You can have /r/technology and /r/tech and /r/technews etc...
It's a problem that resolves itself. One community or the other will "win".
And if not, whatever. On Reddit, my home city has two subreddits. The content between them is slightly different (different mod teams) and the comments on duplicate posts are different. I subscribed to both to see slightly different opinions and avoid echo chamber.
It would be interesting to see numbers from the Digg to Reddit migration. There was a lot of pushback initially. Reddit was "confusing" and "ugly". I used both for a while but didn't fully abandon Digg for at least a few months.
Lemmy on the other hand, Reddit made it very easy for me. I've been using Sync since at least 2014. Once it went dark I was full Lemmy.
Things have changed considerably since you were 19.
I'm younger than you but not by a lot. When I was 19 I moved in to a 1 bedroom apartment for (inflation adjusted) $700/month. That exact same apartment now rents for $1445/month.
A couple of years later I bought 1 acre of land and put an 1800 sq foot home on it for (inflation adjusted) $275k. That exact same house was sold in 2021 for $433k.
I'm choosing housing here because it's easy, but I could just as easily pick college, general cost of living, etc...
My point being that you (and I) were set up a lot better to save for the future than the 19 year olds of today.
[Edit] guess I went on a bit of a sidetrack. I'm not sure you were even talking about today's 19 year olds...
I ran a Synology setup that ultimately I replaced with Unraid. I love the flexibility that Unraid provides, but Synology's software really is top notch. I've pieced together various docker images with Unraid to make something comparable functionality wise, but no where near as integrated or seamless
Not sure what might have happened then. Sounds like you took the right approach.
FWIW as a software engineer for 20 years including some time as Principal, this is kind of like, my thing. Identifying areas of improvement, presenting a use case, and implementing based on that. Some people can get really upset if they're not involved in that process. Like, complain to the CEO upset.
If that's not the case here, then it's not. It is a bit of a red flag simply because that amount of change can be very difficult to impart in such a short time. Props for your contributions for sure.
I was thinking similar. How much of this was communicated, vs just done without asking. Were there considerations like "does company want their code on GitHub?"
For the zoom, I set mine to mostly match the physical mirror. The downside is it's a bit lower quality (digital zoom), but having the wider field of view is a con to me. This way, I get all of the pros you mentioned, without the weird positional con.
My wife got me a travel bidet for my birthday. We're on vacation and obviously it's along for the journey as well.