MrMcGasion

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[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

As someone who was a "store manager" at a franchise with only 2 employees (including myself) this is kinda real. I left in 2012 because even in my early 20s I could see the direction things were going because of corporate mismanagement.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Renee Good's murderer recorded the incident on his own phone, which was then released as if it was somehow evidence of his innocence.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One big downside to ham radio (as someone with my license) is that you can't use encryption. Which is fine for some use cases, but does limit the usefulness in the "government shut down the internet" kind of scenario.

Which, I suppose if you're already using back-channels to circumvent some broader government censorship, maybe abiding by FCC rules isn't a priority anymore, but IMO this is an area where large mesh networks of "consumer" devices with encryption very much still has value.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a bit niche, and I'm probably one of the few people who daily drove them when they were a thing, but bring back Firefox OS phones - they were a bit ahead of their time, but now that every app is a browser window anyway it'd probably be fine, and people are craving a mobile OS alternative to Android and iOS.

Sure, I'd personally prefer something a bit more powerful, so maybe a joint project between Mozilla, and a linux phone distro like PostmarketOS would be cool. Or (since I'm already in fantasy land) depending on hardware, considering Valve's work on ARM for the Steam Frame, maybe a partnership with them.

Granted, it's been close to a decade since I daily drove FirefoxOS, there's always a chance I'm remembering things as better than they were. I should dig my old FirefoxOS Phones out and do a bit of a retrospective look at them.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

"Low-energy beverages" sounds like a dumb Trump insult for caffeine-free diet soda.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

He wants a hemisphere, would make way more sense to claim the northern one rather than the western hemisphere. He just needs to have someone help him understand that he's not getting the best hemisphere.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Andy Serkis? George Takei?

... oh nevermind, found the one you're talking about.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I'd argue America has shown it's the one country that other countries do have a right to interfere with. After ~70 years of being the drunken, overconfident, asshole that's ruining the experience for everyone at the bar because we've decided we're the bouncer. On some level we've kinda made ourselves everyone's problem.

It's not a perfect analogy, because in a bar everyone else could just leave, and that's not an option when you're sharing a planet.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Even in China it's boomers using AI to make boomer memes.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do they not teach reading clocks in school anymore? I remember like a quarter of first grade math being nothing but learning to read an analog clock. Surely if you're a school and discover a bunch of your students are lacking in a basic skill, that's a failure on your part as educators, not somehow a fault that your students don't have clocks at home. You said the 90s though, which was when I was in elementary, so maybe I just got lucky to have a school that assumed they had to teach us everything.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I know not everyone is in a position where they can just ignore management, and maybe I've just been in more blue collar jobs where ignoring management is normalized. But unless they're literally looking over your shoulder, what they don't know won't hurt them. It's not like AI is more efficient once you count the extra debug time.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Was nice that they mentioned some of their terminal utilities for scripting/automation. I ported my own scripts over just before Plasma 6 released and haven't looked back. And having those utilities made my own move to Wayland a lot easier.

There are still occasional things I miss from X11, like Barrier for example, that made using a single mouse/keyboard across multiple systems work like you were just on an extended monitor. But my move was very smooth, and I'm sure it will only get easier between now and the actual end of X11 support.

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