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I walk to either the gelato shop, or cake shop, on a Friday night, and partake in one or the other. Love is measured in coffee cups and dessert.

Fastmail with Gmail as the client.

I don't trust the long term viability of Google products anymore, including Gmail.

I love that fastmail can handle any.name@my.domain

The learning for me has been to solve existing problems. Maybe create something that solves a problem for yourself or someone in your family? You will be surprised how happy the average person is when you make something that makes their life easier.

I made a simple web booking system 15 years ago and people are still using it. I had very little idea of what I was doing.

As others have said, make something and enjoy the work of your hands :-)

Good sex extends beyond chemistry and self-pleasure. Good sex strengthens the bond between two people and makes them smile more at each other.

The Bible is my goto for sex and relationships. I am male and have been married for nearly 30 years. The bible teaches me to keep sex, and sex thoughts, for my wife. This is a very different culture from how I grew up. I think too many sexual partners messes with your head as you get older. You romanticise old connections when the going gets tough with your partner. Testing sexual compatibility is also a nonsense. I can confirm I was downright rubbish at sex. In a loving relationship you find a way and get there in the end.

The bible is also counter intuitive about relationships, love your neighbour and your enemy.

Many of the books and theories mentioned here will be long forgotten. There are still many like myself who lean on the ancient wisdom and teachings of Jesus.

I worked in a school as a technician and wrote a room booking system. It shaped my life. It has brought sideline income for 16 years. It got me a job in the private sector. It opened the door for a number of large paid projects. I'm now a lecturer trying to pass on my IT curiosity to others. The booking system is https://freeperiod.co.uk.

Friends and I were drinking about 40 years ago and my best friend confessed he had become a christian. Drunkenness is not exactly very christian but we were teenagers and my friend had just become a christian. Just before going to sleep on my friends sofa I prayed to myself, "Jesus, if you are out there, will you come into my life?"

I have travelled and worked all over the world because of my christian faith. More importantly I met the most wonderful woman who shares the same values. We have two wonderful adult children now. Having left home at 17, feeling bruised by life, I can't believe how things have worked out.So my idea is an old one, there is a God. I am now in my 50s and still talk to God. I was asking him this morning to help my work team as the management want to shut our department down. Hopefully the peace God gives me will help me in my discourse with my very anxious colleagues.

No formal training. I'm old enough that my first experience was copying other people's code from books. Then I graduated to copying code from online manuals and forums. Then I made a thing and people gave me money.

At 52 I found this article thoughtful. We shouldn't walk around fearing death but an awareness of our mortality should shape our decision making. For example, I am at an airport returning from another short break.I have decided not to wait until retirement to travel. I may not be here or up for it.

I started to walk 3 miles a day 3 years ago. I lost 80lbs.

Do this and then think about what you eat next. Measure progress in months and years, not days and weeks.

Yes, app store delays were a shock to me. I made an app for a university pharmacy department. We had to go down the organisational app route as the app store wouldn't publish the app, too small an audience.

I had the same concern. I now use Gmail as my mail client but my email addresses live at Fastmail. So when Googles does something crazy to Gmail it will just be a matter of switching to another frontend.

I met my wife at church. We have been married 28 years. Neither of us had a mobile phone or the Internet back then. I have taught my kids that relationships tend to follow on from friendships. So get yourself into a friend making place and see what happens.

I used used to walk to a particular park bench between two trees in the Meadows in Edinburgh when I first lived alone. I never thought about why. My son now lives alone and goes for walks. I imagine there is something about the movement and familiarity which makes a day more interesting.

Thank you. My church has a food store for those in need and debt counselling for those in financial troubles. We have homework clubs and a youthclub. We also have a type of youthclub for adults. I am going on a 16km hike with a group of men from church on Swturday. I have friends and connections from every walk of life. We are a community. A community for which I am very grateful.

I was at a party, a lot of drinking was going on, and my best friend told me he had become a christian. I was shocked and angry, like I was about to lose my best friend. As I was bunkering down for the night on someone's sofa I found myself saying, "Jesus, if you are out there, will you come into my life?" My friend and I started going to church and have been now for 35 years. Neither of us cane from families who did church. I was pretty beaten up emotionally by family life. Looking back what changed my life was faith in God and being part of a community, the church. It's where I met my wife and my two children are now adults. I could tell you about a career in IT and my saas business but life is about relationships and having a hope in something beyond yourself.

Get a Hetzner vps for buttons. Put a docker image on it with nginx and java. Create a simple site and push it to a bare git repository on the docker image. Tweak the bare repo config to checkout files to the public web folder after it receives the push. When asked about cloud deployments and containers say, "doing it".

I played with a similar approach to yourself but just find myself sliding back to VS Code and the remote extension. I use cloud VMs on Hetzner for testing and live. Truth be told I am even using VS Code as a general terminal manager.

I made a website that solved a problem for schools in the UK 15 years ago. It's a sideline bringing in about a quarter of a salary. I enjoyed your comment. In fantasy land my website is a failed startup. In the real world it is the provision of many family holidays and home improvements.

No and yes.

Thank you, this helps my understanding.

I don't imagine the average person will approach ChatGPT with this level of understanding. My class didn't struggle with the varied output of creative prompts, "write a story". We were confused regarding factual information.

I haven't tried it but someone has ported the software, or something similar to Linux. If it works you could get much cheaper hardware, like a Raspberry PI, and be paying much less.

https://github.com/cryinkfly/VCDS-VAG-COM-Diagnosis-system-f...

I am a lecturer. It makes me smile that we are hounding students on one hand and on the other hand typing, "create a lesson for me".

Thank you

I didn't downvote you by the way, was someone else. I am in holiday in Spain and surrounded by the use of the word Libre regarding libraries and books. So the same thought as your own also crossed my mind.

Brush your teeth. Buy shoes that fit. Walk 2-3 miles every day. Dont eat until you feel full. Feeling full comes 10 minutes after eating.

I imagine this is true. It was strange passing a mine in Bolivia owned by a company local to myself in the UK. Who got wealthy and who lost out due to the colonies is another question I imagine.

Do you think the extraction of resources created wealth and progress at home and abroad?

I have it fixed in my head that progress generally requires an external catalyst. In 2023, it would be very controversial to suggest Europe and the historical colonies are both wealthier as a result.

I have seen how the Spanish destroyed La Paz's natural environment yet it is a bustling city. What do you think?

Well done and thanks for sharing.

Must be 20 years ago as Google was a thing and we had a split monitor and kvm with the one computer in the school IT classroom.

My colleague types hello into the Google search box from the next room. The student then typed who's this? Colleague types, Jimi Hendrix...student turns computer off at the plug :-)