Think you hit the nail on the head. God I hate how capitalism was applied during the induction of computers and the Internet. It ruined so much trying to force “scarcity” driven supply/demand on a technology that fundamentally removed the supply problem. At least in terms of software.

Software never should have been allowed to be restricted by past limitations only to ensure profits could be made.

But we force it on it. Only for the benefits of companies that serve to prevent innovation more than they produce it.

That’s absolutely fucked.

When https://massgrave.dev/ exists it’s even worse.

I think this tax on tech illiterate people is getting too high.

Should I start selling USB drives for $5? I don’t wanna encourage Windows. But I feel bad for the normies. $211 is insane.

MS literally allows massgrav on GitHub. They have for years. They do not give a fuck.

Paying for windows at this point is a normie tax. And it’s gotten too damn high!

He’s working on it. He has to be careful not to accidently forgive the student loans associated with it.

It doesn’t but trying to perfectly time your kids nap to the meeting time (she’s still young and needs at least 2) usually results in a really cracky kid at some point.

Sleep is important and I try not to fuck with it when I can. So doing that when someone just cancels 10 minutes prior is frustrating and usually means I woke her up early from a nap previously to get on a good time sync.

Rescheduling to a different time that day is less bad because I can more easily keep her up another 30-40 minutes depending on the time of the day.

Basically if it’s a completely different day it means she’s cranky back to back days.

They don’t really even “like” them but they’re basically the only thing they do that makes it seem like they do any work.

It’s like grabbing a broom when your boss enters the restaurant. Better to pretend you’re doing something.

Though a lot of them do just like the sound of their own voice.

Not when you’re working from home and being a dad at the same time. Got my kids nap times aligned with meetings. “Oh, sorry to cancel last minute”

Fuck me, I gotta align this shit all over again tomorrow.

Sounds like an anxiety inducing app. And I thought sleep tracking was anxiety inducing. Imagine getting a notification that you might have ass cancer.

I would hope just motion activated. I really don’t want to have to yell at my toilet either.

I worked for Cisco during the time IoT was being pushed into everything. You don’t want to know how bad it is. If I was malicious I could have easily written several backdoors into their products without anyone knowing. I wrote kernel code in their IOS operating system. There are no checks on that shit and the entire switching team does next to zero peer review on kernel security.

Yes, there products that (at the time) touched upwards of 95% of all packets sent over the Internet.

Yeah but what if you could make it worse? What if you could add the garbage motion sensor that takes ten hand waves to get working? Or add a touch screen that showed you visually how hot or cold the water was and could also show you ads?

The problem isn’t necessarily smart toilets. The problem is companies attempting to have complete control over the product and ensuring that their products do not function without dependency on their infrastructure.

There is no functional reason to have a toilet connect to an outside server. There are no functional reasons to have many of these smart devices require outside dependencies. But their profits and their subscription models definitely benefit from being able to remotely disable features.

Technology is garbage not because we’ve gone too far with Technology. Technology is garbage because of capitalism.

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I am currently actually. My startup I put my heart into for 5 years got bought out by $BIG_COMPANY for pennies on the dollar a couple years ago. Have just been giving about 2-5% effort since. Half the people that built our startup got screwed over and laid off. It felt only right to give zero effort since then as a survivor of it. Waiting for $BIG_COMPANY to drop next round of layoffs and rethink my career.

I love programming. But this field is just garbage to the people that care about it. I’m bitter for sure. Collecting a paycheck until then. I’m surprised at how little effort I can give and still not get fired.

And don’t even get my started on how much this field exploits the fuck out of H1 visas for what is basically modern day serfdom.

I think the more the autism the more you’re frustrated that the other autistic people didn’t connect to your sarcasm. It’s the autism paradox. We found something we thought was relatable to normies and lost all relatability to other neurodivergent people in an attempt to be normal and still no one fucking got it.

But we’re on fucking Lemmy. We’re all on a level of neurodivergence I’m sure.

Thanks. I was trying to match some dry humor with the frustrations the relationship with wage labor frustrations and my usual balance of alcohol. I’m glad it hit for someone.

I actually appreciate all the downvotes and comments. I’ll take the “make people think”. Which is why I think my comment got so many replies. Enjoyable either way.

That was the joke. Maybe it was too Meta. Maybe it needed /s tag. But sometimes you just leave a tongue in cheek comment and miss. I’m ok if it was a miss. But I think if you took it seriously you probably outrank me.

I’m glad someone enjoyed my humor. I’m a mix between your most annoying coworker and your favorite coworker that approves your PR whenever you ping them. No unit test attached? Approved. Im sure you’re gonna do that when you have the time. Just make sure you address my minor comment that looks like I had some feedback ok?

You’re probably right. I should assume the autism level is above average here… My bad. But your mom’s cunt is pretty wet when she rubs it on my face. Not your best analogy.

Edit: no /s to be clear. Your mom’s cunt is dripping. But it’s good that you don’t know that.

Nope. 10 years experience at dicking around and collecting a paycheck. ChatGPT helps me dick around better.

Sometimes the more nonsensical it looks the less likely someone will bother taking their time to actually code review it.

My goal is keeping a job. Not getting work done. Then I just get more work to do.

Edit: I don’t know why I expected people on this sub to actually be able to tell what a joke was.