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thawed_caveman , to linuxmemes in Tesla's competitor

I wonder what’s the fastest you could go on tracks? Apparently a record was set in 1979 (121.9 km/h, 75 mph) and never broken since as far as i can tell, or at least Guiness doesn’t seem to know anything about it.

Fellas, we need a tank, a couple V8 engines, and a case of beer

thawed_caveman , to asklemmy in why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office?

Oh yeah, power in a corporation goes top down, and it figures that top management likes it that way.

There’s definitely safety to be found in the familiar, i do it a lot, whenever i have to do something unfamiliar i will often let myself get overwhelmed trying to consider all the tiny implications. Eventually though the experience from early adopters will enlighten other companies. It’s a lot easier to take a decision like this when other people have done it and you have data to see what the results were. In the case of work from home, this process is already well underway, it’s been three years since covid and there’s already a lot of data that you can point to.

thawed_caveman , to asklemmy in Do you donate to Wikipedia? Why or why not?

Ah, i see, so it’s conspiracy theories.

You know, the tech just being fundamentally flawed is a lot simpler an explanation than this, and it has the distinct advantage of actually having any evidence to back it up.

thawed_caveman , to asklemmy in Do you donate to Wikipedia? Why or why not?

Quoting from the article:

the majority voted to do away with crypto contributions 234 to 94. Some of the main arguments concerned the environmental implications of Bitcoin, the risk of scams, as well as the fact that the WMF gets such a low amount of donations in cryptocurrency compared to other forms of payment

The environmental part is arguably mitigated by other cryptos than Bitcoin, but the others are true for pretty much all of crypto. The low volume of donations in particular is notable to me: people buy cryptocurrencies to hold as a speculative asset, and not to use as a currency.

I do see the mention that Mozilla stopped accepting crypto after backlash, but i don’t think you’re going to be able to pain that backlash as reactionary. And they would have run into the same issues as Wikipedia did regardless of backlash of any kind.

thawed_caveman , to asklemmy in Do you donate to Wikipedia? Why or why not?

I wanna dig into this point: i find it really weird how you tie rejection of crypto into politics at all, let alone reactionary politics. I always saw it as just the fact that the product doesn’t fit most people’s needs as a currency.

thawed_caveman , to asklemmy in Do you donate to Wikipedia? Why or why not?

True, i should have mentioned transaction fees maybe even as the main point, and transaction time too while we’re at it. In the moment when i was writing that comment all i was thinking of is trying to not write an essay, which you easily fall into when writing about crypto, so i omitted some pretty crucial points.

Speaking of points, i’m surprised it’s upvoted too, that kind of contrarian rant doesn’t usually garner sympathy

thawed_caveman , to asklemmy in why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office?

I’ve been helping a Chinese company and it includes getting on the phone at 9am to talk to them right as they’re leaving the office. For an international team there can be time zone issues like that, but if you can find overlap between Europe and China then you can find overlap between anywhere

thawed_caveman , to asklemmy in why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office?

I haven’t had a normal job since before covid so i’m not super qualified, but:

I think big companies tend to think rationally in terms of cost/benefit

I think they sometimes do, but not always. The reason being that companies are made of people, and people sometimes but not always think rationally.

In this case, my guess is middle management may be fretting about leaving employees unsupervised. What if they play games or browse Twitter on company time? You can’t monitor them when they’re not in the office!

Inspirational wish-wash like “we value the power of working together” strikes me as common corporate wish-wash. It’s sort of along the lines of “we’re a family here”. They’re trying to make employees emotionally invested in the corpo so they’ll put up with more bullshit.

thawed_caveman , to asklemmy in Do you donate to Wikipedia? Why or why not?

My dudes, the fact that cryptos are fundamentally fucked and unusable by design is nothing to do with politics, it’s to do with technology. You don’t get to brush it off as “oh they’re just being woke”, it’s a business decision necessitated by the fact that it’s really annoying to get paid in crypto.

There’s a lot to say about this, but in this case specifically, the value of all major coins fluctuates massively, so if you accept them as payment then you have to look at it as getting paid with a speculative asset. It’s like getting paid with a barrel of oil hoping that the price will go up. I guess some businesses would be willing to make that bet, but maybe not a 501c like Wikimedia.

And the reason the prices fluctuate is because miners validators and holders straight up want it to, they want the price to fluctuate because they want to speculate and get rich, not actually use it as a currency. Even if normies were to require payment in stablecoins, enthusiasts don’t tend to use those because the price fluctuation is part of the point.

We could have a thread about it

thawed_caveman , to asklemmy in Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

Kdenlive is still not up to pro standards. I make do with it, but if/when i’m editing for someone else i’ll have to switch to a proprietary solution.

And that’s besides the fact that everyone else is using it, which is usually the reason to prefer proprietary over FOSS. It’s the reason i still have Photoshop installed alongside Krita.

thawed_caveman , to lemmyshitpost in Here we go again

I don’t know, but Mozilla (the org that makes Firefox) also makes a VPN, and you can set it to apply to Firefox only.

thawed_caveman , to memes in I gotchu

I’ve been getting my Galaxies from Craigslist

thawed_caveman , to memes in 2023-08-09.jpg

Any date format can be unambiguous as long as it’s the one that everyone agrees on, and all date formats will be ambiguous as long as we have several in use.

I kinda gave up, nowadays when i write a date to someone i specify the date format. Like i will send “01/05/2024 (DD/MM/YYYY)” because it’s the only way to be sure

thawed_caveman , to lemmyshitpost in A WHAT NIGHT?

I wonder if they’re old enough to have been there. For people within a pretty narrow age range, it could be interesting to react the way they saw adults react around them, except they’re adults now.

I wouldn’t have much to contribute, i just remember people talking about something i didn’t undersatnd but retrospectively seems to have been 9/11

thawed_caveman , to technology in Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features

This is what i came for, i wanted to know what these features are. Thanks for saving me a click

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