HeinousTugboat

@HeinousTugboat@kbin.social
HeinousTugboat,

The brand is just "Steelcase". The Gesture is a specific model of chair. And I agree with everyone else here: after switching from el cheapo chair to my Gesture, my back pain (from sitting) completely went away.

Do you have Justice Sensitivity? How does it manifest for you? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

As much a I loathe the phone, and have such terrible success rate at getting what I want via phone conversation to major corporations, when something is not right I will waste hours (on hold mostly) as they pass me around department to department hoping I’ll give up. Jokes on them because I won’t give up. But ultimately...

HeinousTugboat,

I've always told people that my mother granted me an overdeveloped sense of justice.

HeinousTugboat,

For varying definitions of "works". It's incredibly frustrating if you're using it across multiple devices. Any time I let the repo get more than a couple days behind, I wind up with nasty merge conflicts and it doesn't handle those. At all. It just sort of breaks.

So caveat emptor.

HeinousTugboat,

I really enjoyed the first book, but I was sad to find out that the second book in that series is a whole new set of characters. :-(

HeinousTugboat,

For what it's worth, LibsOfTikTok's already getting slapped by Threads's moderation.

HeinousTugboat,

Ah, damn. Should've figured it was too good to be true if she was posting it.

Can we please remember to talk about things on the fediverse besides the fediverse itself?

Having spent a lot of time on Mastodon... There are tons of people there talking about federated and self-hosted services, software freedom, censorship, encryption, tech regulation... A very narrow range of topics directly surrounding the fediverse get a lot of attention....

HeinousTugboat,

Of the top 10 posts currently on my front page, 2 are about the Fediverse, 1 is about Kbin specifically, and the other 7 are completely different topics including politics, space, video games and art.

Maybe you should look for magazines/communities other than /m/fediverse if you want to talk about things other than the fediverse.

HeinousTugboat,

Is this on /all?

No, this was on /sub, and I've been aggressively curating my subscriptions and blocking things I don't have any interest in.

Even looking now on /all with incognito, though, there's only 2 even about Lemmy. I do see a few from 196. There's posts about atheism, random tips from @youshouldknow, a Cosplayer, quite a few memes and shitposts, some political content about Florida, a nice flower, movie news, a couple antiwork posts, an article about a new Alzheimer's drug.

It's just not all about the Fediverse. Is it a popular topic? Hell yeah it is, especially considering Threads literally released yesterday, and the API blocks from Reddit are just now rolling out. It's not just popular, it's timely and current too. As those things age, it'll come up less.

I'm afraid half of those people signed in for a day and then left when nothing was happening.

I mean, sure. There's been days where I haunted Kbin/Lemmy then left. But currently, there's very little else that fills the gap of Reddit beyond this. So I keep coming back, and I keep talking. That's how it grows.

Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)

Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about....

HeinousTugboat,

While I agree, and use Obsidian.md myself, it's worth bearing in mind that Obsidian is also closed source and could pull the same shenanigans.

HeinousTugboat,

I think a lot of people are thinking that social media dies when nobody uses it. I think those people also don't realize that Digg still exists.

Reddit will slowly slump into the endless morass of meaningless social media that's largely irrelevant, having lost anything that ever made it actually special.

HeinousTugboat,

I thought it was funny.

HeinousTugboat,

On the other hand this seems really strange to me and it just seems so insane to think that Reddit would even think of doing this.

Have you read about any of Spez's interviews? This feels entirely like something they would do. Don't forget, reddit was originally populated with bots.

HeinousTugboat,

I've been getting the same texts. And emails. And a banner across the top of their website.

Although, it's only $10 for me, not $40.

HeinousTugboat,

To be clear, they're also sending out emails and it's posted on the website when you login. It's also coming from the same number all their transactional stuff comes from, so like bill due dates and payment confirmations.

HeinousTugboat,

At SpaceX, Tesla, and other companies he hired industry experts.

At SpaceX and Tesla his direct reports have isolated him from having any major impact on the rest of the company. Twitter had no such luck.

HeinousTugboat,

Just to add to that, They also quote Paul Graham from 3 days ago:

Surely someone who can figure out how to build spaceships can figure out how to distinguish scrapers from legit users. The patterns must be so different.

HeinousTugboat,

Pretty easy, honestly. You tell him what he wants to hear, you don't tell him what he doesn't want to hear, and you make decisions that are best for your people. If everyone that reports to him behaves like that, he will have very little influence on the company.

Musk is a raging narcissist. He just wants to be told that he's the smartest, funniest person alive.

HeinousTugboat,

Yeah, my understanding is at SpaceX they've done a good job of isolating him, at Tesla a not great job, and obviously at Twitter nobody's even tried.

HeinousTugboat,

I also sign into Outlook.com with my Gmail account. It has its own inbox, which is weird, but hey.

HeinousTugboat,

Nah, like the other guy said, it's just OAuth. It's silly that they even let you do it, but hey, it is what it is.

HeinousTugboat,

Generally I just use VSCode's source control UI when I want a GUI for git. I can't imagine using a standalone GUI for git when all the big editors have their own interfaces.

Is there any one else who feels like their life has been disrupted by this whole debacle with Reddit.

I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how...

HeinousTugboat,

I've been on reddit for more than 15 years at this point. I definitely feel like there's a big gap now. I think Kbin/Lemmy will be able to fill it eventually, though.

HeinousTugboat,

FYI Mullvad is dropping port forwarding like, tomorrow.

HeinousTugboat,

It feels like cheating when it includes one wired provider and a half dozen satellite and wireless providers.

HeinousTugboat,

I won't touch Google products anymore. I had GPAA. It was amazing. They butchered it to make YouTube Music.

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