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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨place yer bets⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Backup is that we have a team of deep sea oil drillers go up there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty"⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t think it was bad, I honestly enjoyed it. I think people are too polarized, it’s either baulders gate or it’s trash. I disagree. It wasn’t top tier, but that doesn’t mean it was bad either. It’s okay to have a mid game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Layoffs every 2 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have friends who were offered retention in the same boat. They are taking it as they are being paid to job search, it’s a pre layoff. The second they don’t have anything holding them down they’re all out. Take the money and run, the company already showed their true colors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This job description for a job posting by Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I applied, interviewed, and got to the offer stage. They’ll offer you a butt load of money, and I’d do it if I was desperate, but friend I talked to some of my friends there, and they flat out told me to not to. They work nights, weekends, it’s mandatory 5 days in office - and they time you to the minute that you’re there for 8 hours minimum each day.

  The stock seems nice but you learn that you don’t get any for 2 years, because they know the vast majority of people burn out before 2 years.

  They have a company wide mandate that you get 2 weeks PTO your first year. Then 3. You don’t get bumped up to 5 until 6 years in.

  Moral reasons of how evil they are aside, it’ll crush your soul.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Layoffs every 2 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  @DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world I feel you, I have a few other comments here because I feel you so hard. I’ve been there also twice in the last 3 years.

  I wanted to give you advice if you decide to stay in White collar (and trust me, I understand the feeling, I was a hair close to buying a bar. Slinging drinks seems a lot less stressful than dealing with corpo).

  My advice though. Take a few days to process, play some video games, veg out. Then, on top of job searching and all, decide on something new to learn. If you’re IT/development, this is crucial now, and my advice will follow for those roles. The days of “I’m just a react dev” are ending, or at least the market has been flooded, and AI is making it easy for junior devs to pretend that they’re more than what they are. It’s another evolution of our job, get out in front of it. If you’re a programmer for example, learn how models work, how to run them, how to call them, how to train them. Learn kubernetes. Learn infrastructure. Learn skills that you never would have before that set you apart. That’s what we’re going to have to do if we want to remain employable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Layoffs every 2 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My first layoff was this, and the CTO was genuinely distraught. I hold no ill feelings towards him. The company was not doing well, and we saw the writing on the wall for a while. That was a brave man, he got up there and took it himself.

  Later I was laid off again by cowards. The CEO and CTO were offline when most of the people got the gauntlet, a 5 minute meeting with HR only. No feedback, no questions. HR woman we all knew, and she was crying, obviously crushed and was pushed to do all of this herself while they hid with their tail behind their legs. Heard the next day that the CEO bravely told the reset of the org that they had some “adjustments” that had to be made and no shit - direct quote “We’re feeling a little heartburn today”. Coward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we doing these stupid “self-recorded” job interviews?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I outright refuse to do them. If I’m talking to a hiring manager already and they say I have to do one I’ll tell them no, and I’ll withdraw via email if they ask me to do that, I tell them it’s demeaning. I’m more than happy to actually talk to a human, but I’m not going to sit in front of a webcam and act like that’s normal.

  I’ve been out of a job twice in the last 3 years thanks to layoffs, and I found a job both times relatively soon (2-3 months), and didn’t feel like I needed to stoop to that. They are a wonderful red flag for companies I don’t want to be at.

  As an aside, make sure to grow your network, I get more roles from referrals and friends now than I do from resumes. Every job you have make some friends, play the linkedin game, and keep in touch with them, just popping in to say hello. That will go farther than you would expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mesa 25.0 open source graphics drivers released with Vulkan 1.4 and initial AMD RDNA4 support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It was, the blue and red have an optical illusion with my eyes, it really looks like 3d to me, even as a 2d image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mesa 25.0 open source graphics drivers released with Vulkan 1.4 and initial AMD RDNA4 support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay unrelated, but do the cogs in the mesa graphic there look 3d to anyone else? Is it intentional? Trick of the eyes? Brilliant if they did it on purpose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve and I have trust. 20 years of it. They are there, have fair prices, let me play where and when I want, no gotchas, I trust them. Sure tomorrow they could break that trust, but so far they haven’t.

  Then Amazon, who has continuously ruined my trust. Adding ads to an ad free prime tier, lying about delivery times, getting shittier and cheaper products on their store, and oh yeah, just being an evil company. And they wonder why I never even looked at their store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dropbox discontinuing Vault, moving it to a normal folder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Icloud / apple was just silently told in the UK that they need to provide a backdoor. I wonder if it’s happening to all of the major hosters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  he’s so eloquent, I clearly understood how he was innocent of whatever they said he was guilty of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong to like AI Art work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is Videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite YouTube channels might not survive this [Minute Earth]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy luckily let’s us change titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks Baristas Aren't Writing Messages On Your Cup By Choice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to Starbucks, I love you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your favourite YouTube channels might not survive this [Minute Earth]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. Clickbait is clickbait, here or not. Make your titles useful people. We aren’t reddit here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey maybe shadows will finally turn them around, I’m sure they did I’m something interesting and new with the game to get us to take notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s the arrogance. It’s the calling of themselves “AAAA” gaming and trying to push base prices of games past $100 and then making bland boring games. They think they’re amazing. This is their reality check. Their games are what I play when I have nothing, and I mean nothing else to play

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Financial Briefing Reveals Massive Loss In Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  2024 was arguably the lowest point the company had in many years, with things getting so bad that the company’s leadership has been called into question many times

  Never before this, no one ever stopped to think if they were doing a good job or if their plans made sense. There was a clear downward trend, the seawater was coming in and people were jumping out, but they decided it was fine. Now it’s half in the water and maybe it’s time to wonder if they’re doing a good job

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Financial Briefing Reveals Massive Loss In Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m doing my part!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we going through another scalping apocalypse?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately it’s pure capitalism. No matter what company got paid. They don’t care about it users got the card they wanted, or even if the scalers make a profit or go bust, they already got paid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we going through another scalping apocalypse?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would never expect anything day 1, ever. Scalpers ruined day 1. And though I would be surprised if they were out of stock a week later. Unlike Nvidia they actually want to sell cards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today I got hate speech in my inbox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone spent time, either seriously or to troll on an open code platform. How depressing of a life that must be in either case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good then, glad you’ve made it through, but obviously stay frosty. Those execs will cut every engineer as long as they still look good. Be ready for anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very sorry man, I’ve been through that, and I have friends that have been cut at unity before. They treat their workers terribly.

  Focus on getting better first, just process it for a bit. When you’re ready to start looking, the market is warm right now. I’m more than happy to help review resumes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 publishers think PC is of "increasing" importance in 2025, but still won't announce the magic date⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Multiplayer is a crapshoot, singleplayer I’m more surprised when something doesn’t work. I was able to play Veilguard day one using proton. Madden 2025 they explicitly banned linux. Just always check protondb.com before purchasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 publishers think PC is of "increasing" importance in 2025, but still won't announce the magic date⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Multiplayer is a crapshoot, singleplayer I’m more surprised when something doesn’t work. I was able to play Veilguard day one using proton. Madden 2025 they explicitly banned linux. Just always check protondb.com before purchasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 publishers think PC is of "increasing" importance in 2025, but still won't announce the magic date⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it works with proton I’m happy. There have been a few games that go out of their way to prevent proton compatibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 publishers think PC is of "increasing" importance in 2025, but still won't announce the magic date⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be buying it, no shame in saying that. Just only once, and only on PC, as long as they don’t block Linux. I’ve waited 10 years for a new installment. What’s one more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Archived. Of course they have no legal reason to take it down, but I’m sure that won’t stop them.