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[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Maybe not the best parallel but a good point nonetheless.

A more apt comparison might be:

"What's the best all-beef hot dog I can buy at my local supermarket?"

"Ugh! OMG! Don't do that to yourself! Why would you even want to bother with eating beef if that's the shit you're going to put in your body?! Just get some Japanese A5 Wagyu ribeye and thank me later!"

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Most jobs like that, or really any pay scheme other than piece work or an hourly wage usually has the process of:

  1. You can take as much PTO as you like.
  2. You can take as much PTO as you like...provided you get all your work done.
  3. You work like a dog, get all your work done, and take time off.
  4. Since you were able to get everything done and have time left over to not work, your boss increases your workload, so now you have to work like a dog, all the time, or else you'll never get everything done.

It's like playing chess, and while the other player can't change the rules as they go, but a condition for playing with them is that they get two moves every turn.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 28 points 4 weeks ago

I like this one as well. Part of the reason I think this movie just works is because it doesn't even try to be a gritty realistic action thriller adventure movie, but rather it instead combines larger-than-life, over the top action with a healthy dose of wise cracking, levity, and failures...just like an actual RPG session. It's fun to watch but not mentally and emotionally exhausting like, say...a war movie.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nope.

And even if it did, it was restarting itself anyway.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Bought a pixel 3 as soon as the 4 was released.

It was a fantastic phone... except for the two times it got stuck in a boot loop until the battery died.

Bonus points for the second time, when, thanks to a google update for emergency services, it decided it should dial emergency services every time it restarted...meaning I had to stay up until 330am that night, hanging up on emergency services, until the battery finally died.

A year or two ago, I bought a P7 Pro to replace it, hoping it'd have all the good of the P3, but with better camera, bigger screen, and no boot loop.

It is indeed bigger, the camera can zoom more, but isn't necessarily better, there's no boot loop issues which is great...but I find i have more cases of the phone locking up and needing a restart...and the in-screen fingerprint sensor (and gesture controls) are absolute hot garbage compared to the P3.

The fingerprint and gesture annoyances have been enough that my plan now, unless there's something significant that changes things, is to go back to an iPhone for my next phone.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

My thought is more along the lines of, "Regardless of his talent level, is this really the kind of person that his country wants representing them on the world stage?"

Like, okay even if he's the absolute best by an order of magnitude...if he were from my country, I'd rather lose every match than win on the talents of someone like that.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I don't care about that so much as the hyper specificity of not only "you have to be on the political left here" but "being to the left isn't enough, you need to be this far left, and hold these specific views on politics, technology, etc.".

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

And the community that is here is, amazingly, somehow even worse than Reddit, on average, when it comes to being a hive mind that is wildly intolerant of any disagreement.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Not only that, but there's a 100% chance they sell this shit to you as a forever mouse, then in a few years if it's not making them money hand over fist, they'll discontinue it and keep your money.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

It also wouldn't cover a meal from Uber Eats.

Definitely worse than nothing.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago

It occurred to us that CrowdStrike is an absolutely terrible name. It sounds like a terrorist attack. Of course, it felt like one on Friday.

When I first heard about what was going on, I assumed that "CrowdStrike" was not the name of the software/company, but rather some sort of advanced DDOS-like attack where they used systems they'd previously hacked and had them all do the same thing at once to another target.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I think it's mostly because it brings in money and for whatever reason, the community seems to be just fine with it, even if they don't participate or understand it, so from the furry side, they've found a city happy to have them, and from the city side, they like the economic boost, so if everyone's happy, why change?

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