For one, UI/UX is actually hugely important for a consumer device and definitely nontrivial
Hugely agreed. I’m a huge proponent of DIY / open-source / self-hosting / repurposing etc…but also I realize if I duct-tape-engineer something that “requires a little fiddling until it works” and I’m the only one who can competently use it, I’m setting up the rest of my household for failure when (not if), for whatever reason, I’m not there to babysit it or walk them through it.
“Oh so you’re telling me it works via the flow of electrons to power motors and sensors? Hold my beer.”
Side note: This is why it’s infuriating that companies seem to believe what we want is unsecured bluetooth / wi-fi enabled toothbrushes hooked up to our home networks and smartphones via some equally hacky app that tries to link toothbrush usage to buying habits and ad efficiency.
Exactly. The desperation is a workforce supply assurance feature, not a failing of the system as designed.
I think this is a big stumbling block with Lefties we need to get over, especially young and eager ones.
People want so badly to belong, but there’s so much of a culture of purity-testing and pre-judgement that they’re terrified of being eaten by their own for doing any wrong whatsoever.
I appreciate trying to minimize harmful impact and maximize helpful impact, but people get so hostile because someone like, buys anything, or has a job. Get over yourselves, kids.
Absolutely. There’s a line between “willfully sold out to Evil Corp because money good and I like money lol”, and “I need a job because eating is nice and they were hiring.”
The original post about Lockheed makes sense, but someone’s gotta be on an extremely privileged self-righteous high horse to shout “Baby killer!” at like, the dude working the lobby desk. Lol
Thank you for this incredibly rational take.
What I personally have changed to is judging people for being gung ho about a company, happy with what the company is doing, or are they just there as a job. If you’re in accounting and you just loooove working for Amazon and think they do no wrong, then yes I judge a lot
This. I’ll usually get along fine with my fellow working class folks in the trenches wherever I end up, and I’ll make friends with the cool managers even if they’re managers.
Few people are excited to be forced into a corrupt and awful system to justify their existence.
But more often than not, they’re the True Believers™ that are so utterly brain-warped into thinking some job actually cares about them, and make it part of their identity to “represent the brand”. I give these simps a wiiiide berth.
When it’s a grunt employee with that mindset, it’s even more pathetic.
Bang on. Right there with you.
I’m working on becoming a game developer but I live in a place chock full of casinos, so looking up “games company” on a map is very disappointing here.
They can sure pay well sometimes, though. The temptation is real. But I really couldn’t have any sort of passion for even sweeping their floors, much less constructing flashier products that merely serve to more-efficiently short circuit people’s rational thinking into emptying their wallets.
I think the loud secret is that these “games” thrive on desperation en masse, rather than the comparatively few wealthy and “responsible gamblers.”
I don’t judge the plenty of good folks who make a living doing it because they need to make a living, but I’d rather struggle more towards something I can believe in that doesn’t compromise my soul or contribute to ruining anybody’s life.
Now if only high moral standards could pay the bills…
Oh well, I’ll just keep remembering Matthew 6:26 :)
So, the Punisher is a comic book character that was formerly a villain but became somewhat of an anti-hero in the 80’s, when vigilante heroes were very popular due to right-wing sentiment that lawful “red tape” meant bad guys ran amok because they had…y’know…human rights.
Unlike a huge majority of Marvel characters, Frank Castle not only disregards that pesky “due process” and all that jazz, he straight-up goes and kills the bad guys , like gangs, mafia, and so-on.
Military guys started adopting the skull logo for intimidation purposes, and the cops who think they’re military thanks to crap like the “war on drugs” and whatever, adopted a “thin blue line” version of the logo, which basically screams:
“I have fantasies of violence and would probably take the opportunity to ‘clean up the town’ by just murdering people I thought were bad without those pesky ‘laws’ and ‘rights’ in the way.”
Or
“I support cops who would do that.”
It’s worth noting the authors of the comic book character included an issue where cops wanted a selfie and clearly idolize him, and Frank Castle “The Punisher”, tells them off because they’re supposed to uphold the law , and they should be looking up to Captain America instead.
So, you’ll see these bumper stickers proudly displayed (with many different variants), and they scream the same thing: “I’m a self-centered, self-righteous jerkface who hates everyone who isn’t me, unless they’re killing people I’ve been told I don’t like.”
–Source: Am Damn American, but don’t use so broad a brush. We’re screaming right along with you. :)
I’ve noticed this and seeing it all laid out is hilarious. (So, so many JS frameworks omg)
Is this basically so they can forever say: “Well don’t expect it to be feature complete, it’s not even 1.0 yet!” ??
That’s funny, out here my bias is against white pickup trucks, with point modifiers.
Lift kit? Add a point.
Giant truck bed toolbox? Point.
Truck nuts? Like 5 points.
Fascist or anti-social bumper stickers like punisher logos or skeletal middle fingers? More points.
EDIT: How could I forget six-wheeled “dualie” setups but the vehicle obviously only ever hauls groceries and the crushing weight of massive insecurity? Points!
It’s so pathetically predictable…
https://www.mintpressnews.com/national-security-search-engine-google-ranks-cia-agents/281490/
I’d like to think they’re advising on how to keep ISIS propaganda, gore / executions, child endangerment, etc, from popping up on clearnet results…
…but * sigh * , former (not ex, let’s be honest lol) spooks…so, why wouldn’t it include some kind of pro-employer propaganda plan, right?
“Stay a while, and listen!”
A dedication to quality assurance we should all aspire to!
Bro, homie, dawg, phil
Phil and Phil (both whirling angrily to acknowledge you): “WHAT?!”
100%. They shouldn’t be able to leave a device completely inoperable like that.
I’m not alone when I say I just want my perfectly good VR equipment to continue working, dammit lol. Monado is crazy impressive, but if M$ just released some driver specs or something we’d happily have these things working on Linux within like a month. Then we could just go our separate ways lol.
I’m on the fence about this too. If Ai images have been good for anything it’s amusing 30-second shitposting and not actual artwork. Although I think vintage hand-made memes have more cultural value overall.
That being said, if you’re gonna image-gen, I think it should be done on local hardware rather than spamming downtown-sized super-mega-data-centers using up an entire county’s water supply to cool servers generating surreal Spongebob horror.
My 2¢ anyway.
“Man these terrible year memes show up every time trump gets elected.”
“W…wait…E…every time? 😨”
I think Microsoft should be pressured under this with their deprecation of Windows Mixed Reality. They’re totally fine with just bricking tons of highly sophisticated, expensive devices people already bought.
And then they have the gall to talk about “sustainability.”
Not gonna support it anymore? Give it to the community. Patch out the requirement for your top-secret black-boxed corporate garbage.
This is so weird after I was just thinking “I wonder if there’s a way to play RO the way it was circa 2007 or so when I remember it…”
This made me think:
What about thermal runaway protection? I’m betting that might be easily overlooked in a custom “smart device” if, for whatever reason, the temperature sensor were to fail and keep reporting “Hey it’s still only (below_target_F_degrees) in here! Keep that heat on full blast!”
This was an issue that made jank 3D printers catch fire and burn houses down until it was mitigated with open source firmware.
Point being, unless there’s a “custom smart thermostat project” that’s vetted and trusted, stuff like this might be overlooked in someone’s Python project, wherein it’s bog standard, low level, possibly redundant, in consumer devices. (Especially thanks to safety standards.)
Should there be an open-source smart thermostat project that’s looked over by thousands of HVAC turbo-nerds and engineers? Yes. Yes there should! Might already be?