Here’s how you know it’s not ready: AI hasn’t replaced a single CEO.

I understand, I was in exactly the same position. Then my battery swelled and wouldn’t hold a charge at all, so I couldn’t restore anything anyway, and my last backup was inaccessible (I know I know, test your backups, but like I started this post with I’m in the same boat of all work and no time for me).

Losing everything was remarkably freeing. Just switch all your 2FA to Aegis as has been suggested, and save anything you want to back up over the wire, then take the plunge. You won’t lose everything like I had to, and you won’t regret the switch 😊

antithetical to the spirit of silicon valley

Tell me you haven’t been paying attention without telling me you haven’t been paying attention.

No worries! I have reasons for not installing Telegram myself, but I’m curious what your reasons are? What arguments have you made to him so far and what were his responses?

Dissuade = discourage. Is that what you mean?

“Death to plastic”

“Here drink from this plastic-lined can” (https://www.plasticstoday.com/business/liquid-death-may-murder-your-thirst-but-it-won-t-kill-plastic-no-matter-what-the-ads-say)

Yeah, clearly no component has ever died or could ever die earlier than its longest possible life span for any reason, overheating due to bad/old paste is the only possible reason a CPU in particular might die, you know everything about every system ever built including mine. I see my mistake and bow to your omniscience 🙄

Seriously, I’m embarrassed for you. Good luck in your studies.

No pretty to influence it is incorrect. You do not have the power to change it. However, if you leave, you are a data point. If lots of people leave, they are also data points. Data influences decisions at most companies. This statement does not imply the data is read correctly, nor that the decisions made in light of the interpretation of the data are the best ones.

First of all, yes, everyone using older technology “has bullets coming at them”, you clearly know as well as I do about wear and tear in electronic components so I don’t know why the tone of your reply implies that older hardware will run fine forever as long as “nothing is wrong”. It’s a balancing act; you can’t know if something’s gonna go wrong with your hardware until it does, but failure rates go up the older it gets, plain and simple.

Secondly, yes, you completely misunderstood what I said. I upgraded before anything went wrong, for gaming and local AI primarily, and because I wanted to avoid the tariffs I knew were coming. I repurposed my old system in its entirety into a server, and not even a few months later it BSOD’d with the fatal hardware error. I know it can be a transient error, I said it’s generally not, because that’s my experience in the absence of overheating/overvolting. I had not overclocked at all, I don’t feel like risking it for a few extra percent performance when I’m running a system for long-term stability.

Finally, I think you’ll find that I not only didn’t recommend an upgrade and just parted out an upgrade kit at what most would consider a reasonable price these days, but that I ALSO labeled my experience as an anecdote. Meanwhile, you gave your anecdote like it shows I’m an asshole or an idiot, or both, for upgrading when my PC wasn’t on literal fire. Fuck me for trying to help a buddy out on the Internet, I guess.

FATAL HARDWARE ERROR: PROCESSOR CORE is generally not a transient error. Good for you that your old CPU is still going strong, but anecdata does not an argument make. This was my work machine and I can’t risk it going down.

You can get the Ryzen 5 7600X (6 core, 4.7GHz, AM5 socket) + Gigabyte B650m + 32GB DDR5-5200 RAM for US$382 here, which may or may not qualify as “a lot of money” to you: https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-7600x-ryzen-5-7000-series-raphael-zen-4-socket-am5/p/N82E16819113770?Item=N82E16819113770

Also includes a 1TB SSD (only PCIE4 though) at no charge, in case that matters. It’d make for a decent upgrade kit, in my estimation; you get more modern performance plus headroom for another AM5 upgrade down the track.

Also, anecdote time! My 3700X just blue-screened the other week with a fatal hardware error in one of the processor cores. I feel like I upgraded just in time. Don’t fall into the trap of believing your current hardware will run forever! You might not need an upgrade now, but far better to do it while you still have old hardware you can reinstall so you at least have a working system.

I dunno, hive mind is starting to sound pretty good right about now.

we just need to show them the truth

I once read this on lemmy and it stuck with me. I think it applies here:

The autistic trait that bites me in the ass most often is the unshakable belief that if I can just show someone the truth, they’ll believe me.

True for me, and worse, I never seem to learn.

What’s your point? Antivaxxers are fuckwits who are trying to kill the innocent. They’d dispute that, but they don’t even understand how vaccines work, so what chance could they have of understanding cause and effect generally? And therefore, why should anyone give a shit what they have to say or what they think?

This sounds good until you realise you’re talking about building something good that people like and then setting it - and them - on fire for a few bucks. What would you really be selling to Match? User data of unsuspecting users who did not sign up for that.

It does, doesn’t it.

In revenge for reminding me of Frontpage I will also mention Dreamweaver

Small business owners learning about word2html.net for the first time…

I’m just saying, this is an arms race and nobody will win.

I gotcha. That’s rough, I’m sorry to hear he was such a shitty husband. It’s probably true that a job would be more demanding and take more time from your studies, so all up it sounds like you could be in a worse spot, and at least this is family and you care about him. It’s good of you to help him like this; working all day often gets overlooked as a source of major fatigue. I can’t say I don’t relate to some degree, I just order delivery when I’m tired instead of demanding my wife do the cooking.

Still, this is hardly anyone’s dream life. I hope your studies go well and you’re able to get out on your own soon!

I can see why your mum left. Is this something you want to change, or is it something you’re willing to put up with? Do you work as well? If you do, is it feasible to split the cost of a maid or similar?

You’re absolutely right about the danger of giving up your phone, if the police wanted to take it from you. By sticking with traditional documents you remove any pretense they might have to try. It is not a stupid call, it’s just less convenient - but then, security is always a compromise with accessibility.