These are pretty calm messages to an Australian and Garry is British, so culture checks out.

// What the fuck
// Fuck dynamic compiling.
// what the fuck is this shit
// What the fuck, why isnt this a method

Should this by the by commentary be there?
Not really.
But as a programmer, I understand each and every time I see something like:

// Urgh this is so dirty, Invalidate() and Refresh() do nothing.
tButt.AutoSize = false;
tButt.Width = maxWidth;
tButt.Height = maxHeight;
tButt.AutoSize = true;

As you can see, I too have made a “least bad” choice for pragmatic reasons.

I take no pride in correcting you.

Actually, if you hit those 3 dots on the top right and select “All Permissions”, you’ll see there’s a whole host of things it demands that you can’t opt out of.

It’s commentary like this that leads to so much industrial equipment (printers, scales, barcode readers, PLCs etc) still having RS-232 on them.

And dammit, you’re right, that stone age shit just works.

If you “vibe code” your way through trial and error to an app, it may work.
But if you don’t understand what it’s doing, why it’s doing it and how it’s doing it?
Then you can’t (easily) maintain it.
If you can’t fix bugs or add features, you don’t have a saleable product - you have a proof of concept.

AI tools are useful, but letting the tool do all the driving is asking for the metaphorical car to crash.

The concept of direct brain interface is both exciting and terrifying.
We struggle to secure offline systems against determined attack, and my brain is not a test bed.

By the end of Trump’s term

So, when he dies?
Because if ever there was US president who intends to try for “President for life”, it’s this guy.

I can’t think of a standalone gui app that does this (and a simple google search didn’t find one).
If you have a gui desktop (gnome,kde,xfce,lxqt,enlightenment,budgie…) it will have a built in function in it’s settings to do this, or leverage one of the parent ones (ie budgie is based on gnome, lxqt on kde).
If your custom environment is pared down to the point where you don’t have an equivalent to gnome-system-tools and don’t want to install it, you might have to just use date at the command line.

Honestly sounds like a job for a [Raspberry Pi Zero(https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero/).
Small battery pack and a USB key, a bit of software setup, off you go.

Install Raspbian: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html#raspberry-pi-imager

Set it up as a hotspot:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/configuration.html#enable-hotspot

Configure Samba share:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/remote-access.html#samba

This is basically a botspam talking point.
It doesn’t matter.
If you’ve got bad cables, you should do the same thing you would do with a bad iPhone cable or any other cable that no longer serves its purpose - recycle it.
Now buy another cable that’s actually good, if you don’t know which one that should be, maybe find out which ones your phone provider sells.
This is a self correcting issue over time.

Think about your audience and the specific features that will potentially appeal to them.

Depending on who that user is, the same feature/quirk can be either a pro or a con.

There’s lower user numbers here compared to something like Reddit, but the people involved tend to be of an average higher tech literacy.
So there’s not as much noise, but there’s also not as much signal.

As a user, you can spin up your own instance, which gives you complete control… But it also introduces a financial and moderation expense, not to mention inherently leading to fractured communities.

Just look at the Android discussion, it’s occurring on at least:
Android@lemmy.world
Android@lemdro.id
Android@lemmy.ml

etc etc

I’ve read Revelation Space and Chasm City.
I’m sorry, but they are a massive struggle.

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