Working in IT, I’ll describe it as a “just a little temporary workaround, that I’m sure will be replace soon by a proper solution” (soon=never)

BTW, if you have a soldering iron, or a hackerspace/repair cafe/workshop close by and you want to get your hands dirty, you can put there a shorter cable, a dot of solder and it’ll be much more permanent. It should be relatively easy too!

One word: Terraform

I don’t think I ever worked in a company doing real agile (involving customers early and directly, shipping frequently, gathering feedback, and changing the process if it becomes an obstruction). It always ends up being all about random metrics, velocity reports to management, and “”“requirements”“” dictated from high up. It’s always just chaos that names itself “agile” as a poor excuse for the lack of planning. You get the worst parts of waterfall (lack of feedback and validation) with the worst part of agile (lack of specs and medium-term plan, no project management). No estimations, no requirements, no plan, no coordination between teams, but the deadline is fixed anyway and the feature has been sold to a customer already. The customer is going to see the product for the first time after 6 months of development, after which the priorities shift immediately and no feedback is ever addressed. AI is not going to magically make management write good requirements and have a good planning session with everybody involved… it’s just going to create even more unreviewed AI slop documents that are just noise and will be ignored by most anyway.

Memory unlocked!

If you are feeling nostalgic the project is still there, with the same old interface from the past: https://fmslogo.sourceforge.io/

At work claude code, at home zed+deepseek. I loaded up a few dollars in deepseek’s API and they are lasting a long long time (many months). I also tried qwen locally but it’s too slow for me (it runs on the CPU…). I use AI though only for repetitive and boring implementation tasks, or throwaway one-time scripts that I don’t feel like coding by hand. The point of coding at home for me is to have fun, and having the AI solve all interesting problems for me defeats entirely the purpose of why I’m coding. At work we are unfortunately being pushed to use AI a lot more, and the amount of slop code is increasing :(

You might be able to use loop-mounting (man losetup) to make the kernel forget about the device type, and treat the disc as a different kind of drive. It’s likely not going to work, but it’s worth trying. If you know programming and you are searching for a new rabbit hole, you can also look into fuse and write your own filesystem. It might be fun with a dvd+rw!

I’ll get a steam frame even at the inflated prices… It runs linux, seems quite open, and it not made by facebook. I’m already sold on just that. I also fear though it’ll sell out almost immediately 🙁