I have gotten a couple meetings to be something we 'skip by default' where we keep it on the calendar but someone only starts the meeting if they actually need something.
Dramatically cut down on meetings without any problems so far. Now it's just occasional and way shorter because we get straight to business and then drop the call.
Yeah, probably an unfair take on my part to chalk it up to age instead of emotional maturity.
Nihilism is just so unproductive. I used to think that attitudes like that were such a smart and obvious response to the absurd state of the world but it's just an excuse to not engage with reality or accept personal responsibility.
I suppose I'm open to suggestions?
I understand what you're getting at but I don't know what kind of answer you want here. Are you suggesting that violence is the only way to achieve change? Are you suggesting that third party candidates could win a national election and then eliminate the two-party system? Are you suggesting that electing more Republicans will result in a political future that offers more power to voters to choose their own government? Do you think that electing fascists will accelerate the collapse of the state and then a more progressive ideology will rise from the ashes? Are you just cool with what the Republican party looks like right now and the way that they govern?
Do I need to specify that I'm not saying you should vote for every Democrat no matter what and that you really should consider candidates as individuals?
I guess I see the Democratic party as a deeply flawed party (with abysmally out of touch leadership) that needs serious reform and I see the Republican party as a cult of christofascist fucks that need to be defeated before they completely erode individual rights and entrench their own power for generations.
So yes. I get the contradiction in saying "You should vote for one of the two parties in order to create a political landscape where it is possible to one day move beyond the two-party system". Partisanship makes everything harder. But if you really think both parties are the same and that it doesn't matter which one you pick then I don't know what to tell you.
No I completely get the problem there. It's going to be really hard to get electoral reform if there are no longer elections. So my focus is on preserving Democratic institutions long enough that maybe we can improve them. Obviously party leaders have no interest in seeing changes that threaten the duopoly, but there are Democrats (particularly at the state level) who have been open to reforms like rank choice voting.
If suddenly Republicans stop attacking the rule of law, checks and balances, gerrymandering districts, overriding voters, and coddling white nationalists then maybe their party would be capable of enacting positive change as well.
If you have some secret third choice that can change the system without bloodshed or voting for one of the two parties I'm all ears. If you're going to tell me to vote third party then I'd like you to show me how you think a third party candidate can win the presidency because that's never happened and it's never even been close.
New Zealand... We demand you tell us what the future is like.
The updated fluid mechanics are a lot more forgiving and basically have infinite throughput. It's still a whole new layer of complexity but doesn't have nearly as many confusing limitations as it used to.
I think you replied to the wrong comment. I haven't been having problems with LibreWolf.
Same here. I was so tired of having to turn off so much junk every time I installed Firefox.
What I haven't figured out is this...
If we're all going to LLMs instead of asking each other for help (or providing help to others), then how do the models learn new things? Aren't we no longer generating the same volume of consumable data?
I suppose we can provide feedback to the models to tell them if their solution worked, but I can't tell if that sort of feedback is more useful than just crawling forums.
At the tail end of my last job I was saddled with a massive project to migrate a client to a new version of an application. We did this by standing up the new version, copying over their current data, asking them to test it and then cutting over when they were ready. This was a huge undertaking because most clients had one or two environments but my client had 18 different environments so the workload was way higher and everything took way longer.
On top of the scope they also took updates to these environments almost every night which meant it was a full time job just to keep things in sync, setup a testing window and then try to get them to approve the new state of things.
I was already burnt out before this all started, but thanklessly maintaining 18 non-production environments by myself for an application that no one could commit to testing or cutting over was driving me insane. I felt such a weight lifted off my shoulders when I quit. It came at the end of months of stress and wasted effort. I couldn't imagine a reality where anyone else would put up with that work or have a better chance of success.
Anyway I caught up with some coworkers and asked if that project ever got done. Apparently it got passed to a small team of three to manage and after getting jerked around for months themselves the whole thing fell apart.
So glad I didn't waste any more energy on that shit.
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Obama taking no action to dismantle the surveillance state was my biggest problem with his administration. It was so obvious how that surveillance would be abused were it ever to get in the hands of a President with authoritarian tendencies.
And here we are.
Now they've fully eroded the 4th amendment and will use that knowledge to eradicate the 1st.
This is my exact concern.
If I pay for the lifetime pass now, what's to stop them from restricting even more features behind new types of subscriptions and paywalls. "We're adding back the 'Watch Together' feature but it requires a Platinum Plex subscription and will not be a part of Plex Lifetime Pass users."
Seems kind of inevitable honestly.
If you mean that you are using Proton VPN on your Raspberry Pi to mask your downloading traffic, then no that same VPN will not help you access services like Jellyfin on your home network while you are remote.
Instead you'll want to use something like Tailscale (or Wireguard). You run it as a service on your home network and it then becomes your own VPN that you (or others) can use to connect to your home network when you are remote.
You could run Wireguard on the same RaspberryPi that you use for downloading but I would recommend against it assuming that you're running Proton VPN right on the host itself (and not inside a container).
Wake on LAN. At least that's what I do. I can turn on the TV and adjust the volume from Home Assistant but the TV itself can't reach the Internet.
I ran a tabletop game of Scum and Villainy and one of my players (our pilot) picked Dick Bong as his name both as an homage to this man and because it resulted in all the silliness that you'd expect when trying to refer to each other by character names.
In my experience the PC version usually is just the 'upgraded' console version, like Insomniac's Spider-Man or GTAV where the PC release comes later. Or it's been a free upgrade like Skyrim Special Edition where the upgrades on PC were very minimal besides the lighting engine improvements.