Tinfoil hat conspiracy coming up – the large quantity of layoffs meant security has been tossed aside.

1. Employed engineers not having the bandwidth, resources, time to bake in better security. Literally having to do more with less.

2. Fired engineers may had tribal knowledge on how something worked. Now only God knows.

3. Unemployed engineers are bored engineers. Not saying they did the deed, but maybe they discovered it.

Electric bikes are so freaking cool.

I hate how they’re everywhere in Asian countries.

And in America, it’s like a luxury.

My dishwasher broke and for a year, our dishes got progressively ickier and ickier. Then we got a new one and everything felt clean again.

Maybe it was all mental. But the hot wash kills a lot.

Unsubscribe is your friend.

FOMO is a marketing strategy.

We want to stay in your inbox so we can temp you on big marketing days.

As a person who manages people, I cannot fight for your raise if YOU don’t fight for your raise.

I cannot tell you how many times where something like this happens. I tell my higher ups, “Sarah should get promoted and increase her salary” and then my bosses go up to Sarah and she responds all limpdick like, “I like my job and I’m happy.”

God damn it Sarah! Flex a little. Talk about how you see a opening you want. Stop being a keyboard warrior on Work Reform and actually SAY IT OUT LOUD. Share your wins! Brag about your value to the company. Demand your worth to MY BOSSES TOO.

It’s not a single person who makes these decisions. It’s multiple people.

Nobody is going to hand you shit if you’re timid about it.

Reminds me of that Space Jam movie where all it did was shove pop culture references in every scene in the most shallow way possible.

I can’t find the meme but it was calling it a blender where you just go, “Oh look Scooby. Oh look Droogs. Oh look Steven Universe.”

I definitely sympathize with your plight. WFH definitely provides a distance where we do forget what others are going through. Currently at work, I have a coworker who bitches about how he has to spend more time to pirate Nintendo games, while another coworker is wondering if his wife will survive surgery.

And here, I’m too busy worried about my cat’s vomit, and all I can do is shrug at my coworker’s Nintendo problem and my other coworker’s family surgery. Don’t take it the wrong way - both suck, as do your plight.

So don’t take it as people don’t care. And it’s not a boring dystopia - we are more connected then ever (which is a good thing), but we as humans only have finite mental energy and I can’t care about everything equally.

It sucks what you’re going through. It sucks that you as a human have to look at KPIs and how to increase it by 0.0001% while wondering if tomorrow is the day when you have to flee your home.

I went on vacation a few months ago and on the map, it showed me I was flying near a area in severe poverty, next to a pretty damn wealthy city. I kind of cried a bit on the flight thinking how unfair it was that I get to spend thousands of dollars to enjoy a vacation while literally a hundred miles away, some family drinks filthy water. And yet, it’s all the same dirt underneath us.

I hope you and your family health and safety.

Every conference/tech showcase is carefully staged to maximize investments.

Well, often times not Tesla.

The AI responses are so incredibly bad.

I searched for a video game walkthrough that has a similar name to a movie, and it GAVE ME THE MOVIE PLOT.

What a shit show.

I can’t say I’m liking DDG. The first page gives me the same domain links. Like when I search for “eye washing gifs”, the first three links is the same website. Where I’d expect it to give me three separate websites (and combine searches).

It does that for a few searches.

But then again, I’m not even liking Google.

Google: “Well surely, he couldn’t tank TWO massive social media engines in one lifetime!”

Oh man same!

2000s, with permission from the HS computer teacher, I was installing Red Hat on a few computers. It was ROUGH. Like, yeah we got it to show a desktop, but it was a nightmare to use anything but the basic applications. Windows just worked and after a few months, went back to that.

Only during the pandemic did I finally go Linux. Started with ElementaryOS (highly recommend for old people) and went through a dozen other flavors. What really pushed me to expert level was setting up Linux servers.

I no longer code on a Windows machine (unless I have to), and absolutely would recommend Linux to any end user. And now with Steam Deck/SteamOS, it’s only getting better. My gaming computer is still Windows, but I’m going to let it sunset. I barely use it except to play high-spec games that aren’t on Steam Deck. But that’s getting rarer and rarer.

My fantasy is that PC games become similar to roms, where it’s a single file. Maybe encoded is the system specs, OS, etc.

Then the “emulator” just works.

Of course, no financial incentives and a lot of work just to exist. Not to mention, it’ll be impossible to do for modern games. But maybe every game that’s older than 10 years old gets this treatment.

Also I’m not a OS engineer and maybe this is what Proton is doing with Linux.

Then pure decentralized gaming on any OS - computer, browser, raspberry pi, “smart Fridge”, whatever has the specs. And the game just works.

Absolutely! It’s representation!

Having gone to Tokyo’s Akihabara and gone to the depths of anime waifu hell…

I mean have you seen gamers?

Bro that’s HERESY against Lord Elon!

I love it.

I know you didn’t mean it, but this has the, “Do I LOOK like I speak Latin?” Energy and as a American, I’m all about that.

Naming would be easier if we collectively review the names every few years and retire the BS.

Just happened last week.

Me: “I don’t even want to get started about vegetables. We’ll go into it for hours.”

Them: “Wait what?”

(Proceeds to go into a long conversation for hours)