It is nice to have the smoke detector communicate out its status. I sure like to know when my house is on fire, even if I’m not home. And a notification about a battery being low is much nicer than incessant beeping.

None of this replaces the primary local, physical functionality. You don’t depend on technology for the thing to work; it’s just an addition.

And even if you do work remotely, you can’t count on that lasting forever.

One of the primary reasons I actively chose the suburbs was so that I’d be able to get another job if I lost my fully remote job. After ten years, exactly that happened, and I got a job with a commute to downtown.

You know, you can just look at it. It’s pretty simple, easy to look at, pretty repetitive code where it’s generally pretty easy to spot if something’s wrong.

Vibe coding is more hitting “accept all” and not looking at it at all (or not knowing how to look at it).

Sometimes lorum ipsum is useful.

It’s useful for things I’d otherwise Google. It makes a great ORM, when you know exactly what you want to do with a lot of mundane code. And it’s so much better than adding a framework for an ORM.

* Big cities are limited to NYC, Chicago, and Washington DC.

Any suggestions for an Android camera app that works nicely with immich?

Like… the merchant class that existed after the Black Plague who had enough money to have influence over politics? What do they have to do with anything?

This doesn’t say anything about DMARC and DKIM. Ni should probably go figure that out.

It’s always easier to completely rewrite code from scratch than to make small modifications to an existing project.

They absolutely, 1000% need Democrats to win. Maybe not their respective districts, but if they want to get anything done on a national level, they need about half the country on their side, and that includes Democrats.

Now, they can certainly eat the party whole, the way the tea party and MAGA ate the GOP. That involves being more specific than “Democrats bad”. In fact, how did they do it? Did you ever see them telling people to abandon the Republican party?

Sometimes you even get to show off the cool, useful shit you built for them!

Sometimes I’ll copy paste the error message back to them. Apparently it works better when it’s in a text message.

The people in support there likely got deprioritized.

As part of a larger suit.

There’s a effective rule. It’s not written, because it could lead to legal trouble, but they’ll enforce it anyway.

https://www.lawinc.com/valve-steam-antitrust-lawsuit-pc-gaming

I was speaking of selling. Nothing to do with steam keys.

Steam has the biggest reach and has a Most Favored Nation policy. If you offer your product cheaper anywhere else, you’ll be exiled from Steam.

It’s required. And they’ll charge whatever the fuck they want and you’ll pay it. Otherwise, you’re never selling your game outside of your family.

But 30% is standard.

It has always been highway robbery. Yes, even Steam. Look at how desperate Microsoft was to copy it on their platform that was successful because it’s more open (than Apple).

Class action lawsuit against Steam’s 30%.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.298754/gov.uscourts.wawd.298754.1.0_1.pdf

I think going through Samsung (or even Google/Apple) is relatively safe particularly for a short term solution. Maybe that’ll change in a couple years, but it’s fine for now.