Dran @ Dran_Arcana @lemmy.world

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Not just lower base salaries, its also that the good employees are at a greater disadvantage in negotiating raises / work conditions because an employer declining and letting them go instead would mean a loss of a work visa (if they don't find other work) and potential deportation.

For example, Apple can't legally mandate an 80hr work week. But being an at-will employer, they CAN just fire anyone working 40hrs/week for nebulous "performance concerns". Who is more likely to decide to work 80hrs on their own to hit impossible performance targets? The guy who has unlimited time to go find another job or the guy who if he doesn't find another job in 3 months has to pull his kids out of school and move halfway across the world?

You have a work visa worker by the balls way more than a full citizen.

To use the android-based remote (which was actually pretty cool at the time tbh)

If you bought a Vizio TV 4 years ago it now has a "feature" where it switches inputs to the ad-ridden integrated android system if it detects that whatever input you are on doesn't have a signal for more than 5 seconds. Even if you pull it from the network it still tries to load it anyway. It's becoming unavoidable even for those of us who roll our own solutions.

You already paid for windows; our default response should be to poison the survey not capitulate to also being the product.

Asking the real questions here. The sad news is a lot of hybrids and electric cars lose that battle too. It doesn't seem very intuitive but the dirty energy and logistics cost to produce a Tesla battery will probably always outweigh its carbon savings. I want clean stuff, but I want it the real way, not the virtue-signaling way.

You aren't wrong, but his question seemed genuine. There's no reason to be hostile about it. Learning and genuine curiosity shouldn't be a crime on the Internet.

I did say it had been a couple of years, and this was all true when I stopped using it a few years back.

1. Yeah some album art is pretty distracting, especially when it goes from dark to light at a song switch. You can't tell me that I'm the only one that might distract while driving.

1a.Car mode deprication in 2021 without a replacement at the time: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/26/22803670/spotify-retiring-car-view-android-mobile-playback-auto-driving

3. Yes there's a global toggle, but if it is not to your liking, there's no way to take X song and boost it 20%.
4. Per device as in per-bluetooth, not per-app. When you have bad car speakers but good headphones you might want wildly different EQs.
5. If memory serves, I did try that. It still opened itself constantly. Most people probably aren't monitoring background activities on their phones, but it was like 15-30wakelocks/hr just to exist.
6. This was with hq on. And automatic adjustment off. I can't describe it other than flat and crunchy but there's something to it, or at least there was in ~2021

Apparmor will complain and block the nfs mount unless you disable apparmor for the container. Then in a lot of cases the container won't be able to stop itself properly. At least that was my experience.

Nobody should run k8s/k3s without understanding how they work lol, that's a recipe for lost data.

Proxmox uses scsi for disk images, which are single access only

Smb would be quite a lot of overhead, and it doesn't natively support linux filesystem permissions. You'll also run into issues with any older programs that rely on file locks to operate. nfs would be a much more appropriate choice. That said, apparmor in container images will usually prevent you from mounting remote nfs shares without jumping through hoops (that are in your way for a reason). You'll be limited to doing that with virtual machines only, no openvz/containerd.

Fun fact, it was literally the problems of sharing media storage between multiple workflows that got me to stop using virtual machines in proxmox and start building custom docker containers instead.

There are things proxmox definitely can't do, but chances are even if you know what they are, they probably still don't apply to your workflows.

Most things are a tradeoff between extensibility and convenience. The next layer down is what I do, Debian with containerd + qemu-kvm +custom containers/vms, automated by hand in a bunch of bash functions. I found proxmox's upgrade process to be a little on the scuffed side and I didn't like the way that it handled domain timeouts. It seemed kind of inexcusable how long it would take to shut down sometimes, which is a real problem in a power event with a UPS. I also didn't like that updates to proxmox core would clobber a lot of things under the hood you might configure by hand.

The main thing is just to think about what you want to do with it, and whether you value the learning that comes with working under the hood at various tiers. My setup before this was proxmox 6.0, and I arguably was doing just as much on that before as I am now. All I really have to show for going a level deeper is a better understanding of how things actually function and a skillset to apply at work. I will say though, my backups are a lot smaller now that I'm only backing up scripts, dockerfiles, and specific persistent data. Knowing exactly how everything works lets you be a lot more agile with backup and recovery confidence.

Uefi isn't the push, the push is tpm 2.0, which I think is a much much larger percentage of "incompatibilities". tpm allows for drm that is much harder to bypass, since the random number generator operates securely in hardware. It's for their benefit not yours.

Yeah but can it run signed drm in a way that the owner of the computer can't read the keys? Checkmate atheists.

1. Can't turn off album art or colorized elements changing bright colors while driving. (I just want simple buttons to press to change tracks or pause music without distracting album art). This one is legitimately dangerous

1a. The last straw for me was when they deprecated car mode entirely and insisted on even more flashy moving elements in the standard player. It became a safety hazard to use.

2. Can't combine your own music with cloud music anymore (when Spotify started, you could combine their libraries with your own music if you had something that they didn't)
3. No normalization adjustments for songs that are too loud or too quiet
4. No per-device (or at all iirc?) Equalization
5. Periodic check-in required every (30d last time I used the service) for offline content, meaning if you download stuff to your laptop, don't touch it for a month, and then go on a plane you don't have access to your music.
6. Constant background app openings. App opens itself constantly to track your location, and broadcast to other devices whether or not you're playing music. Integrated with lots of ad/tracker networks
7. Quality is terrible. I dunno what it is because apparently I'm not even one of the people that can tell the difference between 128 and 256, but the same song in Plexamp at 320 vs Spotify whatever is night and day, especially on bad car speakers.

I haven't used the service in years and that's just off the top of my head why Spotify is terrible.

We (the US) are the weapon's manufacturers and we (the US) sell them the weapons.

We do it because if we didn't, Russia and China would effectively conquer the middle east, and they'd allow a lot worse things to happen as long as raw materials, oil, and cheap labour kept flowing back in their favor.

It's a complex subject any way you slice it because it's possible inaction has worse consequences than complicity.

We could certainly un-depricate it. It's not like we need to reinvent the wheel here as a society on this.

Ask them for a refund, in writing, document everything, and if they refuse, take it to your state's AG office. Obviously I can't speak for every state, but mine has slapped around whirlpool when they refused to fix a defective fridge, dell when they refused to replace a monitor with dead pixels, etc. I've never had a bad experience. It's amazing how a letter from your local AG's office will suddenly make companies be less shitty to you.

Fwiw I disagreed with you but upvoted for making a reasoned argument. We do need to drop that reddit mentality of downvote what you disagree with. IMHO you should downvote things that are either demonstrably false, or low-effort.

That said, I think both voice/image impersonation individually would fit the bill for "intent to deceive". I'd be surprised if it didn't already have a lot of legal precedent in the realm of advertising.

https://casetext.com/case/waits-v-frito-lay-inc

The tom watts case is the only one I'm aware of off the top of my head, but the TL/Dr is they tried to license a song of his to use, he refused, so they just hired an impersonator to sing in his style instead. He sued Frito lay and won.

Nobody knows your workflow better than you. The best answer anyone can give you is "experiment and figure out what works best with the hardware you have and the software you want to run".

I loved @midnight and was sad to see it go. Hopefully it retains the same magic in modern-internet-era and it's not just nostalgia.