I’m on the extreme end. Any kind of “recommendations” are an immediate and complete turn off for me. Not just the obvious stuff like “sponsored” posts or “algorithmic social media” feeds. I abhor and avoid even things like Spotify recommendations, which most people consider useful.

Whether they intend it or not, these engines are built to funnel you back into the lowest common denominator, most broadly appealing stuff, because that’s what the algorithm sees gets the most clicks from the average person. Sure, everyone likes oatmeal, but that’s because its bland and inoffensive.

I want to find my own shit through my own idiosyncratic process.

The M7 had that camera problem didn’t it?

These pictures are from an account that only posts rage bait political content. https://www.instagram.com/redstreamnet

They’re not trying to help you. They’re trying to selfishly protect their business.

Holy shit Fortune thinks someone is going to pay $20/mo to read clickbait? Wild.

How did you get an invite?

This is another one of those features that I’ll immediately find in settings and turn off when the update drops.

Thanks, I figured this was bullshit but I wasn’t going to click a Sky link.

There might be others, but The Dagger of Xian plotline in Tomb Raider II is a little “woo woo Chinese mysticism”. You plunge it into your heart and turn into a dragon.

I’m not offended by it but I’d imagine that’s not the kind of thing you’d write in a video game today.

It sounds like you’ve got a good manager, so hopefully they won’t hold that against you. This is the reality of oncall - it sucks!

When you get woken up in the middle of the night, of course you’re going to be more tired the next day. I’m the same as you - I can’t fall back asleep if its early morning so I normally just stay awake and am tired that day. You shouldn’t feel guilty for being at 1/2 capacity after working all night to solve your employer’s problems!

I tell my engineers - if you get paged off hours, however much time you spend resolving the issue, take that time back from the next workday.

I also practice what I preach - if I get paged at 3am and work on the issue until 5am, I’ll come in 2 hours late or leave 2 hours early.

Erdoğan happened.

I’ve worked in the industry for the last 11 years, and my experience is that the industry has changed dramatically.

In 2012, there were still huge niches in smartphone software that has not yet been filled. There were also almost no barriers to entry - a team of <10 people rapidly expanding didn’t have to think about Cookie Banners or Google Play store delisting. Finally, there was the promise of a huge payout - the win condition for a startup was to BE the next Google.

In 2023, dominant players have captured all aspects of the software experience and when a new idea becomes popular (Snapchat in 2016 is a good early example), big tech has the lawyers and developers to simply clone it with a higher budget (e.g. Insta & FB Stories, Youtube Shorts). Because of scale, big companies can more easily afford to deal with regulation and can even sometimes regulate their competitors (Play Store). Finally, big tech is guaranteed high payout for developers - these days, the win condition for a startup isn’t to BE the next Google, its to be acquired by Google.

The eventual end of all this is Google continuing to strangle open & free Android by buying/shutting down any new ideas and extracting more and more rent from its platform.

The only way to opt out is to move to non-Play AOSP alternatives.

Have you heard of banning the vapes but not the drug thats in them?

I would REALLY like to buy one of these. But I just can’t justify buying anything with a 60hz display in 2024.

“Burundi is the poorest country in the world by GDP per capita, and is one of the least developed countries, facing widespread poverty, corruption, instability, authoritarianism, and illiteracy.”

“The country’s dominant party is the National COuncil for the Defense of Democracy, a former Hutu faction in the civil war. It has widely been accused of authoritarian governance and perpetuating the country’s poor human right’s record”.

The record is so bad it gets its own Wikipedia entry.

Source for above quotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi

This guy’s a clown and a failure of a leader. His country is a mess and he can’t run it properly. Maybe he should focus on his own failures before attributing failures to others.

Not just “all is right”. They see this and think “this is what God wants.”

Don’t blame me I banged Lae’zel.

This is not news, it’s an editorial. It does not belong in this community.

Come on all, don’t link to the fucking Washington Examiner.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner/

This is why BG3 is brilliant. The original Baldurs Gate games were exactly the same - most of the potential party members were so ambiguous and unlikable at first. It makes you come to love them so much more as they grow with you.

Baldur’s Gate is the greatest RPG franchise in history.