My sonos system I purchased in 2004 still works just fine, it just doesn't receive updates which doesn't bother me.

fwiw, The Sonos system I bought 16+ years ago still works just fine and it is fully updated.

I had a couple employers back in the .com wild west that tried to get me to sign contracts saying they owned anything I produced 24hours a day even if completely unrelated to my work. that would preclude contributing to OSS.

I refused both times and they backed down when I told them I would walk rather than sign.

"Maybe now those unemployed pump attendants can get jobs as checkers, while the rest of the world moves on."

Now now, those of us in NJ still can't pump our own gas; so we also will not be moving on with the rest of the world.

I guess that makes us the two users. My nokia 950xl still does everything I need and I can't stand the interfaces on android or iPhone. I've been thinking of picking up another WP on ebay on the cheap just to have as a backup.

That is strange. I use it everyday on all my computers and don't have any of those problems. Something is weird with your install.

doing live coding over a screen sharing session sounds awful. glad I don't have to do that.

Quiet as Possible: I have one freelance client (ahem Ryan!) who has really loud mechanical key switches. Every time we hop on a screen sharing session that involves typing I can't tell if he's lighting off fireworks in his office or writing code. [...] I tried a bunch of keyboards and [the Amazon Basics keyboard] is really very quiet while having tactile feeling keys. (You can listen to this YouTube video to hear what the keyboard sounds like.)

So what the author is saying is that I need one of those loud mechanical keyboards in order to discourage useless people from requiring me to attend useless screen sharing meetings that would be better served with a thoughtful email or two?

I was happy to find that archive.org has my free perl cgi scripts library from 1997 archived.

pfft, that's for amateurs. I have a silver lined ball cap.

The Rand Paul presidential campaign last cycle sold the camera blockers/sliders.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

I've just always had foil tape over mine forever.

In this comparison, Slack is the Yugo right? It certainly drives like one.

yeah, no way would I bother with this unless Bonks was available. Loved my TG16 console.

Indeed, even my much smaller company has our code held in escrow for our customers in the event that we went out of business.

The person you are replying to obviously has absolutely no experience in this part of the industry.

I tried watching that show, from the little I saw it was nothing about actual nerd culture; but rather what some homosexual non-nerd writers in Hollywood thought was "nerd culture."