Then your profile sucks. Mine did, too.

I made my profile look like my resume. And then tweaked it until the inmail I got was for jobs I wanted.

Part of it comes down to knowing how to write a good resume, the other part is gaming the keywords so your profile shows up in a good recruiter's results.

I still responded to every single message though because I'm pretty sure engagement metrics makes you more/less visible to prospective recruiters.

LinkedIn should be looking for jobs for you.

If you set up your profile correctly, LinkedIn will function as your agent and bring YOU job leads.

At least that's how I used it.

I have too many...I'll pick my favorite lessons as they're all kind of related

Don't stay at a job too long. Eventually, you'll be training a new hire that makes more than you and they'll probably be your replacement.

It only takes a couple promotions before your career development stagnates usually because you'll always be seen as the person you were when you started. Get a new job elsewhere with a title higher than the place you left and that becomes your new baseline. Repeat every few years.

If you want to earn more money, get a new job. Bonuses magically dry up. And your yearly performance increase won't ever keep up with inflation. Even lateral moves at a different company can mean decent salary inceease as market rate changes over time. (This doesn't always work with a lateral move so shoot for a higher position).

Don't sweat the specifics for job requirements in postings. They're not expecting someone that hits every bullet point. That would be dream candidate that doesn't exist. If you're at least familiar with what they're asking for and can pick it up, then you're good. Most of the time you're trained on the job anyway. Just demonstrate you're competent.

(Oops didn't realize this was a CS / programming community. Hopefully some of this still applies)

I saved a multi-million $ project from going down the toilet and jeopardizing a whole bunch of client contracts. I was rewarded with a demotion when the company was acquired months later.

I choose to use Instant Ink because I don't print a lot and it still beats buying the carts. HP ships them to me for free and automatically before I run out and gives me return postage for the empties to be recycled.

They also don't have different rates for B/W and Color so I just print everything in color.

I dont stress over $1/mo (or $1.50/mo if this increase hits me). I've had this printer for 2yrs on the cheapest plan and I've still not paid the full price of a set of cartridges.

I'm sure I'll be down votes for saying anything positive about the program but whatever. It works fine for me.

Of course they disable the cartridge. You're paying for ink on a subscription. If you didn't pay for cart in full, why should you be able to use the rest of it? That's literally what you signed up for. Otherwise everyone would get a full cartridge for $1.

If you don't want to do ink-cart-layaway, don't sign up and buy the cartridge.

Disabling mid-month is a scam though.

Great! So I can't use a hitbox on street fighter or my choice of racing/flight sim rig in games that aren't first person shooters because of a problem that affects a genre I'm not even playing.

What a great solution that's not far-reaching, extremely heavy handed, and has a great potential for Microsoft to milk customers and small businesses alike! /s

A lot of devices are just adapters to allow you to play fighting, racing sim, flight sim, rhythm games with controllers from other platforms because these niche genres are even smaller on Xbox and go completely ignored by large accessories companies.

That's not going to change once these devices are blocked. It's a very heavy handed (and potentially lucrative) approach to stopping FPS cheaters.

They were making strides with the FGC getting SF6 and adding Guilty Gear Strive to Gamepass and then do this. Makes no sense.

I also don't understand the whole "it depreciates in value" angle. Yes, everything I buy new depreciates in value once it is no longer new. I'm not buying a car to immediately sell it. So who cares?

Are there people out there flipping cars like they do with houses? Maybe tell those people.

I bought my car new and people told me the same thing. I'm still driving it 13yrs later and have had no major maintenance issues; only regular maintenance like oil, tire rotation, lube etc. The most expensive thing I've put into it are new tires.

I'll buy my next car new again and do the same thing.

Lots of entitlement here...

Saying someone makes enough in their day job so all their other contributions should be free is...wow.

I guess I'm one of the few that thinks all work should be compensated. Especially work I can't do myself or that I prefer over others.

And really, it's not up to me to say what that compensation should be. It's only my job to decide if the offer is acceptable to me for what I perceive is the benefit over other options.

Because there are other options. But I'm here because I don't want the other options. I would guess many others are, too.

Sony acquired 4 companies while this whole thing was playing out...

A lot of fault lies with Jim "we believe in generations" Ryan being super aggressive with their backdoor deals keeping as many titles off Xbox as possible and fostering a toxic community of "Xbox has no games." Microsoft wasn't going to let all their Xbox investment go to waste.

Playstation has a very strong 1st party library and a huge install base carried over from their very successful PS4 run. They could have continued to dominate based on that alone, and instead chose to be hyper anti-competitive to kill competition which isn't unfamiliar territory for them. Lack of competition is what's really bad for consumers/gamers.

Not saying this acquisition is good. It's definitely not for me as a physical collector that believes in preservation. And this will only provoke the arms race of acquiring everyone on both sides. Probably the only winners in all this are indie devs which will have a lot of opportunities to make deals that help them make more creative, fun games than the AAA sequel-itis or remake/remaster-thons that have kept those games stagnant.

The opposite end of the spectrum are people who feel they need to set everything at Ultra. I found that's as unnecessary as Steam Deck users setting everything to low. You can often drop settings to high or medium without significant hit to fidelity.

The small 800p screen of the Steam Deck allows for more unnoticeable concessions on top of that.

And even with all that, if you can't hit 60fps, 40fps at 40Hz refresh feels much better and smoother than 30 and allows for more flexibility on settings.

At the end of the day, I'll take a smooth consistent 30 over unstable 40 or 60. But I won't bother if I also have to do so at the lowest settings. So far, I haven't run into anything so demanding I have to compromise both significant fidelity and frame rate.

I get people don't like to tweak everything and just want to play. Totally fair. But the Steam Deck is great for it, if you bother.