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… When did the sun rise?

It doesn’t even need to be fancy or expensive

This doesn’t stop the drastic drop in popularity (and potentially development) of FOSS apps.

Lack of users means lack of donations.

We need to stop this BS instead of just trying to get a workaround.

These are the beans I want on lemmy

Underpromise and overdeliver.

I was a Webmaster 15 years ago. I learned very quickly not to say how long anything takes.

Qoute 3~5 times the wrench time. Then report when you like.

Might be so. He said it in the first person so it could’ve been BS.

My ex brother in law is a commercial refrigeration tech. He did a emergency call to a restaurant that was losing temp on thier walk in freezer. Loaded with food that needed to be kept under freezing. Time was of the essence or all the food would be tossed due to health codes.

He came out diagnoses it. Qoutes a few grand to fix it. Approved. Then he fixes it in like 15min. Just tightened a single screw.

The owner was pissed he paid a few grand for 15min and a single screw tweak.

Tech looked at him and said he paid for it to be fixed. The fact that the fix was a single screw and which screw needed tweaking was specialized knowledge. He paid for the knowledge not the time.

I took that lesson to heart working in IT or really any field. Even when hiring people to do stuff for me. Sometimes it’s not just the labor it’s also the knowledge.

Security? How much? No. Skip it.

Everyone is talking about getting a fairphone and whatnot but I’m concerned about the open source apk communities shutting down since the market share and interest is killed by this.

This actually happened to me last month. I had to touch code from a previous team/project I was on.

I got the call for a collaboration/consult. I forgot everything about it. Jumped in a meeting next day anyway. We pulled up the code. Everything was documented and I had a section with parameters for a “wish” feature that they actually wanted finally. I pointed it out and told them the needful to finish the feature.

Thank you past me. I’ll have to buy you a drink.

Then I had a nice 5pm Scotch.

He was shocking chill and backed off immediately when she pushed back. That’s surprising.

“Computers can make up things that look real. Like superhero movies and kid movies (disney/Pixar). This AI crap just made it cheaper and easier so there’s lots of fake stuff everywhere”

My elderly parents showing me clearly AI videos of a $30 robot puppy…

I couldn’t convince them it was AI. I tried to explain CGI with shit like Pixar and Disney movies but it didn’t work. NICOO puppy

That shit should be illegal.

Optimization?
What’s that?

It probably started off as an interesting way to relive the past and then you realized the terrible idea of making people relive a brutal war.

With VR it would be amazing to add playing card, bingo, dominos, etc.

So you have elderly game days.

Yeah I gave up on radio customization when I got a car that didn’t have a dual bin and didn’t keep up. Looking at newer cars and barely anything can be swapped/upgraded it seems.

Yeah this is the kind of shit I was looking forward to when I got into driving in the 2000s. But then car manufacturers started doing thier own non standard radios.

Then the car mod communities made kits to for a dual bay fit.

Then the corpos made radios required to service the car…

No regulations to protect the consumers let them do what they want.

The car part of the car should be completely independent of the entertainment part of the car. Fuckers.

The line can get blurry when you talk about EVs but protections should still be possible.

Honestly VR would be a great way for elderly to travel and socialize.

Retirement homes and church are known places where people “drop off” their family as they age in part due to getting them into social circles.

I have an aging Dad and we’re starting to feel uncomfortable with him going out alone. He also doesn’t want to retire because he’d be lonely at home while everyone is out at work.

I wonder if VR elderly care was normalized (and free of scammers) it would be a nice dream.

I don’t trust that shit in any way that it comes out as due to all the enshitification.

Only use its good for today would be a single player game full of beautiful scenery.