Do you have excess creative energy?

Pour it into discussion that achieves nothing of value.

The vast majority of people are techno illiterate, even within firms that make technology. A handful of people (relatively speaking) are making most of the stuff. Everyone else is just feeding that process. The legal system is set up to motivate the concealment of information about products. You cannot find the documentation to repair embedded systems, even if you have the desire to fix them and the ‘right to repair’.

In our village we have a wildly popular ‘repair cafe’ where people bring their faulty electrical items to be repaired by volunteers. People don’t want to toss their duff appliances in landfill but we need the tools and education.

Products are developed and in that process technology is created. Once the technical problems have been solved, manufacturers seek to remove as much cost from the process as possible and this generally degrades the durability of the product. The biggest problem with a lot of technology is that virtually no consideration is given to the long term maintenance of the product. There’s no way to interface the system with other parts and re-use the product. We throw it away and buy the next thing because that’s good for capitalism but it’s horrible for people and the environment.

It wasn’t capitalists, it was the invisible hand of the market.

You definitely don’t want a blunt force trauma to this delicate area

There is no relationship between what you earn and your skill level. If there were, theoretical physics would be a top paying field. The reason is, this is capitalism and we are horrible negotiators. If you want to earn top money in a technical field, the best you can do is insert yourself in a revenue stream. Roles that are critical to revenue like a billing system or associated with a intrinsically valuable commodity e.g. petrochemical, are more lucrative than other similarly skilled professions.

Is the collective noun for COBOL programmers, cobblers?

I want to join the C-hive

I stopped using PiHole, or more accurately, it stopped working with my router after my provider, TalkTalk UK, updated the firmware. I didn’t want to invest a lot of time finding a workaround so went back to application layer processes like uBlock Origin, etc.

I’d be interested to hear from people who have something working with a Sagecom Fast 5364. I imagine it’s possible to configure it as modem only and leave routing duties to a Pi.

Our Father, who art in Microsoft HQ,

hallowed be thy naming conventions;

thy architecture;

thy will be done;

on earth as it is in Linus Tech Tips.

Give us this day our daily StackOverflow.

And forgive us our 'sploits,

as we forgive those who trespass against our user stories.

And lead us not into temptation;

but deliver us from a thicket of global variables.

For thine is the irritating project manager, the power and the glory,

for ever and ever.

Or at least 7 years until obsolescence.

Amen.

That’s a good way of looking at it.

Did your interviewer profess to be a 10 in .net, otherwise how would they know what that looks like? I was told that I’m unsuitable as a programmer of PLC because I never used their software before. That I write the algorithms that go into a PLC was not sufficient. These people are looking for unicorns but find donkeys everywhere they look.

Boom

Nobody considers the plight of the humble sprawling multinational corporation and their army of lobbyists.