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2026-07-08 19:15:19 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 @nprofile…29ua @nprofile…r2m8 @nprofile…29ua I remember you had said that listening had been a bit better than reading, somehow, maybe your anime ear got you just that little bit needed
I'm assuming the cutoff score was at 90-95/180?

2026-07-04 22:36:44 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Big sad :bocchigosling: , but you can still afford it if you really wanna, though, but you do you :cacopeek:

2026-07-04 22:19:23 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Not financial advice, but even assuming the bubble finally pops tomorrow, it will take months at best for factories to retool themselves to switch production from data center memory to mobo memory, not to mention that realistically they won't be looking forward to doing that and their foremen will be dragging their feet all the way, and realistically not all contracts will be rescinded at once
Assuming there's no hardware price collapse within 18 months, and assuming your own reservation will jump ahead within 14 months, you should have enough time to do a little scalping yourself
Of course, I realize there's cultural differences at play and you may not be comfortable doing those switch and resale plays, but hey, just offering my two cents :akkoshrug:

2026-07-04 21:50:51 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Thinking about it, Teto could buy one of those scalped reservations on eBay, then later scalp his own late reservation when it finally arrives on top of the list for a little more than he paid for, since hopefully by then the GabeCube value will have increased with noise from random haters quieted down
Big brain move or dumb idea? :apunotes:

2026-06-29 18:01:59 UTC

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@nprofile…jcp5 @nprofile…2p46 I remember a note into one of those Cyberpunk 2020 books somewhere where it was explained that most prices were set to be somewhat close to 80s living prices (When you could indeed afford a pad deep into NYC while working as a waiter, and gentrification was nonexistent, actually people burned down housing to recoup on insurance), because otherwise the entire scenario would go pop when your lowlife characters couldn't even afford basic ammunition and a place to stay
In other words, we live in a worse and stupider distopia, basically

2026-06-26 23:10:04 UTC

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@nprofile…5vlq @nprofile…2g7j Anything hardware and software started going downhill since about 2012 due to smartphones taking over, and it took a steeper downhill curve about 2017 when miners started the first gpu price hike

2026-06-26 17:16:06 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Shouldn't you be put in front of others in case they do a second production run, at least, or they gonna go "Nope, sorry, just try your luck again, lol"?

2026-06-11 12:03:47 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j @nprofile…2llx The entire 2016 YouTube would throw itself out of a window if it saw 2026 YouTube, and even in 2016 we were already saying (Correctly) that YouTube was already dead anyway
At least Filthy Frank saw the writing on the wall and stopped after 2016, but in his case he basically had no choice other than joining the podcast jig or become a shadow of his former self
Was good while it lasted though

2026-06-09 18:34:17 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Can't you just switch workspaces instead of tabbing out?

2026-06-06 12:32:48 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j You can get better prices if you buy directly from a farmer. They're paid peanuts on average because big distribution sets the prices, selling directly to customers is better for them
But pigs will always be cheaper than cows: they don't need pasture and thrive on literal slop

2026-06-06 12:22:23 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j If you saw pork fats around then it's a good sign, it means there's farmers breeding livestock around
You can look for them whenever they have a fair or a market. If you manage to befriend one, you can sign up to get a whole carcass for yourself, which you can have butchered or butcher yourself
It makes sense since those are the perks of living in the woods. You can also see if there's any German cookbook from the 1800s, those have those kinds of recipes

2026-06-06 12:13:57 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Because all your olive oil is imports cause olive trees can't survive any kind of freeze. Just get animal fats oil, though if you can get it directly from a farmer is better

2026-06-06 12:10:30 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Basically synthesized chemicals...the rule of thumb is that if you can grow olive trees in your area you use olive oil, which is a cheaper than handling animals, otherwise animal fats all the way.
Seed oils didn't become common before chemical extraction was developed, and you can bet they don't properly purify yields from chemical residues after extraction

2026-05-28 13:45:41 UTC

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@nprofile…p70s @nprofile…2g7j @nprofile…dxky Don't forget that he's in Germany, and they still have functioning apprenticeship programs there (Most of the USA equivalents got axed in the 90s to push everyone to college), not to mention places that don't require an Ivy League degree just to get a call back

2026-05-28 10:30:49 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j I know a zoomer who just bought one but managed to coerce part of his twitch audience (Small unknown streamer on the side) into financing it for him. Eh, if there's a will there's a way :airilaugh:

2026-05-28 10:24:17 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j I'd say it's closer to buying a Mustang in the 80s and watching it inflate in price ever since :airiwink:

2026-05-26 14:18:30 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Case brand name?

2026-05-22 21:40:39 UTC

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@nprofile…8cpz @nprofile…2g7j Flatpak doesn't ship with a whole kernel setup (Although it could eventually be developed to do that), and even if it did, there's plenty of wrapping methods translating kernel API calls that you wouldn't need a whole kernel with it anyway in most cases.
Flatpak ships with a self-contained glibc environment and anything else it needs as required by flatpak packagers
See it the other way: You don't want an app with internet access being able to list and be able to upload whatever is on your home directory (And potentially beyond), not to mention any other info about your system that you might not want it to know, or letting it being able to do trace calls to your kernel if you set your permissions too lax.
With things like Steam, you're normally giving an huge proprietary blob with full internet access read and write permissions into your entire home directory, not to mention direct hardware access and plenty more. Flatpak can reduce your exposure there

2026-05-21 16:52:00 UTC

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@nprofile…r9u2 No onscreen output dump, though?
On a site note, dat mat under the keyboard :airiwink:

2026-05-18 10:26:37 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j This only works because nowadays most of the normie population is found on social media, and because those can be accessed from app clients
Should those for some reason become inaccessible, it would be back to SMS galore as if it was 2005 again, where normies sent each other hundreds of messages daily
In other words, it's not a device problem, it's a people problem

2026-05-18 10:21:00 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j >Claims analog
>Picture shows only digital devices, mostly things already commonplace in the 2000s, with early 2010s hipster stuff thrown in
:akkoshrug:

2026-05-13 20:17:10 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j >Implying things like middleware support, graphics & sound libraries, binary compatibility, and all manners of shenanigans, are things relevant only to vidya and not to any other app ever

2026-05-09 20:24:50 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j @nprofile…rjk0 @nprofile…r2m8 It's the desktop equivalent of having an electron-engine handling your apps, not to mention always running in background eating at your hardware resources, but some people can't be saved.
Electron + Wallpaper Engine + Chrome/Chromium is the sacred triad of modern development bloat, and they can't get out of it

2026-05-09 19:48:09 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j @nprofile…r2m8 There's also the thing that having a video constantly playing will warm up your GPU significantly if you like to keep it fans off, and increase power consumption if you care about it
You could otherwise attempt a wallpaper slideshow, but you will need to fiddle to get widgets out, and you'll probably need to do custom scripting to keep a good enough setup
Old-style CRT screen savers would indeed be the solution here, but I have to bet they're another lost technology that somehow can't be implemented. Not to mention that if they attempted it today it would probably require 50 libraries and use 20% of your GPU capacity :aaaaaa:

2026-05-09 19:31:33 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j @nprofile…r2m8 You could attempt showing a video as wallpaper and fiddle with it to be in foreground not to have widgets doing burnins
Start with https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper if it needs to be wayland

2026-05-04 16:23:56 UTC

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@nprofile…fcss Both. No funds, no protection, no more media personality.
If he was smart he allotted funds into some offshore account somewhere and now needs to do some theatre before signing off permanently

2026-05-04 16:09:05 UTC

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@nprofile…fcss He's doing social engineering for a personal exit strategy, I'd guess

2026-04-29 16:50:50 UTC

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@nprofile…vfv8 >Fails to grasp Sony could in any moment remove anything you already paid for whatever reason, or impose further fees on you because they can get away with it

2026-04-22 20:10:03 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 Don't forget that you also need to pretend it's actually usable in your workflow :aaaaaa:

2026-04-21 20:53:02 UTC

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@nprofile…h33r Finally, now three more months to get community mods updated enough :cacocry:

2026-03-28 21:15:05 UTC

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@nprofile…sqqc @nprofile…2g7j >Wikipedia in 2026
>Fails to read about the state of the art animation that nearly bankrupted the parent studio, or maybe it's just Wikipedia
>Didn't bother going on YouTube looking for clips uploaded 15 years ago
Just watch some clips on YouTube, it's pretty good if you enjoy very over the top comedy

2026-03-28 19:49:28 UTC

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@nprofile…sqqc @nprofile…2g7j Missed yourself a pretty cool animu right there, brotha :airiwink:

2026-03-03 22:10:39 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Sounds good for him, but do understand that in many other places you went down in '08, you lost your overpriced mortgage, your property, and you probably were already labeled as too old to do job hunting
Kids growing up in that time and thereafter suffered on average

2026-03-03 22:06:08 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Now enter the mind of the average zoomer growing up with a single mother or a deadbeat dad thanks to '08 aftermath and you'll see why it happens
You were luckier than most, although Germany didn't become the hellscape that most other places became after '08, at least not at first

2026-03-03 22:03:02 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j That's where they got it from, and from YouTube griefers even before. It's reddit for those that own a PC. It's everywhere :blackpilled:

2026-03-03 21:58:39 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j It's part of the "missed life milestones" theory (You can thank red pill griefers for pushing it pretty bad), the problem is most of those milestones were set in boomer times and they have increasingly become unattainable since the 80s

2026-02-28 13:42:22 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Just what happened with Shako-Pani :blackpilled:

2026-02-28 12:10:53 UTC

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@nprofile…xz9d But weren't you finally set with that job you got through networking already?
At least stay with them about six months, since it's literally the first decent one you got, unless they're doing something nasty

2026-02-20 12:59:33 UTC

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@nprofile…xz9d Wouldn't be surprised if they ran out if seeds due to supply chains shenanigans :airisigh:

2026-02-12 23:36:08 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Actually, there was no antagonism at all, I apologize if it may have read that way :airisad:
I was genuinely curious if you could still gnaw a severance package for what I assume they wrote down as a disciplinary firing measure (Something CMD was attempting to do a while back, but couldn't), you know, hearing about German laws being allegedly more pro-workers and all.
I've been getting toots about getting fired/couldn't find job since I basically joined the server, and those questions have kinda become customary floats. You don't have to answer, of course, if you feel I'm being too much of a pest :blobangel:
Edit: Yeah, I can see why it may have read antagonistic, but I meant that they wrote you off due to bad discipline, but I'm sure you had your good reasons. Sorry about that, and, written in an encouraging way, enjoy your rest

2026-02-12 21:38:09 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Sounds like you did it on purpose, dunno if they still give you a severance package in Germany after getting fired due to bad discipline, but, you do you, I guess
Also, I wouldn't rely on oral promises, especially by bureaucrats that rely on everything being written and stamped and redtaped on

2026-02-08 19:46:24 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j I've been thinking they did the Oblivion remastered on UE5 as practice to move over most of their internal tooling to UE5, since after Starfield their uppers have realized they can't just patchwork the Gamebryo further, and so they decided to go with...UE5, obviously
Guess monetizing mods didn't go well enough, thus they now got no reason not to kill it with a new engine which isn't even theirs

2026-02-04 17:12:27 UTC

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@nprofile…r2m8 Probably that gargoyle in the back there :apugnome:

2026-01-07 12:35:41 UTC

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@nprofile…2g7j Even his propic is too dim to convey the dimness of clipping your screen on Wayland :blobangel:

2025-12-10 09:29:27 UTC

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@nprofile…p09k Melonbooks :awoorev: :awooo: :awoorev:

2025-11-28 02:03:16 UTC

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@nprofile…kt66 Looks pretty good, like particularly that meaty-looking burnt sausage in there :bingo:

2025-11-26 18:36:14 UTC

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@nprofile…kt66 May actually we saved with a pin swap if you can find donor pins, but it requires some skill

2025-11-21 19:28:29 UTC

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@nprofile…z5zz SDL, as long as you utilize the most recent version, will also allow targeting a multiplatform build and implement things like controller support much more easily

2025-11-10 11:20:01 UTC

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@nprofile…p09k @nprofile…kt66 Isn't there also a PS1 Lain bideo gamu? :bingo:

2025-10-28 15:37:43 UTC

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@nprofile…3wwf I'm more surprised fast food chains haven't done more of an effort getting ReportOfTheWeek on board with them: I mean, he's pretty famous
I would expect someone from upper management from Burgher King asking around where this guy lives and doing some checks of Burgher King locations in the area, just to be sure he doesn't have obvious reasons to blast them. Maybe whip up some even thereafter pretending it's completely unrelated but it's not
But, I guess they don't even care anymore

2025-10-25 23:55:19 UTC

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@nprofile…p09k Situation is pretty much the same on every other platform, except for anything related to the underground internet, but there you run at greater risks of doxxing in case you forget anything, not to mention general toxicity

2025-10-25 23:28:16 UTC

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@nprofile…p09k Before YouTube clamped down hard on copyright starting about 2012, there were thousands of videos of kids and other amateur musicians doing covers and stuff
And yes, some of them were masked. I remember a guy that went as "Ninjalexi Laiho" that did Children of Bodom covers and was always covered in a way to resemble a ninja, but his long hair flew out and he kinda looked like a masked Laiho
It all went down the drain once music corporations started enforcing that covers that were too good actually were copyright infringement, and automated strikes followed
I mean, you can try, but don't underestimate how stupid copyright enforcement is

2025-10-15 13:31:25 UTC

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@nprofile…c2yc Was there any chance of getting through successfully in the first place? :aputinfoil:

2025-10-13 12:54:24 UTC

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@nprofile…lq09 I seem to remember dino has configuration options, they're just hidden somewhere
But, yeah, GNOME "philosophy"

2025-10-08 20:47:54 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s @nprofile…8d72 I heard years ago German homeownership rates were fairly low even when compared to their neighbours
Most of the memery here is about American baby boomers, maybe if Germany has (had?) extensive rent controls it could be more like Japan where people can actually afford to rent and it's not like throwing money into a bottomless pit

2025-10-04 22:04:24 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 You need to be very skilled to develop and market patents on your own, especially nowadays that you need tens of brains working together to develop anything corporate might find useful

2025-09-30 22:45:16 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 Damn, man. Was it a scam for real? :apuhang:

2025-09-30 18:08:31 UTC

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@nprofile…lq09 So, systemd can't just issue a KILL signal if a process doesn't answer to TERM? :aaaaaa:

2025-09-24 17:08:02 UTC

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@nprofile…gdjx Wish your uncle to make a full recovery and live beyond 100 :blobpray:

2025-09-09 17:02:23 UTC

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@nprofile…r70d This would be a prime time to both redo the electrical system (Assuming you can find a good electrician, that is), and also run Ethernet cables through the same spaces your electrical cables run (Solutions like these have existed for 15+ years), with custom Ethernet outlets here and there you can run an Ethernet cable to

2025-09-08 00:49:05 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 @nprofile…yv6l Sounds like you may need to review how you're doing those movements
You're not supposed to fail pain, only fatigue. If it pains you, you're doing it wrong

2025-09-08 00:06:34 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 You may want to ask your personal trainer to review how you're doing your exercises
You shouldn't feel pain at all, but it takes a lot of practice learning how to position yourself correctly. Maybe you're doing something wrong with your movements. Careful.

2025-08-24 14:58:15 UTC

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@nprofile…vrgz Lots of "*kino*" domain names I'm not even sure what they are
Anyway, this might concern @nprofile…kz2s

2025-08-24 11:53:02 UTC

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@nprofile…l0gg @nprofile…f7f5 @nprofile…lr8u They managed to recreate the Nintendo 64 at an hardware level using FPGAs (Though they keep delaying release) https://www.analogue.co/3d
If we're at this level of sophistication with FPGAs, it would indeed be possible to recreate late 90s hardware on a compact SoC to use as drop in replacement in legacy systems and other hobbyists purposes
LGR once showed the WeeCee PC, which was a mini PC that uses industrial-grade hardware that is largely a recreation of late 90 hardware for legacy systems

2025-08-23 00:02:47 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 I really hope it's a troll. Not to mention how he could get a wife while being like this

2025-08-22 21:38:49 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s @nprofile…k3nq @nprofile…s74w Lobsters there have been kept tied up with no food for days and no exercise without their water being changed at all, they basically are half-dead already and covered in their own wastes when you get them (You may remember that lobster rescue video YouTube spammed some time ago)
Crayfish are a cheap alternative, but the way this guy was tossing entire lemons without even cutting them in half and boiling the poor things and letting them simmer without fire is just...he's found his own way to cook things

2025-08-22 18:28:26 UTC

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@nprofile…vqyr @nprofile…p3wf @nprofile…359z @nprofile…csx6 That would be you using GNU Icecat ('Nother Firefox fork), which, given how much the modern web relies on JavaScript, would be usable up to about 2007 (But no YouTube and multimedia even then)

2025-08-20 21:16:22 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 If you wanna do trades, remember to take the high salary figures with a grain of salt: those that make that much are either self-employed, or work into leftover union-protected jobs (The latter were way more common until they started shipping factories overseas)
You can start with those, but do keep in mind you'll have to grind for 2-3 years at least to become skilled enough (Basically, if you started right out of high school, that grind would be your sort of college). After getting out of that entry level pit (Which will probably be little above minimum wage), things can improve, but not by much. You then have to get into a union ASAP (But unions will usually ask for references. You really would need someone to guarantee for your, better if it's a family member). Otherwise, it's self-employment camp
Do be sure they're actually teaching you things, if they treat you like an amazon worker, then they're scamming you. They need to put tools in your hand and slowly teach you what and how to do. And careful with gas exhales and the like. Study a bit recommendations to avoid health risks

2025-08-14 19:55:58 UTC

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@nprofile…7ytg As Microsoft makes use of AI tools internally mandatory, be prepared to have something like this snagged into updates

2025-08-13 18:36:31 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s And it reflects historical realities: before modern sanitation became widespread, people mostly drank alcoholic drinks, not water. It was easier than boiling water and keep it sterilized
In the USA, that ran only for a short time. By the end of the 1800s, there were already giant corporations selling bottled water and bottled drinks. That was even easier than bothering to make beers and the likes, and once the prohibition came, only bootlegging remained. Those that didn't have modern plumbing (In the USA many drink straight from the faucet) or a decent well, just drank what they could buy, and early colas were cheaper because no alcohol tax, and no prohibition
Elsewhere, things mostly kept going as they were, sometimes because modern sanitation came later (Maybe too late for it to became acceptable drinking from the faucet, if bottled water came in at about the same time), sometimes because there never was that big if a push into manufacturing bottled drinks, so they stuck with beers

2025-08-13 18:24:51 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s In the USA people drink energy drinks way more than your average alcoholic drink, and even alcoholic drinks they serve are completely different from what you find elsewhere
Fact is, there was a prohibition for a very long time, and that had a radical impact on people's lives. That, and the fact that big drink corps are way more interested in marketing sugary drinks than anything else. Well into the 70s, your average Southern worker lunch was a coke drink and a moon pie, that would never fly anywhere else
It's that big corporations have had way more of an impact on local culture than elsewhere. Abroad, things are closer to historical realities. In the USA, big corporations have shaped such historical realities directly, and things are different

2025-08-13 17:48:41 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s Energy drinks were definitively big business in 2005, though I guess literal kids were only buying them because the bottles were colorful
Energy drinks as Internet memes started a bit later. I remember in 2009 someone publishing a mod for Fallout 3 where they had added green monster cans as consumables, that was my first encounter with that memery, and I'm guessing it had been going for a while already.
Then probably it was 4chan threads that spread this memery far and wide, and reddit copying 4chan memes ensuring it crawled into the normie realm.
It even spawned similar memes, for example the Arizona Iced Tea seen in Vaporwave is related, although it's not really an energy drink per se. Once they made the boomer meme with the white monster can it reached the apex.
But, the problem is that in the USA there's a sort of gas station culture where gas stations also be convenience stores (This because zoning for mixed development is rare, so it's either giant malls and gas stations or giant suburbs, usually, no middle ground). That, and the fact that many Americans being overweight will crave for sugary foods

2025-08-08 16:56:13 UTC

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@nprofile…r70d It's a reference to painting Chronos Eats His Child

2025-08-07 16:15:05 UTC

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@nprofile…f3ma Hey @nprofile…6g30 , new get a job quick scheme just dropped :bingo:

2025-08-07 12:52:35 UTC

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@nprofile…vqyr @nprofile…pzf4 @nprofile…359z Weird, they always write that "Gnome developers are mostly volunteers developing on an extremely limited budget" :airilaugh:

2025-08-06 21:14:11 UTC

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@nprofile…sa8d Articles like these have been coming out since 2008 basically, and originally they were blaming millenials
Just the usual cherry picked fake seo-optimized ragebait

2025-08-01 22:48:37 UTC

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@nprofile…46gc The problem is the guy running duck station later withdrew his statements on his discord, and said he just doesn't want people to package software in ways he doesn't like
I dunno how a guy like that managed to get a CS degree (According to his github) and still act like software isn't something that just gets copied and distributed at all times. Never mind the fact he doesn't do any of the Linux stuff because, as he admits it, he doesn't use Linux, so it's just other maintainers doing compatibility on their own time and dime.
Not to mention his whole change of license gimmick that got him angry because people were doing forks, acting like he's not on github. It's as if he doesn't really know how it works, despite having a CS degree.
It's a problem common to Windows-only developers (Or Mac-only, I guess), really. They fully absorb Microsoft's way of doing things even though they don't gain anything from it, and they just keep going.

2025-07-27 20:26:22 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 That's how it used to be. You could get a semi-decent job right out of highschool with average grades at best (Actually, no one cared about grades). Even college dropouts had chances, although they usually had to toil a while longer on worse off tasks.
Then, you could be somewhat sure to stay on one place forever, and even make some career out of it. Nothing fancy, of course, but still enough to become homeowner in your 20s
And then you could get married because there literally was nothing else to do, and fathers all wanted to find good enough men to take their daughters in.
There were none of degrees, GPAs, colleges, going coast to coast, rents eating out your income, and all that shit. They never knew how good they had it

2025-07-27 18:15:45 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 You could try at local, smaller companies, which have to make do with high school dropouts daily.
They're less strict about "You need to have exactly this degree, from exactly these colleges, with this GPA minimum, otherwise you're out". You can be semi-honest and tell them you've learned enough to know the corporate life is not your thing. Bonus points if their HR is boomer ladies (The sweeter non-karen kind)
Anyway, congrats on learning why most people eventually drop it/tech to do something else before getting into it/tech at all :airiwink:

2025-07-27 17:58:24 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 The problem is, they won't allow you to do any of this without a bullshit job degree, assuming you get through HR at all, assuming you don't look like you had to much of a void on your resume.
Now you know why terms such as "bullshit jobs" exist. Literal make-work games that middle schoolers could do.
And it's not better in IT, either. Half the time is formatting/rebooting (On Windows) or throwing systemd commands (On Linux). Stuff you could learn in about two weeks at worst.

2025-07-27 17:37:52 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 Most "analyst" things are mostly PowerPoint with some Excel thrown in :apudrool:

2025-07-24 00:00:10 UTC

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@nprofile…grcp They got so much processing power and IP blocks at their disposal you'll never manage to sniff out all of them.
Better to rely on something tried and true, there's people fighting those off for decades now

2025-07-21 23:06:53 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 It's largely a process of accumulating certification after certification (Although someone else may be more updated on what currently are serious certifications)
On the plus side no more github/libraries, at worst you may need to post there some shell/python automation scripts
Then it's mostly a thing of setting up sandboxes/VMs, and typing a few systemd commands here and there

2025-07-21 21:15:58 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 No, it's not. It's brimming with womanly spirit. Girlboss job thingy. Sucks your souls out, and it's LLM-repleaceable.
Go doing sysadmin, it's somewhat better

2025-07-21 21:10:15 UTC

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@nprofile…6g30 If by data science you mean "data analyst", it's basically your run of the mill white collar job.
You read "data" (Monthly reports), write a little essay on it (Usually won't even be looked at), and then do a little powerpoint about it and "explain" it to executives that can't even be half-assed to read what you just wrote in your little essay.
Repeat 2-3 times a week for all eternity. Engage in retarded competition with your colleagues about who makes the most colorful powerpoints. See attractive foids being promoted over you because they allegedly expose better their powerpoints (And their parts)
Nothing that LLMs can't do already by asking them to summarize. Still no powerpoint, but could be coming soonish.

2025-07-21 15:26:32 UTC

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@nprofile…359z @nprofile…vqps @nprofile…gx4l You guys should try xbps on Void Linux.
BSD-like package management, multiple repos, repos separated by architecture/licensing, integrated building and installing from source, withholding updates defined per package, partial upgrades, directory for override commands, multiple binaries working in tandem, ignoring dependencies set by config
Could even be adopted to work on Gentoo, but would need a wrapper to adjust flags on package template

2025-07-19 18:10:35 UTC

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@nprofile…4jyj There are still ways to cross-compile on Linux.
You can then test in a GL-enabled VM

2025-07-19 18:07:40 UTC

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@nprofile…4jyj You could try those automated builds github provides, and then test it in a VM

2025-07-13 19:11:14 UTC

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@nprofile…d30v @nprofile…p0kj Those (Those are glass, but classic ones are mason/ceramic)
The lid is loosely screwed on
https://cawfee.club/media/17/d9/6b/17d96b6887ac20d2c2a568697eef33c71e65d488eb4a766ce370e7b703f78b7e.null

2025-07-13 18:38:15 UTC

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@nprofile…d30v @nprofile…p0kj You can also get one of those mason jar with a wood/ceramic rotating lid and use it too keep salt in (Works for other spices too)

2025-07-07 19:10:58 UTC

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@nprofile…l0gg @nprofile…wj4k @nprofile…vqps They don't explain anything in those AI courses except extremely generic things using marketing buzzwords.
Current usage of LLMs is growing to a degree that some people treat those chatbots as some kind of magical answering genie
It's as if like they completely forgot about chatbots that were all over the place in the 2000s

2025-07-03 21:01:06 UTC

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@nprofile…qcrj @nprofile…hmru It's debatable if those are threatened by robotization. That would require humanoid-like robotics at a notable intelligence level. Of course, factories may manage to automate somewhat those things, but outside you will still need technicians climbing over roofs and tearing down walls.
They might suffer more due to declining population that can't afford housing and leaves them without stable income.
We've been memeing the trades for a decade plus by now, but the fact still stands that if you don't got a union job, or inherit an established customer base, then even trades can be painful. That could worsen still if their potential customers simply disappear

2025-07-02 18:48:12 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s Stuck in the 2000s is generous already. Even in the 2000s there were already deployment options, just not docker. And there was no github, but there was SVN.
They're closer to 90s stuck, with a bit of 2000-2005 mixed in.
And still OVH and others have huge data centers in Germany, judging by IP blocks. It's very funny.

2025-07-02 18:41:33 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s What may be happening is that your IT sector was kept down because entrepreneurs/corps preferred investing into their established manufacturing sectors. This kept IT small but comfy, like in the early days.
Thinking if it, another German guy once told that his government preferred investing into cable/satellite TV, and neglected high-speed Internet.
You may have a very boomer-minded country there (No offense, of course). Basically, no leaf moves that could bother them.
Of course, it's guaranteed they'll start be looking for foreigners if they can't manage enough IT workers at home, or if they grow too costly. They will also loosen requirements if they get desperate.

2025-07-02 18:32:02 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s This is all like late 90s/early 2000s knowledge requirements.
German IT sector must be shielded from outside influence, and still stuck in the earlier times
Surprised they don't make uses of Eastern European tech workers though. There's plenty in the likes of Poland and Hungary

2025-07-02 18:25:31 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s True, "apprentship" contracts can be closer to slave labor.
But if you ship factories overseas, you can find even cheaper slave labor. If you get tons of foreigners, that works too.
The average Joe can contribute to the economy by getting into subsided college lending programs, he can repay it later with his waiter job while he's stuck sending 1000s of applications for the next few years.
It still makes GDP numbers go up, mind you. Lives destroyed, but those don't matter to most, I guess

2025-07-02 18:17:36 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s This used to happen in the USA too, schools did a lot of networking with local businesses, especially vocational schools, although it was plenty informal, but it worked.
This system was eventually dismantled starting in the 80s to leave people an unqualified lot after high school, and then either go to college or be little better than an high school dropouts. With so many firms shipping jobs overseas, besides, there wasn't much room for vocational training anyway, thus everyone and their brother went into tech/IT, business, law school, liberal arts
Those that couldn', either shipped themselves to the coasts being outcompeted by foreigners, or stay rotting in their rust belt town
The rest is history

2025-07-02 18:11:23 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s In the USA, college debt would matter only if you were struggling with payments. If you had missed no payments, then it would be high credit score, assuming there's enough margins to also pay off mortgage debts and, you know, actually living
"Apprentice" contracts that eventually get upgraded to regular contracts are a dime a dozen, but they were way more popular back in the boomer days. Now, they're mostly into trades, but to get a trade union job, you better have connections, or they may prefer just hiring foreigners for cheaper
The rest is unpaid internships hoping they hire you out...eventually

2025-07-02 17:56:06 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s This is basically the equivalent of finding a good job in 2008-2011 (Such as Apple Store developer, to keep it remote enough from SF), and then getting a mortgage while housing prices were down, just before they started picking back up in 2012.
Most Americans, even those fresh out of college, had no such luck

2025-07-02 17:50:32 UTC

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@nprofile…kz2s If it had been on the verge of failing, they would have tried to squeeze their debtors as much as possible. Was happening a lot in 2007.
Deutsche bank is primarily an investment bank, and a large one at that. It may be keeping a web of smaller time institutes due to regulations, or it is absorbing smaller time institutes already, but they haven't killed them off still due to circumstances.
You may have been lucky, but do thread carefully