I had a 4G modem with a web interface many years ago. It was flaky and would often hang. I just had a raspberry pi on my network pinging some known address, if it failed for long enough it’d replay the commands to restart the web interface.

If I’d have the same problem today I’d probably have home assistant power cycle the router with a smart plug.

13 years. Married for 6.

First two years were mostly long-distance.

I set it up during the outage last week.

Easy enough to just pull in the synapse docker container and run it on my home server. I wireguard it to my VPS that acts as a reverse proxy.

Both federation and push notifications work.

OpenSUSE has a 32-bit build.

Running modern web browsers is no fun.

No, I guess I mean 6 plus. I didn’t have a big reason to upgrade after that one.

At the time they didn’t support any vector format like SVG (do they now?)

iPhones 2G-3GS had the same screen resolution, so having pixel perfect assets were no biggie.

4 & 4S had twice the resolution. Annoying to upscale all your graphics, but app layouts stayed the same.

5 & 5s had a little bit taller screen. Annoying, but layouts could stay mostly the same.

Then comes the 6 plus with a brand new resolution that natively wants assets at 3x the resolution. Older apps would be upscaled to 2208x1242 and then downscale to fit the 1920x1080 display. You pretty much wanted to tweak your app to support the native resolution instead of hitting that scaling thing.

The landscape is better now with SwiftUI.

I later got a 12 mini for ARKit, but I had pretty much lost interest in the platform by then. It mostly just sat in a drawer.

iOS 26? When did this happen?

I feel like it was just yesterday I was solving fractional scaling issues on the iPhone 6 pro on iOS 8.

Now I feel really out of the loop.

Why couldn’t the pirate play cards?

He was sitting on the deck.

I hate it. It used to be two taps to open a new tab.

Now it’s four taps:

• Open the menu

• Close the menu

• Open tabs

• [+]

My muscle memory ain’t going nowhere.

I, too, need a car. But I choose not to go down this route.

I bought my current one five years ago for $4k and spent another $2k to get it reliable. Minimum liability insurance is like $20/mo.

I’m looking to trade up in a bit for something twice as pricy, and I’ll skip the loan part then, too.

I want to spank your sister with a slice of baloney.

Struggling with car payments, you say.

Our EU household doesn’t make $150k/y even if you’d consider the hidden supergross taxes.

I’ve never had a car loan in my life, nor anything beyond the most basic insurance.

If you can’t afford to buy a car, then you can’t afford to wreck it.

It’s better to send that extra money into my savings account or stock portfo rather than waste it on interest and extra insurance. Then I’ll at least get too see that money again some day.

Amperage determines how much current something gets.

Voltage times amperage determines the power something draws.

More current needs thicker wires, while higher voltage does not.

My wife swears by it. For me it does nothing. She gets wasp-sized bumps from mosquito bites.

Same here. I had been sticking to Ubuntu flavours for over 15 years.

Below -18°C.

I use a probe thermometer to verify. Mine hovers between -20°C to -22°C

Until you try to sort your log files alphabetically.

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.

Sweden. 30 days of PTO per year.

I usually do three weeks in summer, two over Christmas and save the rest for random extended weekends when the public holidays align.

Also, I have about 90 days of paid, and 45 barely paid days parental leave left to take out. There was a total of 480 days for me and the Mrs to share in-betweenst ourselves per kid. I took four months off. Plus another 10 daddy-days to use immediately after baby was born.

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

Thanks. It hit close to home. I hate it.