I believe yellow or orange ports always deliver charging power regardless of device’s power state.

Is there a “young man yells at clouds meme” here?

“Yes, you’re very clever calling out the hype train. Oooh, what a smart boy you are!” Until the dust settles…

Lemmy sounds like my grandma in 1998, “Pushah. This ‘internet’ is just a fad.'”

They have to take it home for homework.

Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud

Oops. Picked on the big dogs by playing their own game.

Seriously though, probably more going on than what we read here.

In any case, I doubt the population doubled the capita count.

Thanks for contributing! What is the difference between your experience and mine (with an ad blocker)?

Knowing nothing about marketing, I figured that after threatening to sue his advertisers there would have been a full-stop on incoming customers and, at the least, a spending level freeze by existing customers.

Just because a product went defunct does not mean the entire code base is obsolete to the company.

Suppose I release software that makes a profit for a while, then falls off and starts costing me money, obviously time to retire that thing. However, a ton of code in that original product was a stepping stone for newer projects. I now have two choices.

A) Drop support and give world+dog my code, giving everyone a look into my existing products.

B) Keep losing money on the old project and make up for it by overcharging for my latest work.

That’s a lose-lose proposition.

Your self-hosting solution sounds mighty fair!

All-in-one convenience is the only reason I pay Spotify, my only streaming service. Thought about dropping them, but it would be a monstrous hassle gathering, and continuing to gather, all those MP3s. Plus, I can download that content and use it in the woods with no internet connection. Sold.

Video content? What a clusterfuck. I steal every bit of it. Hell, I got Amazon Prime and don’t bother looking at video offerings. Default: 🏴‍☠️

Send this to my last DevOps team. Jesus. They got a Rube Goldberg machine in place of sane infra. Shit’s so complicated, I know only one guy with his finger on the pulse, and that’s because he built a ton of it over 18 years!

With more market saturation, we’ll see more standardization. Imagine if the original ICE cars took a proprietary gas pump. LOL, the market would have fixed that horseshit with the quickness.

A huge selling point for pistol-caliber guns is if they take Glock magazines. They’re cheap, reliable and available everywhere. I’ll likely never own a Glock, but magazine compatibility would sway my purchase towards another manufacturer that doesn’t have a proprietary mag.

Charging will eventually be a self-solving problem. Right now it seems the manufacturers are trying to get ahead by saying, “Our model charges at X (number of) stations! They only have Y. Pick me!” If I can ever afford an EV, the most standard, “normal” option, whatever this is, is where I’m buying.

And if the free market doesn’t quickly arrive at a standard, time for the legislative hammer. While I’m leery of fucking around, I do so love how Europe says, “Nope! Every device sold here must be compatible.” Phone chargers and such.

I mostly agree, but five years often won’t score your ROI. I especially think entertainment IPs should fall into the public domain faster. 70-years after the author’s death is a fucking joke.

If, god forbid, Steven King croaks tomorrow, his work should go public after a few years (to resolve estate issues).

I cannot understand why lemmy gets up in arms over bullshit like this. If the idiots wish to pay, let them.

Already happening. Cisco just smoked another 4,000 employees. And anecdotally, my tech job hunt is, for the first time, not going so hot.

the number of positions will be reduced as much as the owning class can get away with

Well, after all, you don’t hire people to do nothing. It’s simply a late-stage capitalism thing. Hopefully one day we can take the benefits of that extra productivity and share the wealth. The younger generations seem like they might move us that way in the coming decades.

Keen Technologies

Perfect name for a Carmack company!

Agreed! Problem solving is core to any sort of success. Whether you’re moving up or on for more pay, growing tomatoes or nurturing a relationship, you’re problem solving. But I can see AI putting the screws to those of us in tech.

Haven’t used it much so far, last job didn’t afford much coding opportunity, but I wrote a Google Apps script to populate my calendar given changes to an Excel sheet. Pretty neat!

With zero experience App scripting, I tried going the usual way, searching web pages. Got it half-ass working, got stuck. Asked ChatGPT to write it and boom, solved with an hour’s additional work.

You could say, “Yeah, but you at least had a clue as to general scripting and still had to problem solve. Plus, you came up with the idea in the first place, not the AI!” Yes! But point being, AI made the task shockingly easier. That was at a software outfit so I had the oppurtuniy to chat with my dev friends, see what they were up to. They were properly skeptical/realistic as to what AI can do, but they still used it to great effect.

Another example: Struggled like hell to teach myself database scripting, so ignorant I didn’t know the words to search and the solutions I found were more advanced answers than my beginner work required (or understood!). First script was 8 short lines, took 8 hours. Had AI been available to jump start me, I could have done that in an hour, maybe two. That’s a wild productivity boost. So while AI will never make programmers obsolete, we’ll surely need fewer of them.

Lots of Garmin love in here! Anything affordable that handles GPS well?

Great to see all the Garmin love, I’ll have a look.

Just got an ancient Garmin standalone GPS from the thrift store. Soldered a new battery in and it’s GTG. Even with zero updates, the quality is top notch. One example; It’s been untouched and turned on in my hiking pack for over a month. Battery is full hot!

In America the various states have labor boards, but almost no one knows this and gets taken advantage of.

Last thing an employer wants is a call from the labor board. They default to the employee is always right, burden in on the employer to prove otherwise.