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Yep. I am writing code professionally for long time, so that pride and sense of accomplishment is hard to come by. But fixing anything, even small, gives me that satisfaction every time I use it.

For me it started because of money, but then it became a hobby. Besides, I can go for an oil change and have everything done for me. However, it's fun researching about different oils, finding a best price online, getting it shipped and then doing the oil change with my young kid. I consider it nice father/son activity. Having my son learn about things is a bonus.

Similarly, when I finished some unfinished part of the basement, I planned it with my kid, went to Menards to buy drywall, picked a color, painted together. He got a sense of accomplishment and so did I.

I took the first nice car I bought three years after I got my first job to the dealer to replace brakes. They charged me $550 for it. After that I taught myself how to fix things, starting with cars, plumbing, drywall, electrical and each and every thing in my daily use. I haven't paid for any repairs or upgrades to my house or my cars in over 10 years. I invested in tools and educating myself rather than pay someone else.

I can now fix anything and everything that I use daily.

I made 78k as a web developer in Connecticut in 2004. You need to find another job. 70k in NYC is too low for a software developer.

Moved from Red Hat to Debian back in 2002. Never used anything else on my computer.

1. Pick a processor you like in your budget

2. Pick a form factor. Regular size/smaller?

3. Now you have specs for motherboard.

4. Rest of the stuff is what you need/want. Stuff like memory sticks, onboard or separate gpu, onboard or separate WiFi card.

I used to enjoy taking/debating/joking around with my co-workers while I worked in the office. We used to spend hours talking about football or politics or stock market.

Now that I am home, I found other things to do. Like staring out of the window, reading reddit/HN, taking a quick nap or cook something to eat.

It's not so bad. I don't miss people, I don't miss co-workers.

I would be surprised if anyone has enough resources or willingness to do that for every open source package they are using. For companies that go through auditing, they can CTA by relying on products like Nexus IQ.

I learned uml in University couple of decades ago. I don't remember ever using UML since.

If you are using UML during design phase, you probably are not going in right direction.

Consolas, the best mono font hands down. Second best, IMO, is inconsolata.

Learning becomes harder as one ages, I think. Concentrating also becomes harder with so many distractions.

I think best way to learn anything computer related is to make something. I started learning docker, I took my projects and containerized them. That way I learned what I needed in the order that I needed. Makes it much easier to learn than just listening to lectures in monotonic voices or reading books.

On Android, I have rooted my phone and installed adaway. It adds /etc/hosts entries to block ads. I haven't seen ads in a long time.

I also use Firefox with unlock sometimes.

On iOS, you could use a different DNS server to block ad domains.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html

LOL!

Absolutely Ayn Randian stream of thought.

Could you may be think about how you were able to do the said fruit stand business in peace, take a currency as a payment and not worry about bartering, not worry about your business being stolen outright my guy with biggest muscles or how people are able to come to your fruit stand in the first place etc? Unless you are thinking of your business in a vacuum, then go ahead and fantasize.

I wish I had saved all the comments and downvotes to comments leaning progressive, but I never did.

The most recent interaction I had was a user saying CNN and Fox news are equally bad because one of CNN anchors once said "we" in the context of democratic party.

Also my original comment is at -5.

I really liked Orkut. Damn google.

That's an interesting observations. "Nearly as bad".

I assume you still watch Fox News?

If I use it and decided to not pay after 6 months, then what? I lose all the curated bookmarks?

I am Indian, as in from south east Asia.

I was in graduate school and used to live off campus in a highrise. One day I got in elevator with this really nice looking older black woman. We were only people in the elevator. As soon as the elevator door closes she says to me "you people are nice, the problem is you don't go back". The words still ring in my ear 20 years later.

Couple of years later, I am working in a small town in new England. I have no friends and all my coworkers are old, so I go alone to eat lunch out. I would usually wear dress pants, button down dress shirts tucked in with nice polished black leather shoes. One day, I ate lunch and went across the street to buy cigarettes at a gas station. I lit one on the back side of the building. Few mins later, a oldish Toyota Camry pulls up. A white guy a few years older than me gets out, closes the door, locks the car remotely. Then he looks at me and says "Don't steal my car" and starts walking towards the building.

Having said that, I have met extremely nice White/black/Asian people and many of them are my friends. So I like to think about them and not the ugliness that I experienced few times.

I don't know what's causing racism in this country or how to fix it. I treat everyone equally and just want to live in peace.

I would say shocking part is the cockiness of the police. They are so secure in their jobs that they know that even if they kill someone on camera or rough up protected entities like journalists nothing would happen to them.

I mean, they literally have a license to murder.

I imagine it's not meant to be 100% accurate. If it identifies even 50% of the people that may have come in contact with someone who's positive, even considering 50% false positives, I would consider it a rousing success.

> I've also had more physical injuries working remotely

That's surprising to me. Why not take half an hour after lunch and go for a walk? Your commute is 10 seconds now that the distance between your bed and office desk is much smaller. Why not leave your desk and use that saved commuting time to go for a run, or a walk or lift some weights or do 7 min HIIT or unroll a yoga mat and do some yoga? You can always hop back on your chair and work till you fall asleep.

I do get that urge sometime. I use Debian with gnome3. When I get that urge, I go find a good looking theme. The new theme makes it feel like I have a something different. This used to happen quite a lot when I was in my 20s and early 30s. Not so much anymore. I guess I have many things that need to care about other than my computer. I haven't changed my theme in two years, not even the background.

I am too old to care about anyone else's expections of me. I am living the way I want to live. And this life is not so precious as everyone seem to think.

I don't. Why would I miss him? Thousands came before him and thousands will after. They have and they will achieve important things, but will be forgotten in the end.

I would first find out source of your latency problem. Unless you can diagnose the problem first, you can't fix it.

I never got addicted to social media. I have Facebook, twitter, Instagram, reddit, HN, digg etc etc, but I rarely if ever use it. Although I do read reddit and HN regularly, I never felt a desire to delete it in order to curb the usage. Haven't posted anything on Facebook in two years, on Instagram in almost a year, on Twitter in 4 years.

I built one for development three years ago because I was tired of my slow ass cheap laptop. I had similar requirements like you.

I only needed a machine that was fast and responsive, so I went with the fastest consumer grade cpu at the time, Intel I7-6700k, I opted for 16GB DDR4 RAM. After that it was easy to find a motherboard that supported these with onboard graphics, as I don't do gaming. Ended up costing me around $600, much cheaper than anything I could buy off the shelf.

I run Debian testing on it.

Since then I upgraded it with 1 TB m.2 ssd and 32gb ram. Also a graphics card with four dp ports for high resolution output.

Unless you are doing a zell pay or similar thing which transfers money from person to person instantly, there is nothing much you can do. Zell pay has daily limit of 2000.

If you want to transfer money to another account, it would take more than 30 mins for the transfer to happen. Buying stocks needs 2/3 days for the settlement or 2/3 days for the transfer to the brokerage account.

Even if you bought something with debit card it takes longer than 30 mins to settle that transaction.

I would just visit a branch and get a cashier's check. Most bang for the buck and there's no limit.

No different. The speed even with ethernet never go above 50-55 mbps.