Which is kind of weird because most C# devs aren’t doing games.

Uh, seems like an odd reason to quit your job.

I’d have to quit my job twice a week if I left every time my boss said something dumb.

That’s what bitlocker is supposed to do. It’s kind of the whole point of bitlocker.

Yeah, just put software on all the machines that tracks mouse clicks or keyboard presses every 20 seconds. Watch hardware devices for mouse jigglers. You can track every time they take a shit.

Plus you get to layoff employees without calling it layoffs. Wall street loves that.

If I clone the repo I expect everything to work, including the readme.

Oh, I’m sure they were all doing stuff. It just wasn’t necessarily stuff that’s easy to monetize.

There’s a reason Reddit’s reliability has shot up over the past decade despite ever increasing popularity. Plus there’s all the dumb shit they added like the bullshit awards.

The way to make big money for the past 20 years hasn’t been to sell better mousetraps. It’s been to attract venture capital. Your revenue didn’t matter as much as your size, and your size was determined by your employees and how much you spend.

It’s why Uber, whose business model is entirely skimming off of taxi drivers who provided their own cars, wasn’t profitable…

With the interest rate hikes, the investment money is drying up, and all these places are discovering they actually need to make money from their users now, and all that bloat is now a negative instead of a positive.

Basically we’re all paying the price for the stupid fucking investment bubble that’s existed for two decades. An investment bubble that existed because nobody was at the wheel driving the direction of this economy until now.

And of course the billionaires don’t want to sacrifice shit, so they’re making sure it all rolls downhill to their employees and their customers and doesn’t touch their profits in the slightest.

The content has gotten significantly worse.

Maybe we should find an ad agency and crowd source funds to make slick advertisements for Lemmy and Mastodon. I feel like you should promote a specific instance for each though, and avoid the “join-mastodon” page.

The way the instances are split does not generally make much sense for the user. It’s extremely arbitrary. We all know why, and that it’s not a bad thing altogether, but it’s bad for the user experience. That aspect of federation is not something we should promote.

Wow. I’d be self hosting mumble for that. Or using Teams.

It’s great for real time discussion. It’s terrible for anything else.

It’s IRC, not a forum.

Wasn’t the oversight mostly blocked by house republicans, and then finished off by the administration?

Maybe. But I think Wikipedia is easier to run than Reddit, even if it’s only partial Reddit.

Soon, when things go smoother, I absolutely wouldn’t mind either having ads or paying a low annual fee.

The problem with Reddit was seeking out vulture capital. Turning a small profit, enough to pay people something resembling wages, isn’t a bad thing.

As one of those, I can’t even really answer it.

I used to spend hours a day on the site, mostly on my phone. Now I’m blocked from accessing it on my phone at all. I’ve stopped doom scrolling reddit altogether.

But I still get linked to Reddit often, from both friends and google searches. And there are one or two specific threads that I’m sure to check.

I’ve basically cut down from 15+ hours a week of Reddit to less than one. So have I quit Reddit or not?

Well I’m certainly not going to uninstall one of my favorite apps just because Spez tells me to.

Plus the link just brings up RiF, which doesn’t work. Don’t think there’s any way to fix that. No sir.

I think it’s both, actually. Lemmy is often giving html where json is expected, and Jerboa isn’t handling the error well.

If you’re not participating in politics, politics is certainly participating in you.

I get it. This country/society that we’re in is basically the Titanic, and any one person trying to push it in one direction does almost nothing. But almost nothing is still better than nothing.

The iceberg is a little off our starboard bow, so I get a little offended when people imply steering left and right is the same thing. Each of us in a democracy has an obligation to try to improve our society, because the alternative is the world going to shit. The bare minimum of that is knowing what’s going on, having an opinion about it, and voting.

Public discussion is an increasingly important part of that. The idea that it’s not polite to talk about politics and people fully ignoring “politics” is how we got to the shitshow we’re in today.

And dangerous. Sometimes people delete information for a reason.

Because the right absolutely does buy maga hats and scam commemorative coins. The left does not buy Mao anything. Because we’re not a cult.