Windows 7 with the classic theme was perfect imo. Also copying with ctrl+c broke sometime after win 7. I don't know what happened but it never failed before win 10 and now I feel gaslit into believing I didn't copy something I actually did.
First, before using the death note, publish everything you know about the future and its tech. For example, even if you barely remember the periodic table, filling out anything you remember about it would significantly expand humanity's understandimg at the time. Describing protons, neutrons, electrons, photons, quarks, positrons, neutrinos, bosons, etc would be a century or more ahead of its time. Knowing about radiation at all would save tens of thousands of lives from suffering just from avoidable exposure deaths.
Any modern common knowledge about germ theory, DNA, cell biology, virus structure, or the idea of antibiotics would be revolutions at the time. Just knowing penicillin comes from mold would save millions of lives, not to mention the isolation of stuff like insulin.
Asserting the existence of the photoelectric effect (photodiodes, solar panels), piezoelectric effect (phone haptics, timing crystals), the thermoelectric effect (any digital thermometer), and remembering that computer chips have something to do with silicon puts us ahead 100 years technologically. Knowing the best batteries are made mostly of lithium and something else puts us 100 years ahead in battery tech.
Knowing that rubber is supposed to be black leads to the discovery of vulcanization early and saves us from decimating the whale populations.
Knowing there are massive oil deposits in the middle east, Texas, Canada, and Mexico, or massive gold/diamond/steel/copper deposits in various areas makes nations supremely wealthy instantly after they extract resources.
For our purposes, though, photography need to advance drastically. If you know this is coming and have time to prep ahead of time, you learn everything you can to hasten the invention of the photograph.
Then you get to work with the death note.
In general: you start eliminating the elite class in whatever country you're in. Slowly, so as not to create a power vacuum that destabilizes the nation.
Because of your scientific predictions that keep coming true, elites keep wanting to meet you to see if you can make them richer. That's how you gather catalogs of faces.
Once your country moves to a strong collectivist government (socialist, communist, whatever) whose officials are chosen by true random sortition, you move on to the next one. Obviously you may have to do things out of order if there's an imperialist military threat to your country, but that's the idea. Keep society invested in the sciences and engineering to advance living conditions for all.
I'm in the US, so I'd focus on the immediate halt of the slaughter of native Americans. Oregon is already a state, so we'd still likely pick up idaho and Wyoming.
That'd probably result in an independent nation of natives in California, arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Oklahoma absorbs the Texas panhandle as a result.
A separate native nation forms in the Dakotas and Montana.
I'm not sure of statehood sentiment after that; it's likely the Dakotas/Montana vote for statehood as a single state rather than multiple territories- they're landlocked, so would become a vassal state to the surrounding countries (Canada, usa).
Next, tackle the US' existing slavery and apartheid systems. The civil war is over, but slavery still exists in the form of Jim Crow laws and such.
The next hurdle to cross is the rampant corruption inherent in the system. This era already had a great deal of progress- antitrust legislation primarily. I shepherd these movements along and make them stronger.
At the end of my life, from 1900-1920, (I'm 36, going back to 1876, so I'd be 60-80) I make sure to eliminate the political figureheads that destabilized Europe throughout the early 1900s. It's important to stabilize what is now the EU.
It does make sense for very rural customers. For my parents to get fiber like you suggest, someone would have to string up about 10 miles of fiber to gain like 50 customers, maybe. With another 90 miles of fiber they can get all the way to 1000 people served; idk how many households that is but the unit economics don't make sense.
If apple had a 1tb Mac studio, it'd sell so goddamn fast due to being able to run some of the largest open LLMs out there. I've been using GLM 5.2 and it's damn near opus 5.6, the first model I thought was good enough to just write code without intense guidance. 1tb is well within the range where you could run the model on your own hardware. The higher prices are there to head off the deserved intense demand
The only thing to do is ride the wave of the new technology. You either do that or drown. I've written a literal book's worth of text on how AI should think and behave when writing software and it straight up cannot write code as well as me when left to its own devices, even with all my guidance. LLMs, no matter the size, are structurally incapable of holding all the context needed to write good code in complex systems because they cannot compress complex topics into ideas they've never encountered and reason about the compressed state with their limited reasoning capacity (otherwise known as "learning").
Subbed, because the Japanese VA is often the better actor and that carries the performance. If an anime has higher budget dubs, I'll watch those (not many of those; anything dragon ball usually meets the bar and witch hat atelier is treating English dubs with respect).
I learned with python and switched to rust when that started to piss me off. It'll be awhile until you know enough about why you want a different language for a task. Until then, python and JavaScript are totally fine; you may never even need to leave those ecosystems depending on what you want to do.
This take is US centric, because that's where I'm from.
I'm a millennial. I feel like I got on the last boat boat out of 'Nam. I graduated college and got my first job just before that mini recession in 2014.
I do feel like if you were mid 20s around 9/11 you got to ride the crest of the last surge of "greatness" in the US; old enough to get your bag while the world changed everything for the people coming after.
In reality, there's almost always been a 2-4 year period every 10-15 years where it's actually pretty great to enter into adulthood compared to surrounding age demographics. I feel like I was in the last one, and the next one hasn't hit yet.
Seemingly great times to be a 24 year old college graduate (comparative to other years):
2011-13 - you narrowly avoided 08 and 14 recessions
1997-99 - you got job experience before the dot com bubble popped
1988 - you're starting your career with a straight decade of prosperity
1967-73 - you went to college and avoided the draft; you got career experience before inflation and the gas crisis hit in the next few years
1948-50 - too young to go to war, early enough to participate in the largest economic boom in human history
I did get to play death stranding and both turnip boy games, which were both good. Also I played ghost wire Tokyo and Calypso protocol and found out they weren't for me. Whoever did the environmental design for Calypso protocol deserves an award though- it's all gorgeous. The actual game and story are dull as fuck.
With LLMs I get work done about 3-5x faster. Same level of maintainability and readability I'd have gotten writing it myself. Where LLMs fail is architecting stuff out- they can't see the blind alleys their architecture decisions being them down. They also can't remember to activate python virtual environments, like, ever.
Windows 7 with the classic theme was perfect imo. Also copying with ctrl+c broke sometime after win 7. I don't know what happened but it never failed before win 10 and now I feel gaslit into believing I didn't copy something I actually did.