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  • 7 felt like it was mine

I remember that marketing campaign. Windows Vista had a shaky launch, because the hardware manufacturers hadn’t polished the Vista-compatible drivers yet. 6 months later, they had caught up, but people still had a bad taste from it.

So when service pack 1 came out, Microsoft made a reskinned version of it and started an ad campaign with “customers” claiming “Windows 7 was my idea!” and the public ate it up.

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I have such bad things to say about recruiters. They generally don’t have a clue about any of the skills related to the jobs I’m after, and they take a huge cut of the pay the entire time I’m working the job.

On the other hand, the two best jobs (highest pay and best working environment) I’ve had in my career, I got through recruiters, so I acknowledge them as a useful business when it works out. The last one has led to the company buying my contract and hiring me directly for the past 12 years

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I don’t know, I think Thanos should have worn a suit

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Yeah she was never lesbian!

She was straight. The mirror version of her was clearly bisexual

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Honestly, I’m not the biggest fan of the tendency to interpret platonic relationships as sexual ones. I do get the desire for more representation, but I just wish the community wasn’t so willing to ignore regular old platonic friendships.

I’m sure that comes mostly from me as a guy who puts more emphasis on strong platonic bonds than sexual relationships. But I just don’t see Julian and O’Brien’s “bromance” as a boyfriend relationship, nor did I see Kira and Jadzia’s as dating either.

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I’m not saying fan theories aren’t allowed, I just said I’m not a fan of it.

I would hardly call their outings “secret” when it involves Kira getting into costume and walking clear across the promenade before deciding the holosuite isn’t for her. I just didn’t interpret any of the details as “hints they were dating” when the simpler “friends going out to do something fun” was not only on the table, it was clearly the intention of the scene.

For the record, I didn’t see Garak and Julian as dating either. Sure, Garak may have been trying, but Julian was more enamored with the spy scenario and intrigue than Garak himself as a potential partner

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I can only imagine what it would have been like to work with Tim Curry, JK Simmons, and George Takei on that game. So much ham from such talented people, I have to assume they were just having fun with it all.

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    That’s gonna depend on the station you were listening to

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    I couldn’t imagine tying myself to a single category for my whole career.

    I’ve done front end, back end, database, web, Windows, and Linux development. If the job calls for learning something new, I’m on it. These days I’m making datacenter software for admins to use to manage their distributed applications. Before this, I was doing the same thing for factory automation at the edge.

    Specializing has its value, but the more flexible you can be, the more useful you will be when the landscape changes and your boss suddenly asks you to set up an AI system or something.

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    Yes, if you want to see Hackernews posts, get them from Hackernews yourself. Reposting to Lemmy just adds more posts with zero engagement that new users will see and be put off of the site for

    Several months ago we had three different instances with their own Hackernews communities and their own repost bots posting the exact same things, with zero discussion.

    Lemmy needs more actual discussion, and fewer bots adding noise to the feed.

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    My experience says a lot of these people bought into the “fake news” narrative, where they conveniently don’t believe anything presented to them, no matter how digestible – unless it reinforces things they already believe.

    My mother goes on about how “science” can be used to prove anything, and “science” gets it wrong so often, so she won’t believe anything she reads. While turning around and saying she found out Planned Parenthood is harvesting and selling baby parts, which is why they want mass abortions across the US

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    I bet you were a lot of fun when smartphones first came out

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    It’s a fantastic show. My biggest complaint is a problem we’ve been seeing with a lot of shows lately: not enough episodes in a season. Almost feels like it’s just a half season really.

    But when the biggest complaint is that I wanted more, that’s a good sign.

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    A lot of people talk about the decentralization being a barrier of entry, but I don’t think it is.

    Generally speaking, your average social media user won’t care about that one way or the other. You tell them an instance to look at, they will check it out.

    Where I think it goes wrong is the general Lemmy attitude of curating your own feed. Your average Lemmy user will say the best part is that you just block the communities and instances that you don’t want to see.

    Your average social media user on the other hand, doesn’t want to spend an hour or a month blocking people and communities to make the site useable. Most folks will come in, see a feed full of tech bros, repost bots with zero discussion, 30 different fetish porn communities, Star Trek memes, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they’ll just leave.

    The only way I see Lemmy overcoming this is for instance admins to heavily curate the default experience so the feed is friendlier to new users. This would likely require some more tools in place to allow for this, possibly even a default block list that users can customize after they are already drawn in

    Also the sorting could be better.

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    This is a very good time to pick up one or more Fallout game. The release of the show brings sales on the games on multiple platforms

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    Yeah anyone wanting to get into the series should begin with asylum. It’s got a more horror vibe which I think holds up incredibly well still.

    But the other games are mechanically better, so it’s hard to go backwards and enjoy it quite as much

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    Ah right, the “how about we compromise and just have a little genocide” option

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    I don’t understand how you got that from the image.

    Both monitors on the senior side of the image are showing coding environments

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    You don’t have to share your library with your friends. You can keep all that shit to yourself

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    I say we lose the entire Crowder meme format. The “change my mind” bit was from one of his stunts, and this is just keeping it alive longer

    There’s still many other meme formats that send the same message, we don’t need to sully Calvin’s image by associating it with a Crowder stunt

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    Not quite this, but I did have a validation team that didn’t know when to quit.

    The project was a Windows service, and they would be constantly opening bugs saying “program crashes when we deleted xxxxx.dll”

    Like… Yeah. If you delete necessary libraries from the installation directory, the program won’t run correctly.

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    While Calvin in a Crowder meme is better than Crowder in a Crowder meme, maybe we just don’t use a Crowder meme at all?

    There are several others that convey basically the same message

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    What exactly are they arguing over? I probably shouldn’t ask, but I’ve been fortunate enough to not encounter any of this controversy on my social media

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    I feel like I was watching a very different situation than the rest of you were.

    First off, the antiwork subreddit didn’t actually accomplish anything. It was mostly people complaining about bad/illegal practices at their jobs, and literally nothing changing.

    Second, things didn’t die after that mod appearance. It drew attention to many users that the mods had a different goal than they did, but that didn’t change the atmosphere of the posts for very long. The work_reform sub did become more popular, and antiwork still kept getting just as many people complaining about bad practices.

    And neither sub got people organized, neither sub changed attitudes, and neither sub made a difference.

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    I’m a programmer, which is in a pretty bad spot if you’re looking for work right now.

    I was laid off in January and had to start looking again. While it’s important to be able to demonstrate your skills, the only way I got an interview for my new job was by being referred by an old colleague. Turns out maintaining relationships with people who can vouch for your work is a very big part of the process.

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    Data went rogue in Brothers, and hijacked the whole ship to go get an upgrade that Lore stole. Near as I can tell, they took no precautions to prevent it happening again, since Soong was surely actually dead this time

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    Honorable mention for the time he was possessed by an energy being pretending to be a ghost

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    And neither of those are the one I was thinking of, which was Power Play from season 5. It involved condemned aliens posing as the dead crew of a Federation starship.

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    You’re excused. Anyone else?

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    Bro aren’t you on Lemmy.world?

    You’re already defederated from Hexbear, you don’t have to ignore it

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    Why does Man fly in Knight when his car is right beneath him? Is he stupid?

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    I struggle to understand the people who are angry about this one. I’m not saying it’s a good business move, but it’s not like it hurts the general population

    With fast food, you’re already paying a premium to get prepared food on demand. The people who can’t or don’t want to afford it can avoid the premium pricing by planning ahead and packing lunches from home.

    This is basic supply and demand economics at this point. If prices go up, demand will go down as people move to other restaurants that are cheaper, or stick with groceries.

    Now if it was a grocery store doing this, I would feel differently. But fast food is not a basic human need.

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    From my limited perspective, it seems like the community wants mod support, but they were mad about some combination of these things:

    • Updates and hot fixes don’t come quickly enough
    • Updates sometimes break a large number of existing mods
    • Not enough new features or explicit support for certain mod features being promised
    • Things they promised not working as well as people hoped

    This isn’t everything, but it’s what I observed for myself. As you can see, there’s some contradiction here, and some of that comes from different people in the community, and some of it comes from people who just want to be mad at everything

    For whatever it’s worth, most people seem to be just enjoying the game and are excited for anything new coming for it.

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    Atleast one must get physical access to the lock in order to pick it.

    It’s a fair point, but if we’re taking about cars, I’d say physical access is a given. Keyless vehicles haven’t quite enabled remote car thefts just yet

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    Typical WinCo shopper, absolutely no awareness of the people around them

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    I’m pretty sure it’s a grapefruit soda. Definitely not everyone’s favorite flavor, but it’s a thing

    Oregon weekly newspaper to relaunch print edition after theft forced it to lay off its entire staff (apnews.com)

    An Oregon weekly newspaper that had to lay off its entire staff after its funds were embezzled by a former employee will relaunch its print edition next month, its editor said, a move made possible in large part by fundraising campaigns and community contributions....

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    Be a lot cooler if they did

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    Imagine programming a computer without understanding the machine code that tells the CPU what to do

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    For the record, the biggest reason vhs beat Betamax was the same thing Sony has struggled with in later years.

    They chose to keep the media format proprietary, while JVC opened the VHS format for any company to make. That’s how VHS became more ubiquitous, and it’s a similar story as to why minidisc never became mainstream, and memory sticks are gone.

    Which arguably falls under “marketed poorly”, but I think the added context helps

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    It’s free, so when I need to ask about something in the news today, I’ll use Bing. Granted I use a browser extension that lets me use Bing in Firefox.

    These are useful tools, but not useful enough that I’m willing to pay for them when there’s free options.

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    Don’t you even take the bones out?

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    Readable images are irrelevant. Your text will be assimilated into the background of the meme and add its distinctiveness to our own.

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    This is the future.

    It clearly gets repurposed as fuel for the internal sploodge core, which powers the device

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    This is a great argument for using a pwa in Firefox rather than a native app. Your “in-app browser” can have ad block

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    Well yeah, what are they gonna do, take the tubes? I’d sooner ask for a site to site…

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    You should have seen how mad people were over the time Discord slightly changed the shade of the icon

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    That’s not even supported by the enterprise version. You’re going to need a special agreement with the iseven people to support numbers like that

    How did Lemmy World become the default instance?

    World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....

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    What do you think people are not understanding?

    I wanted an account on a Lemmy instance, and Lemmy.world is one. Since then, I’ve been pleased with most of what the admins are doing with it.

    And they haven’t gotten bored and abandoned the instance like a lot of the smaller ones have gone.

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