Dirt cheap.

Cost = maintenance + servers

Engineers always underestimate the cost of their time.

I’m pissed that large corps are working hard on propaganda to say that LLMs and theft of copyright is good if they do it

You can do it. I use a powered USB hub and a raspberry pi, and 5 hard drives.

It is a mess of cables but was simple enough.

I also sprang for a UPS because most filesystem’s I tried like zfs and btrfs didn’t appreciate random brownouts from running 4 drives off the pi itself.

Right now they’re xfs and used for a minio install and torrent storage

people get grumpy about containers vs nix vs flatpak and I just wanna say… I’m glad you’re using Linux. yes, you.

The current strategy of venture capital is not success, but sabotage

It’s not good enough for you to be doing well, you have to strangle the competition and introduce yourself as an unremovable bottleneck

For example, becoming the intermediary between concerts and concert goers. The fees charged and the trouble caused is worse than if they hadn’t been there.

Amazon makes examples out of any business that dare challenge it’s dead zone around it.

VC money is meant to crush the competition and lock in the consumer to charge rent.

Why would they ever want worker control, or unions?

Why would the private healthcare industry ever stop lobbying against socialized healthcare? Why would a capitalist success ever lead to the political change necessary for it when the doctrine of capitalism is privatization

Why would any commercial real estate firm allow affordable housing to exist when they can scalp it on investment properties and leave them empty? Why build affordable housing when the margins are small?

Capitalism isn’t a savior, it’s just locally optimal to the people with capital.

Most things I’ve done were from changing the environment around me. Most things became trivially easier when I made more… So no fault there

I’d consider HARD goals, not just SMART ones

• Heartfelt - core/passion
• Animated - inspires/energizes you
• Required - needed for a larger objective
• Difficult - effort but also confidence creating

Is it something you can sustainably do, with your support system and environment and schedule, that breaths life into you even though it’s a challenge?

Are you working in that 80% max effort space (or whatever it is for gym nerds, you get the point)

My naive butt: “I thought Google and Apple reviewed app applications for malicious code” Older me: “bahahahahaha” cries in cyber security

There can be nice people who are bad at tech, just like there’s racist technologists

Just because a group of nice well meaning Lemmy users is willing to suffer the pain of a poorly built app doesn’t mean they should /have/ to suffer through it

It’s sometimes nice to make nice things. Don’t be too much of an HOA, they’re new, it’s not the end of the world.

Just because I’m not afraid of biking with cars, doesn’t mean I don’t recognize that American biking infrastructure is hostile. We could do more to make biking safer and easier. They’ll struggle but they’ll get the hang of it.

So too, with making nice apps to free the lay people from their digital walled gardens.

Came here to say this. Let them toggle the logs or the QR code.