Have had my S8 galaxy since release, and now various apps won't work on the OS. I'm being forced into buying a new phone at this point.
I've gotten it in two flavors.
One is people who are so convinced that life has no meaning without children they feel like they are saving you by pressuring you to have kids.
The other, and far more angry, seem to have had kids because they thought they had too, or had a "happy accident", and aren't actually happy about. They see you as the life they could have had.
I have a few times in life, but I've always found a new one.
Each time I'd get deep enough into something, tech advancements always made that thing functionally obsolete.
Once again I'm watching my skill set being phased out, but am working on my big last hurrah project right now that I've dreamed of for years. Having a great time doing it, but have already started the process of replacing it over the next 18 months.
The one plus side now is that the company I'm with has already invested in my training for the next big thing. I've been through it enough times that I don't feel like I'm losing something or wasted my time.
The pace of change is about every five years, and some elements are always in transition.
All in one turn key solutions are always one to two cycles behind, so may work great with the stuff I'm already replacing.
I think these are honest attempts to simplify, but by the time they have it sorted its obsolete. If I have to build modules anyway to work with new equipemnt, might as well just write all the code in my native language.
These also tend to be attempts at all in one devices, requiring you to use devices only compatible with those subsystems. I want to be able to use best tech from what ever manufacturer. New and fancy almost always means a command line interface, which again means coding.
20 years ago at a trade show, a new module based visual coding tool was introduced in my field which claimed "You'll never need another programmer".
Oddly enough, I still have a job.
The tools have gotten better, but I still write code every day because procedural programming is still the best way to do things.
It is just now reaching the point that we can do some small to medium scale projects with plug and play systems, but only with very specific equipment and configurations.
This is my solution. I've said it before, but think it should be repeated. The global population was half of today's when I was born. 4 billion instead of the current 8+ billion.
That means if half the population disappeared today, we'd just be back where we were in 1975.
Not having kids is the best thing I can do for both the environment, and myself.
Has the added benifit of leaving me as a passive observer who doesn't have a biological need to care about the future.
I went into one of the larger local shops to buy some risers or something to try and adjust my old setup. Older sales guy about my age took one look at my gear and said "Your knees must hurt like hell".
I had the money, so I just went full in on new gear, and came away with something I would never have picked for myself.
Not only did he size everything proper for me, he made sure all the pieces were right together. For the first time in my life toe and heel line up exactly with the edge, and where they belong on the pressure points. I'd always riden too small a board and had far too wide a stance to make up for it.
I was still skeptical, but he told me if I didn't love it he'd do a full price exchange.
Even though it's about the longest board I've ever had, the banana camber makes it feel half the size. Took about three runs to actually trust the board, and I was completely sold, you couldn't pay me to ride the old gear again.
I can't see going to a theater for a movie ever again.
Live performance, sure, but I'll watch movies at home.
True, but at least where I ride they have 100% snow making covered. Solution to man made warning is man made snow.
Joking aside, the season in the midwest sure has shrunk since I was a kid.
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