• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Who will fuck up the settings, control panel, registry, etc. interfaces now? The person who keeps putting Candy Crush on the start menu like it’s their life mission?

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      2 months ago

      How is gaming on linux? I really don’t want to “upgrade” to windows 11 but I also barely have any time to game in the first place let alone fool around with settings and drivers for several hours every time I install a new game or update and existing one.

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      I mean if I laid off %25 of my dev team we would see a boat in productivity. They leech time from one of my senior devs and don’t get any better. Def getting rid of 2/4 useless guys and giving 1 of them as much of an opportunity I’ve given any body and one is going to be next to go of he doesn’t shape up.

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        Attitude like that You sound like you would be a horrible manager. No wonder they don’t have the motivation or support to perform better

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          They are literally useless. even when something is explained to them they still mess it up, or need the same thing explained again the next time. Most of the commits they have was someone wasting their time to explain change by change how to do it. It would have been worth the time investment if they learned and were able to do things on their own. at this point but they aren’t and freeing up the people who have to consistently spend their time helping them will be a net positive in productivity.

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    Cool. I mean I haven’t been able to get past a single 10-minute “I just want to go over the job with you and collect some basic information” phone interview in 6-months.

    But ya know. Another 6,000 people on the market is cool too.

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      I keep hoping this will spark some sort of anti-capitalist zeitgeist. But labor might be too scattered and individualistic.

      Like, why are we all scrambling for a handful of jobs when the rich have so many resources?

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        I mean, what would that even look like? New “software communes” getting founded? I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but I’m curious what that would actually look like on the ground.

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          At the very least form unions. That will help with stuff like wage theft, some people getting underpaid, BS firings, etc.

          More aggressively, maybe some sort of collective ownership. Not this “options” bullshit where they never even vest for most people. The whole thing where management pays you $100 and sells what you made for $3000 needs to go. That $3000 needs to be more fairly shared among the people that made it happen.

          But I don’t really know. I’m just some guy with entry level knowledge and a sense that the current system is wrong.

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          Oh fuck off with this ‘survive’ nonsense.

          Literally every bitch I know in America complaining about “not having enough money” spends it like a goddamn idiot.

          Doordash every day. Subscriptions out the wah-zoo for things they can be getting for free.

          You’d better believe most of them are going to be buying a switch 2 instead of emulating.

          Oh, and the thought of moving somewhere cheaper? Forget about it. It’s “not good enough” for them.

          No, they get no sympathy from me. They all deserve what’s coming to them and I hope it hits hard.

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            It kinda sounds like you’re shaming people simply for spending their money on entertainment, food or better living conditions. That kind of take can come off like saying, “you’re poor, so you don’t deserve to enjoy anything.”

            I get that there are alternatives like pirating, but that doesn’t really solve the bigger issue: we shouldn’t have to resort to that in the first place.

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              No, it’s not “all or nothing.” You people keep pretending that’s what I’m arguing for because you don’t want to acknowledge your own contribution to the problem. The person I was replying was trying to argue ‘survival,’ and now here you are moving the goalposts to ‘wants.’

              They keep conflating needs with wants, so whoever takes their wants away is immediately a bad person.

              They don’t need more money. As soon as they get more, they’re going to spend more on more dumb shit while there are still starving children on the planet.

              but that doesn’t really solve the bigger issue

              It does if enough people do it.

              we shouldn’t have to resort to that in the first place.

              Correct, but we don’t live in a perfect world.

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                You make some good points and I see where you’re coming from, but I think that person used the term “survive” figuratively. Even so, when you say the world is not perfect you’re kind of oversimplifying the situation by making it seem like things are the way they are because of some unfortunate event no one can control, when in reality things are designed to be harder for people with less money, and I’ll try to use your own examples to show that.

                Streaming: Remember when we only had Netflix and it had a full extensive catalog, no ads and was much more affordable? Then studios started splitting content just to make more profit, and now every year we pay more to get less content. Even basic plans with ads are going up. You mentioned pirating, but that’s not exactly easy or accessible for everyone, not to mention it’s a legal gray area (which is another discussion on its own).

                Delivery: Sure, no one needs to order takeout, but even cooking at home is getting expensive, especially if you want to eat healthy. If you’re trying to save money you basically have to buy stuff loaded with sugar and fat or use shit ingredients, it’s like they’re trying to slowly kill us.

                Living: let’s not pretend there’s not a housing crisis going on for a while, where people with money are buying up everything just to rent it back out to other people with money. Meanwhile everyone else is getting pushed to unsafe areas with poor living conditions.

                (Also, just saying, that whole “fuck you” attitude of yours doesn’t really help with anything.)

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                  Streaming: Remember when we only had Netflix and it had a full extensive catalog, no ads and was much more affordable?

                  Yes, but even then I never subscribed to netflix because free streaming sites had more content for free. They still do. You really have no idea how disconnected you are from people who legitimately need more money and scrutinize everything they spend it on. It’s called privilege.

                  Delivery: Sure, no one needs to order takeout, but even cooking at home is getting expensive

                  Wait… what? You’re saying it’s getting expensive to cook at home, so the solution is to spend more money on delivery? Is this satire?

                  If you’re trying to save money you basically have to buy stuff loaded with sugar and fat or use shit ingredients

                  What the fuck? Are you seriously suggesting that it’s better to get doordash because eating at home is “too expensive and unhealthy”?

                  Living: let’s not pretend there’s not a housing crisis going on for a while

                  That’s because people have been conditioned to rent instead of own. Most of the people complaining about housing are living above their means and think they deserve more before people who have less. For example, I guarantee most of the people on these forums complains about not having enough money while spending $1,000+/month on rent in a major city.

                  They could live more modest lives in more rural areas, but “that’s not good enough for them.” Saying “there are no jobs” is a load of bullshit and I guarantee none of them are talking from experience.

                  (Also, just saying, that whole “fuck you” attitude of yours doesn’t really help with anything.)

                  I’m holding people accountable for their contributions to the problem. They want to consume guilt-free and get mad at anyone who calls it out.

                  I don’t expect them to change no matter what. It would take an act of god to beat the consumerism out of this generation.

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      Of course we need three flavor so we don’t have a single majority and each of them have their own nuisance. Same as JavaScript libraries.

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    I work in games. Its fucking incredible looking at my linkedin. I would say about 80% of my coworkers throughout my career are out of work right now. I started my own company because I was sick of it.

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      Is it a cooperative one? Or are you on the road to becoming the next shitty owner?

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        look at my user name.

        I once joined a company because literally everyone in the company had the same salary. i took a 30k loss of salary to join that project. I believed in the company though and its founders. it turned out to be the best place i ever worked.

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      I started my own company because I was sick of it.

      I’m genuinely curious to hear how you’ve found it easier to land clients than employers. In my experience, you really need a good in with a bigger firm if you’re going to have any hope of launching a business. Unless your old employer is jettisoning their contracts as quickly as they jettison their staff, that can be tricky.

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    Don’t worry sounds like they are setting up sweat shops to keep these people busy.