You suck all the dopamine out of something and move on leaving the drained husk of your former hobby behind. Hopefully the dopamine runs out before you put money into it.
I swear as soon as I put money into a hobby, I lose interest. I got a guitar I can't play, a hackRF I can't be bothered to relearn, a box of half built eletronics, an unknown amount of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos with no purpose...
Ron Guilmette, whose tennis court was destroyed in previous storms along the beach, added that he now doesn’t know how much his property is worth or if he will stay in the area. He calls the situation on Salisbury Beach “catastrophic.” “I don’t know what the solution is,”
Oh no, not your tennis court. What a shame. What a darn tragic loss for our nobility. Oh why can't the climate adjust to save your beachfront home. How could the earth be so inconsiderate for our rich land owners.
Employers demonstrated their infidelity to their staff by paying loyal workers, on average, 7% less than new hires — 20 years ago, salaries were largely the same between new and longtime employees.
The general consensus in that thread is that, while the Vision Pro can play “flat” porn videos on sites like PornHub, there is currently not an easy way to play 180 degree side-by-side videos on the Vision Pro, which is how most commercial VR porn is filmed.
Starting a career has increasingly felt like a right of passage for Gen Z and Millennial workers struggling to adapt to the working week and stand out to their new bosses....
either because they hadn’t been offered them or because they didn’t take their company up on the offer
Are they talking about the "Get fired for depression" button on the company website that no one presses because entering in all your personal info is the oppsite of anonymous?
It kind of makes me think of how odd it would have been if many of the old forums named themselves like bookclub.phpbulletin.com, metalheads.vbulletin.net, or something....
It’s not quite the end of Tumblr, but when management is supposedly sending memos with the Lord Tennyson quote about having “loved and lost,” it doesn’t look like there’s much of a future....
Someone asked a question about how frequently young people have time to socialize and it made me think about what people do with their evenings. I recently asked my son to go to a concert (free ticket to see a band i know he likes) and he declined because it was an hour away on a weeknight. If we invite our kids or niece/nephew...
Early 30s. Outside is a scam. Everything there involves spending money and dealing with people. I'll talk and play games with my friends online but don't see people unless I am at work or forced to go out.
STEAM starting to issue refunds for players over the 2h playtime limit due to PSN on Helldivers 2 (twitter.com)
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How does one even live like this? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar (windowscopilot.news)
The devil himself...
$500K Dune Built to Protect Coastal Homes Lasts Just 3 Days (www.thedailybeast.com)
My suggestion is to sell them to Ben Shapiro
Gen Z is unhappier at work than any other generation. Here are the two things they want. (www.businessinsider.com)
Employers demonstrated their infidelity to their staff by paying loyal workers, on average, 7% less than new hires — 20 years ago, salaries were largely the same between new and longtime employees.
A ‘$3,500 Chastity Belt’: Early Apple Vision Pro Adopters Alarmed to Learn VR Porn Doesn't Work (www.404media.co)
The general consensus in that thread is that, while the Vision Pro can play “flat” porn videos on sites like PornHub, there is currently not an easy way to play 180 degree side-by-side videos on the Vision Pro, which is how most commercial VR porn is filmed.
Gen Z and millennial productivity is being crushed by bosses who don’t understand them, top university research says (fortune.com)
Starting a career has increasingly felt like a right of passage for Gen Z and Millennial workers struggling to adapt to the working week and stand out to their new bosses....
Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees. (www.bloomberg.com)
Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March (www.reuters.com)
Workplace well-being initiatives don't boost employee mental health (www.newscientist.com)
Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale (www.theverge.com)
Epic Games plans to give away 17 free games during its annual holiday sale for the Epic Games Store, the company announced on Wednesday.
New Legislation Proposes to Take Wall Street Out of the Housing Market (www.nytimes.com)
Americans are 'doom spending' — here's why that's a problem (www.cnbc.com)
Why do a lot of fediverse instances put their software (i.e. Lemmy/Mastodon) in their name somehow?
It kind of makes me think of how odd it would have been if many of the old forums named themselves like bookclub.phpbulletin.com, metalheads.vbulletin.net, or something....
Users Can't Speak to Viral AI Girlfriend CarynAI Because CEO Is in Jail for Arson (www.404media.co)
“CarynAI being down has really caused an uproar within my community,” Caryn Marjorie said.
Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)
First RCS now this, today has been wild
Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff (arstechnica.com)
It’s not quite the end of Tumblr, but when management is supposedly sending memos with the Lord Tennyson quote about having “loved and lost,” it doesn’t look like there’s much of a future....
sneeze rule (slrpnk.net)
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music (techcrunch.com)
Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID?
Someone asked a question about how frequently young people have time to socialize and it made me think about what people do with their evenings. I recently asked my son to go to a concert (free ticket to see a band i know he likes) and he declined because it was an hour away on a weeknight. If we invite our kids or niece/nephew...
Should I use chromium based browsers or firefox?
Chromium has better features, but with google announcing its plan to ‘drm the internet’ I 'm not sure if it’d be a good idea.
Today, Reddit forcibly removed me (and everyone else) as mods of /r/iOSProgramming, a subreddit of about 130k users. I was keeping the sub private / NSFW | Tanner B 🦕🧁 (@objc@mastodon.social) (mastodon.social)
Update: !ios_dev has been created, temporarily managed by @Ategon until some mods volunteer for it
Looking for some entertainment tomorrow? Reddit is launching r/place again. Should be fun to watch (www.theverge.com)
What’s the over-under on how long it takes before fuck u spez or API get spelled out?...