And for a lot of folks that just doesn’t matter. Paying 50 or 100 USD for a server per month won’t be the thing that breaks you.

Before you get to a scale where Rails become a problem you need to have a product that drives a pretty significant engagement, that’s where most fail.

Yes!

But they have to make money somehow! ;)

1. https://exercism.org/

2. disable copilote

3. only "talk" about concepts and patterns with AI

I agree, use the AI to replace all of your typing, but none of your thinking.

Doesn't make sense.

> [..] the "creative power" of Nano Banana [..] This “creative power” is used everywhere to produce fake news and spread lies...

One more reason not to use chrome. I don't want this AI bloat. And for sure I don't want to redirect my personal website content through googles privacy sucking data pipelines.

What I just discovered: The good old google search without AI bloat but with privacy via https://www.startpage.com. Highly recommended!

Adding "No smalltalk and no emojis" to the instructions helps a lot.

Probably, but wanting to use AI for these purposes in the first place correlates strongly with not caring on that level.

Of course, I'll remove emojis from my responses, let me know if I can do anything else! :smiling_face_emoji:

Closed source vscode extensions: not for me.

Will be open source soon!

I switched from Windows to Linux ~20 years ago because and never came back to Windows. First years I used Ubuntu and experimented with Xubuntu, Lubuntu etc. Later went to Fedora Linux with Gnome Desktop which is still my preferred Linux Distribution. Nice to see so many people thinking about free and open alternatives to big tech!

I switched 25 years ago.

Still, every computer I buy comes with Microsoft tax and their OS preinstalled. In all these years I always left a small Windows partition, in case I need it. Never booted it.