So, let’s say you have a system where people go to work, do their job, and get paid. The employer wants more productivity, so the work becomes more stressful (“a full workload”). The worker does more for less, the company celebrates.

There is a hidden element here: stress. Your workers will be more productive, however their baseline stress levels will rise over time. It’s cumulative and takes years to show; but it means everyone above a certain age who works a well paying job has a high stress burden. A lot of people live without any job security.

Stressed organisms do not reproduce.

Ye gods, I can smell the armour polish AND the cheeto dust in this thread.

The translation holding up is hilarious, it really does and you can hear the emotional damage that causes out there; I do wonder if it struck a genuine nerve.

The amount of “protect the children” out there is also priceless - this is one of the best outrage manufactories I’ve seen in years; I look forward to that outrage fuelling more surveillance laws.

She doesn’t care about your height, only whether or not you’re bright!

Not everyone has a choice sadly - work tends to be in the cities, and prices for a family home in a city are beyond most couples.

So, you’re forced to commute by car.

Fuckcars is leaking again I see!

There are a lot of comments here saying “it’s tragic because no-one cared”, but that is misleading as there is now a strong privacy movement.

I think, without Snowden blowing the whistle, anti-privacy laws would not face such stiff competition.

Yes we’re all fighting a rearguard retreat, but without Snowden’s sacrifice there would be no rearguard and there would be abject surrender rather than retreat, and we’d all live under eastern-style surveillance states without ever knowing.

407kg or so short of that kind of deal.

“Observer detected, initiating deletion”

Ehh, case by case. On my aunt’s laptop for web browsing and emails, 100% yes.

For my mates Frankenstein gaming rig with some parts 15 years old and some 2 years - no… Steam opening time of >15 mins, with game start times of >30 mins compared to windows 10 at 3 mins and 5 mins. Literally on the train home after switching him back to windows (I did promise), wishing I’d lubuntu’d it.

Linux is great, but the best distro depends on machine.

So, I’ve been exploring these comments for the past 30 mins. They honestly make me wonder; are we seeing an echo chamber effect by instance?

Does Lemmy have any tools to count upvote/downvote by user instances, especially by comment layer. I think I want to dive into this rabbit hole.

I mean, I had plans (wanted to invest in a 4tb SSD to run Linux on, push up to a later i7 supported by my board, and upgrade from ddr4 to ddr5), but I no longer have plans due to the madness unleashed by the rampocalypse.

So instead I purchased a pico-calc and am looking at a luckfox-lyra upgrade so I can just enjoy old school games.

“Ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about how few fucks I give” is my current goto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0HhrwIwp0

(No peeryubr link sadly)

*Peertube

Yeah, it’s the iCloud-local issue. I swear, almost all of them default to that.

It plays fine with R 90% of the time, but when it borks it takes FOREVER to troubleshoot!

The soundtrack is also really good, and the sheer range of options to create parties is just outstanding.

#3 is the one I sunk the most hours into, it’s a good one to start with as they’d iterated on ideas, cut some grind, and the multi-class system let’s you design some beautifully overpowered parties for the endgame.

Honestly, I’ve not had that one but I’ve seen something close. Some students are unaware they need to manually save sometimes, they just assume autosave is always there.

For Microsoft office this tends to be ok (OneDrive default doing something good for once), but once they step out (into SPSS/minitab/R) there is always some lost work in the first two weeks.