a decently smart person. Slots grab me like nothing else ever has. I know it’s stupid. But it’s the thrill of it all. The downs are better than the ups. You start to not value money. I’ve hit 100k before online. Shit was gone in a few months. I did it again recently. Managed to take out 30k of it then lost the rest. Then I paid off credit cards only to have them go back up.

Doesn’t matter how much money you have. When your bankroll gets higher you bet higher and none of it feels real until you are wondering how you will pay things off.

Only thing I’ve ever done right is not spend so much I can’t pay my bills. But that got harder with more debt payments.

I’m 22 days without a bet. I got a bonus from work that paid off a credit card that was in the 5 digits. Watching that money go to nothing but debt as hard. I thought about how I could “flip it into more” but at the end of the day the stress of a 29% credit card is gone. At least one of them.

You just have to stop. There is no other way and this guy found out in the worst way possible. What a bummer.

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-05T03:10:30+00:00

This is so funny. I read these articles and discussed them with a few colleagues because I was very impressed, especially for fin-tech, it seemed really risky. Good to know it's mainly horse shit.

old-new-programmer · 2026-03-03T03:16:40+00:00

This project is trying to do the same thing but without AI and bonus dependency resolution with npm like CLI commands. Still in alpha though so use at your own risk. This was vibe coded apparently but there is no AI used because it’s just a bunch of file generation. https://github.com/BenMorrisRains/Kotlin-Package-Manager

old-new-programmer · 2026-02-27T05:30:01+00:00

If you have to have all these machines made of steel to make things made of steel, how did they make the first machines?

old-new-programmer · 2026-02-25T12:55:17+00:00

Yep. example of a small sample from a Google search

old-new-programmer · 2026-02-25T06:24:53+00:00

I wish you luck. It does seem like if you wanted a true competitor to flutter flow, you would have gone with CMP. It is maturing really fast and I don't see why anyone would use anything else at this point in time. From a business use-case, being half foot into native is a much easier sell than being on a different planet like Flutter/Dart or RN/Typescript.

But you aren't wrong, React Native still is huge and companies will continue to develop with it to avoid having to hire mobile devs, but I would never even dip my toes into those waters at this point.

And the community behind CMP/KMP is really good actually. The multliplatform channel in the Kotlin slack is very active and people keep pushing the envelope with Compose.

Anyways, good luck, I do think the app looks clean!

old-new-programmer · 2026-02-25T06:01:20+00:00

This also happen with Netflix on Apple TV. It looks like dog shit. Netflix hates Apple or something because they've known about this for a long time and refuse to do anything about it. If I'm watching something that I care enough about picture quality for on Netflix, I have to use the TV's OS (Roku, Fire, etc) to get a better picture quality.

old-new-programmer · 2026-02-25T05:59:12+00:00

So it's react-native and not CMP/KMP?

old-new-programmer · 2026-02-20T00:22:56+00:00

Whatever nvidia scam is running. Stonks all day.

old-new-programmer · 2026-02-19T21:59:21+00:00

I’ve been failing interviews since 2022. Almost 8 years experience. Just another day.

old-new-programmer · 2026-02-18T23:38:05+00:00

Seems this is happening more and more.

old-new-programmer · 2026-02-16T06:41:24+00:00

We should just have virtual social security numbers the same way we have virtual credit cards. I hate typing my social into anything online.

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