I suppose my setup already has “Xcode command line tools” installed, so gcc works as expected. It’s been a while but IIRC the process for installing the command line tools is pretty self explanatory.

I remember WSL being a whole process to setup, but it’s been a while, and as you might guess, I’m a lot more familiar with Mac than Windows.

What I do know is I had to support a Python project on all 3 OSes and Windows was by far the hardest to get working. We were deliberately not using WSL for that scenario.

Mac is very similar to Linux in that it comes with bash (these days zsh) and a lot of the command line tools you’d expect on Linux, including gcc and python3 installed by default. You’ll want them to have a decent text editor with code coloring. Sublime is what I was taught to use in university.

Windows is more difficult. The command line is very different (it inherits from DOS instead of Unix like both Mac and Linux). It doesn’t come with Python pre-installed. I’ve generally installed git-bash when working on Windows. There are some Python libraries that work fine on both Mac and Linux but have issues on Windows.

You could look into VSCode which is a decent IDE that works on all platforms. Of course, an IDE can be a bit of an information overload for a beginner, especially something like VSCode that’s constantly pushing AI features and plug-ins.

I’d just try to understand why they feel that way to make sure you aren’t missing anything.

Is it the pay cut? 20% sounds pretty significant to me but 2% isn’t, but in the end if you are making enough to live the way you want that’s all you need.

Is it the career path options? That can be more complicated, but if there’s nothing you would want from “climbing the ladder” that’s up to you.

I have set up WireGuard manually running on a home server. It’s not that hard to set up IMO but that definitely depends on your experience level.

Other than that I’d second Tailscale which is similar but easier to set up

This is why I use CloudFlare. They block the worst and cache for me to reduce the load of the rest. It’s not 100% but it does help.

The choice to use CloudFlare is made by whoever made the website you are visiting

There’s a huge difference between adjusting the color mapping of the RAW data and using Photoshop or AI. It’s really hard to get an “objective truth” color mapping, and that certainly doesn’t come by default.

When I take a photo, I want to see the photo I took. If I decide to photoshop something with it, that’s my decision, and it’s no longer a real photo, and I would be a liar if I were to present it as such.

We should not start accepting manipulated images as a replacement for real images, and it’s unacceptable that Samsung didn’t give its users a choice in whether to use the real image or a manipulated one.

99% of the time the “other program” is a minimized file browser window open to the drive.

I would actually love to take 3300! That sounds fun.

As for 4020, writing performant code in Python typically means calling into libraries that are written in C.

Watch the whole video, bullets made it all the way through.

The driver was approaching them kinda aggressively and weirdly in a place where no cars should be at that time.

If you want to make an analogy it’s like a guy approaching the cops while threateningly waving a weapon.

Actually having different drives is insufficient to keep windows and linux, or multiple different linux install, from fighting over bootloaders lol.

Star Trek and Game of Thrones have some lines in their fictional languages (Vulcan and Klingon for Star Trek, High Valyerian for Game of Thrones).

The games Out There and No Man’s Sky feature a mechanic where aliens talk in a completely unknown language, but as you gradually learn the language, the subtitles gradually become more and more English.

Some of those services are pretty easy to set up, some might be more complicated. You’d have to look around for open source projects for those services and see if you can find ones you like. It will take more time to get it initially set up than to maintain, but expect to fix something that breaks every once in a while.

As for cost, probably like a few hundred to a thousand USD can get a reasonable computer for this. You don’t need a GPU, but want a decent CPU, plenty of RAM, and a LOT of storage. Look for companies auctioning off old servers.

Loosely I’d say expect this project to be a whole hobby.

As the result of a single misconfigured security setting on my Android, I was locked out of my Google Account on my phone AND all of my PCs.

Just a heads up on what you are getting yourself into, if you fuck up your self hosted setup badly enough there is no recovery.

That isn’t necessarily intended to scare you off from self hosting, just that the first and most important lesson to learn is to have a good system of backups that are backed up automatically, are easy to recover from, and are separated enough from other copies of the data that if something goes terribly wrong one copy will survive.

I’d love to try it, but I imagine it will take 20 years for something like this to come even close to usable as a daily driver.

You do need the Apple ID to download any apps though (maybe not in the EU these days?)

I use rsync + ZFS for backups which includes historical backups

it could render the entire password based login system hackable in a flash, probably breaking the internet.

No, just certain specific encryption algorithms. We already have some early quantum-resistant encryption algorithms, and the internet has already started adopting them.

What you see in mainstream news is always an exaggeration to hype up the layman. Right now all the hype is still focused on LLMs. The recent quantum breakthroughs that were “big news” a year ago were not as exciting as the news might have made it seem.

Quantum research is still going at a slow but steady pace. We have working quantum computers. However, useful working quantum computers have to compete with massive classical computing clusters, which have a huge head start, even considering the theoretical scaling advantages of quantum computers.

“Quantum supremacy” will come. But it also won’t be that exciting because the problems it’s good for are generally limited to niche scientific research scenarios. Maybe really big data centers might find some use for Grover’s search.

The headline to look out for in regards to quantum computing will be something like “quantum computer discovers new material” (with varying levels of exaggerating language depending on the website). That will mark the start of quantum computers being useful (and potentially profitable).