Not at first: At that point, it’s marketing.

About the time that the techbro overlords figure out the command to the chip that makes it so you can’t get an erection, is about the time you’re suddenly going to be on the hook for 80 hour workweeks.

Don’t think for a millisecond that can’t be a possibility.

Doesn’t matter… we all know you’re a 47 year old used car salesman from Peoria.

LOL!

Yes… yes and of course!

Oddly enough I’ve always sorted current working files by date.

Then when backup time comes I’ll look at the last dated file in the archive, then go to that date in my current work folder and everything newer goes into the backup. Once it’s in the main backup folder, I then sort the files into year and project.

Still, on my system (a MacPro from the Olden Times when Steve Jobs was still kicking) I have 4 drives, so it’s crucial to know what is where.

Well, I for one am delighted to find lemmy and in a small way, do my bit to resurrect a miniscule, tiny bit of it.

It’s mandlebrot patterns, all the way down… right? Smaller iterations of the larger seed.

Best we can do…

I miss the Internet. Frankly, I find that the web blows balls now. :(

There was a series of questions I heard in a political discussion about whether or not any given politician understood what the internet was, and if they really had any idea of how to regulate it.

They are… “Explain the differences between, the internet, the world wide web, a search engine and a browser.”

If the person could not answer those 4 questions , well… they shouldn’t have been trying to write legislation about it. I think that still stands as a basic foundational step to start from

The atrophy scares the hell out of me.

Years ago, I would often have long conversations with my dad about how manual skill sets in the trades (my training) and in engineering in the field (which was his bailiwick) were being lost to the pivot towards college degrees for every student, including the ones that preferred to work with their hands.

Three decades on, I witnessed the full turn when construction firms had to - and still have to - mass import workers from Central and South America (legally and illegally) just to get things built. NGL, there are some scary good builders that have been brought in, and those people work insanely hard.

Yes, it’s slowly pivoting back as more boys and men opt for the trades and become journeymen and apprentices, but to get the skillsets needed to get to a master’s level, you’re looking at at least 20k hours. Wer’re still a decade out - at best - before we get enough kids through the system and into steady work that they can step up and strike out on their own and make crazy bank. Skilled craftsmen and women can earn 100 bucks an hour - easily - in the right markets, and the rich folks will be glad to pay.

Goddamn, it’s gonna be scary until that sorts itself out in another decade or so (and that does pin itself on the hope the financially feckless idiot in the White House doesn’t torpedo the economy…)

…easy foundational questions like how many bits in a byte…

GTFO.

I mean, yeah… perhaps it’s to be expected. https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z - if this is true, it’s as the methods of using computers and various devices has been infantilized and made too easy.

Yeah… let’s obscure the inner working of computing and make the process as opaque to the user as possible. It’ll be fine… no negative consequences at all.

Colleges do not matriculate anymore (that’s in the British sense of the word, where one has to show actual knowledge in the degree field one is seeking before enrolling, and TBH, they haven’t done so for a very long time, actually…) so this is what we get.

Higher ed in the US is just about da moneys…

As someone that wanted to write but never had the time to learn, what’s so bad about writing code manually?

Seems like if you can learn to do it well, you will be fairly well set with that skill.

Well yeah… that’s obvious… but he’s gone “extra special” the last few days… Inflation’s biting the economy now, so mabe the news on that sent him completely off the rails? Seems like.

Yawn… Here we go again.

What’s grampa dementia tryin’ to deflect our attention from now?

Hmmm. I wonder which corpo executive runs my local community power collective.

Can I send you this month’s electric bill to split the difference off of?

I have maintained a rigorous control on our home power useage for years and in spite of this, the bill has increased roughly 52% in the last year - and it’s aparently down to the increased demand that needs to be supplemented by purchasing power from outside of our region because of data centers.

If you love it so much… How about YOU pay the extra cost for those of us who did not ask for, and do not need, it.

It’s all part of the same thing… offloading burdens from the provider - be it a data center or google, onto the user, without permission.

You asked… I answered.

Dunno why you’re so butthurt over the fact that beyond the environmental claims, the issue of code being deployed into someone’s system without their permission or any ability to halt or prevent it means less to you than the former point.

Do you work for google? 'Cos damn dude, you’re coming down on this like you do.

I think we found the google engineer.

Are they hating, or are they pointing out that companies that claim to be honestly working towards a “greener” end are adding unwanted and unnecessary code to users computers against their will. Code, BTW, that can not be removed permanently and adds not only the cost of the bandwidth of the download used, but also the general cost of the cloud-backed nature of it’s functioning to the mix. As someone that doesn’t use Chrome or the cloud, I’d be furious… The Keystone Agent (a perniciously rotten bit of code that eats clock cycles in one’s system and runs constantly in the background) that chrome updates with - it’s exactly why I quit the browser years ago.

Nuts to that.

The thing with donald trump is that he WILL tell you just what kind of a person he is… and people will think he’s lying.

NGL, my first thought for the TV President is that this is just another staged event to rally support around him so as to bolster his sagging ratings… because ultimately it’s only about how liked he is.

He’s Mr. Popularity after all.

Mmmmm hmmmm…

I love borzois.

When I was a teenager, a family friend had a whippet. He was the fastest thing in the neighborhood and was a bit of an asshole, in that he’d strafe other dogs and nip at them as he flew by. He wasn’t neutered so had an alpha male attitude on all the time.

We’re at a picnic area having a barbecue and in enters the acquaintance from hell, (who was a pot dealer on the side, coming by to join the festivities and make a deal with the grownups) and his two borzois - Zero and Arrow. (Zero was an absolute snuggle-bug and the chillest dog ever…)

Welp, the whippet (named Whippet) started in on the borzois and they were having none of it. They ran circles around him and actually put his nose in the dirt as they ran him down twice. The only thing Whippet had as an advantage was turning radius at speed. You never saw a dog so instantly humbled and he spent the rest of the afternoon under the picnic table.

We all got a good laugh out of it… Whippet really was an asshole…