Claude is very good when driven by someone who knows how to do the job and demands perfection. However if you give it a prompt and take the first result it is normally junk, make it iterate and things get better.

If one dimmable color (or color change to red on dim) is not enough then you need room lights and spicial effects lights as separate things.

N100. Cheap enough (last year) and plenty of power to run things like jellyfin on it as well. linuxserver makes great docker images.

The kernel doesn’t deal with DNS, that is a separate process/library

I’ve seen engineers no be promoted for complex code. Not all managers are stupid

General advice is smart switches, dumb bulbs. Switches mean that you can control the light without getting out your phone, or whatever it is you use to control the bulb. Sure HA can talk to many bulbs, but only if the switch is on. Guests will not have the ability to control your bulbs - either there is too much work to install an app for a short stay, or the system is a security nightmare (often both). Use a smart switch because they have a control on the wall that guests can use to get what they want done without having to worry about apps.

Most often you can choose bulbs with the right color temperature, but if not some dimable bulbs change color temperature. If this is not good enough two lights: a general room like, and a separate special effects light, don’t combine them (HA can control both, but they are separate systems generally not used at the same time)

What is the point of it? If the are doesn’t cryptographically trace to the right birth certificate for who is at the keyboard now it won’t do anything - kids will lie about age if there is any issues. If it does trace back that well there are huge privacy problems.

where do the maitainers of the linux distro of your choice live? I mean every single person because if even one lives in CA (Brasil…) you have to either ‘fire’ that person or follow the law for their sake. I agree systemd shouldn’t be the place for this, but systemd wants to take over everything and I’m sure some of their maintainers live in CA thus they feel they must.

It won’t protect children, but you can’t igore the law. You can get lawyers and fight that way. However too many eevelopers live in CA to ignore and every one of them is at risk of the law going against them. Small distros can say they don’t have anyone who maintains it in CA so the don’t allow their distro to be used in CA. Large ones cannot ignore the law just because it is stupid and won’t work.

BSD BSD BSD. read that in a chant of course.

I know people who have built bigger buildings by themselves. They work construction for a day job so they have a lot of experience and tools. Still it absolutely is possible.

That said, there will be times that help makes things easier. So if you can get some - even for a few hours - plan a head so help is there for the hard parts. (in my experience “Free” help works for beer: buy the good stuff, but not enough to get them drunk).

Lacking help, doing this yourself is about the tools. Cranes can be rigged up - ropes and pulleys. Your local rental center will often have tools you really need. Don’t work on windy days, those panels can catch enough wind to turn into a hang glider (when they come down the panel is destroyed and you have broken bones)

I use grocy for chore /task management. Then home assistant to put it on a dashboard that looks nice. I’m not totally happy but it is the best I’ve found.

It is the ecconomy, stupid. I realize junior engineers have never before had a recession affect them so this seems new and eifferent to them. However as a senior I’ve seen several and every single time there are articles about how this time is difierent and the jobs are never coming back. I also know it sucks to be someone who is affected, but in a few years this will be a memory.

not that ai changes nothing, but thingsialways change. The world recovers and moves on.

I’m working on a button to push when we feed the cats per my wife’s request. It doesn’t do anything when push because she can’t figure out why she wants the button

In some cases. However most often when there is a stack trace it is because something I didn’t expect happened - I can’t tell you how we got there or how to correct it because if I knew I would have just had the code do that in the first place. If the error is something the user did though I’d expect a clean error message.

What broke? If it was a GNU ism that wouldn’t work on *BSD either, than it is your own stupid fault. There are other linux distros that also don’t use the gnu core utils that would break things do.

I had a few cousins who took and finished all my grandma’s unfinished quilts. They were already into quilting though. YMMV, but it is a good example - if there is someone who can understand/take this over give it to them.

A good boss won’t have problems with that - they are always looking for their next position anyway and having a replacement ready to go is good - if you can’t be replaced you can’t be promoted. A good boss will help your get involved with the politics needed to be good at this. A good boss will put your name up for leads in a different department where there is an opening that you wouldn’t even know about.

Note that I said good boss above. Not all bosses are good.

That depends. AI replaces consultants that just make up slop that feels good. Consultants that annalyze things in depth can’t be replaced by ai slop though. I’ve seen both.

Welcome to inflation. If a price isn’t going up regularly someone is getting ripped off.

When my boss gives me a raise I always compare that to the yearly inflation rate - it has more than once turned what looks good into a loss for me. (I might accept it once in a while, but I’m looking for new jobs soon if they don’t fix)