14 years as 100% remote... living in the middle of nowhere, 40 acres of land to run around and enjoy (fly huge model planes at lunch time, fire up the bbq with the wife and fams, etc etc) and life is good. I have a reclining workstation that has helped for a number of reasons, but it's made from a chair that's light enough to carry out to the back porch when the weather is nice. Some companies like to take a little off the top of your pay due to being remote, but if you go looking in the right spots you can get remote work at bigger city salaries. Even when the pay was shorted a little, the lifestyle more than makes up for it.
...make sure that you get enough personal interaction (the hardest and most important depending just how "remote" you are), and make sure that you appreciate the lifestyle perk that it is, and be happy.
As much as I love it, it's really not for everyone... I've seen some people be allowed to go remote, move away from the office, not be able to deal with the remoteness and quit. It happens.
TinyWall... other LittleSnitch-like apps on windows aren't anywhere near as nice as LittleSnitch, but TinyWall gets rid of the crappy prompts firing a million times a day until you configure it (the thing that sucks is apps like ChromeUpdate and others can get around the firewall somehow, so if you're set to prompt, it will prompt you all day long, so TinyWall makes it all sane).
Unfortunately Tinywall hasn't been updated since 2016. It still works, of course, but I'm not comfortable using security software that isn't in active development.
Now we just need to figure out who pays for those upgrades. I think we could try a scheme where we keep growing the user base so more recent customers pay for the prior customers' upgrades.
Considering Apple's constant shifting of goalposts with macOS, what counts as "significant" in your book, even disregarding user-facing features? And how significant is the ~$50 they want for it?
I have to roll my eyes at someone who scoffs at a $25 upgrade every few years.
If they're not cool with funding any future development on the product, then they must be cool with not upgrading. But of course they instead entitle themselves to all of your future labor because they once threw some shekels your way.
you only need to pay every 3-5 years aaaaand only if you want to upgrade, aaaaaaand you can keep using your last updated version, aaaand only 50% of the full price
an absurdly violent culture with too many guns. the culture needs to reduce the violence, and remove the guns already... or simply state how many innocent people you're perfectly fine with being killed for any reason each year, including if that happens to be your own family because you believe guns are fine that it's someone else's issue.
Absurdly violent culture? Culture is arguably less violent than at any point in recorded human history. If anything the issue is repression of the inherently violent human tendencies. Why else would people be so fascinated by violent movies and television?
"The way Trump can get impeached, is if he lies"... what about him insisting that there's no links to Russia, and there actually being direct links to Russia?... that kind of lie, or some other kind of lie?...
where is the authority of ownership?... as in, if someone else or group of people own tokens, where's the authority that will back them up if they want to force residency on the property?... if you take your tokens to the police, will they help you evict someone?... no. until there's common authority somewhere, tokens are useless for ownership of physical property.
so writing your own software is "unproductive" but you also want to put the blame onto the people who made a framework available?... do you want open source to go away? or do you think that companies that protect such valuable information should be spending more on security assurances?
the answer for me is to recline when working... and put that energy into a proper workout, which also means you can workout in a way that doesn't impact your knees.
To me it's about changing position. Sitting, standing, treadmill, reclining or whatever. It's all causing problems if you do any of these for 8 hours straight.
...make sure that you get enough personal interaction (the hardest and most important depending just how "remote" you are), and make sure that you appreciate the lifestyle perk that it is, and be happy.
As much as I love it, it's really not for everyone... I've seen some people be allowed to go remote, move away from the office, not be able to deal with the remoteness and quit. It happens.