I guess I always thought of myself as someone who never gives up. It’s a blessing and a curse, I’ve achieved all my goals in life so far but I can be perceived as someone who is not very empathetic - because I tend to expect others to have the same attitude and don’t give them the support they need.

Hopefully on the whole people can understand things from my perspective - but I’m too self reliant to care what others think most of the time…

Can we start with my neighbour’s house please? Preferably between 10pm - 8am on Friday and Saturday nights.

Embedded programmer here: C/C++ is not going away any time soon. Rust just isn’t ready yet (on microcontrollers anyway)

Zed is totally open source, and the AI “features” are optional. When you set it up - at least when I did - it’s one checkbox to disable. I don’t remember about the telemetry you will have to have a look, I’m usually ok with that myself.

I came from VSCode and haven’t found anything I miss. I especially don’t miss the poor performance of VSCode, Zed is extremely lightweight!

That information about text editors is out of date - we now have Zed. Just ignore the “AI integration” bs, it’s entirely optional

It’s not apartheid - it’s much worse

Our lighting setup (rented accommodation) is a hodge-podge of mixed fittings, including fluorescent tubes and halogen. All of the actual screw (and Edison) fittings have led bulbs in though.

Part of me wishes for the good old days of cheap incandescent bulbs though. The decent LED bulbs are still 10x the price we used to pay for incandescent, so we buy “cheap” ones (4x the price) which don’t last any longer than the old tech. Of course you can’t get incandescent bulbs anymore…