sugar_in_your_tea

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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sugar_in_your_tea,

Agreed. We follow agile, and we have a team of product owners who know where the project is likely headed in the next 3 years. Our sprint to sprint is usually pretty predictable, but we can and do make adjustments when new requirements come in. The product team decides how and when to adjust priorities, and they do a good job minimizing surprises.

It works pretty well imo, and it hinges on the product team knowing what they’re doing.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Some instead do a Russian-style approach. It’s the same thing, but with posts from users critical of Russia.

sugar_in_your_tea,

In general, I’ve found myself happier and discussions more interesting when I replace a lemmy.ml community wo with one from another instance. When there are two competing communities with similar active users, i’ve found the non-lemmy.ml one to be better by pretty much any metric.

So it does work. Make a better community and users will come.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’m against defederartion, but I also actively avoid their communities.

I don’t think the problem is with a majority of users, just a handful, but many in that handful are mods. As an anecdote, I got temp banned from a community there because somehow our discussion shifted to Russia, despite the topic having nothing to do with it, and the mod banned me for “anti-Russia” something or other (nothing I said seemed to violate community or instance rules), but I think the real reason was me challenging that user’s authority.

I’ve also noticed a lot of downvotes for well-cited but “against the left” comments, and the responses I get are often low-effort.

I’ve also had some decent discussion there as well. I’ve challenged people’s views and had good reubuttals, so it’s really not all bad. I’m guessing it’s a fraction of very active users that cause a lot of the issues.

So I’m against defederation, but I also recommend avoiding their communities. It seems to be a strong echo chamber, but those who aren’t interested in that do seem to branch out. So don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

sugar_in_your_tea,

My kids have a crappy watch ($30-40) that has a camera. It’s not a technical problem, it’s just a stupid idea, it’s not an ergonomic place to use a camera.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Why? There’s no internet connection on it, so the only way to get media on or off is via the micro SD card.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I disagree. I think we should:

  1. Pilot it to prove the cost
  2. Charge a carbon tax based loosely on that number and (high) estimates for the amount of carbon emitted
  3. Return the carbon tax to the public as a credit

This keeps the tax revenue neutral (i.e. theoretically no hit to GDP) while encouraging companies to find cheaper ways to reduce carbon emissions or capture carbon to offset emissions.

If it’s ineffective at reducing emissions, then start spending a portion of it to remove carbon.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Honestly, solar panels above parking lots would rock. Shade for people in the parking lots, and power generation. Yet we don’t do it…

sugar_in_your_tea, (edited )

Cool. I’m in Utah and i’ve never seen parking lot solar panels, it’s all either roof mount or on the ground in a big field somewhere.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’ve never seen it. In my area, they’re all roof or ground mount, not suspended above parking lots.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I largely agree. I think we should have car-free city centers (delivery truck and transit only) with parking garages at the edges near transit hubs. But instead of that, we subsidize driving and encourage a car-centric society.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Well, at a certain level of generation, adding more isn’t as valuable since the excess needs to be stored to offset the base need. So it makes absolute sense for the compensation to drop as supply goes up.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, single purpose servers really don’t need much RAM. If you just need to stream music, you could use a lot less.

sugar_in_your_tea,

My Mikrotik router at home (entry level enterprise gear) has 512MB RAM, and it can do most of what those bigger routers can, just a lot fewer connections.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, and I use them. 512MB is more than enough for a lot of things.

sugar_in_your_tea,

My company sold a part of our business, and I casually mentioned to our VP that it’s almost enough to buy everyone in the company a lamborghini. He didn’t seem to think that would be a good idea, but that stock buybacks and a big dividend would be…

sugar_in_your_tea,

You can disable ads and AI in the settings.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’ve been with Netflix for years and never had an issue.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’ll have to check it out. I currently use DLNA on my TV, and the interface is pretty awful. But it works. I’ve used Kodi on my Raspberry Pi, which is pretty decent, but I haven’t tried Jellyfin.

sugar_in_your_tea, (edited )

What happened to “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”?

sugar_in_your_tea,

I don’t think it’s about the fines, it’s about the cost for Google to fight in court and perhaps setting precedent. It’s often just cheaper to pay the fine.

sugar_in_your_tea,

And a battle pass.

sugar_in_your_tea,

A car repair place loses business if they don’t competently repair your car. That’s apparently not true for large tech companies for whatever reason.

So if your car repair place sucks at fixing your car, you should find a better one or do it yourself. If your tech service sucks at protecting your data, you should find a better one or do it yourself.

sugar_in_your_tea,

No he doesn’t. There are certain situations where a citizen may make an arrest, but AFAIK this isn’t one of them.

They should sue the Jimmy Kimmel Show for assault.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, my parents claim to not play video games, but my mom likes word puzzles on her phone, and that totally counts imo.

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