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mesamunefire

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Works with anything plugged into the wall. Software developer most of the time. Helped start a makerspace once.

Will talk about Linux, plants, space, retro games, and anything else I find interesting.

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mesamunefire ,

Yep you can put Manjaro onto a laptop and get just about the same experience.

mesamunefire ,

It’s a PS U (wii u wannabe).

mesamunefire ,

I wish it was a bit more affordable.

mesamunefire ,

Onion os is so cool.

mesamunefire ,

It’s why it’s so important to own your stuff and not give money to subscriptions you don’t have to.

mesamunefire ,

I accidentally formatted a drive with a Bitcoin wallet on it. Back a number of years ago. Fun times.

CEOs of crashed tech upstart Bitwise accused of swindling $100M from investors - Duo paid themselves $600K salaries as the cupboard was emptying (www.theregister.com)

CEOs of crashed tech upstart Bitwise accused of swindling $100M from investors - Duo paid themselves $600K salaries as the cupboard was emptying::Duo paid themselves $600K salaries as the cupboard was emptying

mesamunefire ,

I worked there AMA.

I still dont have access to my 401k.

mesamunefire ,

We would get a large amount of client projects, create an app that solves their problem, deploy it on their infrastructure. Rinse and repeat. I was specifically on the software development and later devops side. My job was a huge amount more profitable than the rest of the org.

mesamunefire ,

There was a DJ over there for weeks on end. Like every day, DJ was out in the parking lot. It was surreal coming into the job and wondering why the were paying for a DJ to come to a mostly empty parking lot/building.

mesamunefire ,

I wasnt part of the leadership, but I was a software developer for over 10+ years. I made 6 figures, but that isn’t unheard of in this industry.

mesamunefire , (edited )

Its a little of both. Like most orgs there were some who did their job and did it well. The org was in existence for a little over 10 years. Most of that time, they didnt have venture capital. They were a very small org that suddenly got big and decided to expand outside their local community. There were parts that were very profitable, just not the building and how top heavy it got at the end. Both CEOs would take month long vacations and leave us to do…whatever it was they did. The family/friends thing was definitely a problem.

The unlimited vacation was a kind of red flag to me. Most orgs who do that really just want you working 24/7 and not take any real time off. Also 401k took 3 years to vest but no partial vesting period. It was all or nothing.

mesamunefire , (edited )

Thats the neat trick, never assume anonymity. Def in a case like this one. I treat people with respect even here.

But I guess if I had to share, im still really pissed that our 401ks are still locked and I cant access it from John Handcock. Plus some people got 2 paychecks taken instead of just the last one. We had to cancel our old bank account because bitwise post Jake/Irma tried to come after past checks from multiple people. If my bank didnt protect me, direct deposit apparently will happily allow them to take past checks back. And BW did not talk to us this entire time after we were furloughed. After 3 weeks of being furloughed, we were still technically employed and had ex-bitwisers try to tell us not to talk to the media, to trust the system. I am still angry about how it all went down.

mesamunefire ,

Yep.

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Mastodon, some discord and irl.

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Probably? It’s just Linux so it should auto detect the changes. But no idea.

mesamunefire ,

I have a couple hundred feeds. Love it.

mesamunefire ,

The burn up windows was so cool.

mesamunefire OP ,

To those who are down voting, he is saying it is ready with examples.

mesamunefire OP ,

Lemmy threw the text above automatically. It doesn’t look great, but it’s there.

mesamunefire OP ,

I’ve had a great time with proton lately, even for non-games.

mesamunefire OP ,

I’ve had success adding the exe/MSI to steam manually and then running from there. Proton takes care of the rest most of the time.

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First I’ve heard of it.

mesamunefire ,

There’s better places for much less $$ nowadays.

mesamunefire ,

Make a PR and make it happen :)

What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

What I mean is… sometimes people are very loyal to a videogame franchise or a company because they loved a game they released years ago (Silent Hill/Konami with Silent Hill 2, Blizzard/Bethesda with their respective golden eras, some could argue this happens too with Pokémon and Final Fantasy, etc). Ethical/consumer reasons...

mesamunefire ,

Coromon has a similar vibe. Such good games.

mesamunefire ,

If you like smash brothers, rivals of aether is really fun and has support for steam workshop.

mesamunefire ,

I’ve been enjoying peglin quite a bit.

mesamunefire ,

Pegle

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Some people will see something like this and others won’t. They are rolling it out slowly so we get used to it.

mesamunefire ,

I remember Dan from game grumps being really good at that game.

mesamunefire ,

There’s a lot of brew packages that messed up when the chips came out. It’s still a bit of an issue two years later.

mesamunefire ,

I’ve recently made aware of the bark project. Especially the bark-ui project. It takes a long time to run but it does work. Sometimes it makes cursed stuff too: social.rootaccess.org/…/111277260439738652

mesamunefire ,

I have a tiny laptop with the literal bare minimum to get this running haha. Your probably right but the models explode your memory pretty quick.

I did get some really good audio out of this model after a while. I threw the first chapter of the hobbit at it and it seemed to be doing ok. It’s better than espeak and you only need to do it once to get audiobooks out.

mesamunefire ,

I got it working on Ubuntu/PopOS.

mesamunefire ,

They work pretty well. The upside is they are always available. The downside is less support for software like the pi foundation has invested into. But they do a great job as a Linux board and if you use a well supported distro, you should be fine.

At one point, we had to do a project with 40ish of these things. Worked out well and we couldn’t get a pi, because since 2019 they are basically impossible to order in number.

mesamunefire ,

My pi 4 is worth much much more than I bought it for. It’s insane.

mesamunefire ,

For the bots lol.

mesamunefire ,

Its currently running a satellite tracker. Its a fun little project. Citizen science and all that.

Amazon issues warning about major change for Kindle users starting next month (goodereader.com)

In a recent communication, Amazon has alerted Kindle users about significant changes set to take effect from next month. The notification pertains to the phasing out of support for sending MOBI (.mobi, .azw, .prc) files through the “Send to Kindle” feature, starting November 1, 2023. This change, as News18 pointed out,...

mesamunefire ,

Epub is actually pretty good. And it’s been supported for a long time now. Hard agree.

mesamunefire ,

Mine was free.

mesamunefire ,

To be honest, its kind of expensive for what it is. I hope to get it on discount or wait for a very long time.

mesamunefire ,

Meh the local places make it cheap after the first month or so.

mesamunefire ,

And make the companies unemployment premiums go up!

mesamunefire ,

I’ve been remote since 2019. It’s great!

mesamunefire ,

We gave it the lemmy hug of death. Its a very small server right now.

mesamunefire ,

Just remember that this instance only hosts creative commons music. Both good and bad if your looking for music.

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