The issue here, is that this removes a lot of tasks that allowed a person to relax a little mentally. So now we are working the same hours, but we need to be switched on for much longer during these hours. Could this result in more burnout and mental fatigue?

I think it does and this has been a pattern since the beginning of automation and maybe even technology in general. We look down on factory workers tightening the same screw a hundred times or dishwashers cleaning the same dishes every day as if it’s somehow wasteful to not run your mind 100% of the time but maybe we’ve got it all backwards.

This kind of specialization can be bad for factory workers as well. Doing the same motion over and over can lead to repetitive stress injury.

I think it's true for any worker that performing the same activity over and over can lead to issues that wouldn't occur if work was more varied. That isn't necessarily in a companies interest though since for them it's easier to train people on one task, and they're easier to measure or replace.

The predictable and measurable thing for developers is thinking and cranking out features.

I mean the time allowance to complete each step in factory work is the maximum the human brain can process with the minimum of scrap. Sometime stages/operation might have a spaced out flow like driving but most can actually be really mentally taxing, just with zero fulfillment.

This is why people need to think about these things when they are in full health.

Okay, I know that and I agree, but I wasn't talking about PGP. Client certificates are much easier to use. They can be self-signed and the whole trust issue disappears.

Do not forget the hardware. And having the means of creating said hardware.

The question might be simple and verifiable, but it is not a simple for an LLM to mark a particular question as such. This is the tricky part.

An LLM does not care about your question, it is a bunch of math that will spit out a result based on what you typed in.

Gortex?

Similar experience. Having one in the 90's was a pivotal point in setting my life.

Would you volunteer to be among the first on the firing line? Most people would want to avoid that risk.

I have been running a 32 GB laptop for over 5 year now.

LXC/LXD is amazing tech. I use it at work and at home for quickly getting services up and running.

I still don't get where LXC/LXD shine. Is there a killer application for this tech?

I have a dedicated server at home running as an LXC host.

With an LXC client on my laptop I am able to launch instances without using local resources. The instance has profiles setup to add the containers to my local lan for ease of access.

Launching a new machines is only a few commands away.

Check out proxmox which supports kvm and lxd so it's easy to compare. lxd uses less resources and an image registry vs finding/building kvm cloud images.