Big +1 for second hand corporate mini PCs

They’re cheaper and better in every way than the Pi

Only get the Pi if you need a specific HAT or GPIO. And even then get a zero.

I’m buying either the Framework Desktop or Steam Machine, whichever is cheaper.

My EXACT idea as well 😆

Definitely

I just did three tasks purely with Claude - at work.

All were pretty much me pasting the Linear ticket to Claude and hitting go. One got some improvement ideas on the PR so I said “implement the comments from PR 420” and so it did.

These were all on a codebase I haven’t seen before.

The magic sauce is that I’ve been doing this for a quarter century and I’m pretty good at reading code and I know if something smells like shit code or not. I’m not just YOLOing the commits to a PR without reading first, but I save a ton of time when I don’t need to do the grunt work of passing a variable through 10 layers of enterprise code.

Depends on the “app”.

A full ass Lemmy client? Nope.

A subtitle translator or a RSS feed hydrator or a similar single task “app”? Easily and I’ve done it many times already.

These are the principles I follow:

https://indieweb.org/make_what_you_need

https://indieweb.org/use_what_you_make

I don’t have time to argue with FOSS creators to get my stuff in their projects, nor do I have the energy to maintain a personal fork of someone else’s work.

It’s much faster for me to start up Claude and code a very bespoke system just for my needs.

I don’t like web UIs nor do I want to run stuff in a Docker container. I just want a scriptable CLI application.

Like I just did a subtitle translation tool in 2-3 nights that produces much better quality than any of the ready made solutions I found on GitHub. One of which was an *arr stack web monstrosity and the other was a GUI application.

Neither did what I needed in the level of quality I want, so I made my own. One I can automate like I want and have running on my own server.

Same thing would happen if they were a non-coder project manager or designer for a team of actual human programmers.

Stuff done, shipped and working.

“But I can’t understand the code 😭”, yes. You were the project manager why should you?

What if I can find it but it’s either shit or bloated for my needs?

I’ve made full-ass changes on existing codebases with Claude

It’s a skill you can learn, pretty close to how you’d work with actual humans

Repost bots should be built in to Reddit tbh

Just take whatever was the top 5 a year ago and repost it at the same time

Karma guaranteed

What’s the difference between this and say FreshRSS?

I’m guessing something about PSP sized because they have their Android Linux emulator project ongoing too

Now if you would level up once more and stopped having gendered pronouns.

That’s the ultimate level 😀

No need to look at the obituaries, it’s gonna be on the front page

https://youtube.com/@breadonpenguins

https://youtu.be/Y8uMvUgnpwI

Clannad - Robin (the Hooded man) from Robin of Sherwood

Which part has enshittified?

The only change I can see that when I scroll down on my Plex front page, there’s a bunch of stuff that’s not on my NAS. Some of them actually interesting, like this full ass category of old school kungfu movies:

I’m only bent on people running software on shit hardware. Roku is bottom barrel crap along with cheap TV sticks.

Step one: get your in-laws a cheap Apple TV from whatever site you use for used electronics. Or even a new one.