Kuma

@Kuma@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If your boss is great than you scored big. It is hard to find an understanding boss. Especially if he takes the time to mentor you. Most ppl do not have time to teach their juniors. See this as an investment for the future you. I think it sounds stupid to quit because of one reason if everything else is great. But if working from home weights more than anything else then yes you should switch.

  We got the “order” to work at least at the office 2 days a week two weeks ago because the community we had has been lost. But so far have I only seen the same ppl who was at work before the “order” (I have been at work twice a week because of a project so I can tell if there is any difference) so yeah, I think most just yearn for how it was. And in the big schema of things will this only be x years or even only months of your 80-90 year old life.

  I assume most are angry because they don’t get a good logical reason to why, because there are none, it is all about feelings, like community, showing customers their employees, or feeling in control because you can see and talk to ppl about what they do and if they need help. It can also be less pleasant reasons that most have already stated.

  You are the only one who can make a decision for yourself. Remember that you can switch if need be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is it with silver and grey? Do you get a heavy penalty for them too? If it rains, snow and/or are foggy can it be very tricky to see silver and grey cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why can not it be both? It is piracy because you access content that should be payed with your time (ads) instead of money, by bypassing the front door/line of ads and going in through the backdoor.

  You do guard yourself from virus and some data hording and it can also be true that you don’t find it worth it of your time and only want to consume without interruptions.

  I also use an ad blocker. It is the first thing I install on a browser. The internet is impossible to navigate in without it and I try to only use sites without ads if possible… But I do believe it is piracy to block it, and it is my choice.

  I only pay for nebula and Spotify so all the creators who is on there at least get something from me. But I don’t know if that is even close to enough.

  Linus is not one of them and will never be haha (I rarely like any of their video formats)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me has ubuntu and pop os just worked with all my hardware. I have tried manjaro (it broke often after updates so I gave up on it. This was maybe 5 years ago), arch (worked great but got tired of the tinkering), mint (never wanted to work with my wifi and Bluetooth adapter so I don’t have a ton of experience with it), debian (too long ago for me to remember why I switched), ubuntu and now pop OS for 3 years and I won’t switch. I have only had problems with yakuza 1 (couldn’t save and input delays were crazy) and mafia 1(all icons for the game pad were blank) . I also own a steam deck and play a lot of games on it without any problems. But I do not mod that much, skyrim is the only one I heavily moded and I played it on windows. Cyberpunk did I mod some on my steam deck to fix bugs but it was bellow 30 mods.

  Tldr; i am with kaldo! Pop OS is great! And yes I use Nvidia GPU and I have never had a problem with the drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am with you. We should use the ai as a tool to automate or remove things that is frustrating or in the way of the actual goal to help the customers. Plus I don’t think any model is good enough (yet) to act as tech support (they can use open ai if it was enough). I think ai is great as a tool tho. For example you can use it to go through a lot of documents of products, policies, other tickets and so on so the tech support person can find the relevant information faster. We can also use ai to create summerise of the call or take notes and so on. A lot of great potential to make everyone happier but I don’t believe in replacing actual ppl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a db, I just want to share one reason that happened to the startup I was working at.

  The owners were thinking about keep business as usually which means paying more to the employees or scaling up which is very expensive, they only had small to medium sized companies as their customers(but many). Then this big company came from a different country, they were on a shopping spree buying a lot of companies(scaling up and taking over the market). The owners of the company I worked at were soon 65 or above 65 so they thought that it was a opportunity. Because if they sell then they don’t have to be worried about money after retirement. So they did. But they did think the company would be taken care of, but I think they also looked away from the bad stuff, wishing this would be great. Almost everyone left the company after a year or two (myself included), it was a sinking ship. Same goes for the other companies they acquired.

  Tldr; selling the company to get retirement money while hoping the company will be taken cared of. Took only a year for ppl to leave because of how bad it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average website visit in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same (proton and ublocker), but I have also found that some web pages cares what browser you use if you are on proton. If I use chrome then they may just do the verification when you wait 3 seconds but with Firefox and proton (not without proton) do I get a lot of captcha sometimes even after each other just to make triple sure I am not a bot… or even get blocked entirely…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know how the merch shops works? Spotify seems to be a reseller of some kind. How many % of the money is going to the artist usually?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, it could mean you will forever look like you did 10 hours ago. So it may not help now but will be a big plus in a few years!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Learn from Tutorials the Right Way – and Not Get Trapped in Tutorial Hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been through the same. I can find a lot of tutorials on the super easy stuff but more advanced or just a bit more advance stuff is up to me to figuring out. It is so bad that i start with documentations first then try it out myself, then google problems. I do not checkout tutorials anymore, only if i am super new on the subject. Chat gpt has been a lot more helpful, either it helps me with the problem or give me hints on what to google for or try out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chad scraper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooof, i am glad you don’t have to do it anymore. I have a customer who is in the same situation. The company with the site were also ok with it (it was a running joke “this [bot] is our fastest user”) but it was very sketchy because you had to login as someone to run the bot. thankfully did they always tell us when they made changes so we never had to be surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chad scraper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This kinda reminds me of pirating vs paying. Using api = you know it will always be the same structure and you will get the data you asked for. Otherwise you will be notified unless they version their api. There is usual good documentation. You can always ask for help.

  Scraping = you need to scout the whole website yourself. you need to keep up to date with the the websites structure and to make sure they haven’t added ways to block bots (scraping). Error handling is a lot more intense on your end, like missing content, hidden content, query for data. the website may not follow the same standards/structuree throughout the website so you need to have checks for when to use x to get y. The data may need multiple request because they do not show for example all the user settings on one page but in an api call they would or it is a ajax page and you need to run Javascript scripts and click on buttons that may change id, class or text info and they may load data when you do x with Javascript so you need to emulate the webpage.

  So my guess is that scraping is used most often when you only need to fetch simple data structures and you are fine with cleaning up the data afterwards. Like all the text/images on a page, checking if a page has been updated or just save the whole page like wayback machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify's new Showcase tool lets artists pay to promote their music in the Home feed | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I earn money so I don’t need to use my freetime for things I don’t want to do. For example I dont make my own fabric and sew my own clothes I buy them. So it is a trading, time (hopefully fun time) for money (work) and money for time (services and things). Money is pointless if I don’t use it. Why spend time working if I won’t use it to buy time? And sure Spotify profile me so they can recommend music that I may like and I am fine with that because that is how I find new music anyways. I don’t use services like Google because of their tracking and always try to use a browser instead of apps if possible so I can use ublocker. It is always a priority thing you know. I could live outside the society (off grid, no tech) if I don’t want to be tracked or I can let some services track me because it is a lot more convenient for me in the grand scale of things.

  Sure, being infected may not be a big risk for some I am only generalizing it. I am not saying you will be infected because I don’t know what sources you use I only said it is a risk. There are always malicious ppl and even trusted sources can be compromised and trusted companies with payed services. Just like it is a risk to jaywalk but it doesn’t mean you always risk your life doing so. But some are too naive like you said.

  Just to add I am not trying to convince you, I just like discussing topics and different perspectives. I wish you happiness too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify's new Showcase tool lets artists pay to promote their music in the Home feed | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can download the songs automatically or manually on Spotify if you wish. You can set it so it can only download the song when you are using wifi. You can also turn on being only able to listen to songs you have downloaded when you are not using wifi. It is very seamless. I am lucky and live in a country with dirty cheap data plans so I don’t even care for that. But it is nice it exists when I travel outside of my country.

  And pirating isn’t free, you and everyone who makes it possible for you to torrent is paying with your and their time and you are also paying for the risk for getting infected. But you do you I just wanted to correct the “free” part of your statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How To Make Clay At Home (It's Just Dirt)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A rock and pavement? 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you holding off on any game in particular right now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me is it starfield. I am a bit to hyped up for it. I will try to wait a year or more. Just like I did for cyberpunk and I was hyped for that game since the first trailer haha

  if you wait that long then stuff that is still buggy usually have a mod that fix it.