Like you can use any of these characters from Tekken. Or any of the characters from Squid Game. I guess any Kdrama could work too, but it might be too random.

Yep. Every company I’ve worked at had a marketing team with a social media team.

And social media isn’t just fucking around on Twitter posting food pics. It also making a dozen fake accounts to share how your company is way better than this other company. Or write bad reviews about your competitors. Or shit on people who like a particular product while boosting yours.

Oh is that against the law? Only if it’s enforced. Which impossible.

Right here.

Talk is cheap. And people are stupid.

Stop going to events with Ticketmaster.

I bought a $300 fake Roomba thing. It was on clearance.

And i fought against it for years. But ended it up coming in clutch for a lot of reasons.

It did not have an app, just a IR controller. Its pretty dumb. It bumps into everything. It gets stuck under things. I sometimes have to create a maze so it cleans a specific spot.

Its been a habit of mines to avoid anything with an app that requires internet access. But the product lines are shrinking, and I know at some point, if I want a Roomba, I’ll need to invite always-on AI or whatever.

Download the toaster app so you can make toast from anywhere!

In addition, Narayanan says he uncovered a suspicious line of code broadcasted from the company to the vacuum, timestamped to the exact moment it stopped working. “Someone — or something — had remotely issued a kill command,” he wrote.

“I reversed the script change and rebooted the device,” he wrote. “It came back to life instantly. They hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device.”

In short, he said, the company that made the device had “the power to remotely disable devices, and used it against me for blocking their data collection… Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”

They kill switched it remotely. Yikes.

Controversial take:

If Autodesk products is how you make your money - Just use the OS your work provides you. Unless you’re a freelancer, of which that’s your work computer, and lock everything else down.

Work computer is not my problem. Nor am I putting anything personal on there. Microsoft wants to mine my company’s info, let those two deal with that shit.

Anyone who travels quickly discovers how backwards America is for so many things compared to other modernized cities.

I wouldn’t say they’re worse. I’d say they’re confusing as hell.

For example: fan manga are absolutely okay.

Remember in Firefly where everyone spoke Chinese as a second language?

From the perspective of the indie dev who was able to make a life, career, and grow his audience… Id think they’d be happy with that outcome.

I run Pi-hole, and ublock.

I went to my pal’s house and turn on his TV, ad. He turned on his Xbox, ad. Was looking for a specific game on his Xbox, another fucking ad.

“Too complicated” he says when I suggested setting him up with a raspberry pi.

I made the mistake buying a Kindle Fire in 2015. A few months in, it was literal garbage. Everything lagged. Very few apps would work. Not much variety in the Amazon app store. Learned my lesson about Amazon products.

I was like OP. I fucking hate discord.

But then, this little indie game in early access had a bug, but I couldnt find where to email them. So reluctantly, I joined shitty ass discord, sent the dev a screenshot, and within like 15 minutes, the dev was able to figure out the fix.

I stuck around and saw more threads. Updates, future fixes, other people doing speed runs, even a place people were making fan art.

And that’s when he realized Discord isnt so shitty, because that solo dev now has all this conversation and people motivating them.

At my company, most of the IT team are hardcore Trump supporters who do not see a problem with working with LGBTQIA people and being polite to their face, while also wanting them to have less rights.

Yes, they are all white men. And yes, all of them will tell you how hard they worked to get there, completely oblivious of how much an advantage they got to get there.

Lack of education and training really.

I only knew of Linux because I saw some dude use Linux in 2012. And then a few years later, I finally decided to try it out as it was easier for work. After a lot of false starts, I finally started switching around 2021.

Going to imagine most people are the same - get experience from it and then have a reason to use it daily.

It’s a fucking web app. Make sure it works for a browser. You suck as a web developer if your shit web app needs to work on a specific OS.

And those are fighting words because I build web apps.

I’m just imagining you showing someone in a fantasy realm a modern Glock and they go, “Ah that’s like our matchlock pistols!” And they explain the dwarves and their technical capabilities.

I want a Isekai where the person has a laser pointer.

The nearest thing is Dr. Stone and the Mentalist.

Good sir… Mask up. Can’t protest if your lungs are burning for days.

Edit: There’s actually some guides on how to protest safely and correctly. Here’s a good link from Wired about a baseline level of protection. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-gear-tips/

And find one written for your city/state, by a organization that you respect.