At wrk we have alcoves for more casual meetings or just getting away from your desk, that are surprisingly good at localizing the sound

If you wouldn’t really want to do programming, don’t. That only gets worse for a lot of people. It’s something I enjoy and have done well at, and it can be tempting given the number of jobs and growth, and good pay. However the people I know who are most miserable are those who weren’t especially interested in the work but the jobs and the money.

I’m sure you could do programming, and you’d deal with it a few years, but it’s a specialty that not everyone will enjoy, and you may just get more and more miserable.

I Personally believe not enough people start from the other side, the subject matter interest. Pretty much every field needs programming or technical skills, and data science is exploding across many fields. Definitely an option to consider is whatever subject you like, but the technical skills to bring the automation or the data analysis. That going to be huge!

I imagine there’s a significant chunk of users who don’t know or care how to properly open their server up to the world and are relying on the Plex proxies

That seems like the obvious place to put a subscription that won’t get people upset. Or maybe it’s in the presentation.

When HomeAssistant started a subscription, they renewed their commitment to opensource, added new remote features with obvious costs under subscription while still letting you do it yourself, plus made it clear this funded continued opensource development. I happily pay this and haven’t been disappointed. Did Plex fumble a similar opportunity?

Successfully or attempted? Now that I’m self confident enough to ignore them, big enough to dissuade them, and can afford to sue them, I like to think I’m no longer an easy target for bullies

I’m still way too trusting though

After reading this I still don’t know why everyone is criticizing Schumer.

Government shutdowns are bad. For everyone employed by the government, receiving government services, working with government agencies, or in case anything unexpected happens. Continuing as-is is easily preferable to not continuing.

I do wonder if a shutdown invokes some sort of procedural change leaving us open to even more shenanigans.

But really the only hint I see is the term “Clean CR”. By definition , you expect a Continuing Resolution to continue. Was this not clean? Were there changes embedded that we would object to? If so, I haven’t seen any detail on this

Yeah but that still makes no sense.

I have Spotify and lost that easy volume control capability when this issue first surfaced. However I have never used a HomePod. Whatever changed has nothing to do with my non-existent HomePod

Maybe this is unrelated but there was also a change to HomeKit where we had to accept some sort of architectural update having to do with my non-existent HomePod. I can easily believe a common ground of API changes and that Spotify didn’t want to update

Certainly the fake artists and ai crap bothers me, but I haven’t yet been knowingly affected by that. Most pop music sounds generated by ai anyway so what’s a few more.

I know a bit of WWII era mythology about Burma.

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers

Perhaps Myanmar is somewhere near there.

But non-sarcastically, you are correct that Southeast Asia is a blind spot from the US that we really should know more about. You’d think a disastrous military intervention in the region would spur learning more but that doesn’t seem to have happened

It does require that though, at least in the US. Previous antitrust actions have made it clear that a monopoly is the distinction. If you don’t control the market it’s acceptable to use all sort of sketchy practices to grow your market share. It’s only after you’ve succeeded enough to control the market that these same behaviors are “anti trust”, unfairly locking out competition.

I don’t entirely buy this argument.

In my experience, Spotify has made music accessible enough that I listen to thousands of hours per year, far more than anyone else I know. Vs before Spotify I couldn’t be bothered. Even assuming Spotify pays artists less than other mediums, there’s a point where the much higher listening rate is the better choice.

I’m not especially hard core of a music listener so my attempts at other services were disappointing enough that I probably wouldn’t bother.

Poorly written article but it does end with a correction that “Spotify has not opted in to using the required APIs”.

While I have no way of knowing who to blame here, I see Spotify trying to blame Apple rather than talk about the api claim. If they have an objection to that api, let’s meet there, a little closer to reality

Yep. You too might be a criminal, gangster, drug dealing, illegal immigrant that should be deported. If China won’t take you back, we can dump you somewhere else.

I don’t see them coming for all of us. It’s just not practical to arrest everyone who complains.

It all comes down to other characteristics:

• are you someone influential or high profile they can make an example of, to promote fear?
• do you have any connection to another country, no matter how tenuous, where they can use this as an excuse to deport?
• are you part of another demographic bias they want to persecute, such as lgbt, where they can use this as an excuse to legally persecute?

I tried that once but it wasn’t for me. If it’s been cold out and is suddenly warm, I’ll bask in the heat or open windows.

Actually I’m a bit annoyed that my car does that. I set the car thermostat to heat to a specific temperature but then it also cools to that temperature. I haven’t figured out if there’s a way to set it to heat (or cool) only

The thing is it shouldn’t even need to be a city. Sure, cities can afford transit and many other amenities, but there’s no reason not to have a higher density area at the center of pretty much any town or village. There’s no reason you can’t have people in walking distance to whatever your town has to offer. Not everyone, of course, some will always want to be alone. But every town should be able to offer some sort of amenities and a reason to live there. Even if it’s just a diner and general store, you should be able to offer a compelling car-free existence.

I grew up in a town of 14,000 where there was a central business area, with houses and apartments in walking distance. My grandparents lived on a farm outside a village of 450, that had a walkable, higher density town center. If older places could do it, so can newer.

My current town is much bigger, 50,000 and a bedroom community of a major city. I live in a single family home, but can walk to the town center. We have a train station into the city, that’s a transportation hub with taxis, buses, scooters, Ubers, kayaks, and right next to the town common and city hall. We have a library, post office, and so many hair and nail salons. We have a regular grocery and an Indian grocery, and tons of shops and restaurants of various cultures. The so enter is surrounded by apartment buildings, then three deckers, and single family homes like mine are still walking distance! During pandemic, our new family activity became walking to the town center, grabbing kebabs, and eating in a bench on the Common. There are a lot of towns of this size, and you too should be able to have city-like amenities on a smaller scale.

Unfortunately I do have to use a car to goto work, but I work from home half the time. Many weeks I use my car only twice to work and once to the grocery, like three miles each, a bit far to walk. It’s an EV so a little gentler on the environment and I never need a gas station. But between the hills and my bad knees, and snow part of the year, cycling is out. I’m sure it would be cheaper to bus and uber the few places I need to, but it’s hard to entirely give up my car

We always include the dog for Christmas. In my lifelong total of four dogs, they all were uncertain the first year, a little better the next year, and after three were all set to jump in and unwrap their presents. While they have no concept of Christmas and probably no explicit memories of previous Christmases, they do seem to learn year over year

Autopilot is great, auto landing is great. Humans are needed for decisions and planning, adaptability, handling unexpected circumstances, and are worth every penny

Thanks, Lemmy, now I’m “that Dad”. After reading this, I went to dinner with my two teens and one of their girlfriends, so of course I had to bring this up. All three have started working after school and will need to file their taxes this year so they need to know.

But holy crap is that a seriously uncool conversation

But you have to keep it going to highlight how much wealthier people pay (although that’s tougher since their income is not “income”). Maybe throw in a few examples of the wealthiest Americans and wha recent age they pay, to not only clarify it, but retarget their anger where it belongs

Maybe, but they may lose more customers than they expect ….

There are privacy based devices for “always listening” voice assistants coming on strong

• https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

I already use Siri with a button for a lot. recently it seems able to recognize more of my smarthome devices and it will now prompt to forward more complex queries to ChatGPT

I’m really down to the intercom feature being the only reason to keep Alexa - I can’t control the devices my kids use at their mom’s house