Hah, I had kids in the low-res era. By the time 4K rolled along they were already teenagers in the “put the camera away, dad” stage ;)

You mean like, with a cable? Eewwwww gross!

What are you guys storing in your phones? Mine hasn’t gotten anywhere close to full in years.

I’m starting to feel like I’m missing out on something important!

Upshork!

Tbf they are very quiet.

Yes, they write satire. They can’t be responsible for Poe’s Law.

If you do something once, and the impact of the thing you did is not what you expected or could have foreseen, that’s one thing.

If you do the thing every week for thirty years, that means you are at least considering it acceptable collateral damage.

Yes!

But I’ve learned that there are A LOT of people that are incredibly pritective of react, so I generally don’t wade out into that particular debate.

I like Vue better than react tbh.

My latest project is alpine.js. It’s not bad, it stays out of the way.

That said, I don’t do front end often enough to keep up.

All the cool kids right now are mostly on JavaScript/type script. It’s probably a good place to get started since you’ll need it on the front end.

I’m guessing most work on the U.S. side is react. You can probably pick up a bit of node/react native as you go for the backend and for native dev.

Java is the new COBOL. Big corps luuuuuuuuurve it. It’s not what I would expect a single dev to use. C# is similar but smaller, if you forget unity game dev. And you should forget unity game dev.

Rust is basically a less bad C. If you do things you used to do in C, learn rust. If not, don’t.

Python is also still a thing. If you like it you can probably use it for most things, but if not there are other options.

Brown people doing things in public? Send out the cops!!!

Most operating systems these days are just micro-kernels to run the actual operating system, your browser. Most users will be perfectly happy using whatever in most cases as long as you can get one of the major browsers on it.

If they have special requirements, then you need to figure them out first.

Edgelord was the wrong word choice, sorry. I mean argumentative jerks that pick fights over absolutely anything.

Don’t sleep on the actual edgelords either. I got a guy in my replies right now screeching how women in politics are the real fascism because of identity politics.

But the jerks are the real issue.

Only up to a certain extent. The point of federation is that the shit gets spread around the instances.

Also, we have evolved “free speech” kind of ethos that only allows the most egregious of norm violations to be moderated.

This is place is forever lost to the edgelords.

If they want to learn how to run their own stuff, go ahead and teach them.

Do you think sister here wants to learn how to run nextcloud?

I definitely think they should help their families out. Helping them select an alternative service is helping out.

Being on the hook for endless tech support while getting blamed for everything is not helping out. It’s also not healthy for your relationship with your sibling, and it’s not a good use of family holiday time.

A partner is different. You already share a lot of infra, and since you presumably spend a lot more time together it’s not likely to impact your relationship as much unless you go full Pat & Mat do IT.

We’re a bunch of assholes in a more or less unmoderated space. Of course discussion sucks.

This is my most heartfelt advice: do not do hosting for family members. You will get no end of trouble.

Find her a commercial service she can trust. Or throw up your hands and go “big tech, what can you do”. But do not, under any circumstance, run her IT.

That really depends on what cut of the film we’re talking about.

This decision has probably saved us from a decade long trickle of very embarrassing security vulnerabilities.

And has also gifted us a decade of less, but also more interesting, security vulnerabilities.

This sounds like the kind of thing people say who can’t help themselves.

Like resolutions about never drinking again. Or how you really stopped smoking this time, pinky swear. Or how you’re definitely going to lose twenty pounds this year and hit the gym twice a week.