DigitalWebSlinger

@DigitalWebSlinger@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Hard to Stay Motivated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Be me whose server is on Ubuntu 18.04 and needs upgrading to get Bluetooth into home assistant 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Understanding Immortal Objects in Python 3.12: A Deep Dive into Python Internals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many negative words for chatgpt, imo. “isn’t”, “not”, etc, chatgpt is usually positive and friendly to a fault.

  Maybe you could provide a prompt that would output something substantially similar to what they wrote?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world's largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A SaaS startup I used to work for tried to implement on-call rotations for their salaried engineers. No additional compensation was offered for the time you were on-call, and if you did get called, the policy was going to be essentially “take the next day off” - when we already had unlimited PTO. I was not happy, and made it known at the time. My manager mentioned that, being in a senior role, I might have the opportunity to excuse myself from the rotations. Ew.

  The effort didn’t end up going anywhere, but that’s been my sole experience so far with on-call efforts in software engineering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you work for a corporation that you oppose ideologically, if the pay is good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was part of a group of people who got laid off from a small startup a few months ago. Many of us formed a discord group and have been supporting each other through the job hunt.

  One guy who’s been at his job for about a week recently said this:

  Many people have told me you shouldn’t take a job doing something that you love… That’s the main lesson I learned from getting laid off

  You end up pouring all your energy into it. I wanna do something that I hate, and I’ll use that hate and anger to fuel something else 😈

  It feels kinda good to look evil right in the face and put on a fake smile and say “yes I will take money from you to do bullshit work”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Meta] Weekly tech discussion and tech support thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I play minecraft on a private server via steam on my htpc with an Xbox One controller. I have minecraft set up as a non-steam game in steam, steam configured with the controller. Minecraft is set up to use the fabric client with a number of client-side mods (the client itself tells me I have 87 or so mods, but that has to be client patches or something, as I only have a dozen or so mods installed). When it works, it’s fantastic, but the problem is that it’s very inconsistent.

  When I open the game from steam, the controller works in the launcher as a rough approximation to a mouse and keyboard - exactly what I want. But when I launch the actual game, it’s a complete toss up whether that configuration will carry over to the game window. More often than not, it won’t, and sessions often begin with me opening and closing the game many times before the configuration will carry over and I can play.

  I’ve tried turning on and off steam’s “allow desktop configuration in launcher” option, which doesn’t seem to have any effect. I’ve tried enabling and disabling the minecraft launcher’s “keep launcher open when games are active” setting, which similarly seems to have no effect. Annoyingly, I’ve noticed that if I alt-tab back to the launcher after starting the game, the controller is still working for the launcher, just not in the game itself.

  At this point, I’ve installed the Controllable mod and Glossi - this configuration “just works”, and is perfectly consistent, but it’s an imperfect substitute for the steam solution that I prefer. But I feel like I’m out of things to try for getting the steam solution to work consistently, or at least often enough to not frustrate me before I even get into the game!

  Any thoughts as to why it behaves this way and other things to try are appreciated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk says he’s unbothered by the criticism. “Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”

  What

  What censorship bureau is he talking about? A purely theoretical one (where is that coming from?) or one he’s actually had to deal with in the past?

  And of course griping, powerless plebs are better than a “censorship bureau” that can presumably force you to do or not do things by penalty of law 🙄 tell me you’re rich and powerful without telling me you’re rich and powerful.

  I would say “humiliation kink confirmed?” but this is just a guy enjoying being able to do things that other people don’t like, with no one to stop him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A teachers union says it’s fed up with social media’s impact on students⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Two things can be true.