moved from piefed.social/u/rozodru due to qutebrowser issues.
well i’m getting out of FOSS due to AI and contributions with it. I don’t want to touch code anymore.
Instead this past year I got REALLY into retro computing. buying old PCs and Macs and stuff from the 80s and 90s and fixing them up. So I think i’m good on the hobby front. modern computing and coding? no, i’m done. I don’t want to write another line of code ever again. but the hardware? fixing motherboards and stuff? yeah that’s fun.
and this is why I’m retiring in two weeks. They don’t get it, they never will. my work as a contractor trying to code review their slop and telling them what they needed to change fell on deaf ears. they cut me a cheque, thanked me for my time, and it was onto the next company/startup to perform the same song and dance.
i’m done. I’m done with the tech industry. 25 years just poof, gone. I’m in my mid 40s, i’m single, i own my condo, i’m done. I’m going to sit on my ass all day, play videogames, and clear out my codeberg and delete everything. I’m not even going to work on FOSS stuff anymore, i’m not going to maintain anything, I’m not going to contribute. I’m done. I want nothing to do with this crap.
probably a hell of a lot. I do a lot of travelling for work and thus I’m always connecting to open wifi spots (with a vpn naturally) and many times my browser won’t pick up the capture portal automatically so I use example.com or neverssl.com to trigger the capture portal. It’s also the site I use to a very quick/dirty internet test.
I imagine most people use it the same way.
man I really wish qutebrowser didn’t turn to crap. I used to love that thing. Now i’m on firefox and bleh I don’t like it.
so they paid peanuts for something they’ll likely continue to do.
it’s not really an “answer” to chatgpt or other LLMs at all. it’s a workspace. you still have to plug your own AI into it be it locally hosted or subscription based.
It’s like saying “PewDiePie has made a FREE Engine Mount that looks to be an answer to Honda’s Civic Engine” that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
yeah mine ends the end of this week and I won’t be renewing. I have my own domain with a couple email accounts attached and I’m thinking of switching to Purelymail. as far as VPN goes? leaning towards IVPN.
edit: nvm found out Purelymail is US based, went with mailbox.org instead. very easy setup process and everything is already configured.