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- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 3 days ago:
Port it then, you coward, lol.
Winamp hasn’t seen real development in 20 years, and was exclusively a windows app at that time. What’re you expecting?
- Comment on Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them 6 days ago:
Oh yea, but you’re already mentally out the door. You take extra cash and you just collect “easy money” while you shop around the resume or get you big moving plans finished up.
- Comment on Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them 6 days ago:
Go back with a decent pay bump (obviously he needs them) and with a plan to bolt ASAP. Continue your job search while you collect a higher temporary salary.
Terrible move from Elon as it shows he has no negotiating power.
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 6 days ago:
That’s fair. Still might be worth openly discussing that as a goal even if it’s nothing you can act on now. Let them show competence on their own perhaps.
Anyways, you sound like you already have the right mentality. Good looking out for your teammates.
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 6 days ago:
To do this without being a helicopter manager, state clearly to them what your goal is. Most employees will work with you if the end result is wfh without a nannycam. Explain you need a way to confirm work product in a way that management can approve of without being too invasive, and keeping on pace with in office work.
In truth, you should not care if they slack off half the day as long as they produce quality work product at a similar rate. Wfh is fewer interruptions and meetings, and means already they will have more “free” time. This is a management principle that is hard to accept, but insisting on the appearance of work is detrimental. Obviously this varies based on the type of work, but yours sounds like a software development situation. “so long as your reports are filed and your queue is cleared every 48 hours, your pace is up to you”.
Give them the rope to hang themselves with. Tell them that’s what you’re doing. Maybe one dev prefers to go easy then crunch for 6 hours on the 2nd of that 2 day cycle, for example.
Ultimately you cannot teach people to be responsible but you get far more positive results from treating people with trust and positivity than with skepticism and monitoring. That makes you less a team and more “the other”.
Obviously this advice may not apply in your situation but in general try where you can to apply this in principle.
- Comment on What is the point of Xbox? 1 week ago:
It is so damning that the entire industry has reacted that way. It’s not that they closed a studio, that cod have been ignored. It’s how brazenly they closed successful studios for being successful while talking out the other side of their mouth to the press.
It feels gross in a much more palpable way. And with everything else going on in tech it feels so wrong coming from one of the biggest companies in earth.
I’m 100% over Xbox. I hope their next console is the worst release since ET on Atari.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 2 weeks ago:
If you’re banned on steam for shitting up the game, they don’t want you making a new account to shit it up on PSN. And vice versa. Currently you can get banned in game on steam and just pack up and move to PSN.
It means to be an incessant troll you would have to limit your account spam to the PSN side, which requires 2 factor, or make more steam accounts as well.
So halving the troll problem for Arrowhead by not having them chase two separate account systems.
It is likely also so that matchmaking and player counts on the PSN side can be accurate. If there are 300k people playing, but the PSN only reports half of that, it makes the game population seem much smaller for new users.
Honestly i treat it like Origin or EPIC. I don’t love having to have it, but the benefits out weight the demerits, and I have the account anyways.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 2 months ago:
First time I accidentally click on one of these I’m going to shit thst post up so hard.
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 2 months ago:
Again, this is why this law was such a big deal. Prior to this you were correct. Thanks to the DMA, you are wrong. Firefox will be running Gecko, and Vivaldi, Brave, Chrome, etc are allowed to ship their flavors of chromium.
- Comment on Qualcomm CEO says that the next version of Windows is due in mid 2024 - place your bets on Windows 11 24H2 or Windows 12 3 months ago:
Explorer Patcher if you need a vertical taskbar. Otherwise MS has been gradually adding the most requested features.
Not justifying what’s missing, but a lot of people didn’t understand just how big an overhaul they performed on the core UI. Explorer file manager and the main taskbar GUI have both updated, and the taskbar GUI is a new one from scratch that carries over 98% of features.
This kind of deeper update was long overdue, and makes the experience using 11 on a mixed use tablet a lot nicer frankly, bringing 11 closer to a unified tablet/desktop OS as it needs to be.
- Comment on Qualcomm CEO says that the next version of Windows is due in mid 2024 - place your bets on Windows 11 24H2 or Windows 12 3 months ago:
*tale as old as time… *
“XP is ruining windows with their damn duplo looking themes and primary colors. Pry 98 SE from my cold dead hands”
*true as it can be… *
“Windows 7 was the last time Microsoft cared, and 8.1 and 10 are regressions in every way. You’ll pry it from my cold dead hands”
“Windows X9 Delta was the final version when MicroAmazon cared about holographic interfaces. I’ll never use Windows X10 Gamma.”
- Comment on Amazon could soon be on the hook for safety of third-party products it sells and ships — Government order could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims 3 months ago:
Ob it’s far stupider and more deadly: hooking up your personal little generator so you can backfeed electricity to your house during a power outage.
It’s even more stupid and deadly than it sounds.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus 3 months ago:
More of the same here. This is extremely depressing news.
It sucks that running a successful business can never be enough.
Prepare for Pi to start going closed source and fighting against “copycat” SBC boards. It’ll take a generation to see the enshittification set in, but Orange Pi and other similar projects are going to be the winners in a strictly profit based comparison.
- Comment on Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7 3 months ago:
More to the point: the bean counters running the company need to be replaced with engineers who know what it is this company is doing and what they build. It’s not an overnight fix, but so long as the C-suite is trying to go “lean and mean” every 5-10 years, this will happen again and cost lives.
- Comment on It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
I’ve heard Joplin is good. Also Obsidian is apparently amazing with plug-ins. I’m leaning towards Obsidian myself. But between Google and MS, I figured Keep and Evernote would’ve been impossible to challenge.
- Comment on It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
It’s official: note taking app with 0 advantages over just plain ass notes synced via cloud signs death warrant.
For real, FOSS software that saves to a file folder and does all of this exists. They are just chasing us into their arms.
- Comment on Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive 5 months ago:
Yo if you are doing COBOL systems maintenance for 90k you arent charging enough.
That’s all this meme means. Consultants on COBOL maintenance can make 90k in a week. This is not the area where companies pinch pennies.
- Comment on Employers push for staff to return to the office after working from home as commercial property values plunge 5 months ago:
Let them plunge. Fuck these useless megaplexes of pointless concrete ruining cities and entire areas.
- Comment on Microsoft Wants Game Pass On PlayStation, Nintendo, And "Every Screen" Possible 5 months ago:
“Microsoft wants to charge rent on all games on all platforms.”
Gamepass is like early Netflix. It’s a good value now. But once it reaches a large enough subscriber base, it fundamentally takes over publishing. Everyone copies the model because consumers are trained not to buy, and you wind up literally unable to buy things outright anymore.
Don’t think it happens? Try watching the Willow TV series on Disney Plus.
I hate paying perpetual rent in items I should own. I recognize gamepass is a good value, but still would rather own a game forever than see Nintendo and Sony take this same approach.
- Comment on Does anyone else get the feeling the pronouns option was just bait? 5 months ago:
Lmao. No, that selection is literally a joke. It doesn’t even affect the actual game difficulty it claims it does.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
What does “the politically correct line” mean to you though? That’s a very loaded phrase and you seem to be indicating that you want to say stuff that is “controversial” without expressing any of it.
Like, Gender Dysphoria is a nuanced topic and can be felt in cis people, but there is a strong, STRONG anti-Trans effort to point at that and say “ah hah! See!” as if it somehow invalidates trans experiences.
That’s why moderation is so harsh, because often the nuance becomes a tiny crack that actual bigots will pounce on, and argue in bad faith. I mean this sincerely, I’m an audience of one but if you are sincerely just having questions I’d be happy to speak via DM.
But if the “politically incorrect” feeling is “I don’t think my kid is really dysphoric just confused”, that is a large part why spaces stop such discussion. Note i am not saying this is you, but as an example. This example focuses on invalidating how the child feels and dismissing it as something else. Which can be very dangerous.
Anyways, my offer to talk stands.
- Comment on PlayStation Portal review: impressive hardware but is Remote Play itself good enough? 5 months ago:
Honestly when it drops to $150 or so, I’m in. Mostly for these same reasons. I use the PS5 on the good TV, but if I wanna be in the room with my partner while they watch a trash reality show, and keep working on my game, this is perfect. At $200, I’ll stick with remote play on Android and a Bluetooth controller, but the Portal seems better for this use case. So when the price is low enough… Sure.
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 5 months ago:
My last Ubisoft title I didn’t get for free was AC4 I think. Chose a good time to drop off. Like you I’m not boycotting actively as much as I hate their practices and they have shitty games that all feel pretty similar after a certain point.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Leaving Dating Apps Behind 5 months ago:
It sounds odd to say it, but before apps, when they were websites, these services were a lot more unique.
As apps, since match group owns them all, they all eventually degrade into Tindr but worse somehow.
The swiping for hot or not fundamentally is superficial and suited to hooking up. So why is it added to dozens of services claiming to make deeper connections?
- Comment on iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps from outside the App Store 6 months ago:
Ah yes, the fabled year of two thousand and didn’t happen.
- Comment on Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item 7 months ago:
Can I play solo offline?
Then no thank you.
- Comment on Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' 8 months ago:
PC gaming didn’t used to be THIS expensive.
You could build an entire machine for the cost of a 4090.
- Comment on Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' 8 months ago:
I mean, this was also before video cards cost as much as some used cars or more than a month’s rent for some people.
- Comment on ‘One Piece’ Review: Netflix Tries to Translate the Anime Magic (Again) 8 months ago:
Review written by someone not familiar with the originals clearly. Which would be fine if they didn’t compare back to it constantly.
The problem with the Bebop adaptation was it needlessly changed pretty core things about the characters, and rewrote the ending entirely. It totally changed a bunch of the themes as a result. So you had something wearing Bebop’s skin, but it moved all wrong.
The One Piece adaptation seems to at least get that part right… But it is ultimately a cartoon plot, a lot of the motivations and story aren’t that complex. That doesn’t work for everyone, and clearly not for the reviewer. But we’ll have to see how the wider audience reacts.
- Comment on In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam. 8 months ago:
The visual design of their game world looks like it tried to replicate “stock asset” in blender. Everything feels devoid of any real artistic intent. So it feels overwhelmingly shiny and chrome and just bland. That’s just based on visuals, but I legitimately confused this with the other God’s of whatever title from 6-8 months ago.