Your comment made me realize these could be a great digital attack vector. I assume they have wifi? And I doubt security was top of mind in the software development…

My company is pushing LLM code assistants REALLY hard (like, you WILL use it but we’re supposedly not flagging you for termination if you don’t… yet). My experience is the same as yours - unit tests are one of the places where it actually seems to do pretty good. It’s definitely not 100%, but in general it’s not bad and does seem to save some time in this particular area.

That said, I did just remove a test that it created that verified that IMPORTED_CONSTANT is equal to localUnitTestConstantWithSameHardcodedValueAsImportedConstant. It passed ; )

My exact answer as well. Saved me some typing - thanks :)

I was positive this was going to be the onion.

… I really wish this was the onion.

Aha, the separate breaker box is the part I wasn’t thinking about. I’ll need to do some thinking on how I could make that work for me. Thank you for the info.

Out of curiosity, how do you have that setup (at a high level)?

I’ve got a bluetti system for emergency power (12kWh, 6kW AC output) but I need to plug things directly into it. It’d be nice to feed it directly to my house wiring but … selectively. That is, I wouldn’t want to power the HVAC but it would be nice to not have to shuffle the fridge/freezer plugs from the wall to the inverter.

Dedicated circuit(s) with a manual switch from mains to inverter, I’m guessing? But then we get into all the extras required to do that safely and avoid back feeding the grid.

Granted, they have systems/setups specifically for whole house power but I don’t want to feed the whole house, just the important circuits/appliances.

Seems the Debian chain (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) hide it by default but there is an option to enable it. It’s one of the first things I do because I use it a lot.

I think they’re all using Nemo (depending on desktop)? Not at home to check it currently (Debian 13 at home, Mint on bootable USB drives).

… Don’t trust me on Ubuntu, I haven’t used it since the telemetry debacle.

Helix was mentioned in a few posts but no link so here : https://helix-editor.com/

If you love the terminal, it’s fantastic. I like it better than NeoVIM but, admittedly, I didn’t spend a lot of time trying to get to know nvim. It’s much better than VIM for code because it was built for that, not “just” a text editor that got forced into IDE service. (Not to denigrate VI/VIM, I love them, but Helix is more powerful for dev related tasks). If you hate the terminal… keep moving, nothing to see here.

For a more common IDE (not terminal), I’ve been using Theia for the past 6 months or so : https://theia-ide.org/ If you click that link you’ll see “AI” vomited into everything, for example the first two sentences :

The Theia IDE is a modern, AI-native IDE for cloud and desktop built on the Theia Platform. The Theia Platform is a framework for building custom, AI-native tools & IDEs.

From what I’ve seen, there’s no AI integration in the base and it’s only added via extensions. It is extremely similar to VS Code but is not a fork. Now… whether or not it was ““developed with AI””, I don’t know. I kind of got the feeling that they sprayed “AI” all over the website to try to cash in on the hype and get new users.

Even if that’s the case (chasing the hype train, no actual LLM inside), that’s likely to be a major turn off for you which I fully understand.

It took three years but we’ve almost rooted it all out.

There’s still one ancient product that will (theoretically) decommission in mid 2028. It makes enough money to cover the Oracle licensing but isn’t worth reworking to migrate.

Knowing how decom goes, I’m sure it’ll still be running in 2035 with that one last client who “can’t move to the newer, better, easier project because… Reasons (I don’t wanna)”

Reinstalled Dropbear for remote LUKS unlock after a SSD failure.

SSD failure was two weeks ago or I’d say rebuilding the server from backups and further polishing my Ansible playbook.

Heh, this line cracked me up :

In fact, I understand that the Windows roadmap for 2026 is all about fixing Windows 11

Also, thank you for your service.

Second for Pangolin.

They have a cloud hosted free tier you can try but it’s time/ transfer limited. If you like it, you can self host on your VPS with no subscription since it’s all FOSS software.

Also, thank you for addressing the native app vs Pangolin auth layer challenge. I’ve been wrestling with that myself.

“the 1900s”

: /

I recently picked up a 2024 model moto g power 5g. The main reason is that I needed the cheapest smart phone I could find locally to test a new provider (phreeli) before committing. That, and to serve as a ready backup if one of ours dies. $115 at a big box store.

It’s… fine. Even after debloating I get about half the battery life of my galaxy s20 which is now 5 years old. I haven’t been able to figure out what’s eating it, or maybe it just has a smaller battery… I should check that.

Yep. When I heard that a friend wore a double zero my first thought was “so she’s two dimensional?”

I dunno. At a big company they probably won’t notice an extra TB of storage cost… So long as you’re discrete with the transfers.

I learn something new every day, thanks bud.

I took a turn too fast in a 1990 S-10 and the keys flew out of the ignition… That’s how I learned about this.

They’re not supposed to put chicken shit on the sandwich unless you specifically request it.

On mechanical typewriters the little arms that slap the steel letters onto the ink ribbon/paper could get physically jammed. QWERTY was designed to make it so that was less likely to happen by placing the keys in an order that discouraged it.

At least, that’s the way I learned it.

Source: trust me bro