AI: I use it - i can keep multiple things going in parallel which seems to work well with my ADHD.
Foreign BS: I worry a bit about my draft age kids, worry about donald rumsfeld's ghost making us go back to nation building again.
Enshitification: well, I've thrown my ios26 powered phone a few times, its a constant source of ire. I long for something better to come along.
overall, I just play with my dogs, lift heavy things, and just keep my head down. Last night the wife broke the tractor and I had to improvise a fix - which entailed using the MIG welder. I went to sleep happy.
I f'd my knees running track in HS - i suspect some kind of structural problem that alters the way my knees move. Sr year wsa awful, i was just about crawling to class in the morning. MRIs showed nothing and I learned to live with it and eventually it got better when I stopped running.
10ish years later I had started riding my bike a lot during the dotcom explosion induced downtime, I kept it up after I was employed again. Knee pain came back. Went to the ortho again, this time was told "oh you have a torn meniscus, lets go fix it.
So I went under and woke up to be told that my meniscus was fine, and that I had worn grooves through the cartilage and into the bone - doc told me to never run, jump, ski, ride, etc. I was to sit on the couch.
Somehow I ended up taking karate, and the knees hurt for a bit, but the stretching we did helped loosen up my hams and quads. It didnt make the knee pain go away, but it made it tolerable in that it no longer affected my day to day.
Why yes, they do. If they didn't, they would get out and socialize. I'm not controlling them. We're basically all introverts here. Except maybe my youngest, who gets his social needs met at school, and he's free to visit them whenever he wants (within reason).
Im working on (slowly) a very very niche web app to help my wife manage her dog breeding program. Maybe it'll be useful enough for other breeders to use it.
> XTX developed TernFS for distributed storage after they outgrew their original NFS usage and other file-system alternatives.
So... call me old and crotchety, but i'm not sure I trust someone to write a DFS like this that once thought NFS a good idea. I'm sure its fine, I just have bad memories.
Some of us have lived through multiple bubbles and know that often, the underlying bits are useful and will gain widespread acceptance. Just play long, and don’t feed the hypemonster.
I want to leave tech as well. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to replace my income (yet). I'm working on a VERY niche SaaS offering, that has some novel growth areas. But getting time to work on it is slow going. Maybe it will some day be enough to replace my income, and I can bail on the FTE thing.
When I use an LLM for (much of anything) I always feel like that scene in the first Iron Man movie where Stark is trying to build stuff with the robot and it almost, but doesn't quite, do what he wants, and then screws something all the way up
I'm more tired of all the damned Ads, and the tracking that they stuff into things.
I'd happily pay for a service that lets me keep up with all my family if it wasn't trying to know everything about me. To be clear: i'd prefer an open protocol that i just connect up to the network, and get my own feed, but at least a subscription model could mean an ad-free experience.