> This is an incredibly boring task.

We all want super exciting jobs. But plenty have boring jobs like this. Between not having a job or having a boring job that pays well, the choice is obvious for many of us.

Are you defending doing boring work?

I personally never minded doing migrations. I guess I don't really have to anymore though. Weird.

The problem is that in many companies doing migrations would be the only job, thus now there is none.

"Windows", "Word" and "Excel" are just plain English words, but it appears you can trademark them for specific industry. Maybe you have to make it more specific. Like "Microsoft Windows"?

Yep. I faced the exact same issue. Too many times. And then just gave up.

Very odd. I've used DeepSeek heavily for some weeks, and haven't seen a single Chinese character either in its replies or its thinking. Are you using a quantified model or a different provider by any chance?

> I miss Craigslist more and more

I do not. Craigslist was completely anonymous. Marketplace a lot less so. This makes a massive difference.

> marketplace seems to be where everyone in my area has congregated.

I think that is not just limited to your area.

In Switzerland there is tutti, in Austria there is willhaben, Germany has Kleinanzeigen (afaik that's owned by eBay)

Same for events, plenty of local or more spread sites for events in each of these counties.

So glad my general area didn't fall into the Facebook trap.

> it's not just the "normies" who don't know what Sol is.

You are closer to a normie than most here I assume.

selfprivacy appears to be limited to a handful of services. e.g. It is not clear to me if I can host postgresql with it. i.e. It is not a general purpose container hosting product.

> OS/2 was the only thing I remembering being great.

Thinkpads were great too. I had the Thinkpad 701C with the butterfly keyboard. It was awesome for its time.

> If there is ever a conflict, US will seize assets of whatever country..

Canadians, and the rest of the world is finding out that you don't even need a conflict for US to lay claim over your stuff. "We want it", is perfectly legitimate and legal reason for the taking.

> The problem inference providers will not be able to get anywhere near the contributor pricing.

Maybe if they started collecting data..

> Like, who actually cares? Are people excited for the new benchmarks?

You may not care. But that does not mean that nobody else does either. Some of us are trying to eke out every last bit of performance from these things. And so yeah, we're going to geek out on it.

I don't use AWS/EC2. I think they are way overpriced for what you get. But, it would be incorrect of me to assume that everybody else feels that way.