They've been at this for a while. They do have offerings you subscribe for and pay monthly. They have also consistently offered an option for each of those offerings to bring your own or self host. They've earned my trust.
Reputation guides your behavior toward that person. But they're no longer around. There is no behavior toward them. They're gone. Their reputation is no longer relevant.
Yeah, that's not how things work. Senate can't pass anything unless the House agrees and the House is representative of the population. Also, footnote, we've been structuring governments this way for thousands of years. Rome, etc.
Industry includes FOSS and artistic endeavors, anything that’s done professionally.
My intent was to exclude research efforts, which is fundamentally different from engineering, which is a practical concern and not a “get it to just work” concern.
There is no market for such a thing. At that price point, you get a personal chauffeur. That’s what rich people do and he can do stuff that a self driving system never can.
The point of engineering is to make something that’s economically viable, not to slap together something that works. Making something that works is easy, making something that works and can be sold at scale is hard.
Slate is ugly and not nearly as functional. Predicting who is doomed at this point is silly. But there will be a small electric truck soon, which is nice.
> If the US is in the wrong, why should I as a citizen not want our government officials held accountable?
A core principle of American justice is judgement by a jury of your peers from your community according to our laws, not by foreigners on the other side of the planet according to foreign laws. Violations of our core principles through means we were not a party to is a violation of our sovereignty.
You can self host something like https://big-agi.com/ and grab your own keys from various providers. You end up with the above, but without the pitfalls you mentioned.
He asked what would you do. That's what I would do. And that's what I did. I'm sorry to hear you can't find work, but that's not a problem everyone shares.
Sell it. It's a paperweight for you right now. You can find a really nice open-box/used laptop for $300-400 that will allow you to work from anywhere. You can charge the laptop at a cafe or a library. $5 for coffee and you have a working space to take calls and work.
Stop driving Lyft/Uber. It's for those who don't have any skills beyond driving a car.
Sit down and determine what are the skills that you currently possess that are the most valuable on the market right now. Then sell those to the highest bidder.
My two cents, that isn't a job.
> I know I can earn 3-4x more doing freelance tech, but I can’t do that from a car.
Yes, you can. That's a limiting belief; it's just holding you back. All you need is a laptop. Need to make a meeting? Go to a local cafe. Nobody will even notice. More importantly, if you're doing remote contract work, perfectly acceptable to ask a percentage of the total upfront. That will go a long way to get you out of a car and into an apartment quickly.
> What would YOU do in my situation to break the cycle?
1. Stop driving Uber, stop renting motels, stop paying any bills, bring my costs down to near zero.
2. Start taking on as much contract work doing "freelance tech" that I can find, with as much paid upfront as possible.
3. Once I have 10k in the bank, rent an apartment and start cleaning up whatever mess is left.
4. Start making quality of life decisions. Maybe you don't want contract, but want a job? Maybe a nicer laptop? Closer to your kids? Live your life.
#1 is the hardest, because you're risking everything on your ability to deliver. You have to believe in yourself.
persistent memory plus cron job lets you do stuff that you can't do with just codex/claude code/opencode