Zink
@Zink@programming.dev
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I am as disgusted with consumer marketing and advertising as anybody, but sometimes the logo or the brand on something CAN be a positive sign if it indicates the product comes from a company that has earned the trust they have.
I don’t have a Steam Deck and probably never will. However, I am glad to see it being popular if for no other reason than what Valve and the Deck have contributed to gaming on Linux.
I will probably get their VR headset though, whenever that comes out.
- Comment on Shutting down a piracy site 2 days ago:
Usenet is hosted by companies dedicated to it, not individuals. So generally you can use an encrypted connection and max out your bandwidth.
It’s not just new stuff either.
- Comment on Vibe management 1 week ago:
You would THINK that of all people on the planet, CEOs should understand the enshittification strategy.
…Or the board of directors, or the major investors, etc.
If you outsource the entire value chain of your $million/billion business to the $trillions guys, how do you think that will go? What would YOU do in their place knowing you have all the leverage and none of the risk (re: the smaller companies being bled dry and left to rot)?
It’s funny to see it happen to other predatory tech companies like uber though.
- Comment on Accepting Cookies 1 week ago:
Yeah sure, give me whatever cookies aren’t already blocked. I love cookies. Is that all of them?
(closes LibreWolf, which nukes everything except whitelisted sites)
…pathetic.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I have the fun privilege at work these days of being the guy who sometimes makes things work just by walking in the room.
It feels like a tale as old as time. I’m one of the few software engineers working on the embedded code in our new product, and occasionally a technician or V&V tester or different discipline engineer will ask me to look at something acting funny. And I fully believe them, not just because they have no reason to lie but because “acting funny” is exactly the lifestyle our system is living!
Sometimes I get to lean on my experience with the code, then glare at something on the screen and say I don’t trust it, and that leads us to the fix. But about half the time, just sensing that somebody called daddy into the room makes it stand up straight and stop fucking around, lol.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 week ago:
Because the police are mercenaries, not wild animals. They generally don’t bite the hand that feeds. Besides, they still have 99% of the population to target.
- Comment on All in one 1 week ago:
Yeah! I alternate between using Dr. Bronner’s and simply reading the ramblings on the bottle if using some old shampoo/conditioner my wife moved on from.
- Comment on Must have apps 1 week ago:
Have you tried Double Commander or Superfile?
I get the inertia against switching when you have a setup you like, but the idea of going the other direction – if I could get the best file manager in the universe but I have to switch to Windows to use it – I just cannot imagine anything that would make it worth it.
- Comment on Just an idea 1 week ago:
It’s Forbin’ time!?
- Comment on Just say no 2 weeks ago:
1980s: Please do not use drugs. They seem great at first but you don’t want to get hooked.
2020s: Please DO use the AIs. They seem like shit at first, but you DO want to get hooked because we have about a trillion dollars in new mortgages to keep up with.
- Comment on Sick of this shit 2 weeks ago:
You mean to tell me that the people at the top, who confidently know they have already won, don’t run around like desperate insecure dickheads trying to prove that they are the most valuable worker bee?
On a more serious note, they represent and propagate some of the worst parts of our culture, especially in the US.
According to them (and most of my upbringing) the indicators of leading a good life include money, possessions, greed, excess, and dominating others.
Things that are actually good for us are seen as being crutches for the weak. You know, like community, healthy relationships, generosity, and fulfilling work/hobbies.
I would say it propagates conservative values like innate hierarchy and your worth as a human being equal to your economic output, but plenty of people who don’t consider themselves conservatives get wrapped up in it.
- Comment on Doomer 2 weeks ago:
At this point I’m just trying to enjoy what I can in my immediate surroundings. When I am outside tending to my critters, I often wonder if today will be the day the sky is filled with a blinding light from the south then a very chaotic and consequential minute or two after that.
But deep down that is probably a fantasy. The world is not that exciting. Instead we get to slowly watch how many people the billionaires can starve as long as we still have a working internet.
- Comment on weiner dog 2 weeks ago:
We have two miniature dachshunds, and a 9 year old son. He will occasionally just call them penis dogs and think it’s hilarious.
I showed this picture to my wife just to joke txt here’s one to not show the boy. Good times. lol.
- Comment on Its a circus and we're the clowns 3 weeks ago:
I’d say do it, and put a lot of effort into the video but keep it generic and don’t mention the company or product by name.
Then in a few months when that shitshow goes under you’ll have the video ready to go for the next place!
- Comment on Need a AI update 3 weeks ago:
I’m convinced that much of, if not most of, society sees technology in our personal lives as a way to (ideally) not have to learn anything or put in one bit of extra effort.
I’ve been getting my hands dirty and doing more things myself over the past few years, and ya know sometimes the journey is more impactful on you as a person than the destination is. Learning things and interacting with the world around you is good.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, when I take an inventory of the businesses I frequent and follow this train of thought, it ultimately boils down into the line “No ethical consumption under capitalism” I’ve read before.
If it’s a company we’ve heard of, it inevitably has an entire collection of rich psychopaths running and owning it. Local small businesses can be better, or they can be run by hateful bigots and/or small-time psychopaths that charge twice as much.
I just try to find the reasonable balance between trying to reduce harm and not support the worst of the worst, while also participating in society.
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 3 weeks ago:
They don’t think you have no interests because you say you like to work.
They think you have no interests because you say:
From personal experience, i do start to slowly drift towards depression during my mandatory 2 week vacations as oftentimes there just isn’t anything to do and i tend to doomscroll way too much.
In my case, I have loaded myself up not just with hobbies and projects, but with ones that are often physical in nature and very different from my career at a desk writing code.
If I were forced to take the next two weeks off, I would probably get MORE “work” done but it would be according to what I find fulfilling at the time.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 3 weeks ago:
All of those things are true in the US. It is just somehow culturally acceptable here that a third of the cars commuting to the office or stopping at the grocery store are giant trucks that should be commercial vehicles.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Are they really such amazing actors
Unfortunately I don’t think they need to be good actors in the first place.
One of the lessons of the last decade of the shit show that we call human society has been that awful and/or stupid people rise to positions of power and influence every day by acting confident and promising things they can’t deliver.
The modern confidence man isn’t the thief of the street but the legitimate executive.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 5 weeks ago:
Now there’s a term I have to find a way to use at work tomorrow!
- Comment on klown show 6 x-treme 5 weeks ago:
Well, if Apple is getting a new CEO then Microsoft should go all in and hire Xzibit to sell copilot.
- Comment on Innovation 5 weeks ago:
Yeeep, this right here.
I’m a nerd and software engineer, sitting in front of 4 screens right now. I own a smart watch which I wore 23 hours a day for years on end.
I stopped wearing it several months ago and I literally do not know where it is right now. I assume it’s in my house somewhere. 🤷♂️
The greedy shits that run the tech world have taken it too far. The switch flipped in my brain and I just do no care about tech “products” any more. If it connects to the internet or has a screen then it’s almost guaranteed to be designed in a way that goes against my best interests.
- Comment on You okay babe? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m a straight married bearded husky white guy who has taken up carpentry as a hobby, and I have no interest in being part of that industry. I have a relative who is a trumper plumber and the culture fits him perfectly, lol.
- Comment on Maybe three towels 5 weeks ago:
She’s not my type either, but I always thought she was super attractive.
- Comment on Enshittiflation 1 month ago:
- Comment on type shit 1 month ago:
And culture
And conservatism, I say.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 month ago:
It’s like whoever is directing his actions just wants to twist the knife a bit. But there are so many evil fucks to choose from that it doesn’t really narrow it down. Could be a Putin “fuck the americans” thing, could be a Miller “fuck everybody” thing, who knows.
- Comment on Crying is a free action 1 month ago:
y = mx + b
It’s algebra. It’s linear. 😬
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 1 month ago:
Oh boy, I get to do more Freedumsplaining!
The luxury sport sedan price is the fake sticker price they bill up front.
The sensible commuter sedan price is the secret agreed-upon price that the insurance actually pays out to them.
The out of pocket costs are a completely separate number, where the individual is responsible for all the costs until they hit their deductible (and sometimes pay a percentage for a while until they hit a second complete out of pocket limit).
For some of us, however, there is a silver lining to this shitcloud. Obviously when a 2-hour stint in a chair gets paid out actually for real at tens of thousands of dollars, that money is not going to the wonderful nurses poking my arm and checking on me. Therefore, it is very much in the best interests of the pharmaceutical shareholders that I do not stop my treatment just because I can’t afford it. So these companies have copay assistance programs that will pay your out of pocket costs, with no income threshold.
So the reward that I get for having a health condition is… I effectively get decent healthcare coverage as an American. For 11 months of the year. If something bad happens in early january it can cost a few grand in the blink of an eye.
You can’t be on government insurance and use those programs though. But Medicaid on its own is great coverage.
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 1 month ago:
I have a “fun” american anecdote for you then! The office that gave me crap for being late a while back is also coincidentally the expensive one.
I’m on a biologic medication that I get every month via IV. I get the infusions at a cancer treatment center at the local hospital. The chairs are comfy and the nurses are amazing. They will actually give me free snacks and drinks too. I am typically there for about two hours.
The amount they charge my insurance company? About a new BMW.
What my insurance company actually pays them? Surprisingly, about a new Honda!