It’d have to be $1 million plus arrangements to move to the EU. If it weren’t for family here, I’d probably take that.

Yeah, you tend to see the best of humanity during a shared struggle (and sometimes the worst too, but seems more often the better).

In 2003, there was a massive power outage over a big chunk of the midwest. Power was out for about three days. My entire city just kinda… shut down and took a break.

It wasn’t all great–a few elderly folks even died of heat stroke (it was hot, in the middle of summer if I remember right). But there were some positives: the city functioned as a community in a way I’ve never experienced before or since. It felt like we were all on a broken elevator together–a sudden sense of camaraderie in the face of a shared experience.

Most businesses couldn’t function, so everyone was pretty much outside in the parks and at the waterfront, and everyone seemed pretty welcoming to everyone else (they kinda had to be, there were a lot of people out). My dad had a portable generator, so we went around town taking turns at friends’ houses to run their fridges and freezers for a while, and got to just spend time with them.

I don’t expect that the world could function like that all the time, but it was kinda nice for a few days.

I die cleaning a bicycle chain.

Canadians also use “cheque”, but I’ve got a foot in both countries. Consider me your Bri’ish/'murican translator.

I’ve had others correct me the other direction (specifically decrying the use of “refund” because it wasn’t money owed in the first place). At some point it’s just semantics.

I’m aware, I was simply translating for our colleague across the pond.

You might be getting the wrong idea. We have tax withholding on our paychecks, same idea. Then when you file your taxes, you either send a cheque (if your withholding was less than you owed) or you get a return (if your withholding was more than you owed).

I had looked at those, but the hat alone is over $70. Plus they need an RPi5, because earlier ones don’t have a PCIe interface. For that much, I could get a Beelink or something similar.

The hat is a cool idea, though.

I hadn’t looked at any ODROID stuff, and the HC4 is a cool looking solution! I’m actually even more impressed with the M1S, which has a built-in M.2 slot. Can’t use my existing spinny drives, but for the price of the M1S, I could pick up an NVMe drive to go with it.

A SBC with SATA ports, to use as a Plex server. I’ve only ever found one (the Zimaboard), but it’s a bit pricey for something that I’d still have to find some way to house with an external HDD.

Ooh, I’ll be Always-Remembers-What-He-Was-Going-To-Buy-At-The-Store Man.

Having both of those would probably put your superpower level in the A or S tier, so you’ll have to consult OP on that.

You should consider “Understands Unspoken Details Perfectly Man.”

But putting them there is almost definitely a bad idea.

Yeah, if you’re working on really high-performance apps, I can see why iOS would be easier. I’m guessing it’s because the hardware that runs iOS is exclusive, so they can create simpler and more reliable APIs for that kind of thing. Android supports pretty much anything, so consistent APIs and performance is much more difficult.

But I’d posit that your development case is somewhat narrow. Tons of apps only rely on more basic APIs and base-system components–where computations are happening (CPU vs GPU) isn’t even considered, and doesn’t matter. There’s still more variation in performance, but it’s usually negligible.

I can certainly sympathize with your case, though.

It really depends on your budget and what you define as an “easy fix.” For tons of people I know, they’d rather send something in for repair or buy a new device than spend twenty minutes searching for a solution.

From a developer standpoint, I can affirm this. Android is much easier to develop on, presumably because Android doesn’t lock down as much functionality as iOS. Neither is “right” or “wrong,” they just have different philosophies.

Oh, and Android has a much lower barrier to entry to begin development. Apple charges significantly more to publish apps, and you can’t really develop iOS apps without an Apple device. Not a big deal for the big players, but indie projects have a harder time.

It increases your chance of drowning, but not for the reason people usually think.