A bed frame to get your mattress off the floor makes a bigger difference than you'd think. And having one that won't break and drop you is even better!
Backblaze personal is $9 a month or $99 a year for unlimited backup. The first result on Amazon for a 4tb HDD is $85. Building a NAS costs the same as 2.5 years of this cloud backup for the drives alone, and doesn't actually give you a backup at all. The costs scale even more poorly if you need to store more than your 8tb.
I work in industry with MediaTek chips. We basically have to reverse engineer them to get anything done, because they refuse to give us anything, and what they do give us doesn't work.
The main problem with a mini PC is a lot of streaming services won't serve you 4k content. Not an issue if you get your content from other sources though.
I don't know that the second part would succeed. I feel like it'd end up with the same contractor structure, but now the contractors are whoever's company bought the right senators.
I think someone else said what it actually is in another comment. It's functionally identical 90℅ of the time for me anyway,and I use CLI and vim on it.
It works fine for small projects. I think that with more than 2-3 devs a PR based strategy works better for enforcing review and just makes life easier in general, since you end up with less stuff like force pushes to fix minor things like whitespace errors that break everyone's local.
If it's a private repo I don't worry too much about forking. Ideally branches should be getting cleaned up as they get merged anyway. I don't see a great advantage in every developer having a fork rather than just having feature/bug branches that PR for merging to main, and honestly it makes it a bit painful to cherry-pick patches from other dev branches.
Everywhere I've worked, you have a Windows/Mac for emails, and then either use WSL, develop on console in Mac since it's Linux, or most commonly have a dedicated Linux box or workstation.
I'm starting to see people using VSCode more these days though.
I didn't realize just how siloed my perspective may be haha, I appreciate the statistics. I'll agree that cyber security is a concern in general, and honestly everyone I know in industry has at least a moderate knowledge of basic cyber security concepts. Even in embedded, processes are evolving for safety critical code.
... You know not all development is Internet connected right? I'm in embedded, so maybe it's a bit of a siloed perspective, but most of our programs aren't exposed to any realistic attack surfaces. Even with IoT stuff, it's not like you need to harden your motor drivers or sensor drivers. The parts that are exposed to the network or other surfaces do need to be hardened, but I'd say 90+% of the people I've worked with have never had to worry about that.
Caveat on my own example, motor drivers should not allow self damaging behavior, but that's more of setting API or internal limits as a normal part of software design to protect from mistakes, not attacks.
My take was that they're talking more about a script kiddy mindset?
I love designing good software architecture, and like you said, my object diagrams should be simple and clear to implement, and work as long as they're implemented correctly.
But you still need knowledge of what's going on inside those objects to design the architecture in the first place. Each of those bricks is custom made by us to suit the needs of the current project, and the way they come together needs to make sense mathematically to avoid performance pitfalls.
I was gonna say, the OP here sounds perfectly good at computers. Most people either have so little knowledge they can't even start on solving their printer problem no matter what, or don't have the problem solving mindset needed to search for and try different things until they find the actual solution.
There's a reason why specific knowledge beyond the basic concepts is rarely a hard requirement in software. The learning and problem solving abilities are way more important.
I've seen Texans in the wild go on tirades when the attendant at the store checkout says "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"...
The vast majority are definitely good people, but just want to point out that the people you see in the media are real. They are here, and they are loud.
It's also easy to forget that living in the cities doesn't represent the people everywhere in the state either. As long as I'm in a city, anywhere in the US, I've never seen extremely blatant racism. But go to the wrong areas in small towns and you get jeered at for not being white.
A bed frame to get your mattress off the floor makes a bigger difference than you'd think. And having one that won't break and drop you is even better!
That said, I love IKEA bed frames.