Since visiting Japan, I’ve come to realise half of the whimsical stuff in Japanese media isn’t just great world building, rather it’s often inspiration taken directly from the author’s surroundings.

People (still) don’t take it seriously when you point out actual fascism.

The only solution to having a Nazi problem is violence against Nazis. They cannot be reasoned with and are a threat to everyone else.

The Telegraph has been Tory fan fiction since about the same time as the BBC changes. Loads of scandals of them taking money from shady places to print favourable news for the questionable people in the world and turn the other way when the Tories do something shitty.

They even beat the all time biggest liar, the Daily fucking Mail in the annual making shit up awards recently (IPSO factuality violations where they are forced to issue corrections)

It’s been pure propaganda for a good while now

The guardian is far from flawless, but it’s one of the best news sources that we have available in the Anglosphere by an increasing margin—yes I’m including the BBC in that given everything that followed Mr Cameron’s changes to the charter in 2015.

The speech free platform continues to remove speech.

Once you’ve got a job in your chosen career, 99% of situations don’t give any shit about what happened before that.

MSN messenger died for Skype

Skype died for Teams

We’re not on a great trajectory here

(Yes Lync too, but everyone was pleased about that)

Also tangentially related: one of Tim Berners-Lee’s regrets is the two forward slashes between the protocol scheme and the domain name

Also I love that the older BBC articles are frozen in time like this

Well one of the main problems people are having with AI is that it doesn’t get things correct every time.

I mean, if they adjust it away from the correct assessment that modern conservatives are actively malicious morons, it’s probably going to be so bent out of shape that it’ll be incapable of telling anything remotely truthful.

Proton for ARM is not (currently) a thing, if that’s a factor

Wouldn’t have an alternative to Reddit without it—so, by all means

I think there’s an alpine build too if your system has low oxygen levels

In the magpie nests

(Sorry, you made me think of this article)

I’m in the same boat as you, with decades of projects I want to be able to open.

However, OP mentioned Reaper, which has a native Linux version! So as long as they’re not using a load of VSTs, and the ones they do play nicely with Linux, it could work out for them

The only way is to give it a go and find out though

For a good while, Plex was the only game in town that did the job well, and they put the transcoding feature behind the paywall.

Given it wasn’t that expensive for a lifetime pass a number of years ago (I remember it was cheaper than a game anyway) and they still seemed relatively user-centric at the time, many people like me felt like they were supporting developers building something that was useful to us.

I still run my Plex server since it’s not really costing me not to, but I’ve been running Jellyfin too for a little while and it more or less can do the same job these days

Well that’s why I prefaced what I said with the point about not having enough detail for specifics. I went off a rough idea of what any typical smart home gadget I’ve come across would require.

Many consumers care about ongoing maintenance of the stuff they buy, especially smart home stuff. I know I personally wouldn’t touch a new product if I got any impression it would stop working or be abandoned in the future.

Apps sometimes break in some way with new OS versions and need changes to continue working correctly. New devices come out and the app might operate on assumptions that are no longer true, requiring improvements.

Security researchers might find a bug in your app/API/gadget and now suddenly you’re hosting a botnet whilst potentially being on the hook legally and financially. That’s gonna need engineer time to diagnose and fix, ideally proactively.

And yes you’re right, one engineer could do it all, I addressed that in my original comment. If one engineer can do it all well they are going to be expensive, the implication being you could get it done badly for cheap. If OP’s idea is just a scam product then sure, but I’m assuming they actually want whatever their idea is to be successful and not give off a half-arsed vibe to potential customers.

I was gonna say, anyone with half a brain who has poked their head into Reddit over the past year or two will have seen a shitload of obvious bots in the comments.

Given we don’t know what your idea is it’s kinda hard to speak in specifics, but just on the software side you’re probably looking at three engineers minimum—app engineer (probably x2, one iOS one android), api/infra engineer & an embedded software guy for the device itself. At least the first two will need to be permanent as those things will need to be maintained over time. Any engineer that says they can do all three roles to a high standard is either lying or going to be very expensive.

Then you may start to need someone handling project management around those guys to make sure things stay on track and that’s before we get into the hardware side of things.

Depending where you are, an engineering team like that could easily get quite expensive quickly and some of these will be ongoing costs. So I guess I’m saying make sure you know what all of your costs are going to be and that your finances cover it comfortably before you commit to anything

Here’s a song about tardigrades that I often get stuck in my head

https://youtu.be/aCkSr0ugTIM

Oh cool, I can’t think of any potential issues with oil companies prioritising AI over human customers