Ironic that the diesel that replaced steam and pure electric is actually diesel electric.

Not really. The problem with electric (in 1930) is the low voltage (relatively low - still 600-1000 volts!) couldn't handle the needed watts for diesel.

Steam was more fuel efficient than diesel when it was replaced. But a diesel engine could start in less than a few hours, and needed one less person on the crew so it was cheaper overall.

While true and a pragmatic approach, that's another part of the same root problem.

While that is definitely true, you can ignore it and choose local options. I often try to ask locals where they go to eat. Most people are excited to share a recommendation or two and why they like it.

Another thing I do, is avoid online menues at least ahead of visiting a spot and make my selections once I arrive. I can't say it's better, but it definitely keeps the serendipitous and suspense that I remember from my younger years before everything was online and had a million reviews.

That seems a plausible outcome. Pretty dystopian for sure, but plausible.

Sadly the cat is out of the bag, so banning it for the general public means that only the bad guys have it and they're already presumably doing illegal things so why do they care about using illegal software too?

I ran a server that was primarily rat surf maps with a Warcraft/RPG server mod for years back then. It was super fun and something that modern games just can't touch in terms of that kind of niche.

Surf maps were so strange as a concept. Dunno how stuff like that can become such a big thing.

I miss the custom games of Warcraft 3 and the likes. The creativity was running wild.

It is sad that hats, loot boxes amd dlc has killed modding in commercial games.

Probably my cynicism but its the more stores you drive past the more likely you are to stop off and buy something.

I also struggle with frontend, can you share any more about how you did this? All local? From a service? My usage so Fae is limited to copilot, but I'd like to try other things.

claude isn’t local. the key is providing the image to direct the html and css from the llm

Mature? Yes. Better than Gdocs, debatable, but IMO yes. Replacement for the desktop app? Not quite, but it depends on which feature you specifically need.

Interestingly my wife is offered O365 online as part of her Master's school as a way to write research papers. When she submits them in canvas, it cannot link to the document she wrote online, so it must be downloaded to her laptop which is a Mac. When that happens the only way to look at it is in our personal version of Word, locally, which distorts quite a bit of things, losing indention or adding spaces is common. It was surprising to me that a docx file is rendered so differently between the 2. This is a common problem for the professors it seems as they are asking people to download the docs to personal office apps and export them to PDF, negating the entire purpose of O365 online that they provided...

How do you MITM their own devices? Do you require installing root certs to access WiFi? What if they just use cellular data?

Yep, content inspection is enabled on the student Internet and they have to install a root certificate to get online. No cell signal since we’re out in the sticks so it’s their only option

I have been using MinVer for dotnet projects, which is similar but a little easier (IMO) to work with since its all based on tags.