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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They should build ev charging stations with a drive in theater so you can watch a movie as you're charging up to continue your road trip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  PSA: At every Exxon Mobil I’ve been to, when the screen starts vomiting up ads as you’re pumping your gas, if you tap the 2nd button from the top on the right side of the screen, it mutes it.

  Enjoy your peaceful gas station visit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I moved to Seattle for a high-paying tech job. It turned out to be the loneliest time of my life.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah, fair enough. I’ve never been there, but I’ve always wanted to try living somewhere in the PNW at some point. This is clearly a him problem and I wonder if being a working stiff would have begun tainting his view of NY with time, too. He doesn’t realize it, yet, but what he’s doing in that regard is looking back fondly on his college days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I moved to Seattle for a high-paying tech job. It turned out to be the loneliest time of my life.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel bad for this dude, but not for the reasons he wants me to.

  Nearing 40 and being pretty staunchly no-kids, I always got along great with all of the devs and admins I work with who have kids and we find plenty to talk about. I always thought what I do for a living is pretty cool, but I certainly never expected that to be my ticket to getting laid or being praised as some big-brain special boy. This dude felt one-dimensional because he is one-dimensional. Maybe he just never really spent the time developing his personality and maybe its time to do that now. It’s one thing to love what you do, its another entirely to make your job your identity - you gotta bring more to the table in social situations than shop talk and Squid Game.

  As for complaining about a routine… I mean, that’s unfortunately how being an adult works for 90% of us. We have jobs, we often end up kind of worn out even if we sit at a desk all day, and it can suck - you make the best of it and break the monotony as best you can. If he wanted to be in the remaining 10%, he probably should’ve put in the effort. Those folks he mentions at Y Combinator, or starting nonprofits probably busted their asses to break through. Even content creators who put out quality content often are often run ragged from overworking. Did this dude think staying in NY would have given him extra energy?

  Fuck outta here with this garbage, Business Insider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  […] but subscriptions for software-based new car features will continue, according to a BMW board member.

  I wonder what they’re going to try to nickel and dime people over next. I mean, if they’re offering internet service/access or other things that are an ongoing service, fine. That’s mostly fair… but if they’re charging you to flip a bit in the car’s internal database (or even worse, a central database somewhere that keeps your car’s data) but the feature is installed in your car and costs BMW nothing to enable it, then ewwwwwww

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toyota says lack of disk space shut down all of its factories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Two people with knowledge of the matter had told Reuters the malfunction occurred during an update of the automaker’s parts ordering system.

  Uh-oh. Someone forgot to uncomment include /etc/logrotate.d and bounce the service, didn’t they.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨would would the average skin tone and facial features after 300 years?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Shrek is love, Shrek is life, Shrek is high fashion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue or red door?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Big brain thinking right here. Variety is the spice of life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there are a combination of factors intermingling, situations like the API backlash just jostle things a little harder and that’s when you see big spikes. Once a platform like Lemmy begins to see more and more traffic and, in turn, content, it starts to become a viable alternative.

  Lemmy existed for at least a couple years before I joined, for instance, and I came with what I would guess was the biggest wave so far (June 2023). Provided the userbase can keep up a respectable momentum generating discussion and content, the next wave could be bigger or it could be more resistant to leaving because there’s enough content here to consume and interact with.

  Reddit could take years to lose substantial portions of its userbase or it may shed some and stay solid, but Im not one of these people who obsesses over it’s ruin. If they survive long term, God bless, whatever, who cares. What’s interesting to me is seeing an alternative sprout up and actually generate traffic and start building a community, whether that’s Lemmy or something else built on ActivityPub or something else built on a different federated framework or even something else entirely that’s centralized… I think Lemmy is one permutation of this and it has undoubtedly got some traction.

  I sometimes wonder if/when I’ll start getting random Lemmy links from people instead of ones to Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Text-based games!(?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they all definitely seem quite polished. Sometimes I get the itch to play a MUD, find one or return to one I’ve played before, and get hooked for a few months. Other times, I’m done after a few days… they’ll always be an option for me though. IRE games are just fine for my purposes in that regard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  exactly this right here. we saw the same phenomenon with threads and mastodon before it inre twitter annoying its userbase. depending on how engaged each wave of incoming users ends up, i’d guess you could expect it to look something like:

  • spike
  • drop off
  • plateau
  • spike
  • drop off
  • plateau above the last plateau
  • etc etc

  sometimes the drop off is really bad. sometimes its just people getting bored with the initial hype while others stay. rinse and repeat until the platform succeeds or dies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Text-based games!(?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, back when I played a lot more. There was a period of time where I felt completely unfulfilled and unappreciated at work. I was a Linux admin at the time so I spent 90% of my time in a text environment. One day, I installed TinTin++ which has a non-GUI version and I’d just keep one ssh connection opened to a VPS I pay for and would just MUD throughout the day (mainly just running quests over and over). This was years before “quiet quitting” was cool lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Text-based games!(?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve never tried a MUD, there are still a few out there that are alive and kickin’. Funny enough, I’ve been scratching that itch over the last few days and seeing whats out there.

  If I had to guess, I’d say Aardwolf is probably the most populated and and has the most users online at any given time. I have an old char on there that I occasionally log into and run some quests on: www.aardwolf.com

  I just created a character in Alter Aeon and it’s alright so far, but I haven’t spent more than about an hour logged in: www.alteraeon.com

  I don’t know how people generally feel about Iron Realms Entertainment. Some or all of their MUDs end up with you kind of having to spend some money if you get super engaged, but I’m pretty sure most of their games are perfectly fine without paying for casual players. They have a handful of MUDs that cover different themes (classic fantasy, vampire stuff, etc). I actually tried out Starmourn recently, but I think they’re no longer developing it actively - the servers remain up (for now, at least, I guess): www.ironrealms.com play.starmourn.com