LimitedBrain

@LimitedBrain@beehaw.org

Engineering,

Humanism,

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LimitedBrain,

I’m not saying it can’t be, but work usually isn’t “fun” or entertaining or whatever. I’m not saying it should or needs to be painful, just at least neutral or somewhat fulfilling in my life. I want to not hate it basically.

LimitedBrain,

It’s interesting because I don’t mind some of those things. My commutes haven’t been bad, they’re 30 minutes out of my day and I enjoy the drive time. The small talk is minimal. And with noise I just put in earbuds.

My problem is more the uncomfy chair and desk setup, the lighting, the AC temp, just the general environment is not a productive one for me. Those things inhibit my work. Even just using the bathroom and having to tuck my shirt back in so I can walk back to my desk annoys me.

LimitedBrain,

I feel the same. My back is always to the open room and it gives me anxiety about taking short breaks

LimitedBrain,

I hear ya on this. I think they’d help my experience but probably wouldn’t solve most of my main gripes. I’ll still check in on it though, thanks!

LimitedBrain,

Not sure how this came across in the post but I’m not talking about being lazy. I’ve actually enjoyed many parts of my job even with the mundane meetings and documentation. I don’t enjoy the massive time wasting involved in most offices.

I prefer to be busy. What I don’t enjoy is the discomfort, poor lighting, bad layout, etc. Its like modern managers think that handing out standing desks like candy is going to make offices preferable to literally anything else.

And yes, I can manage some of this by bringing my own keyboard and getting a better chair. But realistically, every office culture I’ve encountered so far just sucks the soul out of me. A few months in and I’ll just be watching the time begging for lunch to come. I’ll go home and have two hours of daylight left to myself.

It seems like WFH is the option. I just don’t get how anyone does this without being absolutely miserable.

LimitedBrain,

I feel like my job can be done half remotely so that’s preferred. But my setup isn’t necessarily the problem. It’s not just the keyboard or chairs. It’s like nearly everything that is standard in offices, including the culture. Just a little concerned because I don’t know how anyone gets used to this or does this. It’s like everyone has accepted being in very depressing office spaces for most of their daylight hours and is fine with it. Again I’m not expected to have a joyous time at work but the spaces I’ve been in are just outright depressing and it feels like the norm.

LimitedBrain,

Oh I think it’s far worse than that. Because you have to ask yourself: what is the fastest way to gain karma on reddit? And the answer is not by sharing an opinion.

The top up voted posts each month are likely going to be media of animals, some nsfw content, and news articles. All of which are posted by bots nonstop.

Because the truth is that karma already is money. People pay money for accounts with high karma. And then turn them into bot accounts or advertising accounts. So now those people will just be able to double dip.

In short: it’s likely that reddit will just become a larger bot network if they do this. Karma systems don’t lead to better posts. In fact, I’d almost prefer to keep the karma system on lemmy/kbin and just have it private.

LimitedBrain,

I’m going to call it whatever the devs call it because I want other people to find it and use it. Simple as that really

What's the point of buying new phones every years?

Other than your carrier give it for free or cheap, I don’t really see the reason why should you buy new phone. I’ve been using Redmi Note 9 for past 3 years and recently got my had on Poco F5. I don’t see the point of my ‘upgrade’. I sold it and come back to my Note 9. Gaming? Most of them are p2w or microtransaction...

LimitedBrain,

Luckily for us Americans, the Europeans have their head on straight and can force companies to fix this by the end of the decade. So that’ll be nice at least

LimitedBrain,

Well most of the comments here don’t have an insight into this. The reason they don’t re-release video games or old movies is because they don’t want you enjoying old things. It’s capitalism, but it’s not arbitrary like the scarcity. Because it’s not just video games, no company wants to re-release anything. Not a tractor, not a movie, not a dishwasher, nothing.

Why? Because then you don’t buy the new thing with higher margins. Then you don’t watch the new movie and they can’t sell the new ads with the new character designs promoting it. Or you don’t get locked in to their new cartridge system. Or subscription plan. Whatever. The song is different, the story is the same, new stuff make line go up faster. With tons of waste involved as well.

LimitedBrain,

Which is why reddit has been a target for gorilla marketing campaigns for a while now. I only trust review sites that I follow now

LimitedBrain,

Link 🤤🤤🤤🤤

LimitedBrain,

Meanwhile subs like ComedyHeaven literally approve like one post a month for a whole year 💀

LimitedBrain,

Thanks for the feedback! The price is a sticking point but I’m not worried about it because I’m buying used and Apple products seem to have very good resell value. My 4 year old note 10 plus is worth about a 4th of what I bought it for. Meanwhile iphone 11 and 12 pro max phones are worth literally double that or more while starting at the same price. It’s wild.

Also luckily for me, my partner has a lot of apple tech so I expect I’ll be just fine in that regard. Other than the phone, I can mooch of of them lol.

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@lgbtq_plus Straight people will say that LGBT education isn't age appropriate but will ask toddlers if they have a girlfriend.
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LimitedBrain,

It’s because they only associate queer stuff with sex, not with love

Does anybody feel like the quality of reddit has already dropped massively?

I see a lot of comments from bootlickers on how the protests are dumb and stupid and dont work and engagement metrics are still holding but the quality of posts and comments has noticeably depreciated imo. So much so that whenever I visit the site Im actually shocked at how bad it is.

LimitedBrain,

And I hate to say it but it made the perfect opener for the thing that Zuckerberg is talking about. I mean the Zucc himself is literally talking about federated communities right after the other giant social media companies started running theirs terribly.

At the very least, people will hear about the tech elsewhere now and maybe that will drive traffic to actual federated communities.

I'm kind of tired of people farming human interactions and profiting off of making our communities miserable. I'd donate a lot to lemmy if I had money just to not have to be the product anymore.

LimitedBrain,

This is capitalism at its finest. I do not have time to care about the people who made this. I do not want to care about them. I am too overworked to have time to find another hobby. I just want to escape by any means necessary with others before I must return to the grind. I understand this feeling completely and don't fault you.

OC Reddit's in-jokes and overall sense of "humor" are lame and I don't want to see them migrate to Kbin.

I like the overall lack of in-jokes I've encountered here so far, and I want things to stay that way. This might be an unrealistic thing to hope for, but I like good, pure, discussion, as boring as that may be for some people.

LimitedBrain,

Nice

LimitedBrain,

True but won't be hard to fix in the future.

LimitedBrain,

Oh yeah I tried it. And it even worked better than jerboa in some ways until jerboa had some updates. It still has some features that jerboa doesn't have, like opening links to other instances within your own instance (that's a huge problem right now for me). So yeah the webpage version is still competitive with this app but probably not for too long.

LimitedBrain,

Or lowest age to work without parental consent. Otherwise 16 year olds can't vote for who gets to tax them.

LimitedBrain,

I'll be real with you, both of those things are huge for a company as large as reddit. They will obsess over user features that increase attention by just one or two percent. So losing that much traffic is a red alert.

They also will have tracking for number of posts and comments deleted, number of subscriptions lost, users banned, etc. All of those numbers will look awful.

In fact, karma is a really good indicator of what they lose. If you take karma, divide by time since account creation, then you have an excellent measure of engagement with communities. They can see how much karma is being lost. That's why they're afraid.

LimitedBrain,

As much as I love E3, I trust that summer games fest and the game awards will fill the spot for me

📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting (and more subs) removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW)

EDIT: GO DM MODS OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBREDDITS AND POLITELY ASK ABOUT MIGRATION!: something as simple as "Hey, I love this community but I no longer use reddit, will you guys be making a community on Kbin or other alternatives? Let me know please, thanks." will work!! We need more voices encouraging migration!...

LimitedBrain,

Pretty sure it got sent to every subreddit that went private during the protest regardless of numbers

LimitedBrain,

My friend is no longer using reddit because his front page is mostly porn now (and the default app sucks at hiding it). So I got him to switch to lemmy :)

But if anything, this is an even better protest. Much more effective and hard to deal with

LimitedBrain,

No no, don't feel bad about hitting that 0% button. I feel like this is a PSA but in the USA if you tip a minimum wage (untipped) employee, THEY WILL NOT GET YOUR TIP. Severs get paid on tips and a minimum wage (tipped) of about $2.50. Tipping a normal employee (on screens, not cash) will just mean that the employer has to pay them less wages. Seriously? Yes seriously. You can tip at subway, the only person getting that money is subway.

LimitedBrain,

I appreciate the added details. As far as I'm aware, they aren't keeping the tips. But it is legal to pay a tipped employee down to about $2/hr in every state. So most places like Sonic will reduce your pay when you get tips and you claim the tips (which you're required to do wink wink). So rather than Sonic just paying their employees $10/hr at minimum wage, they'll pay them $5/hr assuming $5 in tips. Saves the company money and the servers don't make much more than normal minimum wage while the customer fronts their wages.

Isn't that lovely?

LimitedBrain,

Thats fair but I don't think this description is entirely accurate either. And I do think it's a big scummy because minimum wage is already very low. So putting employees tips into their wages is just employers taking advantage. It's legal, yes, but it's bad for everyone except the employer.

LimitedBrain,

That's the worrying part of this trend. The local coffee shop might still give their employees the tips. But the local chain fast food place? No. I've had subway workers tell me that directly. They said "don't tip me, I don't get any of it" and sonic employees will sometimes tell you the same.

LimitedBrain,

I disagree. Feature creepy has to do with trying to do too much with limited resources. Nothing that reddit tried was super ambitious. It's stuff that other platforms not only do, but do a lot more of. I think it's just general mismanagement.

LimitedBrain,

Note to everyone: this isn't a recent thing. This has to do specifically with a whole propaganda campaign they ran about Biden not letting 'hard working people' do their job by limiting heat exposure at 80 degrees and above.

Which is true, he's pushing for heat regulations because, and this is true, there were no federal regulations prior to this. Biden did something great so of course Abbott had to go and be an idiot

LimitedBrain,

Well then the person is going to screw up your order and have to relay it back to you anyways. Ordering through apps is the way to go imo.

LimitedBrain,

I think that this can easily be mitigated by the addition of transferable user profiles. Because the easier it is to hop off of a server and move to another, the better. You lose those communities in the event of a split, but then you desire new ones on your new instance and go join them. It would heal the UX much faster.

Like other users, I expect this will largely become a rarer and rarer occurrence as moderation levels out. We're very early in the game still.

One thing I haven't seen talked about is the benefit of this defederation. When beehaw defederated, what happened immediately? A lot of noise was made. The mods got in contact and opened dialog. Communities desired federation. While that's interpreted as entitlement, I think it's possible beneficial to keep the number of defederation events low and only done when necessary.

LimitedBrain,

Platforms have to turn to make money. But that can be done ethically. There were many universes where 3rd party apps didn't have to shut down. Or where they were given notice. And I guess this move just was really mask off for spez. Of course reddit needs to make money. But you can do that without shitting on the site you built.

It's the epitome of what capitalism does. It's like 'oh you like this place or hobby or content sharing or socializing? Well now it's worse and costs money!' Because capitalism has ruined everything else and it will sell you and your community of friends to the highest bidder.

LimitedBrain,

Can't believe they laid their own landlord off.

LimitedBrain,

It's also a personal choice of Bethesda not to rename their engine. Many other studios do this same thing and reuse engines, but they often rename them after significant rewrites. Bethesda just doesn't do that.

Also they aren't worried about how the game will be released. Their games have legs. So a 60fps version will eventually come out. Then they'll release it 5 more times.

LimitedBrain,

I mean that they haven't changed it from the Creation engine. Which has been used since Skyrim despite some big rewrites for Fallout and I'm sure more big rewrites or additions for Starfield

LimitedBrain,

Huh okay yeah that's fair. I guess I'm thinking more about the time span since that game engine is now well over a decade old whereas the previous examples are separated by a handful of years. And I didn't know about them putting a '2' in front of it for Starfield.

LimitedBrain,

Is it crashing and burning if it aligns with their explicitly stated goals? Seems like they're sticking to their guns and having a well moderated community by doing this. Some people will want that, some won't. But if we want this federation thing to work, we can't start whining about instances making choices about what their users interact with. If anything I'm glad this is happening early so that people can see how the federation stuff will play out and get used to the idea.

LimitedBrain,

I think that you're somewhat asking the government to be apolitical when you do that. Every flag is speech, even the American flag is speech. The government constantly speaks to us.

I'd argue that the government should be allowed it's speech. Every time the government stops speaking to you is when bad things happen.

Do you think younger generations will enjoy Futurama (both new/upcoming episodes and older content)?

I don't know about you all, but I consider myself to belong in the GenX population. Most of my younger coworkers have maybe heard about Futurama but have never seen it. So many of the references and jokes relate to older pop culture. I am hoping some of the new episodes will be relatable to GenZ and beyond. What are your...

LimitedBrain,

Hiya, older GenZ here. The pop culture references mostly go over my head but the show is packed full of witty humor that is still enjoyable. I don't think anyone should be worried for futurama being adopted by younger people, especially in STEM fields.

LimitedBrain,

I think a good portion will do both frankly. Half will go elsewhere or reduce usage. Half will stay like nothing happened.

LimitedBrain,

I will say, public vote is sometimes nice because you can more easily understand the values of a community through the voting.

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