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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The OP said:

  Pretty much every company I’ve been in or know of values a vertical trajectory instead of a horizontal one for its employees i.e becoming a manager nearly always means a faster salary progression than becoming an expert in one or multiple fields.

  Why is expertise valued less?

  I didn’t say we don’t need leaders. An owner or a manager may be in charge but that doesn’t make them a leader.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The structure and values of the underlying society revolve around individuals amassing power and wealth for their own benefit rather than any kind of collective good. Often the boss, the owner, the one in charge leans on their wealth and power. They were born with resources or hoarded them and feel that the most valuable contribution anyone could make is risking their own wealth (investing). As such, they themselves deserve most of the control of the organization (company) and deserve to be rewarded with most of the fruits of their worker’s labor.

  If you have good social skills and exude confidence - this comforts the boss. Now the boss likes you and you get promoted and more money. If you are capable of doing great work but don’t know how to kiss the boss’s ass or don’t make the boss believe you know what you are doing - you aren’t as obviously valuable to the boss.

  Get rid of the boss and decide how to do things democratically among your peers? Now you’ve seized the means of production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If online services (such as Netflix) only ever raise their prices, does that mean they offer less and less value for money as time passes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, no. However, in today’s society if you are making aren’t making more profit this quarter (line go up) than last quarter you are seen as failing to meet your fiduciary duty to shareholders. More accurately, if the rate at which your profit is increasing isn’t increasing (line describing line go up) you are likely seen as failing the shareholders.

  It’s no longer acceptable to deliver to your customers, make a steady profit, and be sustainable. Now you must cut every possible corner, deliver as little value and use as little labor as possible, make more profit, and “stay competitive” or your company may as well be failing… in the eyes of investors.

  Unless you claim you are working on a technology like AI that can eventually let the company fire all of its workers and make all the money without having to pay humans for labor… in which case ignorant investors will light money on fire for you until they think someone else is definitely going to do it better or they think you can’t deliver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of when I first tried to play Quake (I think? some old arena FPS) over dialup. I tried for a few minutes hoping my ping would even out. At one point I had ~4,500 ping. That’s 4.5 seconds between my input affection what I saw on the screen. Needless to say, I was often gibbed before I got to see my inputs manifest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there not a future in which the AI bubble bursts, and we are in a glut of datacentre memory and storage with no buyers?

  There is. Unfortunately, not even the chips on the memory used by data centers is compatible with consumer hardware. They use extremely high performance, expensive HBM (High Bandwidth Memory), we use DDR memory. Unless consumers start getting affordable devices that are compatible with such memory, there is not much hope of buying what has been or is in the process of being made for data centers.

  There should be a cataclysmic bottoming out of the market that leads to a period of cheap, abundant parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody needs any entertainment, but some people enjoy hobbies like gaming.

  no company has ever responded to more sales with lower prices

  Prices are going up rapidly thanks to AI data centers exploding demand by orders of magnitude more than retail customers. There is no end in sight to the price increases.

  If you want a gaming device, buy it sooner rather than later. That’s all I am saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. I guess it depends on your anticipated financial situation and your priorities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the way shit is going, get what you can while you can. Gaming is only going to get worse and more expensive by the week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a DNS address ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a question that might require a bit of “prior knowledge” in order for an answer to make sense.

  Basically computers keep track of each other with complicated, unique numbers. This isn’t easy for humans to deal with so instead we have websites like netflix.com. DNS is a system that translates “netflix.com” to it’s more complicated unique computer address so that your computer connects to the netflix server when you type in that web address.

  There are a number of servers (DNS Servers) on the Internet with databases that keep track of which website has what computer address. Usually, the company (ISP or Internet Service Provider) that you get Internet from has their own DNS Server and tells your modem to tell your computer or phone to use that server to look things up when you browse the web, but it is possible to use alternative servers.

  Technically, the system is very trust-based - it’s just assumed that they are going to respond accurately and in good faith. It is possible to mess with this but there are other layers of security and authorities your computer should be using to make sure that you are actually visiting the website you think you are visiting. Usually ISPs just use this server to keep track of the websites you visit so they can sell your data to advertisers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, a mortal who gets it!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on the lore, running water can also stop vampires… though I suspect a squirt gun would not count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Struggle 😔⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I overheard someone considerably high up in my organization struggling to understand the concept of an email BCC (Blind Carbon Copy).

  He was trying to figure out how to notify a large number of people via email without letting them know who else was receiving the email.

  Some things may fall under IT but they should really fall under the category of things every professional should understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon time travels⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was my shower thought this morning. Maybe some good will come of these circumstances in the form of optimization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a great idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Going early and going late often helps a lot with avoiding people who meander around blocking movement through the store.

  Unfortunately, where I live is pretty heavily populated so the shelves are also a lot more empty if I go late or go too early.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You nomster!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember it was a common prank in my office, for coworkers that didn’t lock their workstations, to set their homepage to hampster-dance.

  At a LAN party we once messed with a friend’s desktop background. He had a picture of himself and a girlfriend in what I assume was his dorm room as his background. We wanted to take the poster in the background and photoshopped it to something funny. Someone had a bizarre picture of a bunch of dudes in Ninja Turtle masks. One of them was holding some chick in a skirt upside down and I think holding a fist against her panties. That photo was so bizarre it sticks in my mind.

  I have no idea if he ever realized it. I felt bad afterward when I found out he was MIA at the LAN Party because of an unpleasant medical issue…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The upvotes have been removed for your safety ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just another layer - the button did nothing to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the AI bubble bursts..⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But if you fire half your staff while only making 400 units…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the demonstration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For instance, I too voted for Harris, and I’ve been called a gEnOciDe suPpOrTeR, a bOoTLiCkEr, and. bLuEmAga™. Just for voting against a fascist.

  The hatred between left leaning Lemmy users over the last election is crazy to me. Instead of focusing on getting rid of the current fascist regime together, so many just dogpile on anyone based on whether they voted for Harris. I feel like every other political post has a flame war that starts with a comment blaming the news on anyone and everyone on the left who didn’t vote Harris or criticized dems during the campaign.

  There are those of us with a bit of nuance though. I was and still am disgusted and disappointed with the Dem’s positions and empathize with those who sat out in 2024 but I voted Dems them over the party looking to fast track fascism and white nationalism. I regularly get flamed for suggesting we move on from blaming each other and focus on getting rid of the fascists here and now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He is. He’s more or less the USA’s shadow president - he maneuvered himself to be Trump’s right hand man and has the clown president’s trust for many domestic issues, particularly anything related to non-white people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the hoops… [they]… make you jump through with regard to layering

  I played around with a few atomic distros and it seems like rather than layering, running things in containers is the preferred solution.

  It won’t be the solution for everything that layering could “fix”, depending on your situation, but it is something that I wasn’t initially aware of when I started playing with Bazzite, Fedora Atomic, and now Aurora.

  Basically, if you could just run whatever you need to run in a container, that might be another solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Money, or more importantly the power and privilege that money provides, has always been more important than humanity, if you have enough of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s extremely profitable. If you have a problem with that, I’ll fucking ruin your life. If you look like you might be able to make ruining your life difficult and it’ll cost me a lot to ruin your life, I’ll just save myself the trouble and spend it to give you enough to make you forget what you were upset about. It’s a cost benefit analysis, really. Yay capitalism!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So once again, it’s capitalism. Surprise surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are only those companies for whom the incentives to betray you aren’t yet high enough. Either the incentives become high enough for the chosen company to betray you, or the incentives become enough for another company with enough money to buy the chosen company and betray you…or bury the chosen company in the hopes that you’ll open yourself to being betrayed or exploited by the other company.

  Welcome to unfettered/unregulated capitalism aka the natural end result that capitalism pushes society towards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, can you describe, with a bit more detail, the kind of work that was repetitive and became worse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tire of this life⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least until the corrupting force of micro-plastic-capitalism causes your house to get seized and you must begin the adventure of a lifetime to retrieve it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s at the point where it helps people code more easily, but maybe I’m just exclusively experiencing edge cases and turning to it for the wrong uses. I’ve only had failures. Hallucinations that waste my time, and flawed algorithms.

  My favorite was a few weeks ago when I was having a rough day and needed a complicated algorithm to make a decision based on an inputted date. I told it that if I plug in value A to its algorithm, the answer is wrong. It went step by step explaining its "reasoning"and it returned the correct answer and then at the pivotal step it plugged in a different year than was in A, for just that step, and then proceeded to confirm to itself that if you plug in A, you get the right answer.

  Maybe someday it will help, or maybe some problems it is useful for, I’ve just never had that experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, my partner loves BTBAM. I was going to mention them as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know Plini, will check out The Omnific!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another great band!