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Crazy how the US government throwing its weight around at corporations works really well. Almost like if they did it as much as European countries do we'd have equivalent QOL and have something to show for being the richest country on Earth.

The change to Android where notifications are now a restricted permission by default has been amazing. Just about every notification I get is one I care about because only ~5% of my apps can even do so. Those that send them too frequently quickly become part of the 95%.

It's a handheld, standalone computer. It can do game streaming from a PC as well, but it's powerful enough to run games like Fallout 4 at 40 FPS.

So glad to live in California where that type of shit is explicitly illegal. Open source software would be so fucked with how much software is produced here.

IntelliJ for Java Pycharm for Python VS Code for everything else

I use the Jetbrains IDEs through Gateway to my dev desktop, and VS Code through SSH.

I work at AWS and the tight integration of the Jetbrains IDEs with our internal package manager/build system is a must. I frequently need to do some lighter scripting or text formatting at which point I just use VS Code because it's faster. I could realistically use any of them for everything, but I've realized using 3 IDEs that suit my multiple use cases perfectly has been more enjoyable than using one IDE that does one thing perfect, and everything else just okay.

I work in software engineering and I managed to secure $220k right out of college with a bachelor's. I'm extremely lucky, but it's more common in bay area big tech than you would think. My partner makes an equivalent amount and so do most of our friends in tech.

Paid ~$24k for college between community college and my 4 year.

I wasn't trying to suggest it wasn't, and I have mad respect for anyone doing those jobs as they're very physically demanding, but working in a machine shop is a whole other beast. Constantly moving hundreds of pounds of stock material, manipulating it and your body to weld/grind in ridiculous positions. It's brutal work, absolutely destroys your body, and long term is much worse than most other manual labor.

That dude must've just been constantly high.

They determined that the average customer stayed in a given McDonald's after ordering for x minutes, so they made the coffee so hot it couldn't be consumed within x minutes in an attempt to get people not to utilize their free refills on coffee. The coffee was so hot it was dangerous. All to save a customer from getting 2 more cents worth of coffee.

Employers just don't like when supply and demand is not in their favor. I had this argument with an uncle of mine who complained that the company he worked at paid well ($20/hr) but no one would work for them.

I suggested the crazy idea that they try raising wages to meet the market, but apparently people are just lazy. So I asked him why tf would someone work in a machine shop doing back breaking, absolutely filthy work for $20/hr, with benefits that don't even kick in for the first month of employment, when they could work at the local Amazon Warehouse as a picker for $25/hr with full benefits immediately even if they are part time. Not to mention how much less taxing the picker job would be on their body.

So he then went on to complain that people are greedy and demanding too much money 🤦‍♂️

2.7 oz is a stupid amount of K2 (synthetic cannabis).

It's already a ton of natural cannabis. If you cup your hands together, that is about one ounce of weed which will keep you fucked up for a while. Now imagine 2.7 times that, and since it's synthetic cannabis it's way stronger.

Edit: To be clear I don't think weed should be illegal, and South Korea has draconic drug laws. I use it myself, which is how I know that 2.7 oz is a lot of weed.

I work as a software engineer for AWS, and as awful of a company as Amazon is, they do diversity in a pretty unique way that feels very natural, and you'd honestly not notice it if you didn't pay attention.

The 13 diversity groups we have (Glamazon, Black Employee Network, etc) were not created by the company, but space and budget was provided for them to be created by employees. You're made aware of them when you start and can choose to participate or not, and the groups themselves each orchestrate the diversity emails and events around the company. They also make it pretty fun by giving out phonetool awards (basically badges on your employee profile) for completing the optional trainings they design, and the Glamazon ones are always stupidly cool looking.

It's not some giant fake, "we give a shit" charade that most companies do, but it's around you enough to normalize and promote acceptance of the differences we all have. I've personally found it broke down a few or my own minor internal biases I didn't realize I had.

With all that said Amazon is still a super shitty company.

It's not a glitch. Lemmy strips EXIF data from uploads for privacy reasons. Many phones don't truly "rotate" a photo once you capture it. They just append to the EXIF data to tell any photo viewers which way the photo should be oriented when it is loaded. Cropping the photo fixes this because you're then rewriting the entire photo, but this time the software does rotate it.

I'm all for Linux, I use it literally every day between my Steam Deck and remote dev machine at work, but updating software on Windows and MacOS isn't hard, and I have no clue why the Linux crowd pretends it is. You could complain about forced updates on Windows, or MacOS having two different applications folders for Lord knows why, or literally anything else that is wrong with either of them, but ease of program updates isn't a problem for Windows or MacOS.

Pretty much. I'm a plugin developer for Decky Loader on Steam Deck and my sole motivation is I enjoy building cool shit. I wanted a feature on my Deck that didn't exist...so I just made it. Then, since others wanted the feature I created a pull request to the Plugin Store so everyone could use it.

I've spoken with quite a few of the other Steam Deck Homebrew developers and they basically all had the same story. It's also nice because if you get stuck or need help there are hundreds of people you can ask who are very knowledgeable, and more than willing to help.

I'm pretty sure BitTorrent is the protocol, and qBittorrent is a client which makes use of said protocol. The company responsible for the protocol does make their own client named BitTorrent though.

BOTW was one of the first games in a while that hit me with that feeling. I had so much fun with it and I still haven't beat it because I'll be damned if I don't 100% the game first. It was a little slow at first, but I came to appreciate the pacing more as I played it.

I'm also just getting back into Minecraft after not having played it consistently since 1.13, and I'm having so much fun with all the new shit.

It's entirely a logistic issue. African countries are insanely difficult to traverse. You can have all the food in the world but we don't have a way to move the food to everyone.

Not me personally, but one of my career mentor's friend's took down the entirety of Google Ads as an intern for like 10 minutes. Apparently it was a multi-million dollar mistake, but they fixed the issue so it couldn't happen again and all was well afterward.