I live in a 50 year old house. All the breakers are 16A, so 220V x 16A = 3.5kW

The electric sauna does three-phase @ 400V. My energy tracker usually peaks around 9.5kW when it’s heating.

I started 28 years ago with Slackware 3.0, then Gentoo, Ubuntu, took a detour via OS X, then back to Ubuntu, now Arch.

OP didn’t say anything about their financial situation, so we can only speculate.

Maybe they’re a landlord. Maybe they have a hedge fund. Maybe they’ve made good financial decisions in the past and have a big buffer saved up. Maybe they just sold their yacht and have a lot of cash burning in their pocket.

OP never said anything about being light on money.

It’s actually easier when you don’t have to plan your travel around your work schedule.

You use the same computer every day? Now that’s unhygienic.

I thought we solved this for good in the 80s?

I guess that particular question didn’t age so well.

We run Linux on them because they’re cheap and disposable.

Slackware in 1997.

I ran it on a 486SX/40 with 32MB of RAM and a 2GB harddrive.

It turned me into the man I am today.

Only if you want a visit from the thought police.

My first experience was with two floppy images I found on “So much shareware! Vol.2”.

It was labeled Linux 0.99b, no distro. It was not of much use to me at the time.

A couple of years later I got my hands on Slackware 2.0 on CD. So much time spent compiling your own kernel, because no modules and the whole thing had to fit in main memory (640kB). So much time spent fiddling with xf86config hoping you wouldn’t fry your CRT.

Good times.

Then came gentoo, which had package management. No more did you have to browse sourceforge for endless dependencies to install something. No more did you have to re-install slackware on your root partition to update. So user-friendly in comparison.

We spent a lot of time on IRC.

MUDs kind of bridged the gap between IRC and games.

I remember spending a lot of time playing abuse, snes9x, quake + team fortress and quake2 + action quake.

It was the bees knees a few years back. It feels like they’ve lost momentum.

Today, I’d imagine safetynet puts a lot of road bumps in running apps with DRM like Spotify and Netflix. Also banking apps and apps for bus tickets and such.

Apple had this undocumented function for screenshotting back on iOS 3.1, and kind of let you use it while waiting for better frameworks in iOS 4.0

At some point they started rejecting your app automatically if they found the symbol for that function in your app. I didn’t want to leave my 3.1 users in the dust for no reason, so I did the same trick to obfuscate the symbol name before dynamically linking it in.

It worked right up until they stopped supporting iOS 3.1 completely.

Even I can sell $350B worth of energy if I increase the price enough.

The first week at any job is always exhausting. There’s a lot to take in, and a lot of active decision-making to do. It gets better fast when a lot of small things start going on autopilot.

Long commutes add to the suck.

Yeah, me, too.

But it feels like all cars made in the last decade have connectivity. I’m not a fan.

I’m driving a 2007 Citroën. I hope I can find a car without OTA updates when it’s time to upgrade.

I really don’t want a bait-and-switch where I start to get ads on the dashboard at every intersection.

I would’ve guessed the killer app.

Yes. That’s public agent.

I speak Swedish from Finland. Similar variation as Sweden’s Eurovision entry.