You pretty much nailed the entire reason for most of my friends and myself (mid to late 20s). We can all afford kids, but it's just not something anyone desires except for one or two people in our group of 14.
Most of us don't even dislike kids, but the thought of having our own is undesirable.
I was gonna say SF, but now that I think about it the burger places there tend to be a bit more quaint and definitely don't have the live laugh love shit everywhere. At least I've never seen one, but it's a big fucking city so there's almost definitely at least one.
They were everywhere in Denver.
Because a more expensive PSU does not mean a better one. The efficiency ratings also don't tell the whole story as power supplies are more complicated than their power efficiency. Use one of the many power supply tier lists to ensure you get a good, reliable PSU. I've seen some very expensive ones be absolutely awful.
Surprisingly, Remarkable tablets, despite not being open source, you can do just about anything with. They allow root SSH access and the backend is a heavily stripped down version of Linux.
I've been writing an application to allow customizing splash screens over SSH/SFTP and it's actually been super easy to work with. The "jailbreak" scene is also super active, and the company has gone the opposite direction of most. They retroactively removed the need for a subscription to cloud sync on all devices, and seem to very much embrace the ridiculous things people have done with their tablets.
The device is also no nonsense and does exactly what it's designed to do extremely well and no more. No ads, no bloat, no constant internet connection. You could never connect the thing to the internet if you really wanted. Honestly one of the few devices I've bought in recent memory that I feel like I wholely own.
Two big downsides are no Bluetooth, and you need a modified hardware device to unbrick the device if you fuck up (jumping type C pins to put the device into recovery). Overall really solid and would recommend.
Good shit identifying something that could be automated! Seems like it's already paying off, and it's such an under utilized skill I'm sure you'll continue to be awarded for it. It's almost entirely why software engineers get paid so damn much.
Almost everything we do is with the goal of automating something, with the whole product often being some helpful automations for people's lives. The company I work for pulled a billion dollars in revenue and we just automate healthcare data ingress and egress.
Edit: Now that I think about it, it might be worth your time to learn some basic Python. Dead simple language but incredibly powerful.
They also make your feet absolutely ripped. I bought a pair from Vivo Barefoot a year and a half ago and they took about a month to not be tiring to walk in. I felt muscles in my feet I didn't know existed, and now my feet are the most vascular part of my body and look like I do some crazy for specific exercise. I can't wear normal shoes anymore because my toes feel cramped, not being able to feel the ground feels weird, and I feel like I'm gonna slip way more because I can't "grip" the ground with my foot.
My back doesn't hurt from walking anymore. Highly recommend, but you gotta give yourself a month to get used to them. Many barefoot shoe stores do 90 day returns no questions asked to give you time to adjust.
I honestly don't think we're gonna go any further than we already have in the everything cloud connected direction. The software industry is already pushing against "everything in the cloud", and on-prem with cloud/off-site backups is becoming more and more common.
Most people don't exactly have a choice. They kinda need places to live near their jobs which almost always dictate where they live.
Also, appreciate the value of ownership? How do you expect almost anyone in Gen Z to afford to own anything more substantial than a car? The oldest of us are just starting our professions after getting out of college/trade school, and getting into jobs that don't pay enough to afford a house anytime soon. We never even had the option of ownership because housing is fucked.
Hell I'm one of the lucky ones. I graduated college without debt and I make really good money, but it's gonna take me 5 years to save up a down payment for a $8k a month mortgage despite living well below my means. I can only imagine how fucked it is for the average person who will never have the chance to own anything at all.
We never had the choice to own anything.
It's ironic but makes complete sense if we're assuming they blocked the VPN server IP.
Say I'm a malicious user who's using VPN server #22 from ProtonVPN (my personal favorite provider). The victim (CR in this case) isn't going to see they're being attacked by someone on VPN server #22 from ProtonVPN, they're going to see the IP of that server and nothing else.
It really doesn't matter if they did have that information because no human will be involved. The traffic will be marked as malicious and blocked by some software designed to monitor, identify, and block traffic that looks malicious. This is almost always done based on IP. It's usually reversed in a few days though because IP addresses change frequently, so there's no sense in continuing to block traffic from an IP you can't guarantee belongs to the original attacker.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a spaceship full of tapes hurtling through the cosmos.
There are levels to it. As things get more complex the problems get infinitely more strange. As you learn a particular technology the strange things you encounter are often because of a misunderstanding about that technology or the way it works.
Once you hit professional level software engineering (think distributed systems), things are strange in large part because the system you're working on has hundreds of thousands of man hours poured into it, and is often very complex with 10 different technologies backing it to do various things.
The more strange things you encounter though the more you're learning!
I probably come off as a Fidelity shill with how much I've mentioned them on Lemmy, but it's a genuinely good platform for banking. They're not a traditional bank. They're a brokerage that offers checking and savings accounts that you can directly buy/sell securities with.
I moved all my assets to them after Chase pissed me off one too many times and it was the greatest decision I've ever made. Account to account transfers are instant (I've transferred like $60k and they didn't give a fuck) and they front you the money for external incoming transfers that are still in pending. You never have time periods where you can't access your money because it's in the ether that is our antiquated banking system.
No minimums, no transfer fees, no stock/ETF purchase fees, and they pay ATM withdrawal fees automatically (including my $10 ATM fee in Vegas). The one time I had to call them to request a chargeback on my credit card the whole call, including waiting, took 5 minutes.
By far my favorite feature though is you can buy into money market funds like SPAXX in your normal accounts, so you get 5% APY on your money. However, it's still treated as normal USD so any transactions automatically pull from it.