This is a good look under the hood on why so much mainstream software actively sucks these days. They put so many fucking resources into dark capitalist shit, and zero into making it a good user experience.
Boozilla
joined 2 years ago
That was a fun and interesting read.
When we buy an ebook, they are selling us a "license" to use it on their terms. We technically don't own the book. Which is horseshit. Kudos to Pixelmelt for oursmarting their obfuscation techniques.
I use Kobo and Calibre because A-Z sucks so bad. And if an ebook is exclusive to A-Z, I'll just never read it. Fortunately 99.9% of the ebooks I've wanted are on Kobo.
It's a very diverse field with myriad platforms. A game dev's day will be very different than a dev working for a bank. Most of my work career has been boring soul-sucking "move dollar amount x from here to there" corporate bullshit that paid the bills. As a hobbyist, I've taken a crack at coding for games, music, custom postscript generation, ray tracing, etc.
They never learn. This is what happens when clueless MBAs make your strategic decisions.
Smart to zig when everyone else zags.
Talking more than listening.
It's a fun thought experiment. I'm going to cop out and say I just wish my country had more than Republican and Republican Lite to vote for.
Reminds me of so many people I came up with. They carry so much debt driving fancy cars that wear out and maintaining too-large homes they didn't really need. Most people are struggling too much now for that nonsense. But it used to be very common and normalized.
Too many people equate AI with LLMs only. LLMs are mostly bubbled bullshit, with a few limited use cases. But AI is a much broader topic. The really scary AI is the stuff we hear little to nothing about.
People also forget how dramatically tech can advance over time. Spoiled impatient Americans in particular want a finished product or they quickly write it off as "garbage". They forget every product we own and use was once "garbage".
I'm 56. I hang out with 5 to 6 friends 10 times a month on average. Mostly to play tabletop games. Sometimes I meet one or two for lunch.
Comfortable clothes for myself. I'm pretty much invisible to most other people, which is fine with me.
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This is unfortunate news for all the protein bros who never understood excess protein simply gets excreted by the kidneys (and can even stress them if taken to extremes, as some protein bros do).