Zigbee bulbs, third reality and sengeled (sp?) are most of what I have attached to my home assistant. Stay away from the WiFi shit tho

I just started writing up invoices for my side hustle and quoting prices to fix their shit.

I do that for a day job, so I have no interest in working more for free. Putting a price tag on the help definitely helped cut down how much bullshit they tried to get me to do

I remember doing this with the text based captchas a decade or so ago. For a while it was pretty obvious which word was the control word and which was the one you were being data mined for, so it was always fun to throw a swear or something in there for the lulz to poison the data.

The only April fools joke I really encountered yesterday was modded Minecraft refused to launch until I changed the date to today. Too bad I didn’t figure it out until late in the day and my kid was upset they didn’t get to play because the stupid thing stopped loading right before the main menu

Another vote for borg, I use a script and cron on the systems that aren’t in my proxmox host to trigger it and write to my NAS. There are windows GUIs for it, and you could also use WSL to run it.

But imo, backups should always be push, not pull. Makes it much easier to manage from my experience

And i don’t see it anywhere in this situation. They’re asked to do a job a certain way (or for management, to make sure it happens in a certain way), and they do that to the best of their ability.

Nah, I’m sick of trying to get you to understand that it’s not the person I’m talking about, but the mentality of management through the whole process. I don’t know if you’re just not reading the words I write or what, but I’m not willing to keep repeating the same point to a wall

Oh, it gets worse. I’ve had some where I have to enter a character into the boxes before it would figure its shit out…

I’m aware of the TUI logins (I think f7 is your graphical, but I might be wrong) and sometimes those work too. I’ve started just sshing in because the terminal switching was hit and miss.

But thanks for that loginctl command, I’ll have to give that one a try as well!

Wouldn’t he only be lazy if he’s not doing anything else more productive instead?

Of course not. It’s rather easy to see how one can choose to be lazy and not do hard work while being “productive” doing easier tasks. But this isn’t about the dev, it’s about the culture.

He gets payed to do a specific job,

Again, stop thinking I’m calling the dev lazy, you’re completely missing my point.

and does it the best way possible given the constraints. I don’t see how you find lazyness in that.

This is the laziness. The constraints imposed by management to get new features out the door at the expense of making their existing features work better is a hallmark of the current development era.

I’m not even going to respond to the last bit because it’s entirely irrelevant to (and completely misunderstands) the point I’m making.

I never called them lazy, I stated that the mentality is lazy, which it is. Whether or not that laziness is profit driven, it still comes down to not wanting to put forth the effort to make a product that runs better.

Systemic laziness as profit generation is still laziness. We’re just excusing it with cost and shit, and if everyone is lazy, then no one is.

If cost is a justification for this kind of laziness, it also justifies slop code development. After all, it’s cheaper that way, right?

How is that mindset lazy?

Are you really asking how it’s lazy to pass unoptimized code to a customer and make their hardware do all the work for you because optimization was too costly?? Like I get that you are in an Enterprise space, but this mentality is very prevalent and is why computers from today don’t feel that much faster software wise than they did 10 years ago. The faster hardware gets, the lazier devs can be because why optimize when they’ve got all those cycles and RAM available?

And this isn’t a different at you, that’s software development in general, and I don’t see it getting any better.

I’ve seen some stuff where going to sleep and coming out degrades perf

I’ll have to try some of these suggestions myself, as I’ve been dealing with my UI locking up if the monitors turn off and I wake it up too soon. Sometimes I still have ssh access to it, so thanks for the shell commands!

Probably just the browser itself, considering how bloated they’re getting. It’s not super surprising, considering the apps run about as fast (on a good day) as it did 5-10 years ago on a new phone, it’s gonna run like dogshit on a phone from that era.

And that lazy mentality just passes the cost to the consumer.

But going with more smaller drives gives you higher IO and the ability to have more concurrent failures before disaster. Losing a disk during resilvering is horrible when you’re only running with 1 redundant drive normally.

My opinions are rooted in personal experience as well, so we can cancel out each other there. That said, I highly doubt you’re willing to change your mind, based on what I’ve seen. I’ll reply here, but I doubt you’re going to change my opinion on that and respond to you again.

“Except if anything happens, then they find all sorts of loopholes to try to get out of it”

Like what?

You mean aside from the sexual assault allegations against their drivers where they argue they aren’t liable for what their driver did while engaging in ride shares for them because they’re not employees? And let’s not even acknowledge that these companies knew what was happening and chose not to do anything about it because it would impact profits.

So how is that any different from getting scammed via cash or mugged in person?

Hahahaha, you claim this argument is a straw man while using the most straw man analogy.

Crypto robbery is very different from cash robbery in a very obvious and meaningful way that makes it obvious why it’s a straw man:

I can’t get robbed of my cash from the other side of the world. Crypto can, and pretending it’s anything like cash is a joke.

Can you magically reverse the mugging and get your cash back?

If I get mugged in person, there’s a chance to escape or find the robber and get the money back. Good luck getting Boris in Moscow to give your money back, assuming you find him.

I see this argument made by antj-crypto people all the time but it’s never once been said (in fact I literally said it doesn’t prevent scamming because it’s like cash yet you still strawmanned my argument)

Respectfully, the caveat you included is disingenuous at the very best, and outright invalidates the point you’re trying to make at worst.

Saying crypto is like cash when it comes to scams is like comparing modern fighter jets to WWI fighters. Would you call it a straw man to say “They both shoot down enemy aircraft”? Because that’s what I hear when you say both cash and crypto can both be used for scams.

Like, I’m not arguing cash can’t be used for scams, but you can’t honestly tell me it isn:t easier to get scammed out money and more of it with crypto than cash.

Good thing people always act logically and never misunderstand or hallucinate, SEO gaming definitely wasn’t a major problem before LLMs right?

Damn, guess we should turbo charge our fuckups with AI since humans sometimes make mistakes.

I honestly wish you clanker apologists would come up with a better argument in defense of the bullshit machine other than ‘humans fuckup too’, as if that line of reasoning wasn’t a point against your argument.

The replacements aren’t actually worse though.

How does the flavoraid taste? You’re drinking straight from the pitcher it seems, because most of your arguments aren’t rooted in reality.

Using Uber/Lyft is far easier and more convenient for all parties involved

Except if anything happens, then they find all sorts of loopholes to try to get out of it since they’re not a cab company. Any more, the cab companies have updated their methods and are trying to compete with the rideshare apps (at least around me)

Using AirBNB for people to vacation in or whatever is a much better experience potentially for a tenant then the sub-par standards of hotels.

AHAHAHAHA, have you not tried AirBNB since 2020? Hotels are cheaper, don’t have bullshit cleanup fees, and you never have to worry about freaky shit happening with the owner.

Cryptocurreny provides freedom of exchange in a digital way while still having an overall ledger to prevent fraud

Yeah, this is just so laughable I don’t even really want to respond to it. Ask the people who get their keyphrase stolen how easy it is to get their money back when it gets stolen. Come back to me when crypto can actually prevent and reverse fraud. I don’t expect to hear from you again lol.

I don’t think AI will actually replace creativity, some will use it to churn out garbage but that was already true for existing tools for whatever art form you might prefer.

This is far from the worst problem with AI, well after the issues with hallucinations, poisoning the internet/search engines, and the environmental effects.

You say you understand basic economics, but you don’t understand why “every job in the economy must provide the job-holder with full and unequivocal economic security”? Lol, sure you do friend.

I might recommend you do some reading and maybe you’ll realize that these gig jobs are just a new way to do wealth extraction from the poor. Between giving no economic security, low wages and no benefits, this is just yet another way to implement a form of neofudalism.

Idk dude, me and my coworkers seem to like it alright. It sounds like you’re projecting some personal issues here

As opposed to you, who is projecting your enjoyment of a gig job that doesn’t require you to pay money to be able to do your job with someone who does have to pay literally every time they try to work. I wonder if that, and the obvious differences in pay and work environment, would make a difference in how the two workers think about their jobs…

am curious what exactly makes it fall short?

The podcast playback is sorely lacking. It can’t play more than one episode without having to select the episode, which makes playlists kinda pointless unless it’s just following one storyline in a podcast that runs more than one concurrently. It also doesn’t seem to support defaulting listing order other than newest, and the next episode is always the latest, despite the current playback order