@M1sf3t I’m 100% for self driving, the issue is I believe we’re still a bit far from having road legal ones and some (not to say all) parts of the tech are already available today - my point was if someone starts driving a car full of assists and someday needs to drive a “real” “raw” car they won’t have their reflexes sharp enough and shit will happen.

But ye, I’ve seen videos of the Tesla autopilot preventing accidents and it’s dope, humans would not be able to do some of the saves it does, so for sure the number of people saved by semi-self driving will always be much higher than deaths cause by drivers with inferior skills on “non-assisted” (?) cars due to being used to said technologies.

@molaram I disagree, I drive tens of thousands of kms per year on a Q2 with all the e-shits and I’m as focused and ready to act as on a vehicle without them, I do agree with @Fast-Nop, I will drive longer stretches on it than I’ll be comfortable with on my A3 or R8, cars without said e-shits.

If you’re a seasoned and skilled driver you won’t lay back - I understand that may be the case for people that start driving a car with assists from day 1.

Lets make everyone drive a gasoline car pre-2000 with no ABS for a year or two after they get their license to get them skillz. Jokes aside, There should actually be laws against new drivers using assists - for instance, I did a small ~400km trip in a Volvo S90 and that shit drived almost by itself.

I can't tell you the best language to learn (regardless of covid) but given your listed skills of "C++, Python, C, PHP, Django" I would say go for Go(lang) [https://golang.org/]!.
It's powerful, quick, and you can drop-in C & CPP in a neat way (CGO). Have fun.

LOL it's not even "Template", it's Templete ahah.
I'm sorry you've to put up with that, wouldn't like to be on your shoes...

@yellow-dog I mentioned react cause that’s what I’m used to, same goes for any similar technologies you’re used to! I personally use react because it had more adoption (I assume that’s still the case nowadays) when I started using it. If it’s a small project that you want to keep simple, ship fast and make easy to maintain stick to what you like, know and use - remember, if you use the project to learn and don’t like the outcome you’ll have to maintain it regardless (or rewrite it and spend 3x the time - cause you used 2x the time learning new stuff by this point).

That seems everything but dead simple to me.
Want dead simple?
Static HTML with PayPal buy buttons.
Support and tracking via email/PayPal.
Now that’s dead simple.
If it’s really no more than X purchases and a handful of products why not consider it?
Or Shopify. Never used it but if a non-tech can do it I would say it doesn’t get any easier than that.
PS: This obviously depends on the use case, but I would do a react app (to avoid spaghetti) driven by JSON files hosted on S3 w/PayPal buttons if it fills all needs, invoicing and tracking via PayPal, email for support, if too much hassle for it would add Zendesk for a quick help center linked to email. As always, cloudflare on front and you can scale to the moon with a low overhead and zero worries lol.

@SortOfTested I've tried all ports to no avail, unfortunately, it's very hard to debug what's happening and it happens very few times (around ~1x a day) so it's even harder.

@010001111 and you guys have no stability issues? No occasional problems more than you would have on an Apple machine?
I'm a bit afraid mainly because downtime is expensive, and I'm a one-person army - so future problems would be tricky if they bring a few days of downtime, work, and attention to figure out the situation.

@helloworld, thanks for the feedback! I usually reuse my laptops within the company after I upgrade them, so I don't end up reselling them! But it's a fair point; I was more worried about the longevity of the machine, but all in all, it's true; if I ever need to upgrade and can't do it directly on the computer, it will still have a lot of value.

@heyheni my current setup is a 2017 MBP, an Elgato thunderbolt dock, an external Vega 64 WC, on a Sonnet Breakaway running on a big display I like.

This setup is starting to break my workflow as I'm finding myself very often opening the lid, turning off the dock, waiting, turning it on, and having to restart the computer cause the GPU connection went A-wire...

This MBP has been pushing through the most so far, MacBooks usually last me ~2y and then there's always some software or workload getting heavy enough to start to affect my work - also my current machine was 1.5k€ less than the base Mac Pro so I'm already near the price tag.
This time around at least it's not a performance thing, it's my fault for using a laptop as a desktop.
I intend to keep my current machine for mobility and get another workstation for stationary (which at this time is most of my) work.

@SortOfTested the upgrade scenario seems to cost a lot of time and patience, and possibly bring downtime - I'm super grateful for all the feedback, definitively made my decision clear as water :)

@SortOfTested thanks! Ye, it's the possible downtime that scares me. I pitty the money at times but my biggest fear is that the architecture gets outdated rather quickly and such a big investment stops being upgradable. I'm leaving fear behind and diving in!

@Diactoros Thanks for the excellent feedback, it's validating my decision. I'm definitively leaning towards the pro.

@sqlkid according to what I read it works just like any OSX - of course, with less stability (and with the added fact that you would obviously be committing copyright infringement by installing OSX on a non-Apple computer).
Can they detect it and act? Sure, sound technically possible and relatively easy.
Have they done it in the past? Nop except for some added security that the community bypassed quickly.

Please note: Never owned a Hackintosh, I did get a very expert consultor on the matter, but I would like to get opinions of people that faced my situation before making a purchase.

Have you seen Mr. Robot? For fiction it’s solid stuff - I’m a huge fan, thinking about rewatching soon.

Hopefully you picked a nice house... (PS: Didn't realised there were Portuguese on devRant! Olá!)

I use 2 simple techniques that WORK if after two hours I'm still there wide awake:
1) I'm going back to work.
2) Gin, Straight. At least a quadruple (not that I would measure servings at that point).

@Oktokolo it definitively looks good, seems way leaner than most distros out there. Going to try it for sure when I've some time.

@Fast-Nop Don't forget OSX, binaries are (mostly) the norm too.
I can't remember the last time I had to compile an app for OSX - they're all built, usually with fancy graphic installers - or brew'able.

@alexbrooklyn I'm doing something actually related! I've been running custom builds on the last couple days of FFMPEG, VLC and now i'm about to end on GStreamer... At this point I probably pushed through 100's of errors. Gotta enable those NVIDIA encoders/decoders... And I'll have to compile some OBS stuff later as well. #PrayForMe. Working with media sucks.

@Oktokolo never happened to cross my way! OS's by preference would be OSX - RHEL - Amazon Linux - CentOS - Ubuntu [So you can see I like simple straight forward stuff you don't need much to maintain :P]