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I'm interested in those companies too. Could you send me a mail (hn at philipp-trommler dot me) in case you find the names? Thanks!

> if it's already dead and in front of me, I'm not going to save anyone by throwing it away

That's a sane and reflected reasoning that many of us could take as an example from time to time.

I myself have heavily reduced meat consumption, too, though probably not as much as you have. The best thing to do as a starter IMHO is to reduce the "unnecessary" things: Cold cuts can easily replaced by other - vegetarian - alternatives, skillet dishes mostly work with mushrooms only too, and diced ham is pretty much nothing more than glorified salt (of course this is hyperbolic, but you get the idea). By doing without this "hidden" meat you can drastically reduce your consumption without having to forgo the places where meat is the best: steaks, rips, pickled knuckle (!) and so on.

I've combined this principle with buying the remaining meat at a local eco butcher (which reduces your consumption even further due to prices) and am morally calmed, at least for now.

> Also like you said, it simply shouldn't be subsidized as it is. If someone wants to eat meat badly enough that they're willing to pay large prices -- great. If not, there are numerous protein sources out there that take less toll on the environment.

The only problem I see with this is that then meat becomes the food of the rich, which is unfair. I don't say that meat shouldn't be more expensive or that I have a better solution, it's just a thing to keep in mind, IMHO.

The most interesting part - at least for me - is how unapologetic such conspiracies can be expressed in these "no more meat" threads, whereas other conspiracies in other threads are heavily downvoted and countered through comments. I slowly tend to believe that at least a vocal minority of the Bay Area tech bros are really creeping out on the idea that they might be loosing their beloved meat.

Just for disclosure: I eat meat myself, I love it and I want to continue to do so. But I also see the need to reduce meat consumption generally and personally, for health and ecological reasons. But billionaires wanting to forbid meat consumption to follow some new world order? Please stop the shit-chat. At least here in Germany meat production is still heavily subsidized [0].

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/tierwirtschaft-erhaelt-13-...

Sorry for the late response.

> Do you use GitHub?

Just a bit, it's nothing I look forward to. I mainly use Gitlab due to work, but it's not that much better.

> Do you work with a team?

Yes.

> Did you really review other alternatives and try them out?

Only SVN some years ago and I hated it.

It wasn't my intention to say that Git is the best VCS we'll ever get, but I enjoy using it and (besides the sometimes a bit baroque command line syntax) have nothing to complain about. So, whenever there's the need for version control, I choose Git without second thought and so I never even felt the urge to try something else. I'm sure that this will change at some point, but not yet.

I choose to use git, over and over again. I hardly use any of its "network effects" but rather its features. So, maybe try to be a bit less general the next time, please.

The difference is that patents for inventions made for Intel by Intel employees go to the US, whether or not that employee is an US person. Those inventions, if made by Germans, could instead help the German - or European - tech sector. That's kind of brain drain without actually leaving your country and sustainably hurts European competitiveness.

I think Webmentions could be the solution to the problem: They allow anyone to comment on and add to your writings without requiring to open an account on each and every blog and they endorse elaborate, "readworthy" responses.

Alas, they're used seldom.

Well, that's somehow buried in my third and fourth points but admittedly not as worked out as you've put it here. I tried to focus more on the credibility that your maintained online presence gives you, but of course it also builds your brand.

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm usually commuting at around 23 to 25 km/h average, so you're telling me I'm not going by bike? ;-)

I think this is mostly a problem of finding good tools for your workflow. Admittedly, there are fewer of them in the space of embedded development than for the usual "apps", but there are some. Besides the already mentioned LVGL [1] for the actual GUI you'll need a proper build tool that can handle all that conversion stuff OP's talking about reliably. I can only recommend Bob [2] here. Unfortunately, it's very unknown but brings everything you need for embedded development (w/ or w/o GUI, higher-level stuff like custom Linux images, too). Using it for years professionally and for personal projects and will never look back.

[1] https://lvgl.io [2] https://bobbuildtool.dev

Just a quick note on the $10K: The biggest part of that is the license itself. You can store multiple licenses on each connector cable, but you won't save much because, as I said, the license is the expensive part.

I have to disagree with you on their support. But things may have changed since 10 years ago.

This is a night/day comparison. With Trace32 and its scripting possibilities you can achieve things that GDB can only dream of. Access to the internals (registers, memory, etc.), flashing, altering at run time, watching, the list goes on. Many things can be done via GDB, too, but it's often not very ergonomic (for example write access to certain memory mapped registers). No hate here, I use GDB for "normal" debugging and love it, but for hardware debugging Trace32/Lauterbach is just a different world.

Maybe the only thing to hate about Trace32 is its very clumsy UI. I'd rather use a TUI than their Motif/Qt based one.

It seems like a user named "johnyj12345" is making it's rounds on self-hosted Gitlab instances since Saturday, exposing server secrets to the public by creating issues containing Gitlab's `secrets.yml` file. Better check your instance!

  Location: Dresden, Germany
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: For the right job within Germany, yes
  Technologies: Linux, FreeRTOS, C, C++, Assembly, Arm, Xtensa, JTAG, Trace32, currently tinkering with Elm to broaden my view
  Résumé/CV: https://cv.philipp-trommler.me
  Email: cv [at] philipp-trommler [dot] me

Hi, I'm a mid-level embedded and low-level GNU/Linux software engineer with three years experience in building GNU/Linux distributions from the ground up as well as system services for RT and non-RT operating systems. This included fields like HALs, OSALs, IPC and everything time-related. Generally things that can't be seen but have to work.

I'm looking for a new opportunity within a company that does not just use but also contributes back to Open Source. I want to give back and work on something meaningful. I'd really like to be a full-time contributor to Open Source, including code, docs and community work.

If you need someone who knows how to code but also has the soft skills to interact with your community, who can reach from vector tables up to graphics and who can program from Assembly up to modern C++, reach out to me!

  Location: Dresden, Germany
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: For the right job within Germany, yes
  Technologies: Linux, FreeRTOS, C, C++, Assembly, Arm, Xtensa, currently tinkering with Elm to broaden my view
  Résumé/CV: https://cv.philipp-trommler.me
  Email: cv [at] philipp-trommler [dot] me

Hi, I'm a mid-level embedded and low-level GNU/Linux software engineer with three years experience in building GNU/Linux distributions from the ground up as well as system services for RT and non-RT operating systems. Generally things that can't be seen but have to work.

I'm looking for a new opportunity within a company that does not just use but also contributes back to Open Source. I'd really like to work as a full-time contributor in the open, including code, docs and community work.

If you need someone who knows how to code but also has the soft skills to interact with your community, reach out to me!