The best advice I have for new nerds: Refuse to pay rent.
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@trevorflowers If you refuse to pay rent as far as your home goes, you're eventually going to be evicted, though, or worse, you could get taken to court by the landlord over it.
@dfx4509b @trevorflowers I don't think OP was talking about housing
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The best advice I have for new nerds: Refuse to pay rent.
Don't subscribe. Don't lease. Don't use their cloud. Don't slip down the freemium slope. Don't create accounts on their services.
Buy it once. Run it local. Avoid commercial software.
It'll be a huge pain and you'll be an outsider but it'll be endless, interesting, and hard fun that'll pay you back with a curious mind and an understanding of the fabric of our intellectual infrastructure that will make you light-years more capable, useful, and healthy than the "AI" zombies.
Forever confused why such an approach isn’t the default. Why would anyone pay rent for short-term convenience at the expense of long-term critical dependencies?
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@rysiek BASIC was my first programming language!
...wait, it's worse. I have forgotten the language, other than it having GOTO and GOSUB.
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@KatS yup! And let's not forget BASIC!
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@rysiek Not only that, but I remember MS Access being sold as making databases so easy, your CEO can use them - and having to clean up the aftermath.
It used a query language similar to, but not quite the same as, SQL :headdesk:
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@rashunda grazie Rashunda ❤️
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@Angie Io ne ho due, ma ho troppa paura a iniziarli...
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1. We need specialists to talk to computers.
2. Specialists are expensive, can we avoid them?
3. Ah, what if instead of using difficult programming languages, we used something closer to natural language!
4. Wait, natural language is imprecise, which leads to Bad Things.
5. Okay, natural language, but Precise™!
6. Wait, that's just a programming language and non-techies hate it.
7. A new type of techie emerges, specializing in the new tool.
Tee hee "prompt engineering".
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@thisismissem oh dear! Possibly you could enable push notifications instead, although then you're trading one notification type for another. Lots of notifications for replies to the same topic?
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@Gina @caffetino but both Italy and Spain are big and there aren't just the cities. An English friend of mine bought property in Umbria in the country. A Spanish friend of mine bought a house for 40k€ (!!). In general, if you stay away from big cities and from too touristic places, there are good bargains to be made: I heard of big houses with big gardens available at 150k which is basically a steal (especially considering what I had to pay for an apartment...)
