Give me money right now. If you don’t you’re selfish.

I’m on the extreme end. Any kind of “recommendations” are an immediate and complete turn off for me. Not just the obvious stuff like “sponsored” posts or “algorithmic social media” feeds. I abhor and avoid even things like Spotify recommendations, which most people consider useful.

Whether they intend it or not, these engines are built to funnel you back into the lowest common denominator, most broadly appealing stuff, because that’s what the algorithm sees gets the most clicks from the average person. Sure, everyone likes oatmeal, but that’s because its bland and inoffensive.

I want to find my own shit through my own idiosyncratic process.

I jokingly said “1999 Honda Fit” so many times that now they call me asking about that fictional car.

Average “no one will listen to my under baked political opinios in real life so I’ll hold a meme community hostage” 17 year old

Probably depends where you live. In a big city I don’t think anyone would bat an eye, but in a small town in rural nowhere people would probably get upset right away.

These pictures are from an account that only posts rage bait political content. https://www.instagram.com/redstreamnet

They’re not trying to help you. They’re trying to selfishly protect their business.

How did you get an invite?

When we’ve made statements like this one before, it’s included a pledge to keep making improvements, and while we are working on these updates, they haven’t happened at a speed or magnitude that is acceptable

I know nothing about this game, but even with no context, yikes. They basically openly admit they’re just making the same toothless apology again in the opening paragraph. That’s bold!

WOTC can put the name “Baldurs Gate 4” on whatever they want. They could make a Farmville clone in 2 months and release it as “Baldurs Gate 4” if they want. They own the copyright.

It just won’t be good.

Dave Ramsey is a joke. Anyone who knows the basics of personal finance knows he has no idea what he’s talking about and gives advice that is downright statistically incorrect (e.g. his 8% rule nonsense).

Ticketing people who don’t pay for parking is “bullying?”

This is pretty insulting to people who have actually suffered from real bullying. There’s plenty of real problems in the world to be righteously angry about. Maybe let’s not post shitty Facebook memes on Lemmy.

Fuck Overwatch 2. They took one of the greatest games ever made and butchered it into AAA micro transaction garbage.

Thanks, I figured this was bullshit but I wasn’t going to click a Sky link.

And ironically, the only reason BG3 succeeded is because WOTC had nothing to do with it.

It sounds like you’ve got a good manager, so hopefully they won’t hold that against you. This is the reality of oncall - it sucks!

When you get woken up in the middle of the night, of course you’re going to be more tired the next day. I’m the same as you - I can’t fall back asleep if its early morning so I normally just stay awake and am tired that day. You shouldn’t feel guilty for being at 1/2 capacity after working all night to solve your employer’s problems!

I tell my engineers - if you get paged off hours, however much time you spend resolving the issue, take that time back from the next workday.

I also practice what I preach - if I get paged at 3am and work on the issue until 5am, I’ll come in 2 hours late or leave 2 hours early.

Nuance? On the internet? Get the fuck out of here.

Erdoğan happened.

Have you heard of banning the vapes but not the drug thats in them?

Do you have experience in big tech? Because its completely normal for each of these app teams to have 3-5 developers at minimum, plus a manager, a product person and likely a QA as well. Even when not working on brand new features, these teams are all running A/B tests, working on marketing campaigns, keeping the SDKs and service frameworks up to date, responding to help requests etc. Every time there’s “new bits”, for example, its because a team of people made that.

You don’t have to believe me but I’ve personally worked in systems like this and there’s more copmlexity than you’re imagining.

Twitch actually has minimal IT - they host on AWS because they’re owned by Amazon. They pay a discounted rate but otherwise don’t maintain their own server farms or hardware.