I hear guitarists and bassists do this quite a bit during gigs.

I just did this last year. I just got my boat, which is also my home, and in terms of outgoing, it's very little. We are talking £1000 a year for license and insurance and £50 a month heating in the winter.

The problem I have is that companies will generally look for any excuse not to hire people. A year gap is a red flag, and you 'should' be perpetually 'grafting for money', and my skills (even though React, Redux and HTML haven't changed at all in the last year) are considered out of date.

Eventually I will find a job, and I'm not trying to hard. I worked on a sideproject during my time off to keep my skills active, and I'm not in a rush to back to work.

But in terms of what I got out of it, I went to a bunch of music festivals, started going to pubs and clubs a lot more, and started enjoying life a lot more.

It's also not enough for VSCode and Web Development. Opening VSCode on a medium sized Next.js project takes a good minute or so before Intellisense kicks in.

But I'm not willing to pay the prices on the UK website. I think an M3 Air with 32GB will be my next purchase.

I use a headtorch, and then end up staying awake for 2 hours after.

That's not how you control the narrative.

Completely tangential:

I tried VMWire fusion to run multiple browsers to get tickets for Glastonbury.

Are virtual machines ever not slow?

Running 9 virtual machines on an M1 mac, did not work...

I needed to be able to take over at any point, to enter the credit card details etc if successful, so puppeteer would not have been a good solution.

I think I need to rent multiple devices just for the day it seems. Chrome offers multiple profiles so I had 9 browsers, but you only get 60 refreshes per minute n an IP address. I would need to redirect some of the chrome instances, and have the screen real estate to handle it.

To run multiple browsers in one sense, use the --user-data-dir flag for Chromium based browsers. Give each of the 9 instances their own directory.

I have some LiFePO4 batteries powering my laptop, and onboard electronics on my boat. They are very heavy, but have a super long life. Often forgotten, they are used a lot in automotive applications!

LFP cells are what the Tesla Model 3 and Y RWD from GF Shanghai use.

They'd be ideal for home batteries you'd think - I wonder when they'll switch the Powerwall.

From a technical standpoint that makes a lot of sense. I think the main obstacle there is that Tesla doesn't (as far as I know) actually make LFP batteries. The ones they use in their cars come from CATL. Tesla could just buy batteries from CATL and package them in a Powerwall product, but they might not be interested in doing that since there's a big risk that CATL or some other manufacturer could make an identical product without the Tesla brand and sell it at a much lower price.

There's a theory that Powerwall was just a way for Tesla to not waste their excess battery manufacturing capacity when car production wasn't keeping up. I don't know how true that is, but if so there isn't much of a need for them to figure out how to sell CATL's excess battery supply.

I feel the same, but won't ever accept non-remote, as I'd end up losing 2 hours a day, the money for lunch, and the transport money.

Companies that are non-remote are also more likely to have a toxic work culture.

And that also needs your colleagues to be in, which if they have a choice... they won't.

"If they have a choice". You talk about the situation like you're a slave to your master. It's 2022 -- labour laws exist.

Not in a way where your main currency is GBP.

On a plastic boat, you don't have to black the hull, but things do break, engines need replacement oil, new filters. Painting, leaks in window frames, wifi subscriptions.

There is no way that figure is achievable outside a crazy initial investment which needs zero work, and even then, the work will pile up quicly.