I'm kind of in that boat as a "reckless developer". I come in and write little tools to help people workflows, automate something that was a manual process or a shell script to get the job done instead of doing it by hand. Some of these scripts can grow into big projects over time depending on if I'm the end user or someone else. No one asks me to make these things, I just see a issue to resolve and I resolve it. I like to call my self a hacker really since it makes sense in the old terminology of what I do with the many hats that i wear.
That is really interesting! I always though those things where solid state and wouldn't age over time!
It makes a ton more sense that there is a somewhat of a reset that is randomly happening when people are fixing stuff nearby and thinking their main target was the thing that fixed it.
It amazes me they didn't use some kind of KVM on these laptops instead of software, most company laptops have a ton of bossware on them monitoring applications and such
Some of the boomers I know like to explain that they are paying for a brain. someone who has taken the time in school and is "smart"
This of course doesn't really work out as you have explained. I always like to point out that I'm one of those "smart" people and I'm a middle school drop out slacker who is just clever with computers.
At this point more people would be pissed off that systemd is missing then using another init system. Its too late in the game for most major distros to get away from systemd. Systemd is here to stay, the most we can do is fight to try and make it better.
Its a interesting issue, its kinda of like software piracy, so what if someone steals the product, we will still make money on the product with the normal sale of the data in the first place. Its just making the news because it was a breach. It's not counted as a breach if the exact same party was to buy the data outright from ATT in the first place.
Its not just a bad password, it was a password that was exposed to a info stealer in some way. It might of been reused or overshared into some system that got exposed. From what I understand someone got a huge info stealer dump and started putting two and two together and noticed all these scraped passwords and tried them on snowflake
Im kind of in the same boat, I'm on a CGNAT with a apartment community, they don't have IPv6 at all, matter of fact they barely VLAN the apartments / wifi apart. I've rick rolled the entire complex's chromecasts before
A 6c / 12t Dedicated Server with 32GB of ram is 65$ a month with OVH
I do get that it is a bare server, but if you deploy even just bare containers to it, you would be saving a good bit of money and get better performance from it.
The only company I know of that is "doing it right" is Valve. Keeping themselves private really has paid off for them and has started to better the overall gaming community with their services, I think their cut might be a little high, but you do get a ton of value add as a dev.
Oh for sure, I would not suggest doing HL2 Engine Modding, I had suggested it because it has the lowest barrier of entry to get started for a someone that young. Basic Wiremod can make some rather complicated contraptions. and once you start going down the Lua route with a custom gamemode you can just about make anything, I've seen mario clones to RTS done with Garrysmod gamemodes
Garry's Mod + Wiremod is really easy to get into if you use Basic Gates or even Expressions, Its how I learned to program when I was 12 (back in Gmod 9)