Rusty Flowers
trevorflowers@hachyderm.io
<p>Oh, hey. I'm Trevor.</p><p>Softer, Cheaper, Slower, Smarter</p><p>Smol dogs run my life and I'm OK with it.</p><p>Trying to leave it better than I found it.</p><p>Usually van or boat camping in quiet deserts.</p><p>Physically and metaphorically faint of heart.</p><p>Praise Dog.</p><p>Profile pic: old goof<br />Profile header: smol dog in fav blanket</p>
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Post #3474395
I don't use streaming music but if I did Tidal would have my business because of their move to eliminate slop fakery and to demonitize the other slop.
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Post #981943
I wonder how many teams are reevaluating the risk of hosting services across many small locations run by diverse companies. Hosting in one big building owned by a hypercorp headquartered in an aggressive nation seems increasingly risky.
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Post #844166
Eniac was made ~80 years ago. Research Unix was written ~50 years ago. TCP/IP was standardized ~45 years ago. Palm Pilot launched ~30 years ago. iPhone was announced ~20 years ago. We are all newbs.
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Post #834764
A remarkably similar story to how I retired early: https://www.focalcurve.com/journal/the-end/ I&#39;ve heard from a number of older tech folks who find the current web, controlled by Google and bloated with ridiculous tools, distasteful enough to take early retirement by living lower on the hog instead of following their original plans of saving enough to retire without worry. Whether this means anything interesting or whether it will have predictable results, I don&#39;t know.
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Post #366853
The best advice I have for new nerds: Refuse to pay rent. Don&#39;t subscribe. Don&#39;t lease. Don&#39;t use their cloud. Don&#39;t slip down the freemium slope. Don&#39;t create accounts on their services. Buy it once. Run it local. Avoid commercial software. It&#39;ll be a huge pain and you&#39;ll be an outsider but it&#39;ll be endless, interesting, and hard fun that&#39;ll pay you back with a curious mind and an understanding of the fabric of our intel...