I figured this out in the first few months. Any other driver I tried explaining this to called me crazy and/or a cheater. I made twice what they did in a third of the drive-time, maybe half the time in my car when you count the time I sat Available while playing on my phone, using indoor bathrooms like a human-being, napping/meditating, or stuffing my face.

Sure buddy, I’m just that jealous of your work-ethic and two-door hatch-back that’s probably seen you reported dozens-of-times over. Super-hacker, liar, lazy fuck; Ya got me dead to rights.

Edit: I only drove passengers for the ride-share companies. Washing my hands enough for anything food related on an on-going basis destroys my skin, and my car is nicely climate-controlled, so …

They would literally make more money by job-hopping in pursuit of such a company, but you’re right. Even a single team that remembers what ethics are is a big ask.

I agree that the things they are saying are non-optional aren’t, and that teams can get too large, resource allocations so large they become a hindrace, etc … but calling being intentional about such things “cheap” just invites Elon-stans and their ilk to give their teams, suppliers, and vendors shit over not magically pulling off the unicorn-trifecta,; Without (paid)overtime, no-less.

Do NOT let people redifine the necessities and trade-offs of price(raw materials, equipment, comforts, safety), pay, team-size, or (excessive)managerial/administrative overhead. In the end, they will have you feeling like you owe them for the opportunity to do the work of five people for peanuts.

If you care to check my comment history, I recently got-into-it for trying to redefine “en-shitification” to include things like tech-debt and planned-obselescence. Really, what irks me is that the one has all-but shut-down conversations about the other two. “That’s just enshittification” or “that’s not enshittification” will get trotted-out whenever needed to bring the conversation away from them, or keep it from moving towards the two, because no-one gets promoted by mentioning any of the three, but enshittification is almost-acceptable water-cooler talk, for the moment, with the bonus that it shames the speaker for cussing.

Wrong take on cheap, and addressed to the wrong party in the system. Efficiency and simplicity are already mandatory for being good, particularly in software.

This is why so many techbros should stick to software, or even better, sales. You are not the user.

First, emulators. Then Demos, so meny Demos/Trials. Hell, on a Deck? Even some Free2Play stuff would be less insufferable than the same on my phone.

… but you need to figure out what you want to spend that money on for yourself. A lot of good stuff is on-sale right now. Check out isthereanydeal.com

Oh no, I’m absolutely convinced you are right. Now, convince the moms …

That’s just facebook with extra steps

facebook first went to shit around the time kids and grandparents were allowed to join, so …

It looks like the internet I grew-up with, if “web 2.0” hadn’t screwed it all up before large hi-resolution screens became common. It’s everything since then that’s flippin’ weird.

India would be on my top-3-shortlist of countries that would have me worried if their government had any success at stamping-out piracy. I could swear most of my downloads have English and Hindi or Bengali for audio/subs with little-else, and it would be soooo much more if I downloaded CAMRips…

I don’t, but there is no smart-or-dumb-phone that has it. The fact that’s due to plan availability changes nothing, nevermind that with said plan, almost any recent phone would do.

No argument here.

I use closer to a terrabyte a month, and I am well-aware that it is a plan issue. That doesn’t change the fact that the only any-number-of-mobile-devices/plan pairing that allows me to do what I want where I want is a smartphone. That includes downloading content for offline-viewing with minimal hassle.

When my kids pay for their own phone service, maybe I’ll go all-in on piracy instead, but in the mean-time, I’m exploiting that which I am already paying for, with a device I’ve had paid-off for years.

Find me one with an unlimited hotspot plan, and I’ll switch tomorrow. Literally, that is what my smartphone offers. Not the hotspot, but unlimitted data plan and the means to use it to the fullest on the phone itself?

Close enough that this is my bar to meet, even though I would rather switch to a separate e-Ink tablet, dumb-phone-with-hotspot, and steam-deck-or-similar, for EDC-or-close-to; I would probably carry just the tablet and phone most days, maybe just the phone and deck on others.

I’m not watching that. I might look-up “Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet” at some point, but the only thing this post has going for it is that that text was available in the Video Description on youtube.

Gotta disable UPNP to commit to this specific strategy …

Just as likely that red sliver at the end was the traffic created by his intentional usage of the phone all-along. Telemetry and ads are just that gross, but what do I know?

That was 20 years ago. Few, if any of those employees would still be with the company today. “Knowing” means nothing to the passage of time, particularly in the tech sector.

No they’re not. IBM sold the brand and supply chain off. Not sure how many employees were kept, transfered, or axed, but the concensus has long been that it wasn’t enough to justify your claim.

It’s probably skewed by how many of us have consoles more powerful than our “gaming” PC’s. I don’t know many PS5 or Xbox Series X owners that are bothering with a more powerful PC. Give us something that has a chance in hell of bringing-in some converts.

That said, I’m not talking about myself - my consoles are all at least a generation behind, but even then, beating those is not such a low bar once you take the smoothness and consistency of the user-experience into account.