You will no longer be scare when either you do not enjoy work enough at the current comfort level, or you have something better to go to. Since the first seems unlikely, explore the second. Start side projects, unrelated hobbies, volunteering - anything that makes you excited for work to end.
If work is just so-so, find something that isn't, inside or outside your daily 9-5.
/hogs reminds me of the earlier (mid Eighties) /nightowl and nightowl group. Davie Curry and others were taking up precious disk space on utilities of dubious necessity. One example was dog, a version of cat that displayed the file to screen using curses to randomly paint the letters in the correct location. Students found them, and began hogging too much cpu cycles using them, so George migrated them to /nightowl, and only members of nightowl group could execute.
Sounds like I met George only a little later - Fall 1980. By then, EE's had two Vaxes to abuse - EE and ED. The ADMs were supplemented with ADDS Regent-20s. Students had strong opinions about which was better. LSi purists looked down on the "Reject-20s".
No, the bottom of the page says they subcontract production. So it's an infomercial for a company that markets sweaters they may or may not design. And they disclose that in the article, if very subtly.
Not at these prices :-) $150 - $200 for a sweater is not cheap. I think of fast fashion in terms of "how many times do I have to wear it to get my money's worth?" If the answer is less than the number of times I'd wear it in a year, it's fast fashion. Of course, if you're a thrift shop shopper, most fashion is fast fashion.
Nice idea, but "small composable programs" includes R scripts? That's great if you're already using R, a bit much to install if you're not.
You could simplify things by cribbing from the Hacker's Diet (https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/) and using an exponentially weighted moving average as your filter. 10% of today's weight + 90% yesterday's EWMA. That's almost a one-liner in awk or perl, or a simple function in bash.
nice idea, but "small composable programs" includes perl scripts? That's great if you're already using perl, a bit much to install if you're not.
There shouldn't be any burden of portability for the one writing small tools like these.
You're free to rewrite it, of course, but expecting someone to go out of their way to stay within the unix/posix/whatever environment seems a bit much given the context of an unpaid endeavor.
Redundant Network Connection / VPN / Better Home Network
Noise cancelling headphones / earbuds
Cheap laser printer
Power protection
Thunderbolt dock.
Enough charger ports so everything can charge at the same time overnight.
UPS if needed. Sized to cover your network gear also, unless you're going to tether to your phone during an outage. Personally, if my neighborhood lost power and I had to work, I'd head to a cowork spot or coffee shop.
Sound deadening if you have roommates, young children, or loud pets. It's not just for telemeetings if you are easily distracted.
It's unfortunate election insecurity is only an issue when the other side wins. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) were quick to label the claims about Biden's anomalous win in 2020 including irregularities in Georgia, Arizona, and Colorado as "conspiracy theories"; Red State Republicans only investigate voting irregularities in Blue cities. Take Texas - It's possible cheating only occurs in the counties around Houston, Austin, and Dallas, but if that's the only place you look, it's the only place you'll find it.
Yes, but there's something to be said for setting up the pieces for a big win too. I don't think electronic machines should be anywhere near an election. These machines should have been airgapped, but now it turns out the UPS (power supply) is a RAT? Crazy. It should all be with paper.
My wife was a great example of this. She was an undergraduate math major, then went on to get her master's and PhD in engineering. The first year of the master's was largely remedial engineering courses - statics and dynamics, thermodynamics, controls, simple electrical circuits, etc.
I asked if she found them difficult. She quipped, "If you already know the math, it's just nomenclature."
As a sophomore, I took the "barrier" physics intro for my distribution requirement. Sunday night before our first Monday morning exam, I found my professor in a phone book (1970's) and phoned to ask for an extension, explaining that I hadn't started studying. Denied.
That test was just multivariate calculus I'd already aced, with funny names. I got one of the top scores in the class. So I decided to study an extra hour next time, just to be responsible. Oops! I flunked a test that was differential equations with funny names.
I didn't really learn ODE's till Columbia assigned me to teach them as an assistant professor.
If work is just so-so, find something that isn't, inside or outside your daily 9-5.