i worked for starbucks in the late 90’s and the trauma from its popularity at the time still leaves me w nightmares from time to time 30 years later. lol

but only if they went to a low tier school. lol

yes and that’s why i said europe and not the eu

… just get the next body in

this is the overwhelming majority in my anecdotal experience for the last 23 years professionally so now i don’t try so hard.

try saying that you support palestine action publicly in the uk. lol

i got to jump back in recently w a new laptop that came w windows.

i’ve been buying linux first hardware for the last decade and going through this exercise has been eye opening for; i wasn’t aware of much the landscape has changed.

most of the influencers i follow do both and i was getting the sense last night that some of them do the former to make the latter more bearable.

logflip sounds more fun. lol

very true and cryptic codebases w/o documentation was the only reason why i was employed for the last 20 years. lol

interviewing & working w the young people hired at my last 2 places who used ai to get work done MUCH faster than i could showed me how much of a dinosaur i was and it was the biggest contributing factor to leaving the field. my experience in the last 10 of those 20 years makes me aware that only software engineers with a prestigious pedigrees (eg well regarded universities and/or well known names in their resume) are given a chance today.

people trying to take a path similar to mine to become a software engineer – poorly regarded state university degree and accepting shitty contract gigs at the beginning of their career in roles that are barely software related – are fucked unless they’re lucky or well connected.

i was SUPER LUCKY to get contract gigs at faang and old-silicon shops to put on my resume and i learned retroactively (and in writing) that, that was the only reason i got interviewed at all.

We dont even know their names.

that’s surprising to learn since the likes of farage, le pen have & hocke heavily influencing politics in the uk, france & germinay and meloni winning her election in italy.

the sampson option is the most terrifying nuclear escalation i’ve ever learned about; it indiscriminatel attacks both allies and enemies indiscriminately.

it’s not that they’re ignoring it; is that the legistlation doesn’t address buying it from non-government agencies and probably on purpose.

our billionaires are also funding the protests again them; one of the walmart heirs is entire responsible for the noking protests.

that’s fair. lol

I’m surprised that they kept the “Steam Machine” name. I thought they would choose a different name to avoid any negative connotations. It is a very cool name though.

what negative connotations exsit for “steam machine”

the europeans on lemmy continue to insist that americans are ahead of the fascism game; but we still don’t have chat control and have only elected one fascist so far. lol

that’s why they’re on crazypeople.online. lol

now that i think of it, i’m technically one of them since i still play age of empires 2

not a leap at all and my opinion is fact that addresses the reality of the propaganda.

your prager u talking point is the opinion that’s not relevant to this conversation.

did you catch how they improved the revolving door strategy this time around? all of the democratic senators that caved this time weren’t up for elections next year; they ended their careers by falling on their swords to protect the filibuster.