My health insurance costs 842€ a month. I pay half of it, the other half my employer. So I am quite impressed with the $20 from the estimation.

But why do two jobs? Won’t people do a better job concentrating on one thing and getting $2000 for that, instead of gaining experience in two different areas at the same time?

Twitter turning into Truth Social?

YouTube and Spotify are paying license fees to be allowed to play music on their platform.

Do backups. Don’t forget to test if recovery works as expected.

Sounds illegal. Maybe in countries with weak consumer rights.

You most likely did not officially consent to the changes and have a prolonged right to terminate the contract without the need of upholding the contract duration.

It’s probably mich cheaper just to deal with the few that complain rather than sending out hundreds of thousands of paper letters or having them confirm the changes electronically and terminating the contracts of those who did not accept.

Isn’t paying for subscriptions exactly the zeitgeist? People pay for Netflix, instead of just recording stuff for free and sharing copies among friends and family. It’s convenience you pay for (if we keep Netflix originals out of scope)

This printer was paid for by my employer in 2017. I would have never spent 250€ on a printer. And I often did not use it because it had run out of ink and I was too lazy or occupied to take the 5 minutes to order it. So now this is taken care of.

It is also the best printer I have ever had and the longest living. But it is also the first one that cost more than 50€ so the reason might lie there.

So… you have the full game encoded in an NFT? That sounds like a shit ton of overhead.

I actually like my printing subscription. I pay like 5€ a month (I don’t quite remember) and don’t have to think about buying new ink, Monitoring the status of my ink level, or facing the issue that I suddenly ran out of ink and can’t print.

That’s what I pay for. I probably pay more than before, but 5€ a month is really negligible. It’s less then one Starbucks coffee.

I would look at it from a different angle. Before the internet you had to have a lot of knowledge in different areas to be able to sound and behave smart, and also to make good choices.

Now you have knowledge readily available everywhere and there is much less incentive to learn things you don’t currently need, just to have it available in case you talk to someone about this topic.

This has become even more evident with AI, where you don’t have to skim through a lot of context to find your information, you just ask what you need and it is presented the way you need it right away.

I am in servicenow. The bigger aspect of the job is talking to people to figure out what they actually want and design the implementation with all the best practices in this overly complex environment. The technical implementation that follows is a nice change of pace. I like the mix in both, talking and configuring. (You can’t really call it developing, the dev aspect is rather small)

I fully work from home, travel to the office four times a year for the team events.