Fun fact: internet explorer was originally built off the File Explorer.

I kinda stopped following programming for windows a decade ago. But in sure there is some ancient code from 30 years ago that is holding some critical files together.

Need a Explanation?

(Gestures vaguely in the air)

You nailed it!

What grosses me out is that to get all those features, I have to be okay with my video data potentially landing in the hands of some company using it train AI or something.

Eufy was caught recently doing that. (And it’s my current solution for remote home camera system)

It’s built off of OSM. Which is how it should be.

Absolutely a depression indicator.

Post-election, my wife and I are going hard on co-op games again. We are not feeling so great.

But prior to that, we were casually gaming, maybe 1-2 hours a day at most.

I say “Damn, Gina!” after the 90s Fox sitcom, Martin.

This is the way.

Finding other ways to get your media that doesn’t blast you with ads.

Or if it always blasts you with ads, find a way to block them.

Don’t let the terrorists win.

OP was asking about Normal people.

Of course non-normals ad block.

But I’ve seen my parents use their phone and ignore the 60% of ads take that over the screen.

I tip my bank teller, the canvasser with the clipboard in front of the supermarket, and the traffic light for turning green.

I self-host and dabble with this stuff. Im an engineer for more than a decade.

But I really struggled to find a solution that has a really high uptime with minimal maintenance. Ive set up some raspberry pi projects, including cams. Why would I want video to transfer to some company?

But the trade offs were significant. Every few weeks, there was a new problem. Maybe my router. Maybe my internet. Maybe the Pi. Maybe something else. Maybe it’s my VPN when I’m trying to dial into the network. Maybe it’s my phone app no longer seeing the device. Maybe a update broke it. Maybe God hated me that day.

After six months and spending 2-3 hours a month maintaining it, I burned out and just bought an off-the-shelf solution with a mobile app.

Of course, I only use it for security and it doesn’t exist in the house. It grosses me out, but it’s been two years of plug-and-play and just working without setup.

You literally cannot search for Mastodon without getting a weird ass 2-paragraph manifesto about The Fediverse.

End users just want to use shit.

This is unfortunately the world of open-source.

1. Nerd tells you to use the open-source thing.
2. Non-technical tries it and asks questions
3. Nerd proclaims it’s not a real problem/your fault/not applicable/fix it yourself
4. Some company takes that open-source version or idea, makes it easier for end users and monetize it
5. Nerd gets angry and repeats step 1

Source: I am nerd and I contribute to open-source.

As a person with allergies to specific foods, then don’t make this mistake. Measure twice, cut once. These rules were written in blood, and tiniest violin for companies who fail it.

This is my neighbor all the time.

Like dude, round up!

And this is why we do The Scotty Principle

That’s the “One minute manager” bullshit. It’s literally just popping in randomly to course correct.

It’s distracting as fuck as a engineer.

Totally agree. Drives me insane with drive-by status updates.

It’s this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/2rmir6/why_developers_hate_being_interrupted/

Absolutely! But it also depends on the size of the company. Small companies can absolutely benefit from PMs. I used to take freelance clients as a engineer, and never accepted a job without a PM who was willing to block out the noise.

In big companies though, I have a lot of disdain for PMs.

Many literally spend their hours being the middleman between actual stakeholders. I recently had a project where the PM was just forwarding emails from one department lead to another. They didn’t understand the product or cared to follow any processes. Then distracting my team for status updates so they can build reports in Excel, so they can feed it up the chain if something was done or not.

Fortunately, our retros are heavily engineer-centric and we can give harsh feedback/fire our PMs, which we have done successfully over the past few years.

Absolutely this.

This is going to sound awful coming from a person who voted for Kamala. But when Trump wanted something, he pushed forward and gave zero fucks who he burned. Trump wanted a wall, and then there’s a wall. Granted, it’s shitty, it’s expensive and an eyesore, and it does absolutely nothing and no Democrats voted for it (that I’m aware of). But to the stupids, they see it as a win.

Democrats fight for a policy, and then carve it over and over to appease corporations, billionaires, conservatives, and anybody who might feel threatened by it. And to those who could really benefit, they suffer. So yeah, I can see why people would shrug at giving a vote for Kamala.

Again, I voted for her. But in reality, I want a candidate who will go, “Listen motherfuckers. All kids in America will get fed. Suck my dick if you hate it. Every single kid will get a sandwich and if you speak again, will destroy you.”

I lived in a small town that literally didn’t believe COVID was real. During the pandemic, rarely anyone was masked up and then they got extra racist to a poor Chinese family and their restaurant.

These simple motherfuckers don’t see or understand fascism. They didn’t even see what they did to the restaurant as racist. These dumb hicks vote on gas prices and how much toilet paper cost.